| Dr. Karen Bosma London Health Sciences Centre University Hospital Dr. Bosma is Assistant Professor at the University of Western Ontario. Her research and clinical expertise focuses on patient-ventilator asynchrony, and its impact on sleep, delirium and weaning from mechanical ventilation in the ICU. She is also exploring how mode of ventilation impacts the development of ventilator-associated diaphragm dysfunction. | 0 |
| Dr. Laurent Brochard St. Michael's Hospital Dr. Brochard is a Professor of Medicine and the Interdepartmental Division Director for Critical Care in the Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto. He is an international expert on weaning and mechanical ventilation, and is leading a European Research Network dedicated to clinical studies in mechanical ventilation and weaning, called REVA. | 0 |
| Lisa Burry , PharmD Mount Sinai Hospital & University of Toronto Dr. Burry is a Clinician Scientist and Clinical Pharmacy Specialist Mount Sinai Hospital and University of Toronto. Her research and clinical expertise focuses on patient and drug safety – in particular sedation, neuromuscular blockade, delirium and pain. | 0 |
| Vagia T. Campbell , RRT Mount Sinai Hospital Vagia Campbell is the Clinical Specialist and Charge Respiratory Therapist for the Respiratory Therapy Department, Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto, Ontario. She is the Co-Chair of the Acute Resuscitation Committee and an member the MOHTLC Emergency Medical Assistant Team. Her interests include disaster management and quality improvement, for which she has led several local initiatives. Most recently she is co-leading a city wide initiative discussing the harmonization of several weaning approaches to streamline patient care and better facilitate research in weaning from mechanical ventilation. | 0 |
| Dr. Brian Cuthbertson Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre Dr. Cuthbertson is a Professor of Anaesthesia at the University of Toronto and the Chief of Critical Care at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre. He is the principal investigator of an international Delphi study investigating the barriers to implementation of rehabilitation strategies in critical care. He also was a steering group member on the large TRACman study of tracheostomy timing for patients anticipated to require prolonged mechanical ventilation. | 0 |
| Dr. Niall Ferguson University Health Network Dr. Ferguson is Head of Critical Care Medicine at the University Health Network and Mount Sinai Hospital, and Associate Professor in the Departments of Medicine. He is also the Critical Care Lead for the Toronto-Central Local Health Integration Network. Dr. Ferguson’s research focuses on mechanical ventilation (epidemiology; weaning and liberation; extubation; novel modes; and tracheostomy). | 0 |
| Dr. Ian Fraser Provincial Weaning Centre of Excellence, Toronto East General Hospital Dr. Fraser is a respirologist and director of the Provincial Centre of Weaning Excellence, which is based at the Toronto East General Hospital. He has led clinical and research initiatives in quality of care improvement and inter-professional care. He has also been involved in the development of a Canadian community of excellence in prolonged ventilation at a regional, provincial and national level. | 0 |
| Dr. Shannon Goddard Sunnybrook Health Sciences Center Dr. Goddard is an intensivist at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre. Her primary research focuses on barriers to early rehabilitation of mechanically ventilated patients, and her general interests include rehabilitation, knowledge translation and local quality improvement. | 0 |
| Dr. Ewan Goligher Mount Sinai Hospital Dr. Goligher is an intensivist at the Toronto Western Hospital. His research program focuses broadly on the clinical impact of physiological interactions between the respiratory muscles, the acutely injured lung, and the mechanical ventilator. He is currently investigating the mechanisms and outcomes of ventilator-associated diaphragm dysfunction in human patients. | 0 |
| Dr. Amal Jubran Loyola University Medical Centre, Chicago IL Dr. Jubran is a Professor of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at Loyala Medicine, Chicago. She is an international expert on the care of patients requiring prolonged mechanical ventilation, and the Principal Investigator of the largest ever randomized controlled trial of protocolized weaning strategies. | 0 |
| Lesley Moisey , RD University of Waterloo Lesley Moisey is a graduate student at the University of Waterloo. Her research program focuses on the adequacy of caloric and dietary intake following liberation from mechanical ventilation. She is also working to identify barriers to optimal nutrition care for ICU survivors. Her long-term goal is to enhance recovery from critical illness. | 0 |
| Dr. Darlene Reid University of Toronto Professor Reid is a clinical scientist whose investigations have spanned basic sciences, clinical, and translational research. Research themes have focused on dysfunction of the inspiratory and limb muscles in chronic disease that involves quantification of muscle structure and function at the cellular and macroscopic level. Recent work has focused on muscle performance in chronic disease and the experience of pain in people living with COPD. Dr. Reid has also directed her current research towards using non-invasive tools that can be taken to the bedside including wireless near infrared spectroscopy, dynamometry, and inclinometry. | 0 |
| Dr. Louise Rose Provincial Weaning Centre of Excellence, Toronto East General Hospital Dr. Rose is Professor of Nursing with an active research program focused on improving the experience of the ventilated patient in diverse settings. She is the Research Director for the Provincial Centre of Weaning Excellence at Toronto East General Hospital, an adjunct scientist at the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences and holds cross appointments at Mt Sinai Hospital and the Li Ka Shing Institute. She is an internationally-recognized expert in care of the patient requiring prolonged mechanical ventilation, and has published extensively on topics including sedation and delirium management, tracheostomy, and ICU multidisciplinary culture and leadership. | 0 |
| Dr. Gordon Rubenfeld Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre Dr. Rubenfeld is Professor of Medicine in the Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care Medicine at the University of Toronto and Chief of the Program in Trauma, Emergency, and Critical Care at Sunnybrook Health Science Center. He has published over 100 peer reviewed articles related to organization and structure of critical care, epidemiology of acute lung injury, and improving end of life care in the ICU. | 0 |
| Dr. Damon Scales Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre Dr. Scales is an Associate Professor of Medicine (UofT) and an Intensivist at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre. His research evaluates interventions and system-factors that influence outcomes of critically ill patients; he has conducted several large quality improvement RCTs and large health services research studies evaluating outcomes of patients requiring prolonged mechanical ventilation in Ontario. | 0 |
| Dr. Jeff Singh Toronto Western Hospital Dr. Singh is Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Toronto and is Site Director of the Medical-Surgical and Neuro-Intensive Care Unit at the Toronto Western Hospital. His research interests include mechanical ventilation in acute brain and spinal cord injuries, and he is also actively leading several quality improvement initiatives targeting various aspects of the provision of critical care. | 0 |
| Danny Veniott , RRT St. Mary’s General Hospital Danny Veniott is the Professional Practice Lead, Respiratory Therapy Department, St. Mary’s General Hospital in Kitchener, Ontario. He is also the Chair, Examination Development and Review Committee and a Member of the Board of Directors of the Canadian Board for Respiratory Care Inc. He has helped to lead and implement a highly-successful weaning program. | 0 |
| Dr. Hannah Wunsch Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre Dr. Wunsch is a Staff Physician in the Department of Critical Care Medicine at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre and an Associate Professor of Anesthesiology at the University of Toronto. Dr Wunsch’s research focuses on the organization, and management of critical care services, with a particular focus on international comparisons of critical care, variation in use of sedatives and other intensive care resources across the health system, and long-term outcomes among critically ill patients. | 0 |
