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Michael Zappitelli

ResearcherPediatricsUniversity of Toronto

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Michael Zappitelli

Researcher

Pediatrics

Health Sciences

University of Toronto

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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Has led research grants, which requires an independent research appointment. Ask their department whether they supervise graduate students.
55 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Senior (last) author on 17 recent papers, a sign of leading a research group.
Principal investigator on 2 research grants (2 CIHR), most recently in 2021.

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105

Publications

706

Citations

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Research

Chronic Kidney Disease Hypertension Acute Kidney Injury Administrative Health Care Data Focus Groups Guidelines Healthcare Delivery Pediatric

Latest papers

Kidney and Blood Pressure Outcomes in Children Surviving at Least 6 Months after Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.
Transplantation and cellular therapy · 2026 · senior author
Growth after pediatric and neonatal acute kidney injury: a meta-analysis.
Pediatric nephrology (Berlin, Germany) · 2025
Treatment of Pediatric Colchicine Poisoning with Single-Pass Albumin Dialysis: A Case Report.
Case reports in nephrology and dialysis · 2025

All 105 publications

Latest funding

Renal ultrasound after first febrile urinary tract infection in hospitalized children: reducing overdiagnosis and cascade effects
CIHR · 2022 · Co-investigator
$527,851
The KIdney aNd blooD prESsure ouTcomes - Determining best fOllow-up in hospitalized Children (KINDEST-DOC) study: A national study of the FILTR-CKD study group
CIHR · 2021 · Nominated PI
$1,074,825
Kidney and blood pressure disease burden and monitoring for chronic kidney disease in childhood cancer survivors
CIHR · 2019 · Nominated PI
$929,478

All 3 grants and awards

105 publications.

Kidney and Blood Pressure Outcomes in Children Surviving at Least 6 Months after Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

Sun C, Masood S, Kiyingi JJ, Abrahim S, Lok CE, Schechter T, Lui V, Wang S, Zappitelli M

Transplantation and cellular therapy2026Senior author

DOI: 10.1016/j.jtct.2026.01.028 PMID: 41771369

Growth after pediatric and neonatal acute kidney injury: a meta-analysis.

Starr MC, Patel M, Zafar F, Zhou MS, Griffin R, Biruete A, Cockovski V, Gbadegesin R, Fuhrman DY, Gist KM, Mammen C, Menon S, Morgan C, Slagle CL, Sutherland S, Zappitelli M, Soranno DE

Pediatric nephrology (Berlin, Germany)2025

DOI: 10.1007/s00467-025-06801-6 PMID: 40343489

Treatment of Pediatric Colchicine Poisoning with Single-Pass Albumin Dialysis: A Case Report.

Bahadori A, Patel R, Robinson C, Balgobin S, Zappitelli M, Selvathesan N

Case reports in nephrology and dialysis2025

DOI: 10.1159/000543020 PMID: 39981027

Perspectives and Experiences of Patients with AKI: A Systematic Review.

Natale P, Wu R, Hughes A, Sluiter A, Rubenstein DA, Zappitelli M, Povoa P, Morris AC, O'Connor J, Teixeira-Pinto A, Strippoli G, Jaure A

Clinical journal of the American Society of Nephrology : CJASN2025

DOI: 10.2215/cjn.0000000605 PMID: 39921497

Acute Kidney Injury Diagnostic Accuracy and Implications of Different Baseline Creatinine Equations.

Bjornstad EC, Acharjee MK, Rahman AKMF, Zappitelli M, Basu RK, Schwartz GJ, Goldstein SL, Braun C, Askenazi D

Kidney international reports2025

DOI: 10.1016/j.ekir.2025.07.044 PMID: 41141504

Kidney and blood pressure outcomes 11 years after pediatric critical illness and longitudinal impact of AKI: a prospective cohort study.

Ulrich EH, Yordanova M, Morgan C, Benisty K, Riglea T, Huynh L, Crépeau-Hubert F, Hessey E, McMahon K, Cockovski V, Wang S, Zappitelli M

Pediatric nephrology (Berlin, Germany)2025Senior author

DOI: 10.1007/s00467-024-06586-0 PMID: 39585355

The role of sex and gender in acute kidney injury—consensus statements from the 33rd Acute Disease Quality Initiative

Soranno DE, Awdishu L, Bagshaw SM, Basile D, Bell S, Bihorac A, Bonventre J, Brendolan A, Granado RC-D, Collister D

Kidney International202531 citations

DOI: 10.1016/j.kint.2025.01.008

Chronic Kidney Disease or Hypertension After Childhood Cancer

Lebel A, Chanchlani R, Cockovski V, Dart A, Fleming AJ, Garg AX, Jeyakumar N, Kim K, Kitchlu A, McArthur E

JAMA Network Open20253 citationsSenior authorOpen Access

DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2025.8199 PMID: W4410484238

Perinatal risk factors associated with acute kidney injury severity and duration among infants born extremely preterm.

Sanderson K, Griffin R, Anderson N, South AM, Swanson JR, Zappitelli M, Steflik HJ, DeFreitas MJ, Charlton J, Askenazi D, Neonatal Kidney Collaborative (NKC) Research Committee

Pediatric research2024

DOI: 10.1038/s41390-024-03102-w PMID: 38438550

Economic burden of acute kidney injury in children and adults: a protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Ulrich EH, Lillywhite A, Alobaidi R, Morgan C, Paulden M, Zappitelli M, Bagshaw SM

BMJ open2024

DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2024-087513 PMID: 39806625

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Michael Zappitelli

Research

Latest papers

Latest funding

Kidney and Blood Pressure Outcomes in Children Surviving at Least 6 Months after Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

Growth after pediatric and neonatal acute kidney injury: a meta-analysis.

Treatment of Pediatric Colchicine Poisoning with Single-Pass Albumin Dialysis: A Case Report.

Perspectives and Experiences of Patients with AKI: A Systematic Review.

Acute Kidney Injury Diagnostic Accuracy and Implications of Different Baseline Creatinine Equations.

Kidney and blood pressure outcomes 11&#xa0;years after pediatric critical illness and longitudinal impact of AKI: a prospective cohort study.

The role of sex and gender in acute kidney injury—consensus statements from the 33rd Acute Disease Quality Initiative

Chronic Kidney Disease or Hypertension After Childhood Cancer

Perinatal risk factors associated with acute kidney injury severity and duration among infants born extremely preterm.

Economic burden of acute kidney injury in children and adults: a protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Renal ultrasound after first febrile urinary tract infection in hospitalized children: reducing overdiagnosis and cascade effects

The KIdney aNd blooD prESsure ouTcomes - Determining best fOllow-up in hospitalized Children (KINDEST-DOC) study: A national study of the FILTR-CKD study group

Kidney and blood pressure disease burden and monitoring for chronic kidney disease in childhood cancer survivors

Frequent collaborators

Rahul Chanchlani

Michael Zappitelli

Allison Dart

Ron Wald

Susan Samuel

Amit Garg

Lehana Thabane

Rahul Chanchlani

Tom Blydt-Hansen

Adam Fleming

Philippe Jouvet

Paul Gibson

William Beaubien-Souligny

Eric Winquist

Cal Robinson

William Beaubien-Souligny

Sujane Kandasamy

Ziv Harel

Andrew Mackie

Rulan Parekh

Lillian Sung

Raveena Ramphal

Gita Wahi

Ron Wald

Christoph Licht

Jacques Lacroix

Kimberley Widger

Funmbi Babalola

David Collister

Danielle Nash

Rahul Chanchlani

Rahim Moineddin

Ziv Harel

Mike Paulden

Stephen Welch

Mina Matsuda-Abedini

Matthew James

Patricia Fontela

Kidney and blood pressure outcomes 11 years after pediatric critical illness and longitudinal impact of AKI: a prospective cohort study.