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Michael Zappitelli

ResearcherPediatricsUniversity of Toronto

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Michael Zappitelli

Researcher

Pediatrics

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 9 research grants (9 CIHR), most recently in 2021.

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105

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706

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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
The role of sex and gender in acute kidney injury—consensus statements from the 33rd Acute Disease Quality Initiative
Kidney International · 2025
Chronic Kidney Disease or Hypertension After Childhood Cancer
JAMA Network Open · 2025 · senior author

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
Deriving 24-hour Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring reference values for SouTh AsiaN Children (ABPM-STANCE)
CIHR · 2021 · Co-investigator
$682,225
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

All 16 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

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

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

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

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

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

Long-Term Cardiovascular Outcomes in Children and Adolescents With Hypertension

Robinson CH, Hussain J, Jeyakumar N, Smith G, Birken CS, Dart A, Dionne J, Garg A, Kandasamy S, Karam S

JAMA pediatrics202474 citations

DOI: 10.1001/jamapediatrics.2024.1543

Long-Term Kidney Outcomes after Pediatric Acute Kidney Injury

Robinson CH, Jeyakumar N, Luo B, Askenazi D, Deep A, Garg AX, Goldstein S, Greenberg JH, Mammen C, Nash DM

Journal of the American Society of Nephrology202435 citations

DOI: 10.1681/asn.0000000000000445

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

Co-investigatorCIHR2022Project Grant

Principal investigators: Mahant, Sanjay; Gill, Peter J

Keywords: Children; Health Services Use; Hospitalization; Overdiagnosis; Quality Of Care; Ultrasound; Urinary Tract Infection; Value Based Care

$527,851

Deriving 24-hour Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring reference values for SouTh AsiaN Children (ABPM-STANCE)

Co-investigatorCIHR2021Project Grant

Principal investigators: Chanchlani, Rahul

Keywords: Cardiovascular Disease; Children; Dietary Habits; Epidemiology; Ethnicity; Hypertension; Physical Activity; South Asian Community

$682,225

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

Nominated PICIHR2021Project Grant

Principal investigators: Zappitelli, Michael; Chanchlani, Rahul; Constantin, Evelyn; Dart, Allison B; Dionne, Janis M; Lefebvre, Claire; Morgan, Catherine J; Ulrich, Emma H; Widger, Kimberley A

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

$1,074,825

Filling Knowledge Gaps for the Success of Ontario Renal Plan 3

Principal investigatorCIHR2021Project Grant

Principal investigators: Weir, Matthew A; Beaucage, Mary B; Blake, Peter G; Chanchlani, Rahul; Clark, Edward G; Clemens, Kristin K; Dixon, Stephanie N; Harel, Ziv; Jain, Arsh K; Molnar, Amber; Silver, Samuel; Sood, Manish M; Zappitelli, Michael

Keywords: Administrative Health Care Data; Chronic Kidney Disease; Community-Based Research; Drug Safety; First Nations Communities; Kidney Transplantation; Mental Health; Patient-Oriented Research; Population-Based Study

$1,143,676

Metabolomics for prediction of cisplatin mediated acute kidney injury: a Canadian multi-centre adult and pediatric study

Principal investigatorCIHR2019Project Grant

Principal investigators: Urquhart, Bradley L; Blydt-Hansen, Tom; Zappitelli, Michael

Keywords: Acute Kidney Injury; Cisplatin; Drug Toxicity; Metabolomics; Nephrotoxicity

$1,373,176

Filling Knowledge Gaps for the Success of Ontario Renal Plan 3

Principal investigatorCIHR2019Project Grant - PA: Nutrition, Metabolism and Diabetes

Principal investigators: Weir, Matthew A; Beaucage, Mary B; Chanchlani, Rahul; Clark, Edward G; Clemens, Kristin K; Coghlan, Candice; Dixon, Stephanie N; Field, Bonnie; Harel, Ziv; Jain, Arsh K; Molnar, Amber; Silver, Samuel; Sood, Manish M; Zappitelli, Michael

$100,000

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

Nominated PICIHR2019Project Grant

Principal investigators: Zappitelli, Michael

Keywords: Administrative Health Care; Cancer Therapy; Children; Chronic Kidney Disease; Epidemology; Hypertension; Knowledge Translation; Long-Term Outcomes; Population-Based Study; Prospective Cohort

$929,478

The Canadian Childhood Nephrotic Syndrome Project Planning Meeting

Co-investigatorCIHR2015Planning and Dissemination Grant - Institute Community Support

Principal investigators: Samuel, Susan M

Keywords: Biorepository; Children; Clinical Trial Development; Nephrotic Syndrome; Patient Engagement; Patient Registry; Practice Variation

$20,000

The Canadian Childhood Nephrotic Syndrome (CHILDNEPH) Project

Co-investigatorCIHR2015Operating Grant

Principal investigators: Samuel, Susan M

Keywords: Children; Kidney; Knowledge Translation; Longitudinal Cohort; Multi-Level Modeling; Nephrotic Syndrome; Outcomes; Practice Variation; Qualitative Methods

$541,940

Understanding blood pressure and end organ damage in adolescents.

Nominated PICIHR2014Operating Grant

Principal investigators: Zappitelli, Michael

Keywords: Blood Pressure; Cardiac Hypertrophy; Children; Chronic Kidney Disease; End Organ Damage; Hypertension

$438,115

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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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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Long-Term Cardiovascular Outcomes in Children and Adolescents With Hypertension

Long-Term Kidney Outcomes after Pediatric Acute Kidney Injury

Frequent collaborators

Rahul Chanchlani

Allison Dart

Susan Samuel

Ron Wald

Amit Garg

Lehana Thabane

Tom Blydt-Hansen

Adam Fleming

Philippe Jouvet

Paul Gibson

Eric Winquist

William Beaubien-Souligny

Cal Robinson

Sujane Kandasamy

Ziv Harel

Andrew Mackie

Rulan Parekh

Lillian Sung

Raveena Ramphal

Jacques Lacroix

Gita Wahi

Christoph Licht

Kimberley Widger

Stephen Welch

Mike Paulden

Funmbi Babalola

Rahim Moineddin

Andrew Wade

Mina Matsuda-Abedini

Danielle Nash

Neesh Pannu

Jill Hamilton

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