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Research
Latest papers
Family Physicians' Perspectives on Providing Living Kidney Donor Care.
American journal of kidney diseases : the official journal of the National Kidney Foundation · 2026 · senior author
Geographical Information Systems-Based Wildfire Risk Analysis of Canadian Dialysis Facilities.
Kidney international reports · 2026 · senior author
Physical and psychological well-being of kidney patients: a scoping review exploring the mediating or moderating role of psychological resilience.
Journal of nephrology · 2026 · senior author
Latest funding
- $95,608
Toward Equitable Genetic Services for Hereditary Kidney Disease: A Canadian Needs Assessment and Implementation Toolkit
CIHR · 2025 · Co-investigator
- $24,950
Pathways of Understanding: Strengthening First Nations, Métis, and Inuit Voices and Patient Partnerships in Donation and Transplantation Research Forum
CIHR · 2025 · Nominated PI
- $2,757,826
Multicenter RCT to Treat ACute T cell mediated rejection in Kidney and kidney pancreas transpLant rEcIpienTs (TACKLE-IT)
CIHR · 2025 · Co-investigator
77 publications.
Family Physicians' Perspectives on Providing Living Kidney Donor Care.
Wong-Mersereau C, El Wazze S, Gaudio K, Loban K, Sandal S
Geographical Information Systems-Based Wildfire Risk Analysis of Canadian Dialysis Facilities.
McCollin D, Sengupta R, El Wazze S, Sandal S
Physical and psychological well-being of kidney patients: a scoping review exploring the mediating or moderating role of psychological resilience.
Gaudio K, Le A, Paparella AN, Sullivan M, Cantarovich M, Sandal S
Guidance from a participant advisory committee on research involving young adult kidney transplant recipients.
Wong-Mersereau C, Slominska A, Carlos M, Sandal S
A Call for Assessing the Psychological Vulnerability of Living Kidney Donor Candidates and Conducting Regular Mental Health Assessments Post-Donation.
Sandal S, Levan ML, Segev D
Caregiver Perspectives on Supporting Kidney Transplant Recipients Through Graft Loss.
Slominska AM, Le A, Gouin-Bonenfant M, Kinsella EA, Gaudio K, Trinh E, Shamseddin MK, Bugeja A, Fortin MC, Farkouh M, Vinson A, Ho J, Lam NN, Chanchalani R, Hansen TB, Cantarovich M, Sandal S
Perspectives of Indigenous Peoples on Home Dialysis: A Systematic Review and Meta-Synthesis of Qualitative Studies.
Przybylak-Brouillard A, Wong-Mersereau C, Messina A, Stephen E, Gilpin C, Laurier N, Mahmoud I, Horowitz L, Suri RS, Nadeau-Fredette AC, Ethier I, Sandal S, Trinh E
All-Hazards Vulnerability and Adaptation Assessment of Canadian Kidney Care Systems: Protocol for a Qualitative Study.
El Wazze S, Mondal S, Sandal S
Perspectives of People Receiving Dialysis About Climate Change and Environmentally Sustainable Kidney Care: A Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices Survey in Canada.
Minville C, Cambry C, Esquivel Sada D, Boucher É, Mihalache A, Iraheta Palacios XF, Sandal S, Stigant C, Ethier I
Defining a High-Quality Living Kidney Donor Evaluation: A Delphi Survey and Consensus Conference Summary Report
Yohanna S, Naylor KL, Holtby L, Sontrop JM, Alam A, Cheal B, Dipchand C, Garg AX, Gill J, Habbous S
Toward Equitable Genetic Services for Hereditary Kidney Disease: A Canadian Needs Assessment and Implementation Toolkit
Principal investigators: Russo, Felicia; Kitzler, Thomas M
Keywords: Educational Toolkit; Genetic Counselling; Genetic Service Delivery; Inherited Kidney Disease; Renal Genetics Clinic
Pathways of Understanding: Strengthening First Nations, Métis, and Inuit Voices and Patient Partnerships in Donation and Transplantation Research Forum
Principal investigators: Sandal, Shaifali
Keywords: Knowledge Mobilization; Organ Donation; Organ Transplantation; Patient Engagement; Persons With Lived Experience
Multicenter RCT to Treat ACute T cell mediated rejection in Kidney and kidney pancreas transpLant rEcIpienTs (TACKLE-IT)
Principal investigators: Ho, Julie; Nickerson, Peter W; Snelling, Tom; Wiebe, Chris J; Wong, Germaine
Keywords: Adult And Pediatric; Biobank For Future Research; Economic Evaluation; Glucocorticoids, Adverse Effects; Kidney Transplant; Multicenter, International; Noninferiority Randomized Controlled Trial; Patient And Caregiver Engagement; Process Evaluation; T Cell Mediated Rejection
Planning a National Research Strategy for Evaluating Knowledge Mobilization in Donation and Transplantation
Principal investigators: Gongal, Patricia
Keywords: Donation; Health Systems; Knowledge Mobilization; Patient-Oriented Research; Transplantation
Designing and Implementing a Mandatory Transplant Education Program to Address Gender Inequities in Access to Kidney Transplant in Nova Scotia
Principal investigators: Vinson, Amanda
Keywords: Accessible; Create; Develop; Education; Gender; Inequity; Kidney; Referral; Transplant
Listening to patients and family caregivers: using audio storytelling for knowledge mobilization about the experience of the kidney graft loss
Principal investigators: Slominska, Anita
Keywords: Digital Storytelling; Education; Graft Failure; Kidney Transplantation; Knowledge Mobilization; Narrative; Patient Experience; Qualitative Research
Building the Foundation of a Learning Health System in Kidney Care to Facilitate Disaster Risk Reduction and Management
Principal investigators: Sandal, Shaifali; Stigant, Caroline E
Keywords: Caregivers; Consensus; Dialysis; Disaster Management; Kidney Care; Patient Healthcare Needs; Patient Priorities; Practice Priorities; Research Priorities
Use of social media in dialysis: synthesizing the literature and assessing available resources for equitable access to Internet-based materials in Canadian dialysis units
Principal investigators: Ethier, Isabelle
Keywords: Dialysis; Kidney Failure; Nephrology; Patient Education; Patient Engagement; Social Media
Planning a Gender and Intersectional Analysis in Living Kidney Donation
Principal investigators: Sandal, Shaifali
Keywords: Disparities; Gender; Gender Analysis; Intersectionality; Kidney Transplantation; Living Kidney Donor; Patient Partnership; Sex
Disaster risk reduction and management in kidney care to foster health system resilience
Principal investigators: Sandal, Shaifali
Keywords: Consensus Guidelines; Dialysis; Disaster Management; Disaster Risk Reduction; Environmental Scan; Home Dialysis; Kidney Care; Patient Perspective; Peritoneal Dialysis; Transplant Recipients
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/Nephrology
- Medicine
- Internal Medicine
- Pediatric Surgery
- Chemical Engineering
- Psychology
- Nephrology
- Other
Co-authors at McGill University, colored by department. Thicker lines mean more shared papers; select anyone to open their profile and their own map.
Katya Loban
Pediatric Surgery
17 shared papers, latest 2026
Marie-Chantal Fortin
Faculty
7 shared papers, latest 2025
Emilie Trinh
Medicine/Nephrology
7 shared papers, latest 2026
Marie-Chantal Fortin
Faculty
7 shared papers, latest 2025
Isabelle Ethier
Faculty
6 shared papers, latest 2026
Isabelle Ethier
Faculty
6 shared papers, latest 2026
Anita Slominska
Faculty
5 shared papers, latest 2026
Peter Nugus
Faculty
5 shared papers, latest 2025
Steven Paraskevas
Chemical Engineering
5 shared papers, latest 2023
Amanda Vinson
Internal Medicine
4 shared papers, latest 2026
Julie Ho
Internal Medicine
4 shared papers, latest 2026
Rahul Mainra
Faculty
3 shared papers, latest 2025
David Landsberg
Medicine/Nephrology
3 shared papers, latest 2024
Nandini Dendukuri
Medicine
2 shared papers, latest 2022
Ahmad Tarakji
Medicine
2 shared papers, latest 2025
Seychelle Yohanna
Medicine
2 shared papers, latest 2026
Istvan Mucsi
Faculty
2 shared papers, latest 2024
Lakshman Gunaratnam
Medicine/Nephrology
2 shared papers, latest 2024
Michael Sullivan
Psychology
2 shared papers, latest 2026
Somkanya Tungsanga
Faculty
1 shared papers, latest 2024
ALEXANDRA CAMBIER
Faculty
1 shared papers, latest 2024
Ngan Lam
Faculty
1 shared papers, latest 2025
Romina Pace
Faculty
1 shared papers, latest 2025
Ruth Sapir-Pichhadze
Medicine
1 shared papers, latest 2018
Ngan Lam
Faculty
1 shared papers, latest 2025
Kednapa Thavorn
School of Epidemiology and Public Health
1 shared papers, latest 2022
Stephanie Thompson
Medicine/Nephrology
1 shared papers, latest 2024
Marie-Chantal Fortin
Pediatrics
1 shared papers, latest 2025
Kailash Jindal
Medicine
1 shared papers, latest 2024
Rita Suri
Medicine
1 shared papers, latest 2024
Annie-Claire Nadeau-Fredette
Medicine/Nephrology
1 shared papers, latest 2026
Kednapa Thavorn
Faculty
1 shared papers, latest 2022
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