Karthik Tennankore Dalhousie University, Canada

Dr. Karthik Tennankore received his MD at the University of Western Ontario, and completed Internal Medicine and Nephrology at Dalhousie University. He went on to complete a two year clinical fellowship in home dialysis at the Toronto General Hospital (University of Toronto), and concurrently obtained a Master of Science in Clinical Epidemiology through Harvard University.
He joined the Dalhousie Division of Nephrology in 2013. His clinical expertise is primarily in the area of home dialysis and he is the medical lead of home therapies for the Nova Scotia Central Zone Renal Program. From the perspective of research, he is the current research lead for the Dalhousie Division of Nephrology (Department of Medicine). He is interested in studying and improving outcomes of patients after initiation of home and in-center dialysis and transplantation, and in studying the effect of frailty on dialysis and transplant patient outcomes. He is involved in clinical trials and conducts a number of prospective cohort studies in nephrology
Conflicts:
1. Participated in an Advisory board for Otsuka, Canada and has received grant funding from Otsuka, Canada for investigator initiated research (2 years ago)
2. Participated in an Advisory board for AstraZeneca (1 year ago)
3. Received grant funding from Astellas, Canada for an investigator initiated research project (3 years ago)
4. Received grant funding from Amgen, Canada for quality improvement initiatives in dialysis (5 years ago)