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Rhea Varughese

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Assistant ProfessorDepartment of MedicineUniversity of Alberta

Rhea Varughese

Assistant Professor

Department of Medicine

Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry

University of Alberta

Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

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15 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.

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Latest papers

Longer Duration of Donor Ventilation is not Associated With Long-term Lung Function After Lung Transplantation
Transplantation · 2026
Perspectives: Consensus Statement Addressing the Practical and Logistical Considerations for Performing Frailty Assessments in Lung Transplant Candidates
The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation · 2026
Sequential Transplant Research: A Consensus Guideline Endorsed by the International Society for Organ Donation Professionals, the Canadian Donation and Transplant Research Program, and the Canadian Society of Transplantation.
Transplantation · 2026

All 20 publications

Latest funding

Inspiratory Muscle Training in Lung Transplant Candidates and Implications on Early Post-Transplant Outcomes: A Pilot and Feasibility Randomized Clinical Trial
CIHR · 2023 · Co-investigator
$501,076
Inspiratory Muscle Training in Lung Transplant Candidates and Implications on Early Post-Transplant Outcomes: A Pilot and Feasibility Randomized Clinical Trial
CIHR · 2022 · Co-investigator
$100,000
Impact of COVID-19 on Health Care Access, Utilization, Delivery, and Outcomes for Patients with Pulmonary Diseases in Alberta (INCLUDE Study)
CIHR · 2021 · Co-investigator
$405,226

All 3 grants and awards

20 publications.

Longer Duration of Donor Ventilation is not Associated With Long-term Lung Function After Lung Transplantation

Samuel Fioretti, D. Li, Karina Kaur, Alisha Rullay, Justin G. Weinkauf, Dale C. Lien, Laura van den Bosch, Rhea A. Varughese, Jayan Nagendran, Jason C. Weatherald, Kieran M. Halloran, Alim S. Hirji

Transplantation20261 citations

DOI: 10.1097/tp.0000000000005647 PMID: 41604417

Perspectives: Consensus Statement Addressing the Practical and Logistical Considerations for Performing Frailty Assessments in Lung Transplant Candidates

Michaela R. Anderson, Selim M. Arcasoy, Christian Benden, Marie Budev, Marlene Cano, Kam Man Larissa Chandra, Malachy James Clancy, Joshua Matthew Diamond, Ioannis Dimarakis, Alexander G. Dragnich, Louise Fuller, Vasiliki Gerovasili, Laurent Godinas, Zubair A. Hashmi, Are Martin Holm, Brittany Koons, Z. Kovacs, Jin Gu Lee, Erin M. Lowery, Julia A. Maheshwari, Federica Meloni, E. E. MONTGOMERY, Catherine N. Myers, Justin P. Rosenheck, Aman Sidhu, Lianne Gail Singer, Laurie D. Snyder, Syed Zulkharnain Tousheed, Rhea Varughese, James Walsh, et al. (33 authors)

The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation2026Open Access

DOI: 10.1016/j.healun.2026.05.035 PMID: 42764189

Sequential Transplant Research: A Consensus Guideline Endorsed by the International Society for Organ Donation Professionals, the Canadian Donation and Transplant Research Program, and the Canadian Society of Transplantation.

Meade MO, Cumyn A, D'Aragon F, Chaudhury P, Treleaven D, Parpia S, Selzner M, Shamseddin MK, Gill JS, Singh JM

Transplantation2026

DOI: 10.1097/tp.0000000000005851

Assessing and Addressing Frailty in Candidates for Lung Transplantation: An ISHLT Consensus Statement.

Anderson MR, Arcasoy SM, Benden C, Budev M, Cano M, Larissa Chandra KM, Clancy MJ, Diamond J, Dimarakis I, Dragnich A, Fuller L, Gerovasili V, Godinas L, Hashmi ZA, Holm AM, Koons B, Kovacs Z, Lee JG, Lowery EM, Maheshwari J, Meloni F, Montgomery E, Myers C, Rosenheck J, Sidhu A, Singer LG, Snyder LD, Tousheed S, Varughese R, Walsh JR, Wilkey B, Malouf M, Singer JP

The Journal of heart and lung transplantation : the official publication of the International Society for Heart Transplantation2026

DOI: 10.1016/j.healun.2026.05.033 PMID: 42622599

Lung Transplantation From Donors With a History of Substance Use.

Li D, Weinkauf J, Hirji A, Weatherald J, Varughese R, van den Bosch L, Lien D, Nagendran J, Halloran K

Clinical transplantation20253 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1111/ctr.70162 PMID: 40278827

Respiratory Viruses at Time of Lung Transplant and the Relationship to Primary Graft Dysfunction.

van den Bosch L, Kaur K, Varughese R, Hirji A, Weatherald J, Weinkauf J, Lien D, Garcia OF, Alvarez CC, Doucette K, Kabbani D, Halloran K

Transplant infectious disease : an official journal of the Transplantation Society20252 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1111/tid.70078 PMID: 40717602

An Interpretive Description of Patient and Provider Perspectives on the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Lung Transplant Care Access and Service Delivery in Alberta, Canada.

Brehon K, Hung P, Miciak M, Varughese R, Halloran K, Perreault K, Ronksley PE, Stickland MK, Weatherald J, Gross DP, Lam GY

Journal of transplantation2025Open Access

DOI: 10.1155/joot/6850873 PMID: 40452945

Association Between the Pulmonary Artery Pulsatility Index and Prognosis in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension: A Multicentre Study

Ostad S, Sugarman J, Alkhodair A, Liang J, Mielniczuk LM, Hambly N, Helmersen D, Hirani N, Thakrar M, Varughese R

CJC Open20238 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1016/j.cjco.2023.04.005

Systemic corticosteroids for outpatient respiratory viral infections in lung transplant recipients.

Ghandi V, Li D, Weinkauf J, Lien D, Hirji A, Varughese R, Weatherald J, Sligl W, Kabbani D, Schwartz I, Doucette K, Cervera C, Halloran K

Transplant infectious disease : an official journal of the Transplantation Society20231 citations

DOI: 10.1111/tid.14181 PMID: 37922374

Safety of Crossing Donor-specific Antibodies in Lung Transplantation.

Wang M, Campbell P, Lien DC, Varughese R, Weinkauf J, Nagendran J, Hirji A, Li D, Halloran K

Transplantation2023

DOI: 10.1097/tp.0000000000004413 PMID: 36595026

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Rhea Varughese

Research

Latest papers

Latest funding

Longer Duration of Donor Ventilation is not Associated With Long-term Lung Function After Lung Transplantation

Perspectives: Consensus Statement Addressing the Practical and Logistical Considerations for Performing Frailty Assessments in Lung Transplant Candidates

Sequential Transplant Research: A Consensus Guideline Endorsed by the International Society for Organ Donation Professionals, the Canadian Donation and Transplant Research Program, and the Canadian Society of Transplantation.

Assessing and Addressing Frailty in Candidates for Lung Transplantation: An ISHLT Consensus Statement.

Lung Transplantation From Donors With a History of Substance Use.

Respiratory Viruses at Time of Lung Transplant and the Relationship to Primary Graft Dysfunction.

An Interpretive Description of Patient and Provider Perspectives on the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Lung Transplant Care Access and Service Delivery in Alberta, Canada.

Association Between the Pulmonary Artery Pulsatility Index and Prognosis in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension: A Multicentre Study

Systemic corticosteroids for outpatient respiratory viral infections in lung transplant recipients.

Safety of Crossing Donor-specific Antibodies in Lung Transplantation.

Inspiratory Muscle Training in Lung Transplant Candidates and Implications on Early Post-Transplant Outcomes: A Pilot and Feasibility Randomized Clinical Trial

Inspiratory Muscle Training in Lung Transplant Candidates and Implications on Early Post-Transplant Outcomes: A Pilot and Feasibility Randomized Clinical Trial

Impact of COVID-19 on Health Care Access, Utilization, Delivery, and Outcomes for Patients with Pulmonary Diseases in Alberta (INCLUDE Study)

Frequent collaborators

Kieran Halloran

Alim Hirji

Justin Weinkauf

Dale Lien

Jayan Nagendran

Jason Weatherald

Karen Doucette

Laura van den Bosch

Lianne Singer

Carlos Alvarez

Jonathan Abele

Viktor Sekowski

Dmitry Rozenberg

Dima Kabbani

Lisa Mielniczuk

Carlos Cervera

Benjamin Adam

Doug Gross

Duncan Stewart

Jeffrey Singh

Deborah Cook

Grace Lam

Steven Paraskevas

Lisa Wickerson

George Chandy

Jeff Singh