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 for Alberta Precision Laboratories. 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
Metcalf RA, Nahirniak S, Guyatt G et al
JAMA. 2025 May; 334 (7):606-617 10.1001/jama.2025.7529
Jug R, La Rocca U, Al-Riyami AZ, Bathla A, Metcalf RA, White SK, Stanworth SJ, Nahirniak S.
Transfusion. 2025 May; 65 (6):1155-1169 10.1111/trf.18277
Susan Nahirniak, Veera Nadarajan, Simon J. Stanworth
Blood. 2025 May; 10.1182/blood.2023022883
Annemarie Krauss, Lori J. West, Jennifer Conway, Michael Khoury, Susann Nahirniak, Anne Halpin, Mohammed Al Aklabi, Simon Urschel
Pediatric Transplantation. 2023 May; 10.1111/petr.14459
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
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
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
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
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
Curtis Mabilangan, Catherine Burton, Susan Nahirniak, Sheila O’Brien, Jutta Preiksaitis
American Journal of Transplantation. 2020 December; 10.1111/ajt.16066
Transfusion. 2019 January; 10.1111/trf.15149
Vox Sanguinis. 2019 January; 10.1111/vox.12725
HPB. 2019 January; 10.1016/j.hpb.2018.09.022
Journal of Perinatology. 2019 January; 10.1038/s41372-019-0360-7
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