KarthikTennankore CanadaNova Scotia Health/Dalhousie University

Dr. Karthik Tennankore is a nephrologist and professor of medicine at Dalhousie University (Halifax, Nova Scotia Canada). He received his MD at the University of Western Ontario and completed a two-year clinical fellowship in home dialysis at the Toronto General Hospital (University of Toronto), while concurrently obtaining a Master of Science in Clinical Epidemiology through Harvard University. His research is focused on studying and improving outcomes of dialysis patients (including those on home dialysis) and kidney transplant recipients. More recently he has been embarking on innovative research in machine learning for risk prediction and novel approaches to measuring cognitive function in dialysis patients. His clinical interests are mainly focused in the areas of home hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis. In addition, he is heavily involved in clinical trials, and he is the current executive committee co-chair for the Canadian Nephrology Trials Network (CNTN) and Research Network Committee co-lead for the Accelerating Clinical Trials (ACT) consortium