Bethany Foster, MD Award: KRESCENT New Investigator Award Institution: McGill University Year: 2006-2009 Dr. Bethany Foster is a new investigator in kidney transplantation at the Montreal Children’s Hospital. She recently returned to Canada after completing a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania in the United States. Dr. Foster’s research addresses the cardiovascular health of children and young adults who need dialysis or a kidney transplant. Cardiovascular mortality in kidney transplantation recipients is lower than in dialysis patients but remains 10 times higher than their healthy counterparts. Once critical post-transplant cardiovascular abnormalities have been determined and risk factors for ongoing cardiovascular disease have been identified, treatments to improve or eliminate these risk factors will be tested and clinically applied. Previous Next