Susan Nahirniak
Contact
Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry - Laboratory Medicine & Pathology Dept
- snahirni@ualberta.ca
Overview
Area of Study / Keywords
Transfusion transmitted disease cytomegalovirus solid organ transplant recipients seroconversion rate determination. Quality Assurance Dose / Safety considerations Pediatrics Retrospective case series review Adverse event monitoring. Transfusion Best Practice Allocation
About
Dr. Susan Nahirniak
obtained her undergraduate Medical Laboratory Science and Medical Degrees as
well as her Hematopathology certification at the University of Alberta. She currently serves as the Medical Director for
the provincial Transfusion and Transplantation Medicine program in Alberta
Precision Laboratories and the Laboratory Medicine & Pathology North Sector
Associate Medical Director. She is a member of the Alberta Blood Office
Collaborative (ABOC), Canada's National Advisory Committee on Blood and Blood
Products (NAC); the International Collaborative for Transfusion Medicine
Guidelines (ICTMG), the Canadian Transfusion Trials Group (CTTG), the
Canadian Standards Association Technical Committee on Blood and the Women &
Children’s Health Research Institute (WCHRI). These committee involvements and
her research interests focus on improving the appropriateness and quality of
transfusion medicine.
Featured Publications
Lieberman L., Lopriore E., Baker J.M., Bercovitz R.S., Christensen R.D., Crighton G., Delaney M., Goel R., Hendrickson J.E., Keir A., Landry D., La Rocca U., Lemyre B., Maier R.F., Muniz-Diaz E., Nahirniak S., New H.V., Pavenski K., dos Santos M.C.P., Ramsey G., Shehata N.
BRITISH JOURNAL OF HAEMATOLOGY. 2022 July; 198 (1):183-195 10.1111/bjh.18170
Impact of Restrictive versus Liberal Red Cell Transfusion Strategies on Bleeding: An Updated Systematic Review
Vox Sanguinis 117(s1) June 2022. 2022 June;
Al-Riyami A.Z., Burnouf T., Wood E.M., Devine D.V., Oreh A., Apelseth T.O., Goel R., Bloch E.M., van Den Berg K., Getshen M., Louw V., Ang A.L., Lee C.K., Rahimi-Levene N., Stramer S.L., Vassallo R., Schulze T.J., Patidar G.K., Pandey H.C., Dubey R., Badawi M., Hindawi S., Meshi A., Matsushita T., Sorrentino E., Grubovic Rastvorceva R.M., Bazin R., Vermeulen M., Nahirniak S., Tsang H.C., Vrielink H., Triyono T., Addas-Carvalho M., Hecimovic A., Torres O.W., Mutindu S.M., Bengtsson J., Dominguez D., Sayedahmed A., Hanisa Musa R., Gautam B., Herczenik E., So-Osman C.
Vox Sanguinis. 2022 June; 117 (6):822-830 10.1111/vox.13256
Current State of Technical Transfusion Medicine Practice for Pre-Hospital Transfusion in Canada
Canadian Society of Transfusion Medicine https://www.transfusion.ca/Education/Conference-Abstracts. 2022 May;
Feasibility Assessment Of A Custom Neonatal Transfusion Set
Canadian Society of Transfusion Medicine https://www.transfusion.ca/Education/Conference-Abstracts. 2022 May;
Immune globuloin indications and utilization in Southern Alberta: Are we following the Clinical Guidelines?
Canadian Society of Transfusion Medicine https://www.transfusion.ca/Education/Conference-Abstracts. 2022 May;
Retrospective Review of Criteria for Clinical Use of Immune Globulin
Canadian Society of Transfusion Medicine https://www.transfusion.ca/Education/Conference-Abstracts. 2022 May;
Shaw B., Wood E., McQuilten Z., Callum J., Romon I., Sanroma P., Garcia D., Crispin P.J., Castilho L., Kutner J.M., Yokoyama A.P.H., Bravo A., Sanchez E.F., Maldonado Silva K., Arora S., Radhakrishnan N., Dua S., Ziman A., Wikman A., Lubenow N., Bodecker Zingmark L., Louw V.J., Loebenberg P., Sidhu D., Redfern T., Nahirniak S., Dunbar N.
VOX SANGUINIS. 2022 April; 117 (4):616-623 10.1111/vox.13200
Hajjaj O.I., Clarke G., Lieberman L. on Behalf of the Canadian Obstetrical Pediatric Transfusion Network
TRANSFUSION. 2022 March; 62 (4):871-886 10.1111/trf.16834
The ALTA Project: All Labs to Albertans
Modern Pathology 35 (suppl 2):1062-1063,2022. 2022 March;
Bégin P., Callum J., Jamula E., Cook R., Heddle N.M., Tinmouth A., Zeller M.P., Beaudoin-Bussières G., Amorim L., Bazin R., Loftsgard K.C., Carl R., Chassé M., Cushing M.M., Daneman N., Devine D.V., Dumaresq J., Fergusson D.A., Gabe C., Glesby M.J., Li N., Liu Y., McGeer A., Robitaille N., Sachais B.S., Scales D.C., Schwartz L., Shehata N., Turgeon A.F., Wood H., Zarychanski R., Finzi A., Marceau D., Huang A., Carr H., Lin Y., Lall R., Graham C., Arsenault C., Sales V., Sidhu D., Semret M., Hamm C., Arhanchiague E., Solh Z., Srour N., Soliman K., Yee C., Laroche V., Nahirniak S., et al
Nature Medicine. 2022 January; 28 (1):212 10.1038/s41591-021-01667-1
Bégin P., Callum J., Cook R., Jamula E., Liu Y., Finzi A., Heddle N.M., Tinmouth A., Zeller M.P., Beaudoin-Bussières G., Amorim L., Bazin R., Loftsgard K.C., Carl R., Chassé M., Cushing M.M., Daneman N., Devine D.V., Dumaresq J., Fergusson D.A., Gabe C., Glesby M.J., Li N., McGeer A., Robitaille N., Sachais B.S., Scales D.C., Schwartz L., Shehata N., Turgeon A.F., Wood H., Zarychanski R., Arnold D.M., Marceau D., Huang A., Carr H., Lin Y., Lall R., Graham C., Arsenault C., Sales V., Sidhu D., Semret M., Hamm C., Arhanchiague E., Solh Z., Srour N., Soliman K., Yee C., Laroche V., Nahirniak S., et al
Nature Medicine. 2022 January; 28 (1):53-58 10.1038/s41591-021-01639-5
Prokopchuk-Gauk O., Petraszko T., Nahirniak S., Doncaster C., Levy I.
TRANSFUSION. 2021 November; 61 (11):3258-3266 10.1111/trf.16661
Bégin P., Callum J., Jamula E., Cook R., Heddle N.M., Tinmouth A., Zeller M.P., Beaudoin-Bussières G., Amorim L., Bazin R., Loftsgard K.C., Carl R., Chassé M., Cushing M.M., Daneman N., Devine D.V., Dumaresq J., Fergusson D.A., Gabe C., Glesby M.J., Li N., Liu Y., McGeer A., Robitaille N., Sachais B.S., Scales D.C., Schwartz L., Shehata N., Turgeon A.F., Wood H., Zarychanski R., Finzi A., Marceau D., Huang A., Carr H., Lin Y., Lall R., Graham C., Arsenault C., Sales V., Sidhu D., Semret M., Hamm C., Arhanchiague E., Solh Z., Srour N., Soliman K., Yee C., Laroche V., Nahirniak S., et al
NATURE MEDICINE. 2021 November; 27 (11):2012-2024 10.1038/s41591-021-01488-2
Shaw B., Wood E., McQuilten Z., Callum J., Romon I., Sanroma P., Garcia D., Crispin P., Castilho L., Kutner J.M., Yokoyama A.P.H., Bravo A., Sanchez E.F., Silva K.M., Arora S., Radhakrishnan N., Dua S., Ziman A., Wikman A., Lubenow N., Zingmark L.B., Louw V., Loebenberg P., Sidhu D., Redfern T., Nahirniak S., Dunbar N.
VOX SANGUINIS. 2021 October; 10.1111/vox.13199
International Guidelines Regarding Management of Hemolytic Disease of the Newborn: Is there a need for IVIG?
Transfusion . 2021 September;
Transfusion Indication Completion for Red Cell Requests in Chronic Transfusion Recipeints - Impact of CPOE
VoxSanguinis. 2021 May;
The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation. 2021 April; doi.org/10.1016/j.healun.2021.01.659
Mykhailova O., Turner T.R., Olafson C., Howell A., Nahirniak S.N., Wizniak J., Gerges H.Y.N., Baldwin T., Clarke G., Acker J.P.
Transfusion. 2021 April; 61 (4):1247-1257 10.1111/trf.16273
Al-Riyami A.Z., Jug R., La Rocca U., Keshavarz H., Landry D., Shehata N., Stanworth S.J., Nahirniak S.
Transfusion. 2021 March; 61 (3):948-958 10.1111/trf.16257
Kron A.T., Collins A., Cserti-Gazdewich C., Pendergrast J., Webert K., Lieberman L., Zeller M.P., Harding S.R., Nahirniak S., Prokopchuk-Gauk O., Lin Y., Mendez B., Armali C., Lee C., Watson D., Arnott D., Xun F., Blain H., Panchuk H., Hughes H., Chorneyko K., Angers M., Pilutti N., Lett R., Dowsley S., Ruijs T., Cupido T., Kichinko T., Thompson T., Afshar-Ghotli Z., Callum J.
Transfusion. 2021 February; 61 (2):410-422 10.1111/trf.16243