Contact Tarrant

Our long-time commitment to ongoing research and development is the core of TARRANT. Our team consists of internationally experienced senior management and life science specialists.

  Jim Dickinson MB BS, PhD, CCFP, FRACGP
Director
Email: dickinsj@ucalgary.ca
Dr. Dickinson arrived in Calgary in November 2002, after five years in Hong Kong. Previously he held various academic Family Medicine positions in Australia. He has taken over some of Mike Tarrant's work, including his teaching practice at University of Calgary Medical Clinic at North Hill.

  Quynh Le Ba 
Program Coordinator
Phone: 403-210-9258
E-mail: tarrant@ucalgary.ca 
Quynh is a PhD student in ecohealth at the University of Calgary, and has a M.D (Vietnam) and a M.P.H (Australia). He comes to the TARRANT program with many years of experience in international development & health research. 

 Madison Wang 
Research Administrative Assistant
Phone: 403-220-2750
Email: mingwang@ucalgary.ca 
Madison graduated from the University of Calgary with a Bachelor of Arts degree and a Minor in Statistics. She has a vast interest in public health, and infectious disease. She has experience in data collection for the analysis of various research projects.

  Elaine Douglas
Research Assistant
Phone: 403-210-9261
E-mail: tarrant@ucalgary.ca 
Elaine graduated from the University of Guelph with a D.V.M, and has been involved with small animal clinical practice for the past 15 years.  She has had a long-standing interest in public health and infectious diseases which she is now applying to the Tarrant program.

  Tova Dybvig
Research Assistant
Phone: 403-210-7806
E-mail: tarrant@ucalgary.ca 
Tova completed her M.Sc. at the University of Saskatchewan in the field of Vaccines and Immunotherapeutic in 2010, then moved to Calgary.  Her interests are infectious disease, vaccine program implementation, and world health.