Bio
Professor of Pediatrics and Medical Director of the Stanford Children’s Health Pediatric Kidney Transplant Program at Stanford University School of Medicine. After practicing as a family physician in Saskatchewan, Canada, he trained in pediatrics at Dalhousie University (Halifax) and University of Manitoba in Canada. Pediatric Nephrology training was at Dalhousie University, then at UCLA. He was faculty at University of Manitoba (1991-1999), University of California at San Diego (1999-2007) and now at Stanford since 2007. Previous research was on transplant immunology, renal pathology and image analysis. His focus now is tolerance, infants, highly sensitized recipients, multiorgan transplants, cystinosis and patients with unusual transplant problems. He has published ~100 articles in scientific journals.
A Member of the Scientific Council of the Cystinosis Research Foundation and Medical Director of the Stanford Cystinosis Referral Clinic, he has seen more than 100 unique patients in the largest cystinosis referral clinic in North America outside of the NIH. The clinic has brought care of these patients forward in multiple studies including delayed-release cysteamine, and bone and muscle and immunosuppression free transplantation.
He is Associate Program Director for the Stanford Pediatric Nephrology Fellowship Program.
He shares his home with his wife, 3 children (intermittently) and various critters.
