Dr. Michael Zappitelli

Award: KRESCENT New Investigator Award
Institution: McGill University
Year: 2008-2011

Lay Summary

Dr. Michael Zappitelli is a new investigator in pediatric nephrology at McGill University. Last year he returned to Canada after completing a KRESCENT Post-Doctoral Fellowship at Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston, one of the largest pediatric centres in North America. Dr. Zappitelli will evaluate Cystatin C and urine proteins as tests of acute kidney injury (AKI) in critically ill children. Presently, there is no treatment for AKI. His research will evaluate multiple ways of detecting AKI as early as possible, which in turn, will increase the ability to offer new treatments.