Daniel C. Cattran, MD.,F.R.C.P. (C)
Professor of Medicine
University of Toronto
585 University Avenue, NCSB 11C-1256
Toronto Ont. M5G 2N2
Ph: 416-340 4187 Fax: 416-340 3714
Dr. Cattran is a graduate of the University of Toronto Medical School. He did postgraduate training both in Toronto, Canada and Sydney, Australia. He is currently a Professor of Medicine at the University of Toronto and a Senior Scientist at the Toronto General Research Institute. His administrative roles have included Chairman of the Royal College of Canada specialty program in nephrology, and director of the PGE program in nephrology at the University of Toronto. He has also worked with the Kidney Foundation of Canada as a voluntary member of the Medical Advisory Board and subsequent chair of the committee. He was awarded the volunteer of the year award by the Ontario branch of the Kidney Foundation for his contributions. He was cochairman of the KDIGO working group that developed the first published guideline for glomerulonephritis management. He is currently the co chair of the “song-GD “initiative developing standardization tools for outcomes in GN.
Dr. Cattran’s major research work has been in field of glomerulonephritis. He was the principle organizer and remains the Chair of the Toronto Glomerulonephritis Registry, which currently includes over 12,000 cases of biopsy proven GN. He has authored over 230 peer-reviewed papers and more than 30 book chapters related in large part to glomerulonephritis.
He remains actively involved in clinical research and is currently a member of the executive of the NIH sponsored North American wide project on nephrotic syndrome (Neptune Consortium), member of the steering committee of the international CureGN Consortium project, co PI of the MENTOR project a recently completed randomized controlled trial examining cyclosporine versus rituximab in membranous nephropathy. He is a co PI’s of Canadian Institutes of Health Research sponsoring the Canadian component of the global RCT of steroids versus placebo in IGA and the initiator and coPI of global IgA project on development of risk prediction tool. Executive member of the GN initiative in the Canada wide CI HR/KFOC funded Can Solve project.
Amongst his awards, the Kidney Foundation of Canada Medal for Research Excellence and the Distinguish International Scientist award from the US National Kidney Foundation in recognition of his contributions to global nephrology. Most recently he was awarded the Eaton Scholar Researcher of the Year (2017) from the University of Toronto in recognition of sustained excellence as a scientist and role model over several years and the Kidney Foundation of Canada de Veber Award award for distinguished service to Nephrology(2018).
