Dr. Rory McQuillan

Education and Experience

• Graduated Medicine, UCD, 2002
• Masters of Science, University of Toronto, 2011
• VA Quality Scholars Fellowship 2011
• FRCPI
• Fellowship in Nephrology University of Toronto 2009-2011
• Consultant Nephrologist University of Toronto 2011-2019

Clinical Focus

Dr Rory McQuillan is a consultant physician in full time private practice. Special interests include Hypertension, Diabetes Mellitus and weight management , Managing patients with multi-morbidity, Acute and Chronic Kidney Disease, Heart Failure, Hematuria and Proteinuria, Prevention of Kidney Stones, Electrolyte disorders TIA, collapse, falls and syncope. Dr McQuillan is available for direct admission of medical patients.

Research

Dr McQuillan has authored numerous peer reviewed journal articles and book chapters. His areas of interest are in healthcare quality improvement and patient safety, medical education and dialysis.

Notable Publications

1. Caitlin McIntyre, Rory McQuillan, Chaim Bell and Marisa Battistella. Targeted Deprescribing in an Outpatient Hemodialysis Unit: A Study to Decrease Polypharmacy. American Journal of Kidney Disease. 2017 Apr 14. Impact Factor 6.27
2. Rory F McQuillan, Samuel A Silver, Ziv Harel, Adam V.Weizman, Alison Thomas, Chaim M Bell, Glenn M Chertow, Christopher T Chan and Gihad Nesrallah. How to Measure and Interpret Quality Improvement Data. Clinical Journal of The American Society of Nephrology. 2016 Mar 25. Impact Factor 4.61
3. McQuillan RF, Clark E, Zahirieh A, Cohen ER, Paparello JJ, Wayne DB, Barsuk JH. Performance of Temporary Hemodialysis Catheter Insertion by Nephrology Fellows and Attending Nephrologists. Clinical Journal of American Society of Nephrology. 2015 Oct 7;10(10):1767-72. Impact Factor 4.63