Medical Advisory Board
Dr. Amit X. Garg
Dr. Amit X. Garg is a world-renowned nephrologist and clinician-scientist with 20 years of clinical practice and over 600 published research papers.
He holds the position of Associate Dean, Clinical Research, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, Western University Department of Medicine; Past Site Director, Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES) Western Facility; Past President, Canadian Society of Nephrology; Provincial Medical Lead, ICES Provincial Kidney, Dialysis and Transplantation Program (ICES KDT); and Past Provincial Medical Lead, Access to Kidney Transplantation, Ontario Renal Network.
Dr. Seychelle Yohanna
Dr. Seychelle Yohanna is a transplant nephrologist at St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton and an Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine at McMaster University. She completed internal medicine and nephrology residencies at Western University and a kidney transplant fellowship at McMaster University. She also has a Master of Science in Quality Improvement and Patient Safety from the University of Toronto and completed a healthcare improvement fellowship through CQuIPS.
Dr. Yohanna is the provincial medical lead for kidney transplant at the Ontario Renal Network (Ontario Health) and has a clinical and academic interest in improving access to kidney transplantation and living kidney donation. She also leads the Hamilton One-Day Living Kidney Donor Assessment Clinic, aiming to improve the efficiency and patient-centeredness of the living donor evaluation.
Dr. Yohanna acts as a consultant to the Patient Partner Coalition, supporting its mission to improve the health care and policies for patients living with kidney disease.
Dr. Kyla Naylor
Dr. Kyla Naylor is an adjunct scientist in the Kidney, Dialysis and Transplantation (KDT) Program at ICES. She is also an Associate Scientist at Lawson Health Research Institute and an Adjunct Research Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at Western University. Dr. Naylor completed her PhD in Epidemiology and Biostatistics at Western University in 2015 and completed her post-doctoral training at ICES in 2018.
Dr. Naylor is passionate about using research to improve patient care and access to kidney transplant. Her research is primarily focused on using administrative healthcare databases to meet these goals, and also concentrates on the epidemiology of post-transplant outcomes, and more recently, the epidemiology of COVID-19 in the kidney disease population. She is the Project Co-lead for a Can-SOLVE CKD Project titled “Increasing the use of living donor kidney transplantation,” which has focused on improving the efficiency of the living donor candidate evaluation and breaking down barriers related to living kidney donation.