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About The CJKHD

Canadian Journal of Kidney Health and Disease, the official journal of the Canadian Society of Nephrology, is an open access, peer-reviewed online journal that encourages high quality submissions focused on clinical, translational and health services delivery research in the field of chronic kidney disease, dialysis, kidney transplantation and organ donation.

Our mandate is to promote and advocate for kidney health as it impacts national and international communities.

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Josée
Bouchard

Josée Bouchard, MD, FRCPC

Deputy Editor-in-Chief

Dr. Bouchard is a clinician researcher and nephrologist at the Hôpital du Sacré-Cœur de Montréal, and a professor of medicine at the Université de Montreal. She completed her training in Montreal and at the University of California San Diego. Her main research interests are acute kidney injury and toxicology. She has published over 90 peer-reviewed papers and several book chapters in the field.

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Catherine Clase, MD, MSc, FRCPC

Editor-In-Chief

Dr. Clase completed degrees in pathology and in medicine at Christ’s College, Cambridge, UK, before moving to Canada for clinical training in internal medicine (Memorial University of Newfoundland), nephrology and health research methodology (McMaster University). Between 1997 and 2001 she was an assistant professor at Dalhousie University. She returned to McMaster University in 2001, where she is currently a professor of medicine in the Division of Nephrology, and an associate member of the Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact. Research interests include the population epidemiology of chronic kidney disease (CKD), optimization of medical management in CKD, and the prevention of thrombotic and bleeding complications in people with CKD. In 2019 she co-chaired the Canadian commentary on KDIGO metabolic bone disease guidelines and co-chaired the KDIGO potassium controversies conference. She is the medical lead of the St Joseph’s Hamilton Healthcare program for transitioning young people with kidney disease from pediatric to adult practice. In the pandemic, she co-led a review of the filtration properties of cloth masks, co-created the plain language website www.clothmasks.org, and works as faculty within the newly-formed Centre of Excellence in Protective Equipment and Materials at McMaster University to improve and promote masks for community use.

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Sunny
Hartwig

Sunny Hartwig, MSc, PhD

Managing Editor

Dr. Sunny Hartwig is an associate professor in the Department of Biomedical Sciences, Atlantic Veterinary College, University of Prince Edward Island, a CIHR university delegate, and Member of the College, Royal Society of Canada. She obtained her PhD. in renal developmental biology at the Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, and completed a post-doctoral fellowship in developmental nephrology at Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School. Dr. Hartwig’s research is focused on the molecular regulation of nephrogenesis by members of the Sry-related HMG box (SOX) family of transcription factors, and her work is supported by the Kidney Foundation and CIHR.

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Rachel
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Rachel M. Holden, MD, FRCPC

Deputy Editor-In-Chief

Dr. Holden is a nephrologist and a professor in the Department of Medicine with a cross-appointment to the Department of Biomedical and Molecular Sciences at Queen's University. She joined the faculty in 2001.

She currently holds a Clinician Scientist award. Dr. Holden and her associates study basic mechanisms of vascular calcification in chronic kidney disease. A focus of her research program is clinical, basic and translational aspects of vitamin K metabolism and specifically the role of vitamin K in the inhibition of vascular calcification.

Dr. Holden's clinical interests include mineral bone disorders in chronic kidney disease and hemodialysis patients

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Manish
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Manish M Sood, MD, FRCPC, FACP

Deputy Editor-in-Chief

Dr. Sood is an associate professor of medicine at the University of Ottawa with a cross appointment at the School of Epidemiology and Public Health and Scientist at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute. He holds the Jindal Research Chair for the Prevention of Kidney Disease and is an active participant in the international nephrology (KDIGO) guidelines. He completed his undergraduate (BSc) at Carleton and Lancaster University (UK) followed by medical school, internal medicine, and nephrology residency training at the University of Toronto. He began his career as a clinical nephrologist at the St Boniface Hospital in Winnipeg, Manitoba, gradually developing an interest in research and clinical epidemiology and completed his Master’s in Science in Epidemiology at the University of Ottawa in 2017. More recently, he became a Dialysis Outcomes and Practice Patterns (DOPPS) country investigator, a member of the American Society of Nephrology Highlights Team (ESKD) and the CSN Secretary Treasurer. He has received funding by the Canadian Institute for Health Research, the Kidney Foundation of Canada and the Heart and Stroke Foundation. To date, he has authored over 200 research papers, multiple book chapters and has given over 50 invited lectures focusing on anticoagulation, pharmaco-epidemiology, and adverse outcomes in patients with kidney disease using big data.

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