Our Mission

Enhancing kidney health, advancing collaborative care, and empowering communities through ethnoculturally competent and patient-centered outcomes research

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CORONAVIRUS AND HEALTH Test

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COPING WITH THE STRESS OF THE CORONAVIRUS

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MENTAL HEALTH

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Our Work

What do you think about kidney donation and transplantation?

Educating Ontario About Transplants

We educate patients about kidney transplants and organ donations, while providing Ontario clinicians with resources to support their patients.

Understanding and Reducing Barriers to Transplantation

We research patients’ concerns and beliefs about kidney disease, transplantation, and organ donation. In response, we create accessible, culturally relevant resources that answers concerns, promotes equitable access to transplants and overcomes barriers.

Advancing Patient-Centred Care

We research how Patient-Reported Outcomes measurement tools can help people with chronic kidney disease and help clinicians provide patient-centred care. Our research assesses existing tools and is used to create new tools. The tools we develop are electronic and assess Patient-Reported Outcomes to improve kidney transplant recipients’ long-term health outcomes, wellbeing and patient care.

Recent Publications

Beyond the Equation: A Call for Sustained Equity in Chronic Kidney Disease Care for Black Communities. Swaby DJ, Mucsi I, Sikaneta T, Auguste BL. Canadian journal of kidney health and disease. 2026;13:20543581251413447. doi: 10.1177/20543581251413447. PMID: 41625793.

Health-related quality of life in kidney transplant recipients: association with graft function and comparison to patients on dialysis. Fadlallah J, Hays RD, Jahan S, Edwards N, Cochrane S, Lee JG, Li M, Howell D, Peipert JD, Bartlett SJ, Mucsi I. Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation. 2025 Dec 23;35(1)(1):6. doi: 10.1007/s11136-025-04138-z. PMID: 41432821.

Ethnic and immigrant disparities in dialysis prevalence and chronic kidney disease trajectories in Toronto. Sikaneta T, Martin S, Mucsi I, Lofters AK, Taskapan H, Tam P, Mahdavi S. BMJ open. 2025 Dec 08;15(12)(12):e105083. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2025-105083. PMID: 41365591.

Validation of PROMIS anxiety item bank computer adaptive test among patients with heart failure. Marblestone N, Chu S, Tomei N, Lodge D, Bansal A, Edwards N, Ross HJ, Stehlik J, Thayaparan D, Fadlallah J, Lee JG, Mucsi I. Frontiers in cardiovascular medicine. 2025;12:1605130. doi: 10.3389/fcvm.2025.1605130. PMID: 41246022.

Sleep-Related Disorders in Patients with CKD and Kidney Transplant Recipients. Vendeville N, Mucsi I, Molnar MZ. Clinical journal of the American Society of Nephrology : CJASN. 2025 Oct 01;20(10)(10):1446-1460. doi: 10.2215/CJN.0000000728. PMID: 40202805.

Assessing Social Participation Among Kidney Transplant Recipients Using PROMIS Computer Adaptive Testing. Pucci MG, Ayibiowu M, Fadlallah J, Wasim A, Edwards N, Li M, Howell D, Bartlett S, Peipert JD, Anthony S, Mucsi I, Farragher J. Kidney international reports. 2025 Aug;10(8)(8):2708-2719. doi: 10.1016/j.ekir.2025.05.023. PMID: 40814629.

Anxiety and Depressive Symptoms Post-COVID-19 Pandemic Onset in Solid Organ Transplant Recipients: Canadian Repeated Cross-Sectional Study. Fadlallah J, Shah V, Samudio A, Blydt-Hansen T, Mucsi I. Journal of clinical medicine. 2025 Jul 11;14(14)(14). doi: 10.3390/jcm14144920. PMID: 40725613.

A population-based cohort study defined estimated glomerular filtration rate decline and kidney failure among Canadian immigrants. Olaye IE, Yu C, Tuna M, Akbari A, Ramsay T, Tanuseputro P, Mucsi I, Knoll GA, Sood MM, Hundemer GL. Kidney international. 2025 Jun;107(6)(6):1088-1098. doi: 10.1016/j.kint.2025.02.029. PMID: 40154842.

Sleep Disorders in CKD: A Review. Gopal A, Farragher J, Jassal SV, Mucsi I. American journal of kidney diseases : the official journal of the National Kidney Foundation. 2025 Jun;85(6)(6):754-766. doi: 10.1053/j.ajkd.2024.12.010. PMID: 40024468.

Modeling Cardiovascular Protection With SGLT Inhibition in Type 1 Diabetes: A Risk-Based Approach to Guide Therapy? Kugathasan L, Dutta P, Nardone M, Sridhar VS, Campbell DJT, Layton AT, Perkins BA, Barbour S, Lam TKT, Levin A, Lovblom LE, Mucsi I, Rabasa-Lhoret R, Rac VE, Senior P, Sigal RJ, Vukobradovic A, Persson F, Stougaard EB, Doria A, Cherney DZI. Diabetes care. 2025 May 01;48(5)(5):e74-e76. doi: 10.2337/dc24-2840. PMID: 40100966.

Modeling Cardiorenal Protection with Sodium-Glucose Cotransporter 2 Inhibition in Type 1 Diabetes: An Analysis of DEPICT-1 and DEPICT-2. Nardone M, Kugathasan L, Sridhar VS, Dutta P, Campbell DJT, Layton AT, Perkins BA, Barbour S, Lam TKT, Levin A, Lovblom LE, Mucsi I, Rabasa-Lhoret R, Rac VE, Senior P, Sigal RJ, Stanimirovic A, Persson F, Stougaard EB, Doria A, Cherney DZI. Clinical journal of the American Society of Nephrology : CJASN. 2025 Apr 01;20(4)(4):529-538. doi: 10.2215/CJN.0000000641. PMID: 39918875.

Establishment of emerging practices and research priorities for telerehabilitation in solid organ transplantation: meeting report and narrative literature review. Rozenberg D, Logan S, Sohrabipour S, Bourgeois N, Cote A, Deliva R, De Souza A, de Vries R, Donald M, Ferreira M, Hart D, Ibrahim Masthan M, Jaundis-Ferreira T, Juillard S, Khoury M, Lallani A, Mager D, Mucsi I, Orchanian-Cheff A, Reed JL, Tandon P, Tennankore K, Yong E, Wickerson L, Mathur S. Frontiers in rehabilitation sciences. 2025;6:1535138. doi: 10.3389/fresc.2025.1535138. PMID: 40226125.

Process Evaluation Alongside a Cluster-Randomized Trial of a Multicomponent Intervention Designed to Improve Patient Access to Kidney Transplantation. Yohanna S, Wilson M, Naylor KL, Garg AX, Sontrop JM, Mucsi I, Belenko D, Dixon SN, Blake PG, Cooper R, Elliott L, Heale E, Macanovic S, Patzer R, Waterman AD, Treleaven D, Coghlan C, Reich M, McKenzie S, Presseau J. Canadian journal of kidney health and disease. 2025;12:20543581251323959. doi: 10.1177/20543581251323959. PMID: 40104388.

Associations of Pretransplant Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System Physical Function Score With Kidney Transplant Outcomes. Yamauchi J, Cizik AM, Fornadi K, Thomas D, Raghavan D, Jweehan D, Oygen S, Marineci S, Buff M, Selim M, Zimmerman M, Mucsi I, Molnar MZ. Transplant international : official journal of the European Society for Organ Transplantation. 2025;38:13884. doi: 10.3389/ti.2025.13884. PMID: 39944218.

Incident chronic kidney disease among Canadian immigrants: a population-based cohort study. Olaye IE, Sood MM, Yu C, Tuna M, Akbari A, Tanuseputro P, Mucsi I, Knoll GA, Hundemer GL. BMJ public health. 2024 Dec;2(2)(2):e001587. doi: 10.1136/bmjph-2024-001587. PMID: 40018580.

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