Atessa Bahadori, Canada

The Hospital for Sick Children

Dr. Bahadori is the chief pediatric nephrology fellow at SickKids in Toronto. She completed her medical studies in Switzerland, earning her MD and finishing her pediatric residency at Geneva University Hospitals before beginning nephrology training. In 2022, she joined SickKids and completed her clinical fellowship in 2024. She is currently pursuing a research fellowship in Dr Michael Zappitelli's lab, funded by a competitive grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation while also serving as junior Faculty in the Division of Nephrology at SickKids. Dr. Bahadori's research focuses on chronic kidney disease and transplantation, with an emphasis on long-term kidney outcomes in childhood cancer survivors. Additionally, she leads a multicenter cohort study in Switzerland investigating novel biomarkers as clinical predictors of pediatric chronic kidney disease progression and prognosis, as well as an international cohort study on outcomes of kidney-alone transplantation in patients with type 1 primary hyperoxaluria.

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