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Cathy Woods

ResearcherMedicine/NephrologyUniversity of British Columbia

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Cathy Woods

Researcher

Medicine/Nephrology

Health Sciences

University of British Columbia

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

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Has led research grants, which requires an independent research appointment. Ask their department whether they supervise graduate students.
7 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Principal investigator on 3 research grants (3 CIHR), most recently in 2025.

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Research

Cardiovascular Disease Chronic Kidney Disease Diabetes Health Services Research Kidney Community Driven Implementation Indigenous Health Research

Latest papers

Repositioning the Canadian CKD Clinic Network Through Structured Input and World Café Dialogue: A Conference Report.
Canadian journal of kidney health and disease · 2026
Global landscape of kidney health across Indigenous populations
Nature Reviews Nephrology · 2026
Integrated, Community-Led, Culturally Safe Implementation of a Chronic Kidney Disease Detection Program for Indigenous Communities of Canada: The Kidney Check Program Report
Canadian Journal of Kidney Health and Disease · 2026

All 9 publications

Latest funding

Listening, Learning, Leading: Canadians Seeking Solutions and Innovations to Overcome Chronic Kidney Disease (Can-SOLVE CKD)
CIHR · 2025 · Principal investigator
$2,000,000
Looking, Listening, Learning, Leading: Canadians Seeking Solutions and Innovations to Overcome; Chronic Kidney Disease (Can-SOLVE CKD)
CIHR · 2021 · Principal investigator
$3,750,000
Listening, Learning, Leading: Canadians Seeking Solutions and Innovations to Overcome Chronic Kidney Disease (Can-SOLVE CKD)
CIHR · 2015 · Principal investigator
$12,450,000

All 3 grants and awards

9 publications.

Repositioning the Canadian CKD Clinic Network Through Structured Input and World Café Dialogue: A Conference Report.

Allu S, Tang M, Beaulieu MC, Bello AK, Bevilacqua M, Hoi-Lun Chiu H, Chong K, Donald M, Elliott MD, Elliott MJ, Escoto M, Ethier I, Graham J, Levin A, Marin JG, Picard K, Soroka SD, White CA, Woods C, Yi TW, James MT

Canadian journal of kidney health and disease2026

DOI: 10.1177/20543581261470157 PMID: 42472272

Global landscape of kidney health across Indigenous populations

Tungsanga S, Okpechi IG, Bianchi MEV, Chaturvedi S, Collister D, Crowshoe H, Rodriguez de Sosa GM, Galadanci HA, Hedin E, Ibrahim KS

Nature Reviews Nephrology202610 citations

DOI: 10.1038/s41581-025-01016-2

Integrated, Community-Led, Culturally Safe Implementation of a Chronic Kidney Disease Detection Program for Indigenous Communities of Canada: The Kidney Check Program Report

Tungsanga S, Woods C, Allu S, Dart AB, Jain AK, Jorgensen L, Hampson M, Harasemiw O, Hébert M, Kappel J

Canadian Journal of Kidney Health and Disease2026

DOI: 10.1177/20543581261447194

Can-SOLVE CKD: Reflections on Successes, Challenges, and Future Opportunities in Patient-Oriented Kidney Research.

Talson MD, Hampson M, Loverock K, Desjarlais A, Jones J, Pollock G, Woods C, Atkinson T, Manns BJ, James MT, Scholey JW, Levin A

Nephron2025

DOI: 10.1159/000544968 PMID: 40168956

The Problems We Can-SOLVE: How Can-SOLVE CKD Network Implementation and Knowledge Mobilization Projects Are Reshaping Kidney Care in Canada.

Woods C, Donald M, Allu S, Hampson M, MacDonald C, Harris H, King M, Scholey J, Levin A, James MT

Canadian journal of kidney health and disease2025First author

DOI: 10.1177/20543581251333206 PMID: 40291762

Ensuring Indigenous co-leadership in health research: a Can-SOLVE CKD case example.

Woods C, Settee C, Beaucage M, Robinson-Settee H, Desjarlais A, Adams E, Turner C, King M, Pokiak L, Wilson M, Voyageur E, Large C, McGavock J, Kappel J, Chiu H, Beardy T, Flett I, Scholey J, Harris H, Jones J, Nahanee LM, Nahanee D, Can-SOLVE CKD Indigenous Peoples’ Engagement, Research Council (IPERC)

International journal for equity in health2023First author

DOI: 10.1186/s12939-023-02044-9 PMID: 37941003

Storytelling for impact: the creation of a storytelling program for patient partners in research.

Getchell LE, Reich M, Allu S, Woods C, Atkinson T, Beaucage M, Stalker L, Sparkes D, Turner C, L'Esperance A, Burns K, Elliott MJ, Chiu H, Rosenblum ND, Sapir-Pichhadze R

Research involvement and engagement2023

DOI: 10.1186/s40900-023-00471-0 PMID: 37491345

A Comprehensive Quality Assurance Platform in Canada for National Point-of-Care Chronic Kidney Disease Screening: The Kidney Check Program.

Curtis S, Sokoro A, Martin H, McLeod L, Chartrand C, Lavallee B, Woods C, Di Nella M, Levin A, Komenda P

Kidney international reports2021

DOI: 10.1016/j.ekir.2020.11.031 PMID: 33615077

Canadians Seeking Solutions and Innovations to Overcome Chronic Kidney Disease (Can-SOLVE CKD): Form and Function

Levin A, Adams E, Barrett BJ, Beanlands H, Burns KD, Chiu HH-L, Chong K, Dart A, Ferera J, Fernandez N

Canadian Journal of Kidney Health and Disease201874 citations

DOI: 10.1177/2054358117749530

Listening, Learning, Leading: Canadians Seeking Solutions and Innovations to Overcome Chronic Kidney Disease (Can-SOLVE CKD)

Principal investigatorCIHR2025SPOR Networks - Knowledge Mobilization and Implementation Science - Extension

Principal investigators: Levin, Adeera; Desjarlais, Arlene D; Loth, Maureena D; Loverock, Kelly; March, Violet; McCormick, Michael; McKenzie, Susan Q; Nahanee, Delhia; Nahanee, Latash; Rigatto, Claudio; Soroka, Steven; Sparkes, Dwight; Stalker, Leanne; Turino Miranda, Keila; Woods, Cathy; Battistella, Marisa; Bello, Aminu; Bohm, Clara; Collister, David; Dart, Allison B; Donald, Maoliosa (Mo); Elliott, Meghan; James, Matthew T; King, Malcolm; Matsuda-Abedini, Mina; Naylor, Kyla; Schick-Makaroff, Kara L; Scholey, James W; Tangri, Navdeep; Tennankore, Karthik K; Wicklow, Brandy A

Keywords: Kidney

$2,000,000

Looking, Listening, Learning, Leading: Canadians Seeking Solutions and Innovations to Overcome; Chronic Kidney Disease (Can-SOLVE CKD)

Principal investigatorCIHR2021SPOR Networks - Knowledge Mobilization and Implementation Science

Principal investigators: Levin, Adeera; Beaucage, Mary B; Desjarlais, Arlene D; Hillier, David R; McCormick, Michael; Morrin, Louise; Stalker, Leanne; Verdin, Nancy E; Voyageur, Evelyn; Wilson, Mary; Woods, Cathy; Ahmed, Sofia B; Barrett, Brendan J; Battistella, Marisa; Bello, Aminu; Bohm, Clara; Collister, David; Dart, Allison B; Donald, Maoliosa (Mo); Elliott, Meghan; Garg, Amit; Hartwig, Sunny; James, Matthew T; King, Malcolm; Louie, Kelsey; Manns, Braden J; Matsuda-Abedini, Mina; McIntyre, Christopher W; Reich, Heather; Rigatto, Claudio; Sapir-Pichhadze, Ruth; Schick-Makaroff, Kara L; Scholey, James W; Silver, Samuel; Tangri, Navdeep; Tennankore, Karthik K; Thompson, Stephanie; Wicklow, Brandy A; Zappitelli, Michael

Keywords: Cardiovascular Disease; Chronic Kidney Disease; Community Driven; Diabetes; Health Services Research; Implementation; Indigenous Health Research; Knowledge Mobilization; Patient-Oriented Research; Storytelling

$3,750,000

Listening, Learning, Leading: Canadians Seeking Solutions and Innovations to Overcome Chronic Kidney Disease (Can-SOLVE CKD)

Principal investigatorCIHR2015SPOR Networks in Chronic Disease

Principal investigators: Levin, Adeera; Adams, Evan L; Harvey, Rebecca; Pawlovich, John; Barrett, Brendan J; Burns, Kevin D; Garg, Amit; Hemmelgarn, Brenda R; Laupacis, Andreas; LeGay, Barbara; Manns, Braden J; McCormick, Michael; Rosenblum, Norman D; Tonelli, Marcello; Woods, Cathy

Keywords: Biomarker Discovery; Cardiovascular Disease; Chronic Kidney Disease; Clinical Trials; Diabetes; Health Services Research; Novel Diagnostics; Observational Studies; Patient Reported Outcomes; Stem Cells

$12,450,000

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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Cathy Woods

Research

Latest papers

Latest funding

Repositioning the Canadian CKD Clinic Network Through Structured Input and World Caf&#xe9; Dialogue: A Conference Report.

Global landscape of kidney health across Indigenous populations

Integrated, Community-Led, Culturally Safe Implementation of a Chronic Kidney Disease Detection Program for Indigenous Communities of Canada: The Kidney Check Program Report

Can-SOLVE CKD: Reflections on Successes, Challenges, and Future Opportunities in Patient-Oriented Kidney Research.

The Problems We Can-SOLVE: How Can-SOLVE CKD Network Implementation and Knowledge Mobilization Projects Are Reshaping Kidney Care in Canada.

Ensuring Indigenous co-leadership in health research: a Can-SOLVE CKD case example.

Storytelling for impact: the creation of a storytelling program for patient partners in research.

A Comprehensive Quality Assurance Platform in Canada for National Point-of-Care Chronic Kidney Disease Screening: The Kidney Check Program.

Canadians Seeking Solutions and Innovations to Overcome Chronic Kidney Disease (Can-SOLVE CKD): Form and Function

Listening, Learning, Leading: Canadians Seeking Solutions and Innovations to Overcome Chronic Kidney Disease (Can-SOLVE CKD)

Looking, Listening, Learning, Leading: Canadians Seeking Solutions and Innovations to Overcome; Chronic Kidney Disease (Can-SOLVE CKD)

Listening, Learning, Leading: Canadians Seeking Solutions and Innovations to Overcome Chronic Kidney Disease (Can-SOLVE CKD)

Frequent collaborators

Adeera Levin

Paul Komenda

Somkanya Tungsanga

Malcolm King

Mary Beaucage

Maoliosa Donald

Harley Crowshoe

Mary Beaucage

Arlene Desjarlais

David Collister

James Scholey

David Collister

Evan Adams

Etienne Sochett

Caroline Tait

Leanne Stalker

Craig Settee

Maureena Loth

David Collister

Kelly Loverock

Delhia Nahanee

Dwight Sparkes

Evelyn Voyageur

Mary Wilson

Marcello Tonelli

Heather Reich

Brenda Hemmelgarn

Marcello Tonelli

Navdeep Tangri

Jonathan McGavock

Allison Dart

Ruth Sapir-Pichhadze

Jeffrey Johnson

Michael Walsh

Michael McCormick

Amit Garg

York Pei

Braden Manns

Repositioning the Canadian CKD Clinic Network Through Structured Input and World Café Dialogue: A Conference Report.