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Pediatric Nephrology

The section of Pediatric Nephrology is based at HSC-Winnipeg Children’s Hospital and provides antenatal and pediatric care for patients with conditions affecting the kidneys and urinary tract. We see patients from Manitoba, Northwestern Ontario, Northwest Teratories and Nunavut. Our multidisciplinary team is made up of nephrologists, nurse clinicians and nurses, dialysis nurses, a social worker, pharmacist, dietitian, transplant coordinator, and administrative staff. We provide collaborative care for over 4000 patients every year, including consultation at St. Boniface Hospital and outreach clinics to Thompson General Hospital. We provide comprehensive services such as kidney biopsy, peritoneal dialysis, hemodialysis, and kidney transplantation, and run specialty clinics in renal genetics, type 2 diabetes with kidney disease, kidney stones, chronic kidney disease, cardiac transplant with kidney disease, and vasculitis.

What We Do

Research

How to Refer a Patient

Key Staff & Contacts

What We Do

The practice of pediatric nephrology involves the diagnosis and treatment of conditions affecting the kidneys and urinary tract. This includes high blood pressure, fluid and electrolyte disorders, nephrotic syndrome, vasculitis, and congenital and genetic disorders of the kidneys and urinary tract. We manage children in kidney failure with acute dialysis (PD, HD and CRRT) and chronic dialysis (PD, HD). We offer kidney transplantation to children within our catchment area, in collaboration with Transplant Manitoba. We work collaboratively with Laboratory Medicine and Diagnostic Imaging to assess kidney health, and often with other medical and surgical specialties managing the whole-body effects of kidney disease. Manitoba’s only pediatric hemodialysis unit is run through our section, as well as an active renal transplant program that performs the only pediatric solid organ transplants in Manitoba. Section members have national impact through administrative leadership through Shared Health, the Canadian Association of Pediatric Nephrology, the Canadian Society of Transplantation, and the International Pediatric Nephrology Association.

Our Programs

Our program is based at the HSC-Winnipeg Children’s Hospital. Our outpatient ambulatory clinics, ambulatory blood pressure assessments, dialysis and transplant programs are all located in Clinic Y. We utilize diagnostic imaging which is located nearby in the Diagnostic Centre of Excellence, and we have an active inpatient consultation service on the general clinical teaching units, NICUs and PICU. We prescribe and support CRRT for critically ill patients in the ICUs, and acute and chronic dialysis for both inpatients and outpatients.

How to Refer a Patient

We accept referrals from all PCP’s (family doctors, pediatricians, and midwives). Referrals should be sent to Pediatric Nephrology, where the referral will be triaged to the appropriate nephrology clinic. Elective outpatient referrals can be sent by fax or mail:

Fax: 204-787-1075

Mail: Pediatric Nephrology
FE009
820 Sherbrook Street
Winnipeg, MB
R3A 1A9

For any patients who require assessment urgently or emergently, please page the pediatric nephrologist on call through the HSC switchboard (204-787-2071); there is a physician on call for our group 24/7. For all inpatient consultation requests at Children’s Hospital or St. Boniface hospital, please page the pediatric nephrologist on call directly. For ambulatory patients currently followed by our service , nurse clinicians can be reached for the respective clinics at the contact information below, 8 am – 4 PM, Monday through Friday. After hours, please page the hospital switchboard and ask to speak to the pediatric nephrologist on call.

Research

The section is actively involved in national and international research in a wide range of pediatric nephrology areas. This includes Type 2 diabetes and chronic kidney disease, medical ethics, health policy, medical education, renal transplantation, and nephrotic syndrome. We are an active participant in the North American Pediatric Renal Transplantation Consortium (NAPRTCS), the Canadian Organ Replacement Registry (CORR) and the CanSOLVE-CKD research network involving Pediatric Nephrology member centers in the Canadian Association of Pediatric Nephrologists (CAPN). Section members hold over $2 million in competitive national funding for research and are participating in industry sponsored studies.

Education & Training

The section of Pediatric Nephrology is actively involved in education, and education leadership. We provide instruction to undergraduate students in all four years of the Max Rady College of Medicine, postgraduate residents in the departments of Pediatrics and Adult Nephrology, and the Masters program in Medical Genetics. Section members are actively involved with administrative educational leadership at the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, the Medical Council of Canada, and the senior leadership at the Max Rady College of Medicine at the University of Manitoba.