WEST, Lori - Department of Pediatrics, Department of Surgery, Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, University of Alberta

Dr. Lori West, clinician scientist at the University of Alberta, has focused her career on finding treatments for infants with lethal cardiac malformations. Through rigorous scientific and clinical investigations, Dr. West discovered that blood group mismatched heart transplants could be carried out safely during infancy, which saves hundreds of newborn babies worldwide each year and has profoundly transformed our understanding of the human immune system.