Sara Davison

Professor, Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry - Medicine Dept

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Professor, Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry - Medicine Dept
Email
sdavison@ualberta.ca
Phone
(780) 492-8716

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About

Sara Davison is a Professor, bioethicist and health outcomes researcher in the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta.  She is a nephrologist with the Northern Alberta Renal Program and heads the Kidney Supportive/Palliative Care Initiatives.  Her passion and vision for reducing the suffering of patients living with advanced chronic kidney disease is the foundation for the Kidney Supportive Care Research Group.  Her research and clinical innovation is at the forefront of kidney supportive care internationally and she is recognized as a world leader in the area.  She acts as a consultant for establishing kidney supportive/palliative care programs and co-Chairs the Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO) Supportive Care Group with the aim of developing international guidelines for kidney supportive care.

Her program of research focuses on the delivery of quality supportive care for patients with advanced kidney failure.  This includes issues such as symptom management; shared decision-making and advance care planning, prognostication and illness trajectories, and the development of clinical decision aids and care pathways such as the Conservative Kidney Management Pathway.

Featured Publications

Jawa N.A., Rapoport A., Widger K., Zappitelli M., Davison S.N., Jha S., Dart A.B., Matsuda-Abedini M.

Pediatric Nephrology. 2022 June; 37 (6):1377-1386 10.1007/s00467-021-05269-4


Davison SN. Steinke V, Wasylynuk BA, Holroyd-Leduc J.

BMJ Open . 2022 May; 10.1136/bmjopen-2021-054422


Murtagh FEM, Wilson J, Davison SN

Chapter in �Primer on Nephrology’, Mark Harber (ed). 2nd edition, 2022. Springer.. 2022 May; 10.1007/978-3-030-76419-7_68


Wong S.P.Y., Rubenzik T., Zelnick L., Davison S.N., Louden D., Oestreich T., Jennerich A.L.

JAMA Network Open. 2022 March; 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.2255


Lafta A., Ukrainetz J., Davison S., Thompson S., Bello A., Braam B.

PLoS ONE. 2022 February; 17 (2 February) 10.1371/journal.pone.0262519


Wen J., Jin X., Al Sayah F., Short H., Ohinmaa A., Davison S.N., Walsh M., Johnson J.A.

Quality of Life Research. 2022 February; 31 (2):567-577 10.1007/s11136-021-02948-5


See E.J., Bello A.K., Levin A., Lunney M., Osman M.A., Ye F., Ashuntantang G.E., Bellorin-Font E., Benghanem Gharbi M., Davison S., Ghnaimat M., Harden P., Htay H., Jha V., Kalantar-Zadeh K., Kerr P.G., Klarenbach S., Kovesdy C.P., Luyckx V., Neuen B., O'Donoghue D., Ossareh S., Perl J., Rashid H.U., Rondeau E., Syed S., Sola L., Tchokhonelidze I., Tesar V., Tungsanga K., Kazancioglu R.T., Wang A.Y.M., Yang C.W., Zemchenkov A., Zhao M.H., Jager K.J., Caskey F., Perkovic V., Jindal K.K., Okpechi I.G., Tonelli M., Feehally J., Harris D.C., Johnson D.W.

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation. 2021 December; 37 (1):159-167 10.1093/ndt/gfaa343


Alabbas A., Harvey E., Kirpalani A., Teoh C.W., Mammen C., Pederson K., Nemec R., Davis T.K., Mathew A., McCormick B., Banks C.A., Frenette C.H., Clark D.A., Zimmerman D., Qirjazi E., Mac-Way F., Vorster H., Antonsen J.E., Kappel J.E., MacRae J.M., Hemmett J., Tennankore K.K., Moist L.M., Copland M., McCormick M., Suri R.S., Singh R.S., Davison S.N., Lemaire M., Chanchlani R.

Canadian Journal of Kidney Health and Disease. 2021 November; 8 10.1177/20543581211053458


Davison S.N., Klarenbach S., Manns B., Schick-Makaroff K., Buzinski R., Corradetti B., Short H., Johnson J.A.

Journal of Patient-Reported Outcomes. 2021 November; 5 (1) 10.1186/s41687-021-00388-w


Schick-Makaroff K., Wozniak L.A., Short H., Davison S.N., Klarenbach S., Buzinski R., Walsh M., Johnson J.A.

Journal of Patient-Reported Outcomes. 2021 October; 5 (1) 10.1186/s41687-021-00385-z


Davison S.N., Klarenbach S., Manns B., Schnick-Makaroff K., Buzinski R., Corradetti B., Short H., Johnson J.A.

Journal of Patient-Reported Outcomes. 2021 October; 5 10.1186/s41687-021-00365-3


Jeong R., Lentine K.L., Quinn R.R., Ravani P., Wiebe N., Davison S.N., Barr B., Lam N.N.

Clinical Transplantation. 2021 September; 35 (9) 10.1111/ctr.14405


Yeung E., Bello A.K., Levin A., Lunney M., Osman M.A., Ye F., Ashuntantang G., Bellorin-Font E., Benghanem Gharbi M., Davison S., Ghnaimat M., Harden P., Jha V., Kalantar-Zadeh K., Kerr P., Klarenbach S., Kovesdy C., Luyckx V., Neuen B., O'Donoghue D., Ossareh S., Perl J., Ur Rashid H., Rondeau E., See E., Saad S., Sola L., Tchokhonelidze I., Tesar V., Tungsanga K., Turan Kazancioglu R., Wang A.Y.M., Wiebe N., Yang C.W., Zemchenkov A., Zhao M., Jager K.J., Caskey F., Perkovic V., Jindal K., Okpechi I.G., Tonelli M., Feehally J., Harris D.C.H., Johnson D.

BMJ Open. 2021 July; 11 (7) 10.1136/bmjopen-2020-047245


Douglas M.L., Simon J., Davison S.N., Biondo P., Ghosh S., Kassam A., Fassbender K.

Medical Decision Making. 2021 April; 41 (3):292-304 10.1177/0272989X20985836


Htay H., Bello A.K., Levin A., Lunney M., Osman M.A., Ye F., Ashuntantang G.E., Bellorin-Font E., Gharbi M.B., Davison S.N., Ghnaimat M., Harden P., Jha V., Kalantar-Zadeh K., Kerr P.G., Klarenbach S., Kovesdy C.P., Luyckx V.A., Neuen B., O'Donoghue D., Ossareh S., Perl J., Rashid H.U., Rondeau E., See E.J., Saad S., Sola L., Tchokhonelidze I., Tesar V., Tungsanga K., Kazancioglu R.T., Yee-Moon Wang A., Yang C.W., Zemchenkov A., Zhao M.h., Jager K.J., Caskey F.J., Perkovic V., Jindal K.K., Okpechi I.G., Tonelli M., Harris D.C., Johnson D.W.

American Journal of Kidney Diseases. 2021 March; 77 (3):326-335.e1 10.1053/j.ajkd.2020.05.030


Cho Y., Bello A.K., Levin A., Lunney M., Osman M.A., Ye F., Ashuntantang G.E., Bellorin-Font E., Gharbi M.B., Davison S.N., Ghnaimat M., Harden P., Htay H., Jha V., Kalantar-Zadeh K., Kerr P.G., Klarenbach S., Kovesdy C.P., Luyckx V., Neuen B., O'Donoghue D., Ossareh S., Perl J., Rashid H.U., Rondeau E., See E.J., Saad S., Sola L., Tchokhonelidze I., Tesar V., Tungsanga K., Kazancioglu R.T., Yee-Moon Wang A., Yang C.W., Zemchenkov A., Zhao M.h., Jager K.J., Caskey F.J., Jindal K.K., Okpechi I.G., Tonelli M., Harris D.C., Johnson D.W.

American Journal of Kidney Diseases. 2021 March; 77 (3):315-325 10.1053/j.ajkd.2020.05.032


Collister D., Tennankore K., Davison S.N., Wald R., Rabbat C., Walsh M.

Journal of Pain and Symptom Management. 2021 February; 61 (2):237-245.e2 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2020.08.003


Lunney M., Bello A.K., Levin A., Tam-Tham H., Thomas C., Osman M.A., Ye F., Bellorin-Font E., Gharbi M.B., Ghnaimat M., Htay H., Cho Y., Jha V., Ossareh S., Rondeau E., Sola L., Tchokhonelidze I., Tesar V., Tungsanga K., Kazancioglu R.T., Wang A.Y.M., Yang C.W., Zemchenkov A., Zhao M.H., Jager K.J., Jindal K.K., Okpechi I.G., Brown E.A., Brown M., Tonelli M., Harris D.C., Johnson D.W., Caskey F.J., Davison S.N.

Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology. 2021 January; 16 (1):79-87 10.2215/CJN.09070620


Davison S.N., Rathwell S., Ghosh S., George C., Pfister T., Dennett L.

Canadian Journal of Kidney Health and Disease. 2021 January; 8 10.1177/2054358121993995


Ju A., Teixeira-Pinto A., Tong A., Smith A.C., Unruh M., Davison S.N., Dapueto J., Dew M.A., Fluck R., Germain M.J., Jassal S.V., Obrador G.T., O’donoghue D., Viecelli A.K., Strippoli G., Ruospo M., Timofte D., Sharma A., Au E., Howell M., Costa D.S.J., Anumudu S., Craig J.C., Rutherford C.

Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology. 2020 November; 15 (11):1614-1621 10.2215/CJN.05880420


Zhang K., Hannan E., Scholes-Robertson N., Baumgart A., Guha C., Kerklaan J., Hanson C.S., Craig J.C., Davison S.N., Hecking M., Tong A.

Pain. 2020 September; 161 (9):1983-1994 10.1097/j.pain.0000000000001931


Johnson J.A., Al Sayah F., Buzinski R., Corradetti B., Davison S.N., Elliott M.J., Klarenbach S., Manns B., Schick-Makaroff K., Short H., Thomas C., Walsh M.

BMC Health Services Research. 2020 August; 20 (1) 10.1186/s12913-020-05557-z


Saeed F., Sardar M., Rasheed K., Naseer R., Epstein R.M., Davison S.N., Mujtaba M., Fiscella K.A.

Journal of Pain and Symptom Management. 2020 August; 60 (2):336-345 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2020.03.009