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.
Aminu
Bello
Aminu Bello, MD, PhD, FRCPC, FACP, FASN
Associate Editor
Dr Bello is a professor of medicine at the University of Alberta, and Consultant Nephrologist at the University of Alberta Hospital. He qualified as a medical doctor in Nigeria at Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto, and underwent specialist clinical training in internal medicine, nephrology, and epidemiology in Nigeria, UK and Canada. He holds research grants from major provincial and national research organizations including CIHR. He has published original research work in major general medical journals including the Lancet, JAMA and the BMJ. He reviews regularly for the major general medical and nephrology journals including The Lancet, JAMA, BMJ and Kidney International. He has more than 200 peer-reviewed scientific publications (articles, book chapters and monographs), and is keenly interested in global health initiatives to improve nephrology practice and education in emerging nations. He is currently a Co-Chair for the International Society of Nephrology (ISN) Global Kidney Health Atlas (GKHA) Project; an initiative for the development and implementation of strategies to enhance global equity in kidney care across all regions and countries of the world.
Clara
Bohm
Clara Bohm, MD, FRCPC, MPH
Associate Editor
Dr. Bohm is an associate professor of internal medicine at the University of Manitoba and a nephrologist in the Manitoba Renal Program. She is cross-appointed to the Department of Community Health Sciences and a research affiliate with the Health, Leisure and Human Performance Institute, Faculty of Kinesiology and Recreation Management, University of Manitoba. Her clinical and research interests focus on improving quality of life in people on dialysis. She leads the Can-SOLVE CKD Triple I Project, striving to identify challenges and develop solutions to improve patient-centred care in hemodialysis. She also leads several nationally funded clinical trials that aim to characterize the effect of exercise on symptom burden and functional status in individuals on hemodialysis. As an "early adopter" of patient engagement, Dr. Bohm works to highlight and incorporate the perspectives of individuals with kidney disease in all her clinical and research endeavours.
Darren
Bridgewater
Darren Bridgewater, PhD
Associate Editor
Dr. Bridgewater is an associate professor in the Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine at McMaster University. Dr. Bridgewater obtained his PhD in the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology at the University of Western Ontario, and completed his post-doctoral fellowship in Developmental Biology at the Hospital For Sick Children, University of Toronto. Congenital anomalies of the kidney and urinary tract (CAKUT) comprise a pleitrophic group of developmental anomalies arising from a fundamental failure in normal kidney development, and constitute the major cause of childhood renal failure. Dr. Bridgewater research focusses on elucidating the fundamental molecular mechanisms underlying normal kidney development to advance our understanding of mechanisms that lead to disease. Dr. Bridgewater’s research is funded by Kidney Foundation of Canada, NSERC and CIHR.
Dylan
Burger
Dylan Burger, PhD, ISHF
Associate Editor
Dr. Burger is a senior scientist at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute and Associate Professor at the University of Ottawa (Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine). He holds a PhD in Physiology and Pharmacology from the University of Western Ontario and completed post-doctoral studies with Drs. Rhian Touyz and Kevin Burns at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute. His independent research program focuses on understanding the molecular underpinnings of diabetes and hypertension and their associated renal complications. In particularly he has been active in the study of extracellular vesicles as markers and mediators of vascular and renal injury for more than 10 years. He has authored more than 100 manuscripts and has received several awards including the 2016 Canadian Society of Nephrology New Investigator Lectureship and the 2018 University of Ottawa Department of Medicine PhD Scientist Award. Dr. Burger was also the recipient of a 2014 New Investigator Award from the KRESCENT program (kidney research scientist core education and national training program) which is a joint initiative through the Kidney Foundation of Canada, Canadian Society of Nephrology and the Canadian Institute of Health Research.
He is the current chair of Communications for the International Society of Hypertension. Dr. Burger is a founding member of The Lancet Commission on Hypertension and associate editor for the European Heart Journal and the Journal of Extracellular Vesicles. He was co-chair of the first Molecules and Mechanisms Mediating Kidney Health and Disease Symposium in 2021.
Maoliosa
Donald
Maoliosa Donald, PhD
Associate Editor
Dr. Donald is an adjunct assistant professor in the Cumming School of Medicine (Division of Nephrology) at the University of Calgary and is an implementation consultant with The Center for Implementation. She is a health services researcher and physical therapist. Dr. Donald’s research interests include interventions that support person-centered care, and innovations that address the evidence-practice gap for patients with early chronic kidney disease.
Meghan
Elliott
Meghan Elliott, MD, MSc, FRCPC
Associate Editor
Dr. Elliott is a clinician scientist with clinical training in nephrology and a research focus in chronic kidney disease care delivery. Dr. Elliott's program of research employs primarily qualitative and mixed methods to understand patients' needs and priorities, identify care gaps, and develop interventions that support self-management and integrated care in the community. Examples of projects related to this theme include the implementation of patient-reported outcome measures in hemodialysis care, shared decision-making in dialysis-related treatment decisions, and patient-centered models of urgent care delivery. Dr. Elliott engages with patients as partners throughout her research.
Ngan
Lam
Ngan Lam, MD, MSc, FRCPC
Associate Editor
Dr. Lam is a clinician scientist, transplant nephrologist and associate professor, Division of Nephrology at the University of Calgary. She completed her fellowships in nephrology and clinical kidney transplantation at Western University. Dr. Lam also completed her Master of Science in clinical epidemiology and biostatistics at Western University and is a graduate of the KRESCENT post-doctoral fellowship (2012-2015). She was awarded the KRESCENT new investigator award (2015-2018) to continue her research on the long-term outcomes of kidney transplant recipients and living kidney donors.
François
Madore
François Madore, MD, MSc, FRCPC
Associate Editor
Dr. Madore is a professor in the Department of Medicine, Chair of the Department of Medicine at the University of Montreal, and a nephrologist at the Hôpital du Sacré-Coeur de Montréal. Following completion of medical school at the University of Montreal, Dr. Madore completed his MSc in epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health.
Dr. Madore's main research interests are biomarkers and cardiovascular complications in patients with end-stage renal disease. His research has been funded by the Fonds de la recherche en santé du Québec, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and the Kidney Foundation of Canada. Dr Madore is the author of more than 100 articles and abstracts in scientific journals in the fields of nephrology and cardiology.
Thomas
Mavrakanas
Thomas Mavrakanas, MD, MSc, FRCPC
Associate Editor
Dr. Mavrakanas is a clinician scientist, nephrologist, and assistant professor at McGill University. His research has been focused on the causes of and treatments for cardiovascular disease in patients with chronic kidney disease and end-stage renal disease. Dr. Mavrakanas has 60 peer-reviewed publications and has received multiple competitive peer-reviewed grants or scholarships. Dr. Mavrakanas received his medical diploma and a Master of Science degree in medical research methodology from the Aristotle University in Thessaloniki, Greece, in 2001 and 2006, respectively. Having completed his specialty training in internal medicine in France and Switzerland between 2006 and 2011, he obtained an attending physician job at Geneva University Hospitals in Switzerland in 2012. After two years of subspecialty training in nephrology at McGill University, Dr. Mavrakanas did a research fellowship at Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School. He then returned to Geneva University in 2017 and was promoted to the rank of Privat-Dozent (habilitation thesis) prior to joining McGill University Health Center in 2020.
Amber
Molnar
Amber Molnar, MD, MSc, FRCPC
Associate Editor
Dr. Molnar is an associate professor with the Department of Medicine, Division of Nephrology at McMaster University and holds a cross appointment with the Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact. She received her MD at the University of Saskatchewan and completed Internal Medicine training at Western University. She then completed her Nephrology training followed by a two-year research fellowship and MSc in Epidemiology at the University of Ottawa. She is an adjunct scientist with ICES. In this role, she is able to use large, provincial healthcare databases to answer research questions pertinent to patients with kidney disease. Her research program focuses primarily on improving outcomes for patients with chronic kidney disease and on hemodialysis. She also serves as an associate editor for the Canadian Journal of Kidney Health and Disease, the official journal of the Canadian Society of Nephrology, and is the co-Lead on the Communications and Engagement for the Canadian Nephrology Trials Network.
Keigan
More
Keigan More, MD, MSc, FRPC
Associate Editor of Case Reports
Dr. More is a nephrologist and assistant professor in the Department of Medicine at Dalhousie University. He received his MD at the University of British Columbia and completed Internal Medicine and Nephrology training at Dalhousie University. He completed a Master of Science in Quality Improvement and Patient Safety at the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation at the University of Toronto. He currently serves as the medical director of Renal Quality for the Nova Scotia Renal Program Central Zone and is program director of the Dalhousie University Adult Nephrology training program.
Ramesh
Prasad
Ramesh Prasad, MD, MSc, PhD, FRCPC
Associate Editor
Dr. Prasad is a nephrologist, professor of medicine at the University of Toronto, and director of the Kidney Transplant Program at St. Michael’s Hospital. Dr. Prasad obtained his medical degree from Osmania University, Hyderabad, India. He completed his internal medicine residency at Wayne State University / Detroit Medical Center, his nephrology fellowship at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, and a transplantation nephrology fellowship at Toronto General Hospital. Dr. Prasad holds a Master of Science degree in medical science from the University of Toronto and a PhD in philosophy. Dr. Prasad’s research interest includes all aspects pertinent to the long-term health of both kidney transplant recipients and donors, and the philosophy of science and medicine. He has published over 130 peer-reviewed articles. He is certified and recertified in both internal medicine and nephrology by the American Board of Internal Medicine and has a specialist certificate in hypertension from the American Society of Hypertension. He serves on the Declaration of Istanbul Custodian Group, Canadian Hypertension Education Program, and various committees of the Canadian and American Societies of Transplantation.
Claudio
Rigatto
Claudio Rigatto, MD, MSc, FRCPC
Associate Editor
Dr. Rigatto is an associate professor at the University of Manitoba Faculty of Medicine and an attending nephrologist at both St. Boniface and Seven Oaks General Hospitals. He received his medical training at the University of Manitoba, including a BSc. in Medicine and at Memorial University in Newfoundland where he received his MSc. in Medicine. Dr. Rigatto is a clinical epidemiologist and serves as chair of the Can-SOLVE CKD Network Research Operations Committee.
Dr. Rigatto’s research is focused on biomarkers as predictors of outcomes in both acute and chronic kidney disease. He is a lead investigator with the Winnipeg Cardiac Surgery Cohort, a prospective cohort study of renal outcomes after heart surgery, where his research focuses on intraoperative biomarkers of acute kidney injury. He is also one of the lead investigators for the CanPREDDICT Consortium, a prospective cohort of 2500 CKD patients followed by nephrologists across Canada exploring utility of newer markers of renal and vascular health in prediction of patient-important outcomes in CKD.
Karthik
Tennankore
Karthik Tennankore, MD, MSc, FRCPC
Associate Editor
Dr. Tennankore is a nephrologist and associate professor in the Department of Medicine at Dalhousie University, and QEII Foundation endowed chair in Transplantation Research at the QEII Health Sciences Centre. Dr. Tennankore completed his medical degree at the University of Western Ontario, his internal medicine residency and nephrology fellowship at Dalhousie University, and a Master of Science in Clinical Epidemiology at Harvard University.
Dr. Tennankore is interested in studying and improving outcomes of patients after initiation of dialysis and transplantation, and he is a part of national and international research initiatives in home hemodialysis. He is involved in clinical trials and conducts a number of prospective cohort studies in nephrology.
Elena
Torban
Elena Torban, PhD
Associate Editor
Dr. Torban is an associate professor in the Department of Medicine, Division of Experimental Medicine at McGill Univeresity, and a basic scientist in the Division of Nephrology, McGill University Health Center. She received her PhD in kidney development at McGill and her post-doctoral training at the Montreal Neurological Institute and at McGill. Dr. Torban’s research focuses on pathomechanisms of glomerular disease, as well as the molecular and cellular mechanisms by which planar cell polarity signaling pathways regulate normal kidney development. Her research is funded by Kidney Foundation of Canada and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research.
Christine
White
Christine White MD, MSc, FRCPC
Associate Editor
Dr. White is a nephrologist and professor in the Department of Medicine, Division of Nephrology at Queen’s University. She is primary lead of the Ontario Renal Network-Ontario Health Study Scientific Committee, and director of the Chronic Kidney Disease Program at the Kingston General Hospital. Dr. White completed her BSc and MSc at the University of Toronto. After obtaining her degree in medicine from Queen's University, she undertook her Internal Medicine and Nephrology training at the University of Ottawa. Dr White is a recipient of a SEAMO Clinician Scientist Development Program Award. Her research program focuses on the measurement and estimation of kidney function using conventional and novel markers. She has established a GFR measurement program at Queen's and is the recipient of a CIHR operating grant to develop novel accurate GFR measurement protocols.
