2022 - 2024
$100,000
Patient Care, Quality of Life, Health Policy
Examining the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Chronic Kidney Disease Patients, their Family Caregivers and Renal Care Providers: Towards Optimal Patient Care in a Pandemic
Lay Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic has been a very...
Kidney disease has stolen much of Daxton’s childhood
My son Daxton is only seven years old, but he’s already lived through a staggering amount of loss.
He’s lost two kidneys. The ability to travel or go swimming. A normal school schedule. The chance to do extracurricular activities.
Daxton was born...
Passing Over The Keys to a Legacy
Since suffering from a stroke, I haven’t been able to get out to enjoy my regular weekly card games with friends because of the decrease in my mobility - it just became too difficult to drive. My wife, Irene, and I decided to donate our 2005 Nissan Altima to the...
The STrategic Optimization of Prescription Medication Use in Patients on HemoDialysis (STOPMed-HD) research program, headed by Dr. Marisa Battistella at Toronto’s University Health Network and the University of Toronto, has been working hard since 2016 to design a deprescribing intervention to aid...
2025 - 2028
$180,000
Patient Care, Health Economics, Genetics
Genomics-First to transform healthcare in chronic kidney disease: The 40 in 1 Study
Co-Applicant(s): Cadence Baker, Ilias Goranitis, Lauren Cipriano, Maria Mathews, Matthew Weir, Monica Arnaldi, Osvaldo Espin Garcia, Raymond Kim, Robert...