Dr. Ngan Lam

Award: KRESCENT New Investigator Award
Institution: University of Alberta
Year: 2015-2018

Lay Summary

Dr. Ngan Lam is a new investigator and transplant nephrologist (Assistant Professor, Division of Nephrology) at the University of Alberta. She completed her fellowships in Nephrology and Clinical Kidney Transplantation at Western University. Dr. Lam also completed her Master of Science in Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics at Western University and is a graduate of the KRESCENT Post-Doctoral Fellowship (2012-2015) under the mentorship of Dr. Amit Garg.

Dr. Lam’s research focuses on the long-term outcomes of kidney transplant recipients, particularly understanding and reducing cardiovascular disease. Cardiovascular events are a major cause of morbidity and mortality in kidney transplant recipients accounting for 30% of deaths with a functioning graft and remains the number one cause of death in recipients. Her research will utilize healthcare administrative databases to develop her research theme in pharmaco-epidemiology and drug safety in the prevention of cardiovascular disease in Canadian kidney transplant recipients.