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Medicine care team

Nephrology

Alireza Zahirieh, MD, FRCPC

Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto
Staff Nephrologist, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre

Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Kidney Care Centre at the CNIB Centre
1929 Bayview Ave., third floor
Toronto, ON M4G 3E8


Phone: 416-480-5590
Fax: 416-480-7881

Administrative Assistant: Samantha Somwaru
Email: Samantha.somwaru@sunnybrook.ca

Education:

  • FRCPC, 2007, Nephrology
  • FRCPC, 2006, Internal Medicine
  • M.D., 2002, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada
  • B.Sc., 1998, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada


Academic Interests:

Having completed the two year University of Toronto Master Teacher Program in 2009, Dr. Zahirieh joined the Sunnybrook Division of Nephrology as a Clinician Teacher. He is currently actively involved in both undergraduate and postraduate medical education at the University of Toronto. His area of clinical and academic interest is HIV associated Kidney Disease.

Publications:

See current list of publications at Pubmed