Dr. Edward Cole is former Physician-in-Chief of UHN and previously served on the Board of Directors of UHN Foundation. He is founder and past Chair of The Canadian Transplantation Society Kidney Working Group and Chair of the Steering Committee for National Kidney Registries. In 2012, he received the Canadian Transplantation Society Lifetime Achievement Award. Dr. Cole’s major research interests are in immunosuppressive drugs and clinical trials in renal transplantation. Dr. Cole received his Master of Science from the University of Toronto in 1973 and his M.D. from Memorial University of Newfoundland in 1975. He has been a member of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto since 1981 and is presently a staff nephrologist at Toronto General Hospital and a Professor of Medicine at University of Toronto.
Dr. Cole’s major research interests are in immunosuppressive drugs and clinical trials in renal transplantation with over 130 publications.