Marcello Tonelli
Positions
Professor
Cumming School of Medicine, Department of Medicine
Full Member
O'Brien Institute for Public Health
Member
Libin Cardiovascular Institute
Contact information
Phone number
Office: 403-220-7906
Background
Educational Background
MD Medicine, University of Western Ontario, 1995
SM Clinical Epidemiology, Harvard University, 2002
MSc Health Policy, Imperial College London, 2014
Biography
Dr. Tonelli is a graduate of the University of Western Ontario’s Faculty of Medicine (1995), and completed his postdoctoral training at the University of Western Ontario (1998), Dalhousie University (2002) and the Harvard School of Public Health (2002). He spent 12 years with the University of Alberta’s Department of Medicine, and joined the University of Calgary in 2014, taking on the roles of Senior Associate Dean (Clinical Research) and Associate Vice President (Health Research), which he held until 2024.
Dr. Tonelli’s research focus is improving the care of people with chronic kidney disease and other noncommunicable diseases. He has partnered with regional, provincial and national decision-making bodies to inform clinical practice and impact health policy in this area. He completed a volunteership at the World Health Organization in 2013-2014, focusing on treatment of noncommunicable diseases following natural disasters and civil conflict. During this time he also completed an MSc in Health Policy from Imperial College London.
Dr. Tonelli is a co-lead for the Alberta-based Interdisciplinary Chronic Disease Collaboration. He is chair emeritus of the Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care and a past President of the Canadian Society of Nephrology. He is a past member of the Governing Council of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), and the past chair of the CIHR’s Standing Committee on Ethics. He established and is the inaugural Director of the Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for the Prevention and Control of Chronic Kidney Disease.
Dr. Tonelli was the recipient of the 2013 United States National Kidney Foundation Medal for Distinguished Service and the Kidney Foundation of Canada’s 2013 Medal for Research Excellence for changing nephrology practice in Canada and beyond. He received a Killam Professorship in 2023.
Dr. Tonelli was elected as a fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences in 2012, as a member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation in 2014, and as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2023.
Dr. Tonelli has been named a “Highly Cited” researcher every year since 2015 by Thomson-Reuters Web of Science, corresponding to a rank in the top 0.1% by citations of all researchers worldwide over the preceding decade.
Dr. Tonelli was elected President-Elect of the International Society of Nephrology in April 2023.
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