Swapnil Hiremath
Associate Scientist, Inflammation & Chronic Disease
Ottawa Hospital Research Institute
Associate Professor, Faculty of Medicine
University of Ottawa
Staff Nephrologist, Division of Nephrology
The Ottawa Hospital
Research Interests
His primary research interest is in using systematic reviews, meta-analyses and decision-analytic modeling to improve care for patients with hypertension, chronic kidney disease, hemodialysis and patients with acute kidney injury. He has authored more than 100 papers, details available at
Google Scholar.
Brief Biography
Swapnil Hiremath, MD, MPH, is a Staff Nephrologist at the Ottawa Hospital, an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Ottawa, and also an Associate Scientist in the Clinical Epidemiology Programme at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute.
His medical education has been at the University of Mumbai and at the University of Ottawa. He also has a Masters in Public Health from the Harvard School of Public Health and certification from the American Society of Hypertension as a Specialist in Hypertension.
He is also the co-founder of the open, online, twitter-based journal club,
#NephJC, and a faculty on the Nephrology Social Media Collective Internship,
NSMC.
Selected Publications
Selected Publications:
- Ruzicka M, Leenen FHH, Ramsay T, Bugeja A, Edwards C, McCormick B, Hiremath S. Use of Directly Observed Therapy to Assess Treatment Adherence in Patients With Apparent Treatment-Resistant Hypertension. JAMA Intern Med. 2019 Jun 17. doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2019.1455. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 31206124; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6580437.
- Topf JM, Sparks MA, Phelan PJ, Shah N, Lerma EV, Graham-Brown MP, Madariaga H, Iannuzzella F, Rheault MN, Oates T, Jhaveri KD, Hiremath S. The Evolution of the Journal Club: From Osler to Twitter. American journal of kidney diseases : the official journal of the National Kidney Foundation. 2017; PubMed [journal] PMID: 28233653
- Hiremath S, Fergusson DA, Fergusson N, Bennett A, Knoll GA. Renin-Angiotensin System Blockade and Long-term Clinical Outcomes in Kidney Transplant Recipients: A Meta-analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials. Am J Kidney Dis. 2016 Oct 3. pii: S0272-6386(16)30420-6. doi: 10.1053/j.ajkd.2016.08.018. PubMed PMID: 27712852.
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Hiremath S, Knoll G, Weinstein MC. Should the arteriovenous fistula be created before starting dialysis?: a decision analytic approach. PLoS One. 2011;6(12):e28453. PubMed PMID: 22163305; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3233576.
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Hiremath S, Akbari A, Shabana W, Fergusson DA, Knoll GA. Prevention of contrast-induced acute kidney injury: is simple oral hydration similar to intravenous? A systematic review of the evidence. PLoS One. 2013;8(3):e60009. PubMed PMID: 23555863; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3608617.
Diseases, conditions and populations of interest
Research and clinical approaches
