Section Head, Pediatric Nephrology
Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, University of Manitoba

2001 – American Board of Pediatrics, Sub-Board of Nephrology
2001 – Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada (Nephrology)
1997 – FRCPC – Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada (Pediatrics)
1997 – Collège des Médecins du Québec (Pediatrics)
1996 – American Board of Pediatrics, General Pediatrics
1994 – Medical Council of Canada
1992 – MD,CM – McGill University

Metabolic profiling (biomarkers) of kidney allograft injury in pediatric kidney transplantation
Kidney transplantation – clinical outcome, progression and mechanisms of injury
Chronic kidney disease progression
IgA Nephropathy

Susan McMurrich
Shirley Fredrickson
Elisabeth Saftiuk

Ali AM, Blydt-Hansen TD. Pre-transplant serologic testing to identify risk of BKV infection in pediatric kidney transplant recipients. American Journal of Transplantation. Submitted Jan. 26, 2010. [T Blydt-Hansen is the senior author & research trainee supervisor.]

M Mitsnefes, J Flynn, S Cohn, J Samuels, T Blydt-Hansen, J Saland, T Kimball, S Furth, B Warady, for the CKiD Study Group. Masked hypertension and associated left ventricular hypertrophy in children with chronic kidney disease: a report from the Chronic Kidney Disease in Children (CKiD) cohort study. The Journal of the American Society of Nephrology. Accepted June 2009

A. B. Dart, A. Schall, I. W. Gibson, T. D. Blydt-Hansen, P. E. Birk. Patterns of Chronic Injury in Pediatric Renal Allografts. Transplantation. Accepted August 9, 2009

Shehata N, Palda VA, Meyer RM, Blydt-Hansen TD, Campbell P, Cardella C, Martin S, Nickerson P, Peltekian K, Ross H, Waddell TK, West L, Anderson D, Freedman J, Hume H. Immunoglobulin for Patients Undergoing Solid Organ Transplantation: An Evidence Based Practice Guideline. Transfusion Medicine Reviews Vol 24, No 1, Suppl 1 (January), 2010: pp S7-S27

J Halton, I Gaboury, R Grant, N Alos, EA Cummings, M Matzinger, N Shenouda, B Lentle, S Abish, A Atkinson, E Cairney, D Dix, S Israels, D Stephure, B Wilson, J Hay, D Moher, F Rauch, K siminoski, LM Ward and the Canadian STOPP Consortium. Advanced Vertebral Fracture among Newly Diagnosed Children with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia: Results of the Canadian Steroid-associated Osteoporosis in the Pediatric Population (STOPP) Research Program. Journal of Bone and Mineral Research WebFirst February 11th, 2009. Journal of Bone and Mineral Research, 2009 Jul;24(7):1326-34. T Blydt-Hansen is a member of the STOPP Consortium.

Blydt-Hansen TD*, Sellers EA*, Dean HJ, Gibson IW, Birk PE, Ogborn M. Macroalbuminuria and renal pathology in First Nation youth with type 2 diabetes. Diabetes Care. 2009 May;32(5):786-90. Epub 2009 Feb 19. PubMed PMID: 19228860. *Both authors contributed equally

Abrams E, Gibson I, Blydt-Hansen T. The Concurrent Presentation of Minimal Change Nephrotic Syndrome and Aplastic Anemia. Pediatric Nephrology 2009 February, Volume 24, Issue 2: 407-409. [T Blydt-Hansen is the senior author & research trainee supervisor.]

Chapter 9. Pediatric ESRD in Canada: A Review of the Last Quarter Century. Canadian Institute for Health Information, 2007 Annual Report-Treatment of End-Stage Organ Failure in Canada, 1996 to 2005 (Ottawa:CIHI, 2008). Contributing author.

Birk PE, Blydt-Hansen TD, Dart AB, Kaita LM, Proulx C, Taylor G. Low incidence of adverse events in outpatient pediatric renal allograft biopsies. Pediatr Transplant. 2007 Mar;11(2):196-200. PubMed PMID: 17300500.

Wicklow BA, Ogborn MR, Gibson IW, Blydt-Hansen TD. Biopsy-proven acute tubular necrosis in a child attributed to vancomycin intoxication. Accepted for publication in Pediatric Nephrology, 2006 August; 21(8):1194-6. [T Blydt-Hansen is the senior author & research trainee supervisor.]

Knoll G, Cockfield S, Blydt-Hansen T, Baran D, Kiberd B, Landsberg D, Rush D and Cole E for the Kidney Transplant Working Group of the Canadian Society of Transplantation. Eligibility for kidney transplantation in Canada. CMAJ;173(10): S1-25.

Birk PE, Stannard KM, Konrad HB, Blydt-Hansen TD, Ogborn MR, 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. Pediatric Transplantation. 2004 Feb;8(1): 29-38.

Blydt-Hansen TD*, Katori M*, Lassman C, Ke B, Coito AJ, Iyer S, Buelow R, Ettenger R, Busuttil RW, Kupiec-Weglinski JW. Gene transfer-induced local heme oxygenase-1 overexpression protects rat kidney transplants from ischemia/reperfusion injury. J Am Soc Nephrol. 2003 Mar; 14(3): 745-54. *Both authors contributed equally

Dean H, Sellers E, Birk P, Blydt-Hansen T, Ogborn M. Children are not small adults.
CMAJ. 2003 Feb 4; 168(3):255-6.