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Dr. Silviu Grisaru: Division Chief of Pediatric Nephrology. Bio to come.
Dr. Silviu Grisaru
Dr. Julian Midgley
Dr. Julian Midgley is the past Chief of Paediatric Nephrology at the Alberta Children’s Hospital, the past president of the Kidney Foundation of Canada and council member of IPNA. Dr. Midgley’s medical training began in the UK at Cambridge and Oxford Universities. He continued his paediatric training in various hospitals in the UK before
specializing in paediatric nephrology at Guy’s Hospital in London and The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids)
in Toronto. He has worked at the Alberta Children’s Hospital since 1994 when he was recruited as their first paediatric nephrologist and began developing a complete paediatric program for the Southern Alberta Renal Program.
Dr. Andrew Wade is a paediatric nephrologist and an associate professor of paediatrics in Calgary. He is a former president of the Canadian Association of Paediatric Nephrologists and presently serves as the director of paediatric dialysis at the Alberta Children’s Hospital. His primary area of research is in the evaluation of the kidney development in premature babies. Other areas of research also include gene mapping of inherited kidney disease in the Hutterite population and the evaluation AKI in newborn babies.
Dr. Andrew Wade
Dr. Lorraine Hamiwka
Dr. Hamiwka is a Pediatric Nephrologist at the Alberta Children’s Hospital and an Associate Professor at the University of Calgary. She is the Director of the Pediatric Kidney Transplant Program and founded a “Young Adult Kidney Transplant Clinic” to help improve young adult kidney transplant recipients’ healthcare experience when transitioning from pediatric to adult healthcare. She is also an Executive Member of the Southern Alberta Transplant Program. She is Past Chair of the Pediatric Group of the Canadian Society of Transplantation (CST) since holding a Chair position for four years. Dr. Hamiwka is one of the Theme 2 Committee co-chairs. Her research interests in pediatric transplantation include quality of life, patient education and long-term outcomes with ongoing collaborations in national multi-center transplant research projects.
Dr. Samuel is a Professor in the Departments of Pediatrics and Community Health Sciences at the University of Calgary’s Cumming School of Medicine, and a member of the Alberta Children’s Hospital Research Institute and the O’Brien Institute of Public Health. She holds a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Precision Medicine and Data Science in Child Health.
She received her undergraduate medical degree from the University of British Columbia, and completed postgraduate medical training in pediatrics and nephrology at SickKids Hospital in Toronto. She has a MSc in Clinical Epidemiology from the Institute of Health Policy Management and Evaluation at the University of Toronto.
Her research goal is to improve care and outcomes of children with chronic disease, in particular those with kidney disease. She leads the Canadian Childhood Nephrotic Syndrome Project, a national initiative designed to evaluate the impact of care variation on patient outcomes and to conduct clinical trials. She also leads the Transition Navigator Trial research team, a multi-disciplinary group evaluating effectiveness of interventions to improve transition to adult care. Her work is funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and various foundations. She serves on national and international committees working to increase research capacity, and to improve translation of evidence into practice.
She is passionate about mentoring and guiding clinicians towards academic and scientific careers. In her role as Director of the ENRICH (Empowering Next-generation Researchers In perinatal and Child Health) health research training platform, she is helping scholars establish successful careers in perinatal and child health research.
She has received awards for research and community contributions, including the University of Calgary Petro Canada Community Innovator Award, Top 40 under 40 Award from Avenue Magazine in Calgary, and BMO Endowed Research Award from the Alberta Children’s Hospital Research Institute.
Dr. Susan Samuel
Dr. Anke Banks
Dr. Anke Banks received her undergraduate and medical degrees from the University of Alberta. Following this, she completed her postgraduate training in Paediatrics and Paediatric Nephrology at the University of Calgary. In 2016, Dr. Banks completed the University of Calgary’s Master of Science degree program in Medical Science - Medical Education with research funded by a Clinical Research Fellowship from the Alberta Children’s Hospital Research Institute. The focus of her research was improving uptake of a urinary tract infection guideline using targeted educational interventions. Dr. Banks began practicing as a Paediatric Nephrologist at the University of Saskatchewan in September 2014 and remained there until June 2017. Thereafter Dr. Banks returned to Calgary and joined the Section of Paediatric Nephrology at the Alberta Children’s Hospital. She has been the Residency Program Director since 2019.
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