Dr. Sikaneta grew up in Zambia, Africa before moving to Canada at age 15. He studied Biology at the University of Guelph and  Medicine at McMaster University before completing a residency in Internal Medicine at the University of Toronto and a fellowship in Nephrology and Research Training at Harvard University. He has worked as a nephrologist at the Scarborough Health Network (SHN) since 2003.

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Dr. Sikaneta is passionate about education. He teaches kidney care best practices to medical students and residents; and gives talks about kidney disease to the general public and medical colleagues. He is part of the SHN Health Literacy committee and President of the African Caribbean Kidney Association, an organization that raises awareness about kidney disease in African Caribbean communities. 

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Dr. Sikaneta is also an ardent promotor of health equity. He regularly contributes to SHN Health Equity initiatives, and is a member of the Ontario Renal Network’s (ORN) Black Working Group and an ORN Toronto Regional Medical Lead, leadership roles that put him on the frontline of local and provincial efforts to advance health equity and improve access to kidney health in marginalized communities.

As a clinician-researcher working in Toronto’s most ethnoculturally diverse region and Canada’s largest dialysis program, Dr. Sikaneta observed that certain ethnic and immigrant groups were over-represented in Scarborough’s dialysis population. He and his colleagues formerly studied this potentially very relevant health equity issue, and published their research results in the British Medical Journal Open in 2025. They found that certain immigrant groups – especially people from the Caribbean, Sri Lanka, and the Philippines - had dialysis rates that were  6-12 times higher than non-immigrant community members. This research has garnered significant attention within the general and medical communities, and has been featured prominently in The Toronto Star, CBC Radio, CityNews, Zoomer radio, Monsoon Journal, OMNI News Filipino, Hospital News, OHA Health Systems News, TAHSNews and the Longwoods eLetter. 

In 2026 Dr. Sikaneta and colleagues founded My Kidney Care, a novel web-based kidney disease screening initiative that captures his interests and experiences as a clinician, educator, and health equity champion, leader and researcher.  

Feliks Hysi is a healthcare leader dedicated to providing continuous care for chronic conditions. He holds a Bachelor of Science, a Bachelor of Nursing, and a Master's degree in Nursing Leadership and Management. Currently serving as a Patient Care Manager in the Women’s and Infants Health Ambulatory Program at Mount Sinai Hospital, Feliks brings a strong focus on patient advocacy, education, and specialized care. He is also actively involved in developing an innovative educational "co-pilot" application designed to support diabetes patients. With deep clinical interests in nephrology and diabetes management, Feliks is passionate about bridging clinical expertise with technological solutions to improve patient outcomes.

Raymond Armstrong was born in Jamaica and moved to Canada at the age of eight. Growing up in a vibrant immigrant community, he learned early on that personal stories and information are a community’s most valuable assets. This perspective drives his work as an Assistant Director in Privacy, Data Protection, and Risk Management at Ernst & Young (EY), where he focuses on the high-stakes intersection of digital rights and organizational responsibility.

Raymond believes that everyone has a fundamental right to data sovereignty—the right to own, control, and protect their own personal history. This conviction led him to join the team at My Kidney Care. Founded in 2026 by Dr. Sikaneta and his colleagues, this web-based initiative was built to tackle the kidney disease crisis through the lens of health equity. In communities like Scarborough, where residents are four times more likely to face life-altering treatments like dialysis, Raymond knows that navigating the healthcare system should never mean signing away one's privacy.

As the Privacy Officer for My Kidney Care, Raymond’s mission is to ensure that while users identify their risks and advocate for the screening they deserve, their sensitive information remains secure and in their own hands. He is helping build a space where the community can seek life-saving knowledge without ever compromising their digital rights or their digital sovereignty.

Tolgay Taskapan is a software engineer and technology leader with a deep commitment to building tools that serve communities often overlooked by traditional healthcare systems. His interest in health equity-driven technology began during his time at the Institute of Kidney Lifescience Technologies, where he collaborated with medical doctors to develop a geo-spatial capacity-planning application that maps prospective healthcare facilities against patient locations and demographics, including socioeconomic, immigrant, and racialized status. The project drew interest from senior healthcare leaders at both the local and provincial level and solidified his belief that thoughtfully designed technology can meaningfully improve how healthcare reaches the people who need it most.

With experience leading teams of over 150 software engineers and architecting scalable cloud and machine learning infrastructure, Tolgay brings the technical expertise needed to turn bold ideas into reliable, accessible tools. He has worked across the full lifecycle of software development, from solution design and pipeline optimization to deployment and delivery, always with a focus on building systems that are as dependable as they are innovative.

In 2026, Tolgay co-founded My Kidney Care, where he serves as Chief Technology Officer. He is responsible for the platform's technical vision and execution, ensuring that the tools patients and clinicians rely on are secure, equitable, and built to scale. For Tolgay, technology is never an end in itself, it is a means to empower patients, support clinicians, and help close the gaps in kidney care that disproportionately affect immigrant and racialized communities.