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Matthew James, Dr Calgary, Al Canada Dr. Matthew James is a clinician scientist with training in Nephrology and a Professor in the Departments of Medicine and Community Health Sciences at the University of Calgary. Dr. James received his medical training at the University of British Columbia, and completed nephrology training and a PhD in Epidemiology at the University of Calgary. He is a co-lead of the Alberta Kidney Disease Network (AKDN), Interdisciplinary Chronic Disease Collaboration (ICDC), and the Can-SOLVE CKD Strategy for Patient Oriented Research (SPOR) Network, and director of Research for the Alberta Provincial Project for Outcomes Assessment in Coronary Heart Disease (APPROACH). Dr. James' research is focused on risk prediction, computerized decision support tools, and pragmatic trials designed to improve the quality of care and health outcomes of those with kidney and cardiovascular diseases. He holds research funding from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and Alberta Innovates, and his work has been recognized with a Mid-Career Research Leader Award from the O’Brien Institute of Public Health at the University of Calgary, a Killam Emerging Research Leader Award, and the Monique Bégin Award in Knowledge Translation from CIHR.