Fellowship Title: | Geriatric Nephrology and Palliative Renal Medicine |
Division: | Nephrology |
Fellowship Type: | Clinical and Research |
Supervisor: | Dr SV Jassal |
Duration: | 6 months (maybe extended to 12 months) |
Application Open and Close Date: | 30 September (for following January); 30 April (for following July) |
Anticipated Start Date(s): | January 1st (July 1st) |
Number of position(s) per year: | 1 |
Description: | Trainees will gain experience in applying the findings from a comprehensive geriatric assessment to the patient with renal disease with the goal of maximizing wellbeing in the context of renal therapies and chronic disease. Although the training experiences will extend across all stages of renal disease there will be a strong emphasis on palliative dialysis, symptom management, rehabilitation with dialysis and on providing comprehensive conservative renal care. Trainees will be exposed to critical appraisal and given the opportunity for clinical research training if applicable. |
Contact Name: | Samantha Ramsammy |
Role: | Administrative assistant |
Telephone: | 416 340 3196 |
E-mail: | Samantha.rammsammy@uhn.ca |
Mailing Address: | 8N857 200 Elizabeth St, Toronto ON |
Fellowship Title: | Glomerular Disease |
Division: | Nephrology |
Fellowship Type: | Clinical |
Supervisor: | H Reich |
Duration: | 1 year |
Application Open and Close Date: | November 1 |
Anticipated Start Date(s): | July 1 |
Number of position(s) per year: | 1 |
Description: | The Toronto Glomerulonephritis (GN) Registry at the University Health Network (UHN) is accepting applications for a fellowship in GN. The GN fellowship opportunity offers access to a breadth of specialized quaternary care clinics for treatment of GN at multiple hospital sites, and clinical care is fully integrated with research under the auspices of the Toronto GN Registry. |
Contact Name: | Heather Reich |
Role: | Research Director, Toronto GN Registry |
Telephone: | 416-340-3439 |
E-mail: | marion.butt@uhn.ca |
Fellowship Title: | Hereditary Kidney Disease |
Division: | Nephrology |
Fellowship Type: | Clinical |
Supervisor: | York Pei |
Duration: | 1-3 years |
Application Open and Close Date: | Open: September 1 Close: February 1 |
Anticipated Start Date(s): | July 1 |
Number of position(s) per year: | 1-2 |
Description: | To provide a stimulating and nurturing environment for the trainee to acquire: (ii) Expertise in clinical care of patients with other rare familial renal disorders (e.g. familial glomerulonephritis (GN) including Alport’s syndrome, familial renal tubular acidosis, cystinosis, Bartter’s and Gitelman’s syndrome). (iii) Expertise in advanced imaging technologies for diagnosis and for monitoring progression and complications in ADPKD and TSC. (iv) Clinical, genomic, and translational research opportunities in polycystic kidney disease and familial GN. |
Contact Name: | York Pei, MD |
Role: | Supervisor |
Telephone: | 416-340-4257 |
E-mail: | York.pei@uhn.ca |
Mailing Address: | 8N838, 585 University Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5G2N2 |
Fellowship Title: | Home Dialysis |
Division: | Nephrology |
Fellowship Type: | Clinical and Research |
Supervisor: | Joanne Bargman |
Duration: | 6-12 months |
Application Open and Close Date: | Flexible, July 1 start is preferred |
Anticipated Start Date(s): | ongoing |
Number of position(s) per year: | 1-2 |
Description: | The purpose of this fellowship is to acquire expertise in home dialysis modalities, comprising peritoneal dialysis and home hemodialysis. Fellows will attend clinics for both, manage drop-ins, and attend pre-dialysis clinics to learn more about education around choice of dialysis modality.
Preference will be given to Canadian applicants.
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Contact Name: | Joanne Bargman |
Role: | Director of Peritoneal Dialysis Program |
Telephone: | 416-340-4804 |
E-mail: | Joanne.bargman@uhn.ca |
Mailing Address: | 200 Elizabeth Street 8N-840 Toronto M5G2C4 |
Fellowship Title: | Kidney and Kidney-Pancreas Transplantation |
Division: | Nephrology |
Fellowship Type: | Clinical |
Supervisor: | Jeffrey Schiff |
Duration: | 1 year |
Anticipated Start Date(s): | July 1 |
Number of position(s) per year: | 3-4 |
Description: | This fellowship will allow trainees to develop competency in managing all aspects of kidney and kidney-pancreas transplantation. It includes rotations on both the renal transplant and pancreas transplant inpatient services. The remaining blocks may include rotations on the Transplant Infectious Diseases service; HLA lab; outpatient clinics; renal transplant pathology; pediatric transplant nephrology; and research. There is an assigned longitudinal post-transplant clinic, as well as pre-transplant donor and recipient assessment clinics. The educational program includes renal transplant seminars, transplant journal club, Multi-Organ Transplant (MOT) rounds and MOT Fellows’ seminars. There is also a hands-on seminar in renal transplant ultrasound and biopsy performance. The fellowship is based at the Toronto General Hospital, with some clinics at St. Michael’s Hospital and the Hospital for Sick Children. It is accredited by the American Society of Transplantation Transplant Nephrology Fellowship Training Accreditation Program. |
Contact Name: | Lisa Gallant-Labelle |
Role: | Administrative Assistant |
Telephone: | 416-340-3840 |
E-mail: | Lisa.gallantlabelle@uhn.ca |
Mailing Address: | Toronto General Hospital |
Fellowship Title: | Kidney Transplant - St. Michael's Hospital site specific |
Division: | Nephrology |
Fellowship Type: | Clinical |
Supervisor: | Dr. Darren Yuen |
Duration: | 1-year |
Application Open and Close Date: | November to December of the year prior to start date |
Anticipated Start Date(s): | July 1st |
Number of position(s) per year: | 1-2 |
Description: | The St. Michael’s Hospital transplant fellow will complete a 1-year fellowship designed to provide in-depth training in transplant nephrology. Fellows will gain experience in: (1) evaluation of living donors (including ABO incompatible donors and kidney paired exchange) and deceased donors (including expanded criteria donors and donation after cardiac death), (2) evaluation of potential kidney transplant recipients, (3) perioperative kidney transplant management and immunosuppression, and (4) evaluation and management of short- and long-term transplant complications. The fellowship is generally divided into thirteen 4-week blocks:
The fellow will also participate in pre-transplant recipient assessment, living donor assessment, post-transplant, and failing transplant clinics at St. Michael’s Hospital. They will also participate in monthly 1-hr group case discussions around pre-transplant recipient assessments, as well as a monthly 1-hr group combined radiology/transplant surgery/nephrology rounds. St. Michael’s Hospital is the second largest renal transplant program in Canada, performing over 100 kidney transplants per year. Our post-transplant clinic follows roughly 1800 prevalent kidney transplant recipients, and our pre-transplant clinics service a wide ESRD catchment area encompassing much of the province of Ontario. The Transplant Division is composed of 3 full-time transplant nephrologists, 2 nephrologists performing living donor assessments, and a nurse practitioner. The Transplant program is part of a larger 11 member Nephrology Division at St. Michael’s Hospital. Transplant patients are admitted to the Nephrology ward at St. Michael’s Hospital. The Division runs a full academic program, including Monday Case Rounds, Tuesday Nephrology Rounds, Wednesday afternoon University of Toronto City-Wide Rounds, and Thursday General Nephrology Teaching rounds. |
Contact Name: | Darren Yuen |
Role: | Transplant Nephrologist |
Telephone: | 416-864-6060 x3309 |
E-mail: | Darren.Yuen@utoronto.ca |
Fellowship Title: | Onconephrology |
Division: | Nephrology |
Fellowship Type: | Clinical |
Supervisor: | Chris Chan |
Duration: | 1 year |
Application Open and Close Date: | January 4 to Feb 28 |
Anticipated Start Date(s): | July 1 |
Number of position(s) per year: | 1 |
Description: | Since January 2015, the Divisions of Nephrology and Hematology/Oncology at the University Health Network have collaborated to form an Onco-Nephrology clinical program. The present clinical fellowship program aims to extend the clinical training of recently graduated nephrology trainees to:
Areas of specific focus will include one or more of apheresis, bone marrow transplantation, myeloma, amyloidosis and clinical epidemiology and translational Research. Salary will be $76,210 CAN per annum and $8,790 for attending conferences and meetings. Successful candidates will be fluent in English, have completed clinical training in Nephrology, and be eligible for an educational license as an internal medicine specialist in the province of Ontario (minimum of 4 years of residency training following medical school). |
Contact Name: | Chris Chan |
Role: | Divisional Director - UHN - Nephrology |
Telephone: | 416 340 3073 |
E-mail: | christopher.chan@uhn.ca |
Mailing Address: | 200 Elizabeth Street, 8N room 846, Toronto, ON, M5G 2C4 |
Fellowship Title: | Point of Care and Interventional Ultrasound Fellowship |
Division: | Nephrology |
Fellowship Type: | Clinical |
Supervisor: | Alireza Zahirieh |
Duration: | 1 year |
Application Open and Close Date: | October 1, 2022 – December 1, 2022 |
Anticipated Start Date(s): | July 1, 2023 |
Number of position(s) per year: | 1 |
Description: | This fellowship program offers the fellow an opportunity to develop expertise in the use of point of care ultrasonography in clinical practice. Participation in scholarly activity and medical education throughout the fellowship is strongly recommended and will be fully supported. The fellowship will be based out of Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre with opportunities to work at other University of Toronto affiliated hospitals. |
Contact Name: | Mary Coates |
Role: | Nephrology Division Manager, Sunnybrook Health Sci. Centre |
Telephone: | 416.480.6100 ext. 3863 |
E-mail: | mary.coates@sunnybrook.ca |
Fellowship Title: | University of Toronto Citywide Headache Medicine |
Division: | Neurology |
Fellowship Type: | Clinical and Research |
Supervisor: | Dr. Christine Lay |
Duration: | 1-year with potential for 2nd year |
Application Open and Close Date: | Application is due March 15 of year PRIOR to start date |
Anticipated Start Date(s): | July 1st |
Number of position(s) per year: | 1-2 |
Description: | Under the directorship of Dr. Christine Lay, the University of Toronto Citywide Fellowship in Headache Medicine is founded on a well-established and long-standing fellowship in headache medicine. The fellowship has now been renamed as a citywide fellowship, as fellows in headache medicine spend time at several University of Toronto-based hospitals (primarily at Women’s College Hospital, but also Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre and the Hospital for Sick Children) and fellows also have the opportunity to participate in community-based Headache practices with university associated faculty. Other than the name change (from Headache Medicine to University of Toronto Citywide Headache Medicine), the fellowship remains the same and is a very strong and fulsome program at the University of Toronto. |
Contact Name: | Ashley Caires |
Role: | Academic Coordinator |
Telephone: | (416) 323-6136 |
E-mail: | Ashley.Caires@wchospital.ca or Christine.Lay@wchospital.ca |
Fellowship Title: | Advanced Treatment of Movement Disorders |
Division: | Neurology |
Fellowship Type: | Clinical |
Supervisor: | Dr. Alfonso Fasano |
Duration: | 1-2 Years (a 6-month rotation is also part of the 2-year clinical fellowship in Movement Disorders) |
Application Open and Close Date: | Usually 2 years prior to start of fellowship |
Anticipated Start Date(s): | July 1 (exceptions are possible) |
Number of position(s) per year: | 4 depending on funding |
Description: | Specific targets are:
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Contact Name: | Dr. Alfonso Fasano |
Role: | Supervisor |
E-mail: | alfonso.fasano@uhn.ca |