University Health Network Scholarly List TORONTO GENERAL HOSPITAL Lorenzo Del Sorbo Lorenzo.Delsorbo@uhn.ca IDCCM Staff Job Description: Clinician Investigator 1. Basic science 2. Physiologic studies 1. Extracorporeal life support in adults 2. Invasive and noninvasive mechanical ventilation strategies to prevent ventilatorinduced lung injury Basic science / Physiologic studies 1. Strategies for Optimal Lung Ventilation in ECMO for ARDS: The SOLVE ARDS Study 2. Therapy with high flow nasal oxygen in patients with hypoxemia 1
James Downar James.Downar@uhn.ca IDCCM Staff Job Description: Clinician Teacher 1. Education 2. Quality Improvement 1. Education evaluation 2. Patient satisfaction and communication in ICU 1. Observational 2. Survey 1. ICU BEREAVE 2. DECIDE 2 COMMUNICATE 2
Eddy Fan Eddy.Fan@uhn.ca IDCCM Staff Job Description: Clinician Scientist 1. Clinical Epidemiology 2. Physiologic Studies 3. Clinical Trials 1. Extracorporeal life support in adults 2. ARDS 1. Observational 2. Clinical Trials 1. SOLVE ARDS 2. icore 3
Niall D. Ferguson Niall.Ferguson@uhn.ca IDCCM Staff Job Description: Clinician Scientist 1. Clinical Epidemiology 2. Physiological Studies 3. Clinical Trials 1. ARDS & Mechanical Ventilation 2. Extra-corporeal Life Support 1. RCTs 2. Observational cohorts 3. Physiological studies 1. OSCILLATE Secondary Studies 2. NEURO-ETT Extubation Strategies in Brain-Injured Patients 3. ROSE Trial Early Neuromuscular Blockade in ARDS 4. SUPERNOVA and other extra-corporeal life support studies 4
John Granton John.Granton@uhn.ca IDCCM Staff Job Description: Clinician Investigator 1. Clinical trials 2. Physiology trials Specific Area(s) of Interest): 1. Right heart function / Heart-Lung interactions 2. Lung transplantation 1. Controlled trials 2. Cohort physiology studies 1. Extravascular lung water following lung transplantation 2. Effects of PEEP on RV function 5
Margaret Herridge Margaret.Herridge@uhn.ca IDCCM Staff Job Description: Clinician Scientist Clinical Epidemiology 1. Long-term Outcomes after Critical Illness 2. ICU Acquired Weakness Observational 1. RECOVER Program: Phase 1 Towards RECOVER 2. RECOVER Program: Phase 2 Feasibility and Implementation of Post-ICU Follow-up as a new practice standard 6
Neil Lazar Dr.Neil.Lazar@uhn.ca IDCCM Staff Job Description: Clinician Administrator Clinical Ethics 1. Critical Care 2. End of Life Care 1. Teaching 2. Reflective Titles of current research project: 1. Impact analysis of teaching clinical ethics to CCM residents (proposed) 7
Andrew Steel Andrew.Steel@utoronto.ca IDCCM Staff Job Description: Clinician Educator Education 1. Education program development 2. Solid organ transplant 1. Randomized Controlled Trial 2. Qualitative survey 1. VALTS - Volatile anaesthetic agents for long-term sedation in ICU 2. Mechanical ventilation competency-based training program 8
TORONTO WESTERN HOSPITAL Preeti Dhar Preeti.Dhar@uhn.ca IDCCM Staff Job Description: Clinical Associate Quality Improvement 1. Interdisciplinary Communication 2. Transitions of Care 1. Postoperative handover between surgery & critical care 2. Evaluation of ICU discharge - processes of care 9
Alberto Goffi Alberto.Goffi@uhn.ca IDCCM Staff Job Description: Clinician Teacher Education 1. Curriculum development (neurocritical care) 2. Point-of-Care Ultrasound 1. Survey 2. Observational 3. Curriculum development 1. Role of self-regulated learning compared to a traditional supervised approach in focused cardiac and lung ultrasound 2. E-modules on point-of-care ultrasound applications 10
Eyal Golan Eyal.Golan@uhn.ca IDCCM Staff Job Description: Clinical Associate - Clinician Scientist 1. Health Services Research 2. Clinical Epidemiology 3. Neurophysiological studies 4. Clinical trials 5. Qualitative Studies 1. Neuroprognostication of critically ill patients with acquired brain injury 2. Prognostication Methods and Research 3. Cardiac Arrest Research 4. Guideline Development 5. Meta-Analyses 1. Observational 2. Randomized controlled trials 3. Cluster randomized trials 4. Meta-analyses 1. PROGNOSIS 2. PremaTOR 11
Laura Hawryluck Laura.Hawryluck@uhn.ca IDCCM Staff Job Description: Clinician Educator 1. International and national policy and health law development 2. Health law education 3. International ICU training program communication skills (simulation teaching) 4. EOL care and patient safety/ QI development 5. Acute care Law textbook (writing and editing) 6. EOL care 7. Organ and tissue donation educational material development 8. Educational material for CCRT teams to use within hosp setting/ consult debrief 9. ACLS QI initiatives 1. Education evaluation 2. Patient satisfaction/communication in ICU 3. End of life care 4. Law 5. Acute resuscitation 6. IP team functioning 7. QI 8. International critical care 1. Policy development 2. Ethical qualitative 3. Consensus building methodologies 1. Code of Ethics and Health law development in Nepal 2. CCRT "Grab and Go" education 12
Aleksandra Leligdowicz Aleksandra.Leligdowicz@uhn.ca IDCCM Staff Job Description: Clinical Associate Translational research (basic science/clinical epidemiology) 1. Biomarkers of endothelial dysfunction for outcome prediction in sepsis and ARDS. 2. Point-of-care diagnostics for patient triage and selection for clinical trial enrolment. 1. Clinical biobank sample analysis 2. Clinical trial databases 1. Plasma biomarkers in severe infection shock 2. Role of endothelial dysfunction in critical illness 13
Jeffrey Man Jeffrey.Man@uhn.ca IDCCM Staff Job Description: Clinical Associate Basic Science 3. Endothelial Gene Regulation 4. Epigenetics Molecular Biology 3. Vascular endothelial gene regulation: role of long non-coding RNAs 4. Role of long non-coding RNAs in the vascular endothelial response to hypoxia 14
Jeffrey Singh Jeff.Singh@uhn.ca IDCCM Staff Job Description: Clinician Investigator 1. Health Services Research/ clinical epidemiology 2. Quality Improvement 1. Care of the patient with acute neurological injuries 2. Mechanical Ventilation of the Patient with Acute Brain Injuries 1. Cohort Studies 2. Survey 3. Use of Administrative Datasets 1. Prediction of Time to Death in Potential Donation After Circulatory Death (DCD) Donors 2. Neurally-adjusted ventilator assist in acute spinal cord injuries 15
Elizabeth Wilcox Elizabeth.Wilcox@uhn.ca IDCCM Staff Job Description: Clinician Scientist 1. Health Services Research 2. Clinical Epidemiology 3. Quality Improvement 1. Long-term cognitive outcomes after critical illness 2. Organization of critical care services 1. Longitudinal observational study 2. Database analyses Titles of current research project: 1. COGWELL - Cognitive outcomes and wellness in survivors of critical illness Study of Occupancy and Mortality in Adults admitted to General Critical Care Units in the UK 16