Ali Amid
MD
Investigator and Pediatric Hematologist/Oncologist, BC Children's Hospital
British Journal of Haematology
Jacqueline Blunt and Melissa Braschel and Heather McCartney and Navdeep Sandhu and Hayley Merkeley and Ali Amid
DOI: 10.1111/bjh.7012311 / 2025
eJHaem
Ali Amid and Elona Turley and Nicholas Au and Audi Setiadi
DOI: 10.1002/jha2.7007708 / 2025
Pediatric Blood & Cancer
Catherine Njeru and Danielle Baker and Hayley Merkeley and Ali Amid
DOI: 10.1002/pbc.3164905 / 2025
The Lancet Regional Health - Southeast Asia
Pranav Shrestha and Hendrik Lohse and Christopher Bhatla and Heather McCartney and Alaa Alzaki and Navdeep Sandhu and Pardip Kumar Oli and Sanjeev Chaudhary and Ali Amid and Rodrigo Onell and Nicholas Au and Hayley Merkeley and Videsh Kapoor and Rajan Pande and Boris Stoeber
DOI: 10.1016/j.lansea.2025.10057104 / 2025
The American journal of clinical nutrition
Williams BA and McCartney H and Singer J and Devlin AM and Vercauteren S and Amid A and Wu JK and Crystal Karakochuk
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajcnut.2025.02.001 PubMed: 3992109502 / 2025
Blood
Ali Amid and Siyu Liu and Christian Babbs and Douglas R. Higgs
DOI: 10.1182/blood.202302369208 / 2024
Pediatric Blood & Cancer
Audi Setiadi and Claudia Singh and Amanda Li and Nicholas Au and Ali Amid
DOI: 10.1002/pbc.3077102 / 2024
Pediatric allergy and immunology : official publication of the European Society of Pediatric Allergy and Immunology
Duke S and James Maiarana and Yousefi P and Burks E and Gerrie S and Audi Setiadi and BC Children's and St Paul's Hospital Members and Kyla J. Hildebrand and James E and Stuart E Turvey and Janet Markle and Catherine Biggs
DOI: 10.1111/pai.14077 PubMed: 3835187802 / 2024
Pediatric Hematology and Oncology
Marie-Claude Pelland-Marcotte and Soumitra Tole and Eve Bouhelier and Susan Lee and Jessica Halparin and Cherry Mammen and Karen Lyons and Ali Amid
DOI: 10.1080/08880018.2022.215079710 / 2023
Frontiers in pediatrics
Amid A
DOI: 10.3389/fped.2023.1273639 PubMed: 3774444609 / 2023
Pediatric Blood & Cancer
Rozalyn Chok and Jad El Maamari and Heather McCartney and Ali Amid
DOI: 10.1002/pbc.3023606 / 2023
Frontiers in pediatrics
Jad El maamari and Amid A and Pelland-Marcotte MC and Tole S
DOI: 10.3389/fped.2023.1173549 PubMed: 3728763105 / 2023
British Journal of Haematology
Ali Amid and Nick Barrowman and Isaac Odame and Melanie Kirby-Allen
DOI: 10.1111/bjh.1807705 / 2022
Blood Advances
Tippi C. MacKenzie and Ali Amid and Michael Angastiniotis and Craig Butler and Sandra Gilbert and Juan Gonzalez and Roberta L. Keller and Sandhya Kharbanda and Melanie Kirby-Allen and Barbara A. Koenig and Wade Kyono and Ashutosh Lal and Billie R. Lianoglou and Mary E. Norton and Keith K. Ogasawara and Tachjaree Panchalee and Mara Rosner and Marisa Schwab and Alexis Thompson and John S. Waye and Elliott Vichinsky
DOI: 10.1182/bloodadvances.202100591612 / 2021
Haemophilia
Ali Amid and Heather Perkins and Julie Gauthier and Arnaud Bonnefoy and Manuel Carcao and Georges-tienne Rivard and Robert J. Klaassen
DOI: 10.1111/hae.1442411 / 2021
Archives of Disease in Childhood - Fetal and Neonatal Edition
Hui Jue Zhang and Ali Amid and Laura A Janzen and Catherine I Segbefia and Shiyi Chen and Uma Athale and Karen Charpentier and Manuela Merelles-Pulcini and Gareth Seaward and Edmond N Kelly and Isaac Odame and John S Waye and Greg Ryan and Melanie Kirby-Allen
DOI: 10.1136/archdischild-2019-31762601 / 2021
The Lancet. Haematology
DOI: 10.1016/s2352-3026(20)30368-9 PubMed: 3329073712 / 2020
Neurology
DOI: 10.1212/wnl.000000000000913903 / 2020
Blood
DOI: 10.1182/blood.2019000998 PubMed: 3180518202 / 2020
The Lancet. Haematology
DOI: 10.1016/s2352-3026(18)30224-2 PubMed: 3077241702 / 2019
Acta Haematologica
Soumitra Tole and Ali Amid and Jillian Baker and Kevin Kuo and Jakob Pugi and Manuel Carcao
DOI: 10.1159/000497175Haematologica
DOI: 10.3324/haematol.2017.17836801 / 2018
Blood
DOI: 10.1182/blood-2016-08-69711003 / 2017
Blood
Ali Amid and Shiyi Chen and William Brien and Melanie Kirby-Allen and Isaac Odame
DOI: 10.1182/blood-2015-10-67388903 / 2016
Haematologica
Amid, A. and Cheong, M. and Eng, B. and Hanna, M. and Hohenadel, B.-A. and Nakamura, L.M. and Walker, L. and Odame, I. and Kirby-Allen, M. and Waye, J.S.
DOI: 10.3324/haematol.2014.117408Pediatric Neuro-Oncology
Hemoglobin
Amid, A. and Haghi-Ashtiani, B. and Kirby-Allen, M. and Haghi-Ashtiani, M.T.
DOI: 10.3109/03630269.2015.1024321Archives of Disease in Childhood
Amid, A. and Saliba, A.N. and Taher, A.T. and Klaassen, R.J.
DOI: 10.1136/archdischild-2014-308112Pediatric Drugs
Amid, A. and Odame, I.
DOI: 10.1007/s40272-014-0074-4Pediatric Blood and Cancer
Amid, A. and Barrowman, N. and Vijenthira, A. and Lesser, P. and Mandel, K. and Ramphal, R.
DOI: 10.1002/pbc.24629Journal of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology
Amid, A. and Leung, E.
DOI: 10.1097/MPH.0b013e3182a05a93Current Oncology
Lafay-Cousin, L. and Bouffet, E. and Hawkins, C. and Amid, A. and Huang, A. and Mabbott, D.J.
Journal of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology
Abolghasemi, H. and Amid, A. and Zeinali, S. and Radfar, M.H. and Eshghi, P. and Rahiminejad, M.S. and Ehsani, M.A. and Najmabadi, H. and Akbari, M.T. and Afrasiabi, A. and Akhavan-Niaki, H. and Hoorfar, H.
DOI: 10.1097/MPH.0b013e3180437e02Prehospital and Disaster Medicine
Abolghasemi, H. and Radfar, M.H. and Khatami, M. and Nia, M.S. and Amid, A. and Briggs, S.M.
DOI: 10.1017/S1049023X00003599Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition
Abolghasemi, H. and Kavehmanesh, Z. and Matinzadeh, Z.K. and Amid, A. and Ahmadi, M.
Haemophilia
Eshghi, P. and Abolghasemi, H. and Sanei-Moghaddam, H. and Anwar, R. and Jazebi, M. and Amid, A. and Ala, F.A.
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2516.2004.00951.xClinical Biochemistry
Abolghasemi, H. and Mehrani, H. and Amid, A.
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinbiochem.2003.11.010Dr. Amid’s area of clinical and research interest is in the field of thalassemia, sickle cell disease, iron overload, and thrombosis, and he collaborates with other researchers on a national and international level. He is the principal investigator of an international collaborative research study in thalassemia (IntercontinenTHAL study), and a member of the Hemoglobin Bart’s Hydrops Fetalis Consortium and the International Pediatric Thrombosis Network. He has participated in numerous academic and registered clinical trials.
Dr. Amid has been the recipient of many research and clinical awards (e.g. Thalassemia Foundation of Canada Research Grant) and his research has been published in leading hematology journals like Blood, Lancet Haematology and Haematologica.
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