Faculty

Ian Ball, MD, MSc (Epi), FRCPC

Interim Chair/Chief & Medical Director, Critical Care

Research Interests / Specializations: Trauma, End-of-life Care, Organ Donation
Teaching: Associate Professor, Dept of Medicine and Dept of Epidemiology & Biostatistics; Office of Academic Military Medicine

Raymond Kao, MD, FRCPC

Site Chief - VH Critical Care Trauma Centre (CCTC) Consultant, Critical Care Medicine and Internal Medicine

Research Interests / Specializations: trauma, prediction modeling, large data analysis
Teaching: Professor of Medicine, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry

Daniel Durocher

Site Chief - UH Medical Surgical Intensive Care Unit (MSICU); Consultant, Critical Care Medicine and Internal MedicineConsultant, Divisions of Cardiology & Critical Care

Research Interests / Specializations: Cardiac critical care, Competence-based Medical Education
Teaching: Assistant Professor of Medicine, Divisions of Cardiology and Critical Care

Osama Sefein, MB.B.Ch, MSc, FRCPC

Site Chief - Cardiac Surgery Intensive Care Unit (CSICU): Education Director - Cardiac Surgery Recovery Unit (CSRU) & Anesthesia Fellowship Program Director

Research Interests / Specializations: Education, Cardiac Anesthesia, Perioperative TEE
Teaching: Assistant Professor, Dept of Anesthesia & Perioperative Care and Dept of Medicine, Division of Critical Care

John Fuller, MD, FRCPC

Medical Director Perioperative Care SJHC Step Up Unit

Teaching: Professor of Anesthesia and Perioperative Medicine

Marat Slessarev, MD, MSc, FRCPC

Chair, Critical Care Western Research

Research Interests / Specializations: intersection of brain function and: 1) sedation practices in the ICU, 3) deceased organ donation and novel transplantation methods, 3) acute kidney injury and renal replacement therapies
Teaching: Associate Professor of Medicine

Paul Cameron, MD, FRCPC

Program Director, Critical Care Medicine

Research Interests / Specializations: Competency Based Medical Education, Health Care Leadership, Chronic Critical Illness
Teaching: Assistant Professor, Dept of Medicine, Division of Critical Care

W. Robert Leeper, MD, MEHP, FRCSC, FACS

Junior Education Site Director - VH-CCTC

Research Interests / Specializations: Simulation, Ultrasound, Trauma
Teaching: Associate Professor, Dept of Surgery

Eric Walser, MD, FRCSC

Junior Education Site Director - UH, MSICU

Teaching: Assistant Professor-Department of Surgery Assistant Professor-Department of Medicine

Ron Butler, MD, FRCPC

Chair, CCW Competence Committee; Consultant, Critical Care Medicine

Teaching: Associate Professor, Dept of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine

Karen Bosma, MD, FRCPC

Chair, Critical Care Finance Committee

Teaching: Associate Professor of Medicine

Scott Anderson, MD, FRCPC

Consultant, Critical Care and Adult Emergency Medicine

Teaching: Associate Professor of Medicine

Rob Arntfield, MD, FRCPC

Consultant - Critical Care Trauma Centre (CCTC)

Research Interests / Specializations: Ultrasound, Computer Vision
Teaching: Professor of Medicine, Director of Critical Care Ultrasound Program and Fellowship

Daniel Bainbridge, MD, FRCPC

Consultant; Critical Care Medicine & Anesthesia

Teaching: Professor, Dept of Anesthesia and Perioperative Medicine

John Basmaji, MD, FRCPC

Consultant, Critical Care Medicine

Research Interests / Specializations: POCUS in mgmt of shock, resuscitative health technologies in Critical Care Medicine
Teaching: Assistant Professor, Dept of Medicine and Dept of Epidemiology & Biostatistics

David Boersma, MBBCh BAO, FRCPC

Consultant, Cardiovascular Critical Care ICU

Teaching: Assistant Professor, Anesthesia & Perioperative Medicine

Lois Champion, MD, FRCPC

Associate Dean, Postgraduate Medical Education, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry

Teaching: Professor, Dept of Anesthesia and Perioperative Care

Derek Debicki, MD, Ph.D., FRCPC

Consultant, Neurocritical Care

Teaching: Assistant Professor of Neurology, Western University

Teneille Gofton, MD, FRCPC, AAHP (Dipolmate)

Consultant, Neurocritical Care and Palliative Care

Research Interests / Specializations: neurocritical care, neuropalliative care
Teaching: Associate Professor, Dept of Clinical Neurological Sciences

Wael Haddara, MD, FRCPC

Chair, Dept of Medicine; Consultant

Research Interests / Specializations: Core ideas & values in medicine
Teaching: Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, Divisions of Critical Care Medicine and Endocrinology & Metabolism

Ahmed Hegazy, MBBCh, MSc, FRCPC, MPH

Consultant, Critical Care Medicine

Research Interests / Specializations: Cardiac Surgical Critical Care, Competence Based Medical Education, Transesophageal echocardiography
Teaching: Associate Professor, Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Medicine and Department of Medicine, Division of Critical Care

John Landau, MD, FRCSC

Consultant, Vascular Surgery and Critical Care Medicine

Teaching: Assistant Professor, Dept of Surgery

Aleks Leligdowicz

Consultant, Critical Care Medicine

Research Interests / Specializations: sepsis, ARDS, immunology, endothelial Injury, biomarkers, translational biology
Teaching: Assistant Professor, Dept of Medicine & Dept of Microbiology and Immunology

Tina Mele, MD, PhD, FRCSC, FACS

Consultant, Critical Care Medicine

Teaching: Professor, Depts of Surgery, Medicine and Microbiology & Immunology

Dave Nagpal, MD, FRCSC

Consultant, Critical Care Medicine and CVT

Research Interests / Specializations: resuscitation (fluid therapy, acute and chronic cardiac devices support in management of heart failure / cardiogenic shock), cardiac transplantation, and investigation for optimization of cardiac surgical and critical care outcomes
Teaching: Assistant Professor, Cardiac Surgery

Ross Prager, MD, FRCPC

Consultant, Critical Care Medicine

Research Interests / Specializations: Critical care ultrasound, Venous congestion and hemodynamics, Knowledge Translation and maximizing research efficiency and impact
Teaching: Assistant Professor, Dept of Medicine, Division of Critical Care

Mithu Sen, MD, FRCPC

Consultant, Critical Care Medicine and Respirology (Sleep Medicine)

Teaching: Professor of Medicine

Ravi Taneja, MD, FRCPC

Consultant, Critical Care Medicine

Teaching: Associate Professor, Dept of Anesthesia and Perioperative Medicine

Elaine Tang, MD, MSc, FRCSC

Consultant, Critical Care Medicine & Dept of General Surgery

Teaching: Assistant Professor-Department of Surgery Assistant Professor-Department of Medicine

Charles Weijer, MD, PhD

Professor

Research Interests / Specializations: research ethics, organ donation ethics
Teaching: Professor, Joint Appointment - Dept of Medicine Cross Appointment with Dept Epidemiology & Biostatistics