Medicine Data: Challenges and successes | Navdeep Tangri | TEDxUniversityofWinnipeg

Chronic Kidney Disease is a major public health problem that affects one in ten Canadian adults.

Navdeep Tangri is an attending physician and Associate Professor at the University of Manitoba. Dr Tangri’s research program is clinical and translational and focused on improving clinical decision making for patients with chronic kidney disease. He developed and validated the Kidney Failure Risk Equation to predict the need for dialysis in patients with CKD and is presently conducting a large prospective study on frailty, physical and cognitive function in advanced CKD. He has published over 100 manuscripts and presented at multiple national and international scientific meetings.

He sits on the editorial board of the American Journal of Kidney Disease, Canadian Journal of Kidney Health and Disease and is Section Editor for the Epidemiology and Prevention Issue of Current Opinion in Nephrology and Hypertension. He has active grants from the Canadian Institute of Health Research, the Kidney Foundation of Canada and Research Manitoba.