Faculty

Alan Baxter, MD, FRCPC (Associate Professor)

Intensivist, Department of Critical Care; Medical Director, Intensive Care Unit - General Campus; Anesthetist, Department of Anesthesia

Clinical Interests
Acute respiratory failure • Analgesia and sedation • Critical Care Outreach • Dellrium Research Interests Acute respiratory distress syndrome • Ventilator associated pneumonia

Redouane Bouali, MD, FMH (Associate Professor)

Intensivist, Department of Critical Care; Critical Care Leader, Champlain LHIN; Scientific Officer, Canadian Patient Safety Institute.

Clinical Interests
Burn specialist • Resuscitation in severe sepsis

Research Interests
Data management • Health care organization and management • Quality and safety in critical care • Multimedia tools in knowledge transfer

Pierre Cardinal, MD, FRCPC (Associate Professor)

Intensivist, Department of Critical Care Chair; Chief of Research and Development, CRI Critical Care Education Network

Clinical Interests
Critical thinking in medicine

Research Interests
Education in Critical Care/Critical care patient simulation

Lawrie Garnett, MD, FRCPC (Assistant Professor)

Intensivist, Department of Critical Care; Anesthetist, Department of Anesthesia

Clinical Interests
Clinical ethics • Hemodynamic monitoring and shock • Major vascular surgery and myocardial protection • Fluid replacement therapy in critical illness

Paul C. Hébert, MD, FRCPC, MHSc (Professor)

Intensivist, Department of Critical Care; Researcher, Departments of Medicine and Critical Care, The Ottawa Hospital. Senior Scientist, OHRI; Editor-in-chief, CMAJ

Research Interests
Clinical and epidemiological research on resuscitation in the critically ill • Clinical and epidemiological research on transfusion medicine

Richard V. Hodder, MD, FRCPC (Professor)

Intensivist, Department of Critical Care; Respirologist, Divisions of Pulmonary Medicine; Chief Examiner, Critical Care Medicine, RCPSC; Editor-in-chief, CRI Critical Care Education Network

Clinical Interests
Acute respiratory failure • Sepsis • COPD • Asthma • Communication • Teaching • Resident Evaluation

Research Interests
Acute respiratory distress syndrome • Ventilator associated pneumonia • Sepsis • Evaluation as a learning tool

Jonathan Hooper, MD, FRCPC (Assistant Professor)

Intensivist, Department of Critical Care; Anesthetist, Department of Anesthesia

Clinical Interests
Analgesia and sedation • Major vascular surgery and myocardial protection

Gwynne Jones, MD, FRCPC (Professor)

Intensivist, Department of Critical Care; Respirologist, Division of Respirology

Clinical Interests
Acute respiratory failure • Clinical ethics

Research Interests
Microvascular perfusion in sepsis • Pulmonary hypertension

Salmaan Kanji, BSc. Pharm., Pharm.D.

Clinical Pharmacy Specialist, Department of Critical Care; Associate Scientist, Clinical Epidemiology Program, The Ottawa Hospital Research Institute

Clinical Interests
Critical care pharmacotherapy, sepsis, arrhythmias

Research Interests
Atrial arrhythmias, medication safety, glucose control, sepsis

John Kim, MD, FRCPC ( Assistant Professor )

Intensivist, Department of Critical Care

Research Interests
Critical care patient simulation

Lauralyn McIntyre, MD, FRCPC, MHSc (Epid) ( Assistant Professor )

Intensivist, Department of Critical Care; Associate Scientist, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute

Clinical Interests
Hemodynamic monitoring and shock

Research Interests
Clinical and epidemiological research on resuscitation in the critically ill

Hilary Meggison, MD, FRCPC (Assistant Professor)

Intensivist, Department of Critical Care; Endocrinologist, Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism; Internist, Division of General Internal Medicine

Clinical Interests
Endocrinology in critical illness • Chronic critical illness • Clinical ethics

Research Interests
Endocrinopathies and Metabolic Syndromes of acute and chronic critical illness

Sherissa Microys, BMed Sci, MD, FRCPC (Assistant Professor)

Major, Canadian Forces, Regular Force; Intensivist, Department of Critical Care; Anesthesiologist, Department of Anesthesia; Co-Chair of the Canadian ICU Collaborative

Clinical Interests
Quality and safety education, Cardiac resuscitation (ACLS instructor) , Mass Casualty management, Critical Care Airevac

Dave Neilipovitz, MD, FRCPC (Associate Professor)

Intensivist, Department of Critical Care; Anesthetist, Department of Anesthesia

Clinical Interests
Acute resuscitation and education (ACES Course) • Airway management • Hemodynamic monitoring & echocardiography • Major vascular surgery

Research Interests
Acute resuscitation and simulation • Airway management • Perioperative myocardial protection

Giuseppe Pagliarello, MD, FRCPC, FACS (Associate Professor)

Intensivist, Department of Critical Care; Medical Director, Intensive Care Unit - Civic Campus; Surgeon, Trauma Surgeon, Division of General Surgery

Clinical Interests
Hemodynamic monitoring and shock • Traumatology

Research Interests
Trauma research • Clinical and epidemiological research on transfusion medicine.

Rakesh Patel, MD, M.Sc., Pharm.D, (Assistant Professor)

Director, Adult Critical Care Medicine Fellowship Program; Intensivist, Department of Critical Care; Internist, Division of General Internal Medicine

Clinical Interests
Multi-organ failure • Renal failure • Clinical therapeutics

Research Interests
Education in Critical Care • Clinical pharmacology and therapeutics

Joseph Po, BMed Sci, MD, CCFP, FRCPC (Assistant Professor)

Lieutenant-Colonel, Canadian Forces, Regular Force. 1 Cdn Fd Hosp det Ottawa; Intensivist, Department of Critical Care

Clinical Interests
Medical Informatics and Technology assessment, Critical Care Aero-medical Transport, Military Medicine

Research Interests
Education in Critical Care, Medical informatics and Electronic Health Records

Andrew Seely MD, PhD, FRCPC (Associate Professor)

Intensivist, Department of Critical Care; Surgeon, Division of Thoracic Surgery; Associate Scientist, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute

Clinical Interests
Minimally invasive foregut surgery • Gastroesophageal reflux • Continuous hemodynamic monitoring

Research Interests
Theoretical and experimental research applying complex systems science to critical and perioperative care • Multidimensional dynamical analysis

Clinical Scholars

Shane English, MD

Clinical and Research Interests
Intensive care management of the neuro-critical care patient.

Michael Hartwick, MD, FRCPC

Intensivist, Department of Critical Care; Consultant physician, Division of Palliative Care Medicine

Clinical Interests
End of life care and palliative skills in Critical Care Medicine

Research Interests
Teaching and assessment of communication skills in acute care medicine.