Blake Sandery

Investigator and Pediatric Nephrologist, BC Children's Hospital

Academic Affiliations

Clinical Assistant Professor, Division of Nephrology, Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia

Research Theme

Evidence to Innovation

Research Areas

Children's Health

Chronic Kidney Disease

Critical Care

Global Health

Contact

blake.sandery@cw.bc.ca

Mailing Address

4500 Oak Street
Vancouver, British Columbia
V6H 3N1

Overview: My research interest is on the short and long-term kidney outcomes of children following various critical illnesses, such as intensive care admission, premature birth, and pediatric cancer. As these children’s kidney function usually normalizes in the short-term after the acute illness, long-term monitoring of kidney health is often neglected. My research aims to determine which of these children need long-term monitoring in order to facilitate implementation of health system changes which promote improved kidney health for these children into their adult lives.
Publications: Bariatric surgery as bridging therapy to kidney transplantation
Pediatric Nephrology
Raaijmakers, A. and Dooley, B. and Sandery, B. and Chaturvedi, S. and Le Jambre, R. and Links, D. and Kennedy, S.E.
DOI: 10.1007/s00467-025-06661-0
2025
Secondary Hypertension in Children—Identifying and Investigating at Risk Children
Current Hypertension Reports
Ding, F.C.L. and Sandery, B.J.
DOI: 10.1007/s11906-025-01333-8
2025
Counting to cope
Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health
Sandery, B.
DOI: 10.1111/jpc.15483
2021
Acute kidney injury following intravenous acyclovir in children
Archives of Disease in Childhood
Blake J Sandery and Jonathan H Erlich and Sean E Kennedy
DOI: 10.1136/archdischild-2019-317990
12/2020
The Problem of Diagnosing Pediatric Hypertension: Is Using Static Blood Pressure Cutoffs Instead of Blood Pressure Tables a Solution?
Canadian Journal of Cardiology
Sandery, B. and Dionne, J.M.
DOI: 10.1016/j.cjca.2020.05.028
2020
Older people contact more obstacles when wearing multifocal glasses and performing a secondary visual task
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
Menant, J.C. and St. George, R.J. and Sandery, B. and Fitzpatrick, R.C. and Lord, S.R.
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2009.02436.x
2009
Research: AWAKEN 2
A multi-national study examining the incidence of acute kidney injury in newborns, and kidney outcomes of these infants at 5 years of follow-up.

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