Amrit Bhullar

Amrit Bhullar MA, PhD          University of Alberta

2020 Interdisciplinary Frailty Fellow

Supervisor: Dr. Rachel Khadaroo

Amrit Bhullar is a pharmacist with a Master’s degree in pharmaceutical sciences and PhD in Nutrition and Metabolism. His PhD thesis focused on characterization of muscle of cancer patients and its association with clinical outcomes. He looked into variability of fat distribution and fatty acid composition in the muscles of cancer patients (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/jcsm.12533). Currently, Amrit is the postdoctoral fellow at the University of Alberta and works with Dr Rachel Khadaroo. He is leading the project involving evaluation of biological specimens to determine its association with clinical and functional outcomes in elderly patients undergoing surgery.