Samuel Wiebe

Dr. Samuel Wiebe is a Professor in the Departments of Clinical Neurosciences (DCNS), Community Health Sciences, and Paediatrics for the Faculty of Medicine, University of Calgary. He is also Head of the Division of Neurology (Alberta Health Services), and Director of Clinical Research for the Hotchkiss Brain Institute (HBI). He is founder and chair of the Clinical Research Unit for the Hotchkiss Brain Institute and Clinical Neurosciences.

Dr. Wiebe graduated from medical school at the University of Guadalajara, Mexico, in 1983 and became certified in Internal Medicine at the National University in Mexico in 1988. He then completed his residency in neurology at the University of Western Ontario in 1993, an MSc in Epidemiology and Biostatistics at McMaster University in 1994, and training in epilepsy and EEG at the London Health Sciences Centre in 1994.

Dr. Wiebe was recruited to Calgary in 2004 as the Kinsmen Chair in Paediatric Neurosciences. In addition to his clinical duties, Dr. Wiebe has a wide variety of academic and research interests which include: outcomes research in clinical neurosciences, randomized neurosurgical trials, quality of life, epidemiological research and evidence based medicine. Dr. Wiebe is chair of the North American Commission of the International League Against Epilepsy and he mentors numerous national and international clinicians and researchers.

Updated: 2009-04-29