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Dr. Ed Cole - University Health Network. Toronto, ON, CANADA

Dr. Ed Cole

Physician in Chief | University Health Network

Toronto, ON, CANADA

A leading researcher in kidney transplants and immunosuppressive drugs

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Biography

Serving on the Board since 2010, Dr. Edward Cole was appointed Physician-in-Chief, University Health Network and received the Dr. Charles H. Hollenberg Chair in Medicine at UHN in May 2010.

He received his Bachelor of Science and Master of Science from the University of Toronto in 1972 and 1973, respectively, and his M.D. from Memorial University of Newfoundland in 1975. Following four years of post-graduate training in internal medicine and nephrology at the University of Toronto, he received a Medical Research Council of Canada Fellowship for work in the laboratory of Dr. Curtis Wilson at the Research Institute of the Scripps Clinic that focused on glomerular immunopathology. He has been a member of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto since 1981, having worked at the Wellesley Hospital until 1984, St. Michael’s Hospital until 1992, and is presently a staff nephrologist at the Toronto General Hospital.

In 2001 Dr. Cole was appointed as Director, Division of Nephrology, University Health Network & Mount Sinai Hospital and in 2007 became the Amgen Professor of Nephrology. He is currently Professor of Medicine and, from 1996-2006, he was the Director of the Division of Nephrology, University of Toronto. He is founder and Chair of The Canadian Transplantation Society Kidney Working Group and Chair of the Steering Committee for National Kidney Registries. His major research interests are in immunosuppressive drugs and clinical trials in renal transplantation with over 130 publications.

Industry Expertise (5)

Health Care - Facilities

Research

Advanced Medical Equipment

Health Care - Services

Health Care - Providers

Areas of Expertise (11)

Renal Medicine

Renal Transplant

Department of Medicine

Academic Department of Medicine

Complex Medical Diseases

Multi-Organ Transplant

Renal Transplantation

Immunosuppressants

Medical Education

Nephrology

Medical Leadership

Education (3)

Memorial University: M.D., Medicine 1975

University of Toronto: M.Sc., Physiology 1973

University of Toronto: B.Sc., Science 1972

Affiliations (12)

  • University Health Network, Medical and Community Care Program : Program Medical Director
  • University Health Network, Toronto General & Western Hospital Foundation : Board of Directors
  • University Health Network : Charles H. Hollenberg Chair in Medicine
  • University of Toronto : Professor of Medicine
  • Kidney Paired Donation Consensus Conference Workgroup : Member
  • The Canadian Transplantation Society : Member
  • The Transplantation Society : Member
  • American Society of Transplant Physicians : Member
  • American Society of Nephrology : Member
  • Canadian Medical Association : Member
  • Ontario Medical Association : Member
  • Kidney Transplant Advisory Committee for Canadian Blood Services: Chair

Media Appearances (3)

Canada’s Living Donor Paired Exchange Kidney Registry Hits the Century Mark

Canadian Blood Services Media Room  online

2011-11-29

Canada’s ground-breaking Living Donor Paired Exchange (LDPE) kidney transplant registry has reached another significant milestone with the completion of its 100th successful transplant. The landmark transplant comes less than a year after the last province signed on to make the LDPE Canada’s first truly national organ donation registry...

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ATC 2009: Intensive Belatacept Regimen Improves Patient Survival After Extended-Criteria Donor Kidney Transplant

Medscape Medical News  online

2009-06-04

A phase 3 study of patients who received an extended-criteria donor (ECD) kidney demonstrated that patients treated with a more intensive level of belatacept had better renal function and better cardiovascular and metabolic profiles than those treated with cyclosporine (CsA), and had similar patient and graft survival and a similar rate of acute rejection...

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A Discussion with Dr. Ed Cole

Globe and Mail  online

2009-06-24

In a Canadian medical first, four people with end-stage renal disease received new kidneys from living donors Wednesday in simultaneous "kidney swap" operations in Vancouver, Edmonton and Toronto. This innovative and logistically complex "domino" transplant began when two donor-recipient pairs were wheeled into separate operating rooms at Toronto General Hospital, one pair at Edmonton's University of Alberta Hospital, and a fourth at St. Paul's Hospital in Vancouver. Dr. Ed Cole, the head of the University Health Network's kidney transplant program in Toronto, joins us for a live discussion at 10:30 a.m. ET about this ground-breaking series of operations...

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Event Appearances (2)

Canadian KPD experience

Future Directions in Paired Exchange  New York, NY.

2014-05-16

Lessons Learned from he ALERT Trial

American Transplant Congress  Toronto, ON.

2008-05-31

Articles (2)

Renal transplantation with early steroid withdrawal


Pediatric Nephrology

2009-02-01

Steroids are effective immunosuppressants in renal transplantation but are associated with significant adverse effects. As a result, there has been increased interest in protocols utilizing steroid minimization. Initial trials stopped...

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Renal transplantation in older patients: the University of Toronto experience


Geriatric Nephrology and Urology

1995-01-01

One thousand and eighteen patients who received first cadaveric renal transplants (age 18–80 yr) at the University of Toronto from 1981–1991 were reviewed in order to compare the results of patients older than 55 years of age ( n =251)...

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