Kim Solez

Kim Solez obtained his M.D. with AOA honours from the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, and trained in pathology at Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions in Baltimore, Maryland where he was mentored in renal pathology by Robert Heptinstall. He joined the faculty at Johns Hopkins{{cite web|title=Faculty and Resident Catalogue: Kim Solez|url=http://pathology.jhu.edu/department/about/history/catalog/EmployeeChart.cfm?catid=521&p1=1&p2=Kim&p3=1&p4=Solez|website=Johns Hopkins Pathology|publisher=Johns Hopkins University|accessdate=3 August 2015}} and in 1987 became chairman of the Department of Pathology at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada. In 1991, he established the Banff Classification, the first standardized, international classification for renal allograft biopsies, with Johns Hopkins pathologist Lorraine Racusen. The Banff Classification, updated in regular intervals, continues to "set standards worldwide for how biopsies from kidney and other solid organ transplants are interpreted".{{cite web|title=Advisory Board Bios: Kim Solez|url=http://lifeboat.com/ex/bios.kim.solez|website=Lifeboat Foundation|accessdate=3 August 2015}}{{cite journal|last1=Bhowmik|first1=D.M.|title=The evolution of the Banff classification schema for diagnosing ...|pmc=2878403|pmid=20535263|doi=10.4103/0971-4065.62086|volume=20|issue=1|year=2010|journal=Indian J Nephrol|pages=2–8 |doi-access=free }} As chair of the International Society of Nephrology (ISN) Commission on Acute Renal Failure, from 1989 to 1997, Solez started the ISN Disaster Relief Task Force,{{cite journal|last1=Solez|first1=Kim|title=Introduction: Disaster management and communications as viewed from 2003—taking the long view|volume=10|issue=2|pages=85–6|url=http://www.ackdjournal.org/article/S1073-4449(03)70003-X/abstract|journal=Advances in Renal Replacement Therapy|publisher=National Kidney Foundation|accessdate=3 August 2015|pmid=12879367|year=2003|doi=10.1053/jarr.2003.50017|doi-access=free}} a worldwide network of experts working closely with Médecins Sans Frontières "to provide essential medical care to people in the wake of natural disasters".{{cite web|title=Renal Disaster Relief Task Force (RDRTF)|url=http://www.theisn.org/initiatives/renal-disaster-relief-task-force-rdrtf32|website=International Society of Nephrology|publisher=ISN|accessdate=3 August 2015}}{{cite journal|last1=Solez|first1=K.|title=International dialysis aid in earthquakes and other disasters.|journal=Kidney Int|date=1993|volume=44|issue=3|pages=479–483|display-authors=etal|doi=10.1038/ki.1993.271|pmid=8231019|doi-access=free}} In 1997, Solez worked to end the mysterious Haitian diethylene glycol poisonings, where the contaminated production of cough syrup lead to acute renal failure in 109 Haitian children. Solez was included in the 60 Minutes coverage of the investigation.{{cite web|title=60 Minutes Sept 28 1997 Dr Kim Solez Haiti Mass Poisoning |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWOrXgup2H0 |website=YouTube |publisher=JustMachines Inc.|accessdate=12 February 2019}}{{cite web|title=Report: Antifreeze in Medicine Traced to Chinese Company|url=https://apnews.com/4e0308b7d441d328c392bf4ddf6f902d|website=AP News Archive|publisher=Associated Press|accessdate=3 August 2015}} In 2002, Solez founded Leonard Cohen Night, an Edmonton-local artistic event celebrating the work of Canadian singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen, and in 2008 co-organized the Leonard Cohen International Festival.{{cite news|title=Festival founder's admiration of Canadian icon still grows |url=http://www.canada.com/cityguides/edmonton/story.html?id=a4bc597b-5e0c-4bc3-919d-9f48dad13f6f |accessdate=3 August 2015 |agency=CanWest MediaWorks |publisher=The Edmonton Journal |date=23 July 2008 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923224139/http://www.canada.com/cityguides/edmonton/story.html?id=a4bc597b-5e0c-4bc3-919d-9f48dad13f6f |archivedate=23 September 2015 }}{{cite news|title=Artists will take Edmonton for Cohen festival |url=http://www.canada.com/edmontonjournal/story.html?id=61db1459-fb1a-4c8a-b305-3a595ebee95c |accessdate=3 August 2015 |agency=CanWest MediaWorks |publisher=The Edmonton Journal |date=8 April 2008 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923230446/http://www.canada.com/edmontonjournal/story.html?id=61db1459-fb1a-4c8a-b305-3a595ebee95c |archivedate=23 September 2015 }} In 2010, Solez completed the Singularity University Executive Course, and in 2011 pioneered a unique graduate level medical course Technology and the Future of Medicine at the University of Alberta.{{cite journal|title= Bridging the Gap between the Technological Singularity and Mainstream Medicine: Highlighting a Course on Technology and the Future of Medicine|vauthors=Solez K, etal |journal=Glob J Health Sci |pmid=24171879|doi=10.5539/gjhs.v5n6p112|volume=5|issue=6 |pmc=4776857|pages=112–25|year=2013 }} Solez has led the University of Alberta's involvement in the creation and further development of a unique medical school in Nepal devoted to rural health Patan Academy of Health Sciences.{{cite journal| last1= Solez| first1 = K.| last2 = Karki| first2 = A.| date = 10 September 2012| title = Multifaceted support for a new medical school in Nepal devoted to rural health by a Canadian Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry.| journal = Glob J Health Sci | doi = 10.5539/gjhs.v4n6p109| pmid = 23121747| pmc = 4777003|display-authors=etal| volume=4| issue = 6| pages = 109–18}}{{cite web|title=Global Medicine|url=https://www.albertadoctors.org/advocating/many-hands/global-medicine|website=Alberta Medical Association|publisher=AMA|accessdate=19 October 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151226193341/https://www.albertadoctors.org/advocating/many-hands/global-medicine|archive-date=26 December 2015|url-status=dead}} Solez continues work as a Pathologist at the University of Alberta, as well as Professor and Director of Experimental Pathology in the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology.

• Associate Professor of Pathology and Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (1983–87)
• Professor and Chairman, Department of Pathology, University of Alberta (1987–92)
• Director, Anatomical Pathology, University of Alberta Hospital (1987–92)
• Pathologist, University of Alberta Hospital (1987-).
• Professor, Director - Experimental Pathology, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Alberta (1992-)

• Banff Foundation for Allograft Pathology

• Over 230 journal articles.{{cite web|title=Kim Solez|url=https://ualberta.academia.edu/KimSolez|website=Academia.edu|publisher=University of Alberta|accessdate=3 August 2015}}
• Acute Renal Failure: Correlations Between Morphology and Function (1984){{cite book|author=Kim Solez|title=Acute renal failure: correlations between morphology and function|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KRxsAAAAMAAJ|year=1984|publisher=Dekker|isbn=978-0-8247-1904-3}}
• Kidney Transplant Rejection - Diagnosis and Treatment (1986){{cite book|author1=G. Melville Williams|author2=James F. Burdick|author3=Kim Solez|title=Kidney transplant rejection: diagnosis and treatment|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LBxsAAAAMAAJ|year=1986|publisher=M. Dekker|isbn=978-0-8247-7496-7}}
• International Review of Experimental Pathology (multiple editions){{cite book|author1=G. W. Richter|author2=Kim Solez|title=International Review of Experimental Pathology: Transition Metal Toxicity|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1UQvBQAAQBAJ|date=22 October 2013|publisher=Elsevier|isbn=978-1-4832-1840-3}}{{cite book|author1=G. W. Richter|author2=Kim Solez|title=Molecular Cell Pathology: Molecular Cell Pathology|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MKL-BAAAQBAJ|date=22 October 2013|publisher=Elsevier Science|isbn=978-1-4832-1841-0}}{{cite book|author1=G. W. Richter|author2=Kim Solez|title=Progress in Hodgkin's Disease|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JtnWAgAAQBAJ|date=22 October 2013|publisher=Elsevier Science|isbn=978-1-4832-7604-5}}{{cite book|author1=G. W. Richter|author2=Kim Solez|title=Cytokine-Induced Pathology: Inflammatory Cytokines, Receptors, and Diseases|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FWe2AgAAQBAJ|date=22 October 2013|publisher=Elsevier Science|isbn=978-1-4832-8230-5}}{{cite book|author=Kim Solez|title=International Review of Experimental Pathology: vol. 35|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DIfjAAAACAAJ|year=1994|publisher=Academic Press|isbn=978-0-12-364936-2}}
• Acute Renal Failure: Diagnosis, Treatment, Prevention (1991){{cite book|author=Kim Solez|title=Acute renal failure: diagnosis, treatment, and prevention|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GjhsAAAAMAAJ|year=1991|publisher=M. Dekker|isbn=978-0-8247-8225-2}}
• Organ Transplantation: Long-Term Results (1992){{cite book|author1=Leendert C. Paul|author2=Kim Solez|title=Organ Transplantation: Long-Term Results|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=t5fSAyJFBskC|date=21 July 1992|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-0-8247-8599-4}}
• Solid Organ Transplant Rejection: Mechanisms, Pathology, and Diagnosis (1996){{cite book|author1=Kim Solez|author2=Lorraine C. Racusen|author3=Margaret E. Billingham|title=Solid Organ Transplant Rejection: Mechanisms, Pathology, and Diagnosis|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8zq_alp_Sk0C|date=5 February 1996|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-0-8247-9510-8}}

• National Kidney Foundation Fellowship, 1976-77.
• National Kidney Foundation International Distinguished Medal, 2009.{{cite web|title=International Distinguished Medal Recipients|url=https://www.kidney.org/spring-clinical/medalRecipients|website=National Kidney Foundation|publisher=NKF|accessdate=3 August 2015|date=2014-09-23}}
• University of Alberta Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry Tier 1 Clinical Mentoring Award, 2016.{{cite web|title=Mentoring Award Winners|url=https://www.ualberta.ca/medicine/research/awards/excellenceinmentoring/mentoringwinners|website=University of Alberta|publisher=UAlberta|accessdate=1 December 2018}}
• Catalan Society for Transplantation Gold Medal, 2017 {{cite journal|title=Acceptance of Gold Medal Award|issue=10|pages=2243–2246|journal=Transplantation Proceedings |volume=49|publisher=Elsevier|doi=10.1016/j.transproceed.2017.10.013|date=December 2017|pmid=29198653|doi-access=free|last1=Racusen|first1=L. C.|last2=Solez|first2=K.}}
• American Society of Transplantation Fellowship, FAST designation 2020.

• International Society of Nephrology Video Legacy Project founded by Kim Solez and Stewart Cameron (nephrologist) in 1990 {{cite web|title=Resurrection of the ISN Video Legacy Project|url=https://www.kireports.org/article/S2468-0249(19)31189-1/fulltext|website=Kidney International Reports|publisher=ISN|accessdate=5 March 2021|date=2019-07-01}}
• Technology and Future of Medicine Course LABMP 590 at the University of Alberta created in 2011 {{cite web|title=Technology and the Future of Medicine Course|url=https://www.justmachines.com/labmp|website=JustMachines Inc.|accessdate=5 March 2021|date=2021-01-12}}
• Doctor Kim's The Future and All That Jazz musical and poetic spinoff of the LABMP 590 course {{cite web|title=The Future and All That Jazz|url=https://www.justmachines.com/faatj|website=JustMachines Inc.|accessdate=5 March 2021|date=2021-01-12}} with singer Mallory Chipman is planning an album release for June 20th, 2025.

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• http://banfffoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/The-Banff-classification-revisited.pdf
• {{cite journal |last1=Solez |first1=Kim |title=Kim Solez, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada Banff: A Unique Start Setting Standards for Consensus Conferences |journal=Transplantation |date=October 2017 |volume=101 |issue=10 |pages=2264–2266 |doi=10.1097/TP.0000000000001901 |pmid=28926520 |s2cid=3552372 }}
• https://www.myast.org/meetings/atc-2020/fellow-american-society-transplantation-fast-inductees
• https://edmontonjournal.com/news/local-news/from-the-archives-u-of-a-professor-prepares-students-for-a-time-when-machines-are-more-intelligent-than-people
• https://www.mallorychipmanmusic.com
• https://edmontonjournal.com/entertainment/music/genre-hopping-mallory-chipman-named-epls-first-ever-musician-in-residence
• https://www.macewan.ca/campus-life/news/2023/05/news-chipman-bird-songs-23/
• https://mollylittle.myportfolio.com

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