Alexander Logan, University of Toronto

Research

Chronic Kidney Disease Healthcare Delivery Mobile Health Remote Patient Monitoring Medication Reconciliation Mobile Health Technology Self-Care

Latest papers

Characterizing Hypertension Specialist Care in Canada: A National Survey
CJC Open · 2023
Patient-perceived barriers to a screening program for depression: a patient opinion survey of hemodialysis patients.
Clinical kidney journal · 2017
Liraglutide promotes natriuresis but does not increase circulating levels of atrial natriuretic peptide in hypertensive subjects with type 2 diabetes.
Diabetes care · 2015

All 6 publications

Latest funding

Development of a telemonitoring app for management of patients with multiple chronic conditions within an integrated care model
CIHR · 2017 · Co-investigator
$199,800
Security and authentication for large scale deployment of disease-specific applications for patients with serious and complex renal disease.
CIHR · 2017 · Nominated PI
$200,000
Evaluation of self-care medication reconciliation app for patients with chronic kidney disease
CIHR · 2013 · Nominated PI

All 5 grants and awards

6 publications.

01

Characterizing Hypertension Specialist Care in Canada: A National Survey

Lui S, Dubrofsky L, Khan NA, Tobe SW, Huynh J, Kuyper L, Mathew A, Amin S, Schiffrin EL, Harvey P

CJC Open20231 citations

DOI: 10.1016/j.cjco.2023.08.014

02

Patient-perceived barriers to a screening program for depression: a patient opinion survey of hemodialysis patients.

Farrokhi F, Beanlands H, Logan A, Kurdyak P, Jassal SV

Clinical kidney journal2017

DOI: 10.1093/ckj/sfx047 PMID: 29225813

03

Liraglutide promotes natriuresis but does not increase circulating levels of atrial natriuretic peptide in hypertensive subjects with type 2 diabetes.

Lovshin JA, Barnie A, DeAlmeida A, Logan A, Zinman B, Drucker DJ

Diabetes care2015

DOI: 10.2337/dc14-1958 PMID: 25414155

04

UK and Canadian perspectives of the effectiveness of mobile diabetes management systems.

Seto E, Istepanian RS, Cafazzo JA, Logan A, Sungoor A

Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference2009

DOI: 10.1109/iembs.2009.5333998 PMID: 19964700

05

A mobile phone based remote patient monitoring system for chronic disease management.

Trudel M, Cafazzo JA, Hamill M, Igharas W, Tallevi K, Picton P, Lam J, Rossos PG, Easty AC, Logan A

Studies in health technology and informatics2007Senior author

PMID: 17911700

06

Development and validation of Transfusion Risk Understanding Scoring Tool (TRUST) to stratify cardiac surgery patients according to their blood transfusion needs.

Alghamdi AA, Davis A, Brister S, Corey P, Logan A

Transfusion2006Senior author

DOI: 10.1111/j.1537-2995.2006.00860.x PMID: 16836558

Development of a telemonitoring app for management of patients with multiple chronic conditions within an integrated care model

Co-investigatorCIHR2017Catalyst Grant: Personalized Health Catalyst Grants

Principal investigators: Seto, Emily

Keywords: App; Chronic Disease; Integrated Care Clinic; Multiple Chronic Conditions; Smartphone; Telemonitoring

$199,800

Security and authentication for large scale deployment of disease-specific applications for patients with serious and complex renal disease.

Nominated PICIHR2017Catalyst Grant: Personalized Health Catalyst Grants

Principal investigators: Logan, Alexander G

Keywords: Chronic Kidney Disease; Healthcare Delivery; Mobile Health; Remote Patient Monitoring

$200,000

Evaluation of self-care medication reconciliation app for patients with chronic kidney disease

Nominated PICIHR2013Catalyst Grant: eHealth Innovations

Principal investigators: Logan, Alexander G; Lok, Charmaine E

Keywords: Medication Reconciliation; Mobile Health Technology; Self-Care

Self-management and clinical decision support of multiple chronic conditions through the use of mobile health telemonitoring

Co-investigatorCIHR2013Catalyst Grant: eHealth Innovations

Principal investigators: Seto, Emily; Ong, Stephanie W

Keywords: Chronic Disease Management; Chronic Kidney Disease; Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease; Clinical Decision-Making Tool; Heart Failure; Mobile Telemonitoring; Multiple Co-Morbidities; Patient Self-Management; Quality Of Life; Randomized Controlled Trial

Adaptive servo ventilation for therapy of sleep apnea in heart failure

Co-investigatorCIHR2008CIHR/SME Collaborative Research Program - Randomized Controlled Trials

Principal investigators: Bradley, Douglas T

Keywords: Adaptive Servo Ventilation; Central Sleep Apnea; Heart Failure; Obstructive Sleep Apnea; Randomized Trial

$1,583,255

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

Frequent collaborators

Medicine
Endocrinology and Metabolism
Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science
Institute of Health Policy, Management, and Evaluation
Department of Medicine
Psychiatry
Medicine/Nephrology
Other

1 shared papers, latest 2009

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Subject: Prospective PhD student: Chronic Kidney Disease Dear Professor Logan, My name is [your name], and I am a [your current degree or role] at [your institution]. I am applying for a PhD position starting in [term and year]. I read your paper "Characterizing Hypertension Specialist Care in Canada: A National Survey" (2023), and it connects closely to my own work on [your research topic]. [One or two sentences on what you did and what you learned.] Are you accepting new PhD students for [term and year]? I have attached my CV and transcripts, and I would be glad to talk at a time that suits you. Thank you for your time. Kind regards, [your name]