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Irina Dinu

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ProfessorSchool of Public HealthUniversity of Alberta

Irina Dinu

Professor

School of Public Health

University of Alberta

Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

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23 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Senior (last) author on 9 recent papers, a sign of leading a research group.

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Research

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Latest papers

Evaluating the Prevalence of Optimal Neurodevelopmental Outcome at 4.5‐Years in Children Previously on Ventricular Assist Device Support
Pediatric Transplantation · 2026
The association of angiostatin and plasminogen plasma levels with Charlson comorbidity burden and mortality in COVID-19.
Journal of thrombosis and thrombolysis · 2026
Comparison of a Cardiac Specific Versus a General Instrument to Assess Health-Related Quality of Life 4-5 Years After Cardiac Surgery in Early Infancy.
CJC pediatric and congenital heart disease · 2026

All 52 publications

Latest funding

Cesarean section: impact on infant gut microbiota, childhood obesity and allergic disease
CIHR · 2015 · Co-investigator
$538,497
Cesarean section: impact on infant gut microbiota, childhood obesity and allergic disease
CIHR · 2014 · Co-investigator
$100,000
Neurodevelopment of preschoolers exposed perinatally to bisphenol A and phthalates; interactions with diet and neurotoxicant co-exposures
CIHR · 2012 · Co-investigator
$1,271,880

All 5 grants and awards

52 publications.

Evaluating the Prevalence of Optimal Neurodevelopmental Outcome at 4.5‐Years in Children Previously on Ventricular Assist Device Support

Shannon Oliver, Holger Buchholz, Darren H. Freed, De Villiers Jonker, AR Joffe, Mahsa Saeidian, Irina Dinu, Simon Urschel, Tara Pidborochynski, Joseph N. Atallah, Charlene M.T. Robertson, Jessica Zvonkovic, Jennifer Conway

Pediatric Transplantation20262 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1111/petr.70276 PMID: 41618517

The association of angiostatin and plasminogen plasma levels with Charlson comorbidity burden and mortality in COVID-19.

Franczak A, Calistrate-Petre P, Dinu I, Jurasz P

Journal of thrombosis and thrombolysis20261 citations

DOI: 10.1007/s11239-026-03289-1 PMID: 42149301

Comparison of a Cardiac Specific Versus a General Instrument to Assess Health-Related Quality of Life 4-5 Years After Cardiac Surgery in Early Infancy.

Almeida L, Vohra S, Johnson JA, Ghasemi E, Dinu I, Robertson CMT, Garcia Guerra G, Joffe AR

CJC pediatric and congenital heart disease2026Open Access

DOI: 10.1016/j.cjcpc.2026.02.003 PMID: 42666944

Geographic patterns in critical CHDs: a spatial analysis of selected air pollutants.

Zargari G, Amini P, Thapa A, Joffe A, Atallah J, Robertson C, Dinu I

Cardiology in the young2026Senior author

DOI: 10.1017/s1047951125111177 PMID: 41582861

Methodological Cautions in Interpreting Autism and Gender Dysphoria in a Referred Clinical Sample.

Dinu I, Kulatunga-Moruzi C, Joffe AR

Canadian journal of psychiatry. Revue canadienne de psychiatrie2026First author

DOI: 10.1177/07067437261471757 PMID: 42609186

Health-Related Quality of Life in Children 4-5 Years After Open Heart Surgery in Early Infancy.

Almeida L, Vohra S, Johnson JA, Khademioureh S, Dinu I, Robertson CMT, Joffe AR, Garcia Guerra G

CJC pediatric and congenital heart disease20256 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1016/j.cjcpc.2025.01.001 PMID: 40933779

Evaluating the Prevalence of Optimal Neurodevelopmental Outcome at 2 Years in Children Previously on Ventricular Assist Device Support

Shannon Oliver, Jennifer L. Conway, Holger Buchholz, Darren H. Freed, Mohammed Al‐Aklalbi, De Villiers Jonker, Ari Robin Joffe, Nastaran Hajizadeh Bastani, Irina A Dinu, Simon Urschel, Tara Pidborochynski, Joseph N. Atallah, Charlene M.T. Robertson

Journal of the American Heart Association20253 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1161/jaha.125.041384 PMID: 40519203

Addressing Survivorship Bias in Neurocognitive Outcomes After Early Complex Cardiac Surgery Using Clustering and Propensity Scores

Morteza Hajihosseini, Sara Amiri, Charlene M.T. Robertson, Ari Robin Joffe, Joseph N. Atallah, Gonzalo Garcia Guerra, Gwen Y. Bond, Irina A Dinu

CJC Pediatric and Congenital Heart Disease20251 citationsSenior authorOpen Access

DOI: 10.1016/j.cjcpc.2025.05.005 PMID: 41607719

Optimizing myocardial infarction detection: a hybrid CNN-GRU deep learning approach.

Aghababaei Z, Tapak L, Rasoulinia M, Afrasiabi M, Hosseini SK, Dinu I

BMC medical informatics and decision making2025Senior author

DOI: 10.1186/s12911-025-03217-y PMID: 41188886

Letter to the Editor on "Examining gender-specific mental health risks after gender-affirming surgery: a national database study".

Kulatunga-Moruzi C, Dinu I, Joffe AR

The journal of sexual medicine2025

DOI: 10.1093/jsxmed/qdaf160 PMID: 40693896

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Irina Dinu

Research

Latest papers

Latest funding

Evaluating the Prevalence of Optimal Neurodevelopmental Outcome at 4.5‐Years in Children Previously on Ventricular Assist Device Support

The association of angiostatin and plasminogen plasma levels with Charlson comorbidity burden and mortality in COVID-19.

Comparison of a Cardiac Specific Versus a General Instrument to Assess Health-Related Quality of Life 4-5 Years After Cardiac Surgery in Early Infancy.

Geographic patterns in critical CHDs: a spatial analysis of selected air pollutants.

Methodological Cautions in Interpreting Autism and Gender Dysphoria in a Referred Clinical Sample.

Health-Related Quality of Life in Children 4-5 Years After Open Heart Surgery in Early Infancy.

Evaluating the Prevalence of Optimal Neurodevelopmental Outcome at 2 Years in Children Previously on Ventricular Assist Device Support

Addressing Survivorship Bias in Neurocognitive Outcomes After Early Complex Cardiac Surgery Using Clustering and Propensity Scores

Optimizing myocardial infarction detection: a hybrid CNN-GRU deep learning approach.

Letter to the Editor on "Examining gender-specific mental health risks after gender-affirming surgery: a national database study".

Cesarean section: impact on infant gut microbiota, childhood obesity and allergic disease

Cesarean section: impact on infant gut microbiota, childhood obesity and allergic disease

Neurodevelopment of preschoolers exposed perinatally to bisphenol A and phthalates; interactions with diet and neurotoxicant co-exposures

Host microRNA Response and Cytomegalovirus Infection after Transplantation

Statistical Methods for Biomarker Discovery based on Complex High-Dimensional Biological Data

Frequent collaborators

Morteza Hajihosseini

Catherine Field

Yutaka Yasui

Joseph Atallah

Gonzalo Guerra

Qi Liu

Jonathan Martin

Darren Freed

Philip Halloran

Deborah Dewey

Sunita Vohra

Simon Urschel

Jennifer Conway

Shannon Oliver

Jeff Johnson

Mohammadreza Pakseresht

Cindy Greenwood

Geoff Ball

Anita Kozyrskyj

Jeffrey Johnson

Carla Prado

Sean Bagshaw

Jens Walter