found: PACCSAP, 1998:container (Ruth L. Collins-Nakai, MD)
found: Pincher Creek echo, 19 September 2005, online, viewed 28 February 2017(after 27 years of practising cardiology and working at the University of Alberta, Pincher Creek born Ruth Collins-Nakai is now president of the Canadian Medical Association; graduated from medical school at the University of Alberta in 1972; hired at the University of Alberta in 1976 to develop pediatric cardiology; continues to work part-time as a clinician in the department of congenital cardiology at the University of Alberta; served as president of the Alberta Medical Association in 1987, as president of the Canadian Cardiovascular Society, as president of the InterAmerican Society of Cardiology, and was the first Canadian and first woman to chair the Board of Governors of the American College of Cardiology)
found: Canada. Governor General. Honours Recipients database, viewed 28 February 2016(Ruth Collins-Nakai, C.M.; Edmonton, Alberta; Member of the Order of Canada, awarded on November 18, 2016; For her contributions as a physician leader, particularly in the field of cardiology)
found: Amicus database, viewed 28 February 2016(access point: Collins-Nakai, Ruth L.)
