Joanne Bargman

Joanne Bargman is a staff nephrologist at the University Health Network and Professor of Medicine at the University of Toronto. She received her MD cum laude from the University of Toronto. She was an exchange fellow in Melbourne for her senior medical residency year, and then pursued nephrology training at Stanford University. Her research focused on renal physiology and micropuncture. Upon returning to Toronto, she was recruited to the Toronto Western Hospital where she trained in peritoneal dialysis under Dimitrios Oreopoulos. She has more than 700 invited lectures internationally, on subjects as diverse as peritoneal dialysis, glomerulonephritis, and management of systemic lupus erythematosus. She is Director of Peritoneal Dialysis for the University Health Network in Toronto, President of the International Society of Peritoneal Dialysis 2012-2014, and co-director of the Combined Renal-Rheumatology Lupus Clinic for the University Health Network.

She has won the “Silver Shovel”, given by the graduating medical class of the University of Toronto to the best lecturer in the undergraduate years. She has also won the University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine Postgraduate Teaching Award, given to the best teacher in the postgraduate program. She was chosen as the 12th Robert Collins Visiting Lecturer in Dialysis at the University of Colorado in Denver. In 2013 she was the recipient of both the Donald Seldin Award for excellence in nephrology at the National Kidney Foundation (US) and the award for teaching excellence from the Canadian Society of Nephrology. She was the 2015 Recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Annual Dialysis Conference in New Orleans, and will receive the International Distinguished Medal at the upcoming Spring Clinical Meetings of the National Kidney Foundation. Dr. Bargman is co-author of the chapter “Chronic Kidney Disease” in the 17th, 18th and 19th editions of Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine.

Publication

Supporting the Establishment of New Home Dialysis Programs Through the Explore Home Dialysis Program. (link is external) Kidney Int Rep. 2019 Feb;4(2):293-300 Morita PP, Huynh K, Zakir A, Cafazzo JA, McQuillan RF, Bargman JM, Chan CTM

Incremental peritoneal dialysis: New ideas about an old approach. (link is external) Semin Dial. 2018 May 28;: Auguste BL, Bargman JM

Antibiotic Prophylaxis in Peritoneal Dialysis Patients. (link is external) Adv Perit Dial. 2017 Jan;33(2017):55-58 Dhruve MJ, Bargman JM

Antimalarial Drugs for the Prevention of Chronic Kidney Disease in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis: The Importance of Controlling Chronic Inflammation? (link is external) Clin J Am Soc Nephrol. 2018 Apr 16;: Rodrigues JC, Bargman JM

Should we look beyond Kt/V urea in assessing dialysis adequacy? (link is external) Semin Dial. 2018 Mar 23;: Jones CB, Bargman JM

Visions in a Crystal Ball: The Future of Peritoneal Dialysis. (link is external) Blood Purif. 2018 Jan 26;45(1-3):218-223 Bargman JM, Girsberger

INCREASED SERUM LACTATE IN PERITONEAL DIALYSIS PATIENTS PRESENTING WITH INTERCURRENT ILLNESS. (link is external) Perit Dial Int. 2018 Jan 31;: Trinh E, Bargman JM, Saiprasertkit N

PERITONEAL DIALYSIS IN ORTHOTOPIC LIVER TRANSPLANTATION RECIPIENTS. (link is external) Perit Dial Int. 2017 Nov 21;: Saiprasertkit N, Nihei C, Bargman JM

Klebsiella pneumoniae Renal Abscess and Peritonitis in a Peritoneal Dialysis Patient: A Novel Route of Infection. (link is external) Perit Dial Int. 2017 Nov-Dec;37(6):654-656 Dhruve MJ, Bargman JM

Residual Kidney Function and Peritoneal Dialysis-Associated Peritonitis Treatment Outcomes. (link is external) Clin J Am Soc Nephrol. 2017 Nov 07;: Whitty R, Bargman JM, Kiss A, Dresser L, Lui P