Manish Sood

Dr. Sood is a Professor of Medicine at the University of Ottawa with a cross appointment at the School of Epidemiology and Public Health and Senior Scientist at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute. He served as the Deputy Editor- in- Chief and founder of the Canadian Journal of Kidney Health and Disease, the official journal of the Canadian Society of Nephrology, holds the Jindal Research Chair for the Prevention of Kidney Disease and is an active participant in the international nephrology (KDIGO) guidelines. He completed his undergraduate (BSc) at Carleton and Lancaster University (UK) followed by medical school, internal medicine, and nephrology residency training at the University of Toronto. He began his career as a clinical nephrologist at the St Boniface Hospital in Winnipeg, Manitoba, gradually developing an interest in research and clinical epidemiology and completed his Master’s in Science in Epidemiology at the University of Ottawa in 2017. He has received funding by the Canadian Institute for Health Research, the Kidney Foundation of Canada and the Heart and Stroke Foundation. To date, he has authored over 200 research papers, multiple book chapters and has given over 50 invited lectures focusing on anticoagulation, pharmaco-epidemiology, and adverse outcomes in patients with kidney disease using big data.