Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, University of Manitoba

MD
FRCP(C)
Certificate of Special Competence (Nephrology)

Acute and chronic kidney transplant injury, protocol biopsies, quantitative image analysis

Dart AB, Gibson IW, Blydt-Hansen, TD, Birk PE. Patterns of chronic renal allograft injury in pediatric recipients. Transplantation 89: 334-40, 2010.

Birk PE. What do we need to do to make protocol biopsies standard of care or should we discontinue doing? Pediatr Transplant 13: 797-801, 2009.

Birk PE, Blydt-Hansen TD, Dart AB, Kaita L, Proulx C, Taylor G. Low incidence of adverse events in outpatient pediatric protocol renal allograft biopsies. Pediatr Transplant 11: 196-200, 2007.

Birk PE, Rush DN. Protocol biopsies should be standard of care for pediatric renal allograft recipients! Pediatr Transplant 2006 10: 760-765, 2006.

Birk PE, Stannard KM, Konrad HB, Ogborn MR, Blydt-Hansen TD, Cheang MS, Gartner JG, Gibson IW. Surveillance biopsies are superior to functional studies for the diagnosis of acute and chronic renal allograft pathology in children. Pediatr Transplant 8: 29-38, 2004.