Sex and Gender Differences in Access and Outcomes after Kidney Transplantation

Review sex and/or gender-based difference in:
1. Access to kidney transplantation
2. Outcomes after kidney transplantation
3. Outcomes in solid organ transplant recipients with COVID-19

Dr. Amanda Vinson is an assistant professor of Nephrology and Renal Transplant in Halifax, Nova Scotia. She received her medical degree from the University of British Columbia and completed Internal Medicine, Nephrology and a subsequent Kidney Transplant fellowship at Dalhousie University. She went on to complete a thesis-based Master’s Degree in Clinical Epidemiology at the Harvard Chan School of Public Health in Boston, MA. Her thesis explored kidney donor-recipient pairing and associated post-transplant outcomes. Dr. Vinson joined the Dalhousie Division of Nephrology in 2017 as a clinician-researcher. Her research interests include studying predictors of kidney graft and patient survival following transplant, with a focus on strategic matching of kidney donors and recipients to maximize outcomes. She has a special interest in disparities in access to care and the effects of sex and gender in kidney transplantation. She holds regional and national funding to examine barriers to accessing transplant in Nova Scotia and in Canada.

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