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The impact of sex and gender in transplantation

Wednesday September 14, 2022 - 16:00 to 17:30

Room: C4

433.3 COVID troubles: impact of sex on COVID 19 disease in solid organ transplantation

Amanda Vinson, Canada

Transplant Nephrologist
Medicine
Dalhousie University

Biography

Dr. Amanda Vinson (nee Miller) is an assistant professor of Nephrology and Renal Transplant in Halifax, Nova Scotia.  She received her medical degree from the University of British Columbia and completed Internal Medicine, Nephrology and a subsequent Renal Transplant fellowship at Dalhousie University. She went on to complete a thesis-based Master’s Degree in Clinical Epidemiology at the Harvard Chan School of Public Health in Boston, MA.  Dr. Vinson joined the Dalhousie Division of Nephrology in 2017 as a clinician-researcher.  Her research interests include studying predictors of kidney graft and patient survival following transplant, with a focus on kidney donor allocation protocols and strategic matching of kidney donors and recipients to maximize outcomes.  She has a special interest in the effects of sex and gender in kidney transplantation and has been both an expert panelist and an invited lecturer on the topic nationally and internationally.

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