Kirk Lo, University of Toronto

Research

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Latest papers

Initiating male contraception methods.
Andrology · 2024 · senior author
Practice and development of male contraception: European Academy of Andrology and American Society of Andrology guidelines.
Andrology · 2024
2023 Canadian Urological Association guideline: Evaluation and management of azoospermia
Journal of the Canadian Urological Association · 2023

All 22 publications

Latest funding

Novel semen biomarkers to identify sperm production in men with infertility: A non-invasive method to characterize men with azoospermia or no sperm in the semen, into those with and without testicular sperm production
CIHR · 2010 · Co-investigator
$152,499

All 1 grants and awards

22 publications.

01

Initiating male contraception methods.

Wu FCW, Lo K

Andrology2024Senior author

DOI: 10.1111/andr.13694 PMID: 39073522

02

Practice and development of male contraception: European Academy of Andrology and American Society of Andrology guidelines.

Wang C, Meriggiola MC, Amory JK, Barratt CLR, Behre HM, Bremner WJ, Ferlin A, Honig S, Kopa Z, Lo K, Nieschlag E, Page ST, Sandlow J, Sitruk-Ware R, Swerdloff RS, Wu FCW, Goulis DG

Andrology2024

DOI: 10.1111/andr.13525 PMID: 37727884

03

2023 Canadian Urological Association guideline: Evaluation and management of azoospermia

Flannigan R, Tadayon Najafabadi B, Violette PD, Jarvi K, Patel P, Bach PV, Domes T, Zini A, Grober E, Mak V

Journal of the Canadian Urological Association202319 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.5489/cuaj.8445 PMID: W4378902522

04

Ascorbic acid is associated with favourable hormonal profiles among infertile males.

Rastegar Panah M, Tahir I, Garcia-Bailo B, Lo K, Jarvi K, El-Sohemy A

Frontiers in reproductive health20238 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.3389/frph.2023.1143579 PMID: 37361344

05

"Who needs an app? Fertility patients' use of a novel mobile health app".

Miner SA, Gelgoot EN, Lahuec A, Wunderlich S, Safo D, Brochu F, Dawadi S, Robins S, Bernadette S, O'Connell L, Chan P, Ells C, Holzer H, Lo K, Mahutte N, Ouhilal S, Rosberger Z, Tulandi T, Zelkowitz P

Digital health202212 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1177/20552076221102248 PMID: 35646384

06

Evaluation of a Mobile Health App Offering Fertility Information to Male Patients With Cancer: Usability Study.

Gelgoot EN, Kruglova K, Chan P, Lo K, Rosberger Z, Chown P, Kazdan J, O'Connell SBL, Zelkowitz P

JMIR cancer202210 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.2196/33594 PMID: 35507408

07

How far will they go? Distance and driving times that north American men travel to see a reproductive urologist.

Chen J, Jarvi K, Lajkosz K, Smith J, Lau S, Lo K, Grober E, Samplaski MK

Andrologia20226 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1111/and.14551 PMID: 36054603

08

The impact of cannabis use on male sexual function: A 10-year, single-center experience

Shiff B, Blankstein U, Hussaen J, Jarvi K, Grober E, Lo K, Lajkosz K, Krakowsky Y

Journal of the Canadian Urological Association202117 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.5489/cuaj.7185

09

Risky Business: Increasing Fertility Knowledge of Men in the General Public Using the Mobile Health Application Infotility XY.

Kruglova K, Gelgoot EN, Chan P, Lo K, Rosberger Z, Bélanger E, Kazdan J, Robins S, Zelkowitz P

American journal of men's health202113 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1177/15579883211049027 PMID: 34697968

10

The effect of ethnicity on semen analysis and hormones in the infertile patient.

Punjani N, Nayan M, Jarvi K, Lo K, Lau S, Grober ED

Canadian Urological Association journal = Journal de l'Association des urologues du Canada202015 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.5489/cuaj.5897 PMID: 31348744

Novel semen biomarkers to identify sperm production in men with infertility: A non-invasive method to characterize men with azoospermia or no sperm in the semen, into those with and without testicular sperm production

Co-investigatorCIHR2010Proof of Principle Program - Phase I

Principal investigators: Jarvi, Keith A; Diamandis, Eleftherios P

Keywords: Azoospermia; Biomarkers; Commericalization; Intellectual Property; Male Infertility; Multiple-Reaction-Monitoring Assay; Obstruction; Proteomics; Semen; Testicular Failure

$152,499

From public funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998 with their latest competition results, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Genome Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, Canada Research Chairs, the Fonds de recherche du Québec, Ontario research funding, Michael Smith Health Research BC, the Canadian Cancer Society, Heart & Stroke and Brain Canada.

Frequent collaborators

Stephen Scherer and Christian Marshall: 210 shared papers
Stephen Scherer and Ryan Yuen: 91 shared papers
Ryan Yuen and Christian Marshall: 38 shared papers
Steven Narod and Sender Herschorn: 17 shared papers
Phyllis Zelkowitz and Zeev Rosberger: 13 shared papers
Keith Jarvi and Kirk Lo: 13 shared papers
Marc Anthony Fischer and Keith Jarvi: 12 shared papers
Ahmed El-Sohemy and Bibiana García-Bailo: 11 shared papers
Keith Jarvi and Ethan Grober: 9 shared papers
Udi Blankstein and Keith Jarvi: 8 shared papers
Ethan Grober and Kirk Lo: 8 shared papers
Phyllis Zelkowitz and Togas Tulandi: 7 shared papers
Steven Narod and Yuna Lee: 7 shared papers
Sender Herschorn and Yuna Lee: 7 shared papers
Sender Herschorn and Raj Satkunasivam: 7 shared papers
Ethan Grober and Yonah Krakowsky: 7 shared papers
Phyllis Zelkowitz and Kirk Lo: 5 shared papers
Steven Narod and Raj Satkunasivam: 5 shared papers
Keith Jarvi and Tony Mazzulli: 5 shared papers
Keith Jarvi and Yonah Krakowsky: 5 shared papers
Steven Narod and Patrick Cheung: 4 shared papers
Keith Jarvi and Ahmed El-Sohemy: 4 shared papers
Sender Herschorn and Patrick Cheung: 4 shared papers
Patrick Cheung and Yuna Lee: 4 shared papers
Yuna Lee and Raj Satkunasivam: 4 shared papers
Udi Blankstein and Ethan Grober: 3 shared papers
Udi Blankstein and Yonah Krakowsky: 3 shared papers
Phyllis Zelkowitz and Abha Gupta: 3 shared papers
Stephen Scherer and Keith Jarvi: 3 shared papers
Zeev Rosberger and Kirk Lo: 3 shared papers
Keith Jarvi and Ryan Yuen: 3 shared papers
Keith Jarvi and Christian Marshall: 3 shared papers
Jason Lee and Michael Ordon: 3 shared papers
Philippe Violette and Keith Jarvi: 2 shared papers
Philippe Violette and Yonah Krakowsky: 2 shared papers
Stephen Scherer and Tony Mazzulli: 2 shared papers
Zeev Rosberger and Abha Gupta: 2 shared papers
Zeev Rosberger and Togas Tulandi: 2 shared papers
Keith Jarvi and Abha Gupta: 2 shared papers
Keith Jarvi and Jason Lee: 2 shared papers
Keith Jarvi and Bibiana García-Bailo: 2 shared papers
Abha Gupta and Kirk Lo: 2 shared papers
Togas Tulandi and Kirk Lo: 2 shared papers
Raj Satkunasivam and Kirk Lo: 2 shared papers
Yonah Krakowsky and Kirk Lo: 2 shared papers
Udi Blankstein and Jason Lee: 1 shared paper
Udi Blankstein and Kirk Lo: 1 shared paper
Udi Blankstein and Michael Ordon: 1 shared paper
Marc Anthony Fischer and Philippe Violette: 1 shared paper
Marc Anthony Fischer and Ethan Grober: 1 shared paper
Marc Anthony Fischer and Kirk Lo: 1 shared paper
Philippe Violette and Kirk Lo: 1 shared paper
Steven Narod and Ahmed El-Sohemy: 1 shared paper
Steven Narod and Kirk Lo: 1 shared paper
Stephen Scherer and Kirk Lo: 1 shared paper
Keith Jarvi and Michael Ordon: 1 shared paper
Sender Herschorn and Kirk Lo: 1 shared paper
Tony Mazzulli and Ethan Grober: 1 shared paper
Tony Mazzulli and Kirk Lo: 1 shared paper
Ryan Yuen and Kirk Lo: 1 shared paper
Ahmed El-Sohemy and Kirk Lo: 1 shared paper
Jason Lee and Kirk Lo: 1 shared paper
Christian Marshall and Kirk Lo: 1 shared paper
Patrick Cheung and Kirk Lo: 1 shared paper
Yuna Lee and Kirk Lo: 1 shared paper
Kirk Lo and Michael Ordon: 1 shared paper
Kirk Lo and Bibiana García-Bailo: 1 shared paper

Department of Surgery
Department of Psychiatry
Department of Nutritional Sciences
Department of Laboratory Medicine & Pathobiology
Department of Molecular Genetics
Institute of Medical Science
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Other

1 shared papers, latest 2016

Stephen Scherer

Department of Molecular Genetics

1 shared papers, latest 2014

Sender Herschorn

Department of Surgery

1 shared papers, latest 2016

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