Kristen McAlpine, University of Toronto

Research

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Latest papers

Automated vs. manual segmentation for small renal mass imaging.
Canadian Urological Association journal = Journal de l'Association des urologues du Canada · 2026 · first author
The CUAJ trainee peer-reviewer training program Pilot evaluation of a structured peer review curriculum for Canadian urology residents and fellows.
Canadian Urological Association journal = Journal de l'Association des urologues du Canada · 2026
2025 Canadian Urological Association Expert Report: Muscle-invasive bladder cancer
Journal of the Canadian Urological Association · 2025 · senior author

All 22 publications

Latest funding

Development, multi-ancestry international validation, algorithmic audit, and prospective silent trial evaluation of PRISM - A globally accessible, patient-oriented artificial intelligence-based model to predict the presence of clinically significant prostate cancer
CIHR · 2023 · Co-investigator
$462,824
PREVENT GU: Prevention of thromboembolism with rivaroxaban in GU cancer patients receiving chemotherapy: A Randomized Placebo-Controlled, Double-Blind Clinical Trial
CIHR · 2022 · Co-investigator
$424,575

All 2 grants and awards

22 publications.

01

Automated vs. manual segmentation for small renal mass imaging.

McAlpine K, Mirajkar N, Deniffel D, Kohan A, Krishna S, Kulkarni G, Seto E, Finelli A, Haider MA

Canadian Urological Association journal = Journal de l'Association des urologues du Canada20261 citationsFirst authorOpen Access

DOI: 10.5489/cuaj.9476 PMID: 41701890

02

The CUAJ trainee peer-reviewer training program Pilot evaluation of a structured peer review curriculum for Canadian urology residents and fellows.

Nguyen DD, Modica A, MacNeily AE, Andonian S, McAlpine K, Bhojani N, Leveridge M

Canadian Urological Association journal = Journal de l'Association des urologues du Canada2026

DOI: 10.5489/cuaj.9856 PMID: 42531553

03

2025 Canadian Urological Association Expert Report: Muscle-invasive bladder cancer

Kulkarni GS, Black PC, Sridhar SS, Zlotta AR, Shayegan B, Rendon RA, Chung P, van der Kwast T, Alimohamed N, Fradet Y

Journal of the Canadian Urological Association20259 citationsSenior authorOpen Access

DOI: 10.5489/cuaj.9096 PMID: W4406072618

04

Adjuvant pembrolizumab following kidney cancer surgery : A novel patient decision aid to facilitate shared decision-making

McAlpine K, Collins C, Tanguay S, Lalani A-KA, Wood LA, Kollmannsberger C, Jones J, Bansal R, Stacey D, Lavallée LT

Journal of the Canadian Urological Association2025First authorOpen Access

DOI: 10.5489/cuaj.9073

05

Sensory restoration following breast reconstruction with operative reinnervation: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

Ghumman A, Kim PJ, McAlpine K, Meng F, Snell L, Lipa J

Journal of plastic, reconstructive & aesthetic surgery : JPRAS2025

DOI: 10.1016/j.bjps.2024.10.021 PMID: 39482121

06

Change is on the horizon.

McAlpine K

Canadian Urological Association journal = Journal de l'Association des urologues du Canada2025First author

DOI: 10.5489/cuaj.9441 PMID: 41082786

07

Upping the ante (with machine-learning) for patients with UTUC.

McAlpine K

Canadian Urological Association journal = Journal de l'Association des urologues du Canada2024First author

DOI: 10.5489/cuaj.9052 PMID: 39641955

08

A Matched Analysis of Active Surveillance Versus Nephrectomy for T1a Small Renal Masses.

Cheung DC, Martin LJ, Komisarenko M, McAlpine K, Alibhai SMH, Finelli A

European urology oncology20239 citations

DOI: 10.1016/j.euo.2023.01.008 PMID: 36746730

09

Surgeon-level versus hospital-level quality variance in kidney cancer surgery.

McAlpine K, Lawson K, Saarela O, Chen B, Wilson B, Abouassaly R, Nayan M, Finelli A

Urologic oncology20232 citationsFirst authorOpen Access

DOI: 10.1016/j.urolonc.2023.02.007 PMID: 36966064

10

Fixed-effect Versus Random-effects Models for Meta-analyses: Random-effects Models.

Halme ALE, McAlpine K, Martini A

European urology focus2023

DOI: 10.1016/j.euf.2023.10.023 PMID: 37945406

Development, multi-ancestry international validation, algorithmic audit, and prospective silent trial evaluation of PRISM - A globally accessible, patient-oriented artificial intelligence-based model to predict the presence of clinically significant prostate cancer

Co-investigatorCIHR2023Project Grant

Principal investigators: Zlotta, Alexandre R

Keywords: Artificial Intelligence; Clinically Significant Prostate Cancer; Early Diagnosis; Health Informatics; Prostate Cancer; Risk Calculator; Urology

$462,824

PREVENT GU: Prevention of thromboembolism with rivaroxaban in GU cancer patients receiving chemotherapy: A Randomized Placebo-Controlled, Double-Blind Clinical Trial

Co-investigatorCIHR2022Project Grant

Principal investigators: Lavallée, Luke T; Bossé, Dominick; Breau, Rodney H; Carrier, Marc

Keywords: Anticoagulants; Bladder Cancer; Bleeding; Chemotherapy; Genitourinary Malignancy; Thromboprophylaxis

$424,575

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

Antonio Finelli and Neil Fleshner: 347 shared papers
Girish Kulkarni and Neil Fleshner: 281 shared papers
Girish Kulkarni and Antonio Finelli: 217 shared papers
Aly-Khan Lalani and Alina Lalani: 201 shared papers
Marc Carrier and Grégoire Le Gal: 166 shared papers
Rodney Breau and Luke Lavallée: 142 shared papers
Rodney Breau and Antonio Finelli: 87 shared papers
Antonio Finelli and Luke Lavallée: 64 shared papers
Rodney Breau and Dean Fergusson: 60 shared papers
Aly-Khan Lalani and Rodney Breau: 50 shared papers
Rodney Breau and Alina Lalani: 50 shared papers
Bobby Shayegan and Rodney Breau: 46 shared papers
Girish Kulkarni and Rodney Breau: 45 shared papers
Aly-Khan Lalani and Dominick Bossé: 41 shared papers
Dean Fergusson and Luke Lavallée: 41 shared papers
Dominick Bossé and Alina Lalani: 41 shared papers
Bobby Shayegan and Girish Kulkarni: 39 shared papers
Antonio Finelli and Olli Saarela: 32 shared papers
Bobby Shayegan and Luke Lavallée: 30 shared papers
Dean Fergusson and Marc Carrier: 23 shared papers
Dean Fergusson and Grégoire Le Gal: 22 shared papers
Bobby Shayegan and Neil Fleshner: 19 shared papers
Antonio Finelli and Dean Elterman: 15 shared papers
Neil Fleshner and Dean Elterman: 15 shared papers
Rodney Breau and Dominick Bossé: 13 shared papers
Dean Fergusson and Dawn Stacey: 12 shared papers
Rodney Breau and Olli Saarela: 11 shared papers
Rodney Breau and Dawn Stacey: 10 shared papers
Dawn Stacey and Luke Lavallée: 10 shared papers
Girish Kulkarni and Olli Saarela: 8 shared papers
Rodney Breau and Marc Carrier: 6 shared papers
Luke Lavallée and Kristen McAlpine: 6 shared papers
Antonio Finelli and Kristen McAlpine: 5 shared papers
Girish Kulkarni and Dean Elterman: 4 shared papers
Rodney Breau and Kristen McAlpine: 4 shared papers
Marc Carrier and Kristen McAlpine: 4 shared papers
Girish Kulkarni and Andrea Kokorovic: 3 shared papers
Girish Kulkarni and Kristen McAlpine: 3 shared papers
Antonio Finelli and Michael Leveridge: 3 shared papers
Aly-Khan Lalani and Andrea Kokorovic: 2 shared papers
Rodney Breau and Michael Leveridge: 2 shared papers
Dawn Stacey and Kristen McAlpine: 2 shared papers
Antonio Finelli and Keith Lawson: 2 shared papers
Luke Lavallée and Hassan Razvi: 2 shared papers
Dominick Bossé and Kristen McAlpine: 2 shared papers
Dean Elterman and Hassan Razvi: 2 shared papers
Olli Saarela and Keith Lawson: 2 shared papers
Andrea Kokorovic and Alina Lalani: 2 shared papers
Laura Snell and Joan Lipa: 2 shared papers
Aly-Khan Lalani and Michael Leveridge: 1 shared paper
Aly-Khan Lalani and Kristen McAlpine: 1 shared paper
Bobby Shayegan and Hassan Razvi: 1 shared paper
Bobby Shayegan and Laura Snell: 1 shared paper
Bobby Shayegan and Kristen McAlpine: 1 shared paper
Girish Kulkarni and Emily Seto: 1 shared paper
Girish Kulkarni and Maneesh Sud: 1 shared paper
Girish Kulkarni and Laura Snell: 1 shared paper
Rodney Breau and Grégoire Le Gal: 1 shared paper
Dean Fergusson and Kristen McAlpine: 1 shared paper
Emily Seto and Antonio Finelli: 1 shared paper
Emily Seto and Kristen McAlpine: 1 shared paper
Antonio Finelli and Maneesh Sud: 1 shared paper
Neil Fleshner and Joan Lipa: 1 shared paper
Neil Fleshner and Kristen McAlpine: 1 shared paper
Grégoire Le Gal and Kristen McAlpine: 1 shared paper
Maneesh Sud and Kristen McAlpine: 1 shared paper
Dean Elterman and Kristen McAlpine: 1 shared paper
Olli Saarela and Kristen McAlpine: 1 shared paper
Hassan Razvi and Kristen McAlpine: 1 shared paper
Andrea Kokorovic and Kristen McAlpine: 1 shared paper
Michael Leveridge and Kristen McAlpine: 1 shared paper
Alina Lalani and Kristen McAlpine: 1 shared paper
Laura Snell and Kristen McAlpine: 1 shared paper
Joan Lipa and Kristen McAlpine: 1 shared paper
Kristen McAlpine and Keith Lawson: 1 shared paper
Kristen McAlpine and Nirit Bernhard: 1 shared paper

Department of Surgery
Department of Medicine
Surgery and Cancer
Institute of Health Policy, Management, and Evaluation
Department of Urology
Nursing Sciences
Department of Oncology
Other

1 shared papers, latest 2021

Hassan Razvi

Department of Surgery

1 shared papers, latest 2021

Andrea Kokorovic

Department of Urology

1 shared papers, latest 2025

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