Alexander White

Alex earned his medical degree and completed his anesthesia training at the University of Toronto, followed by a two-year fellowship in critical care medicine. During his training, he had clinical placements at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa, and the Black Lion Hospital in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Alex pursued further clinical training in cardiac anesthesia and liver transplant anesthesia at Toronto General Hospital. He then completed a fellowship at the Royal Papworth Hospital in Cambridge, UK, focusing on anesthesia, critical care, and extracorporeal life support. Alex came on staff at TGH in October 2020. He went on sabbatical and completed a year of cardiothoracic and transplant anesthesia training at the Alfred Hospital in Melbourne, Australia, returning back to Toronto General in May 2023. Alex is a diplomate of the National Board of Echocardiography in both Transesophageal Echocardiography and Critical Care Echocardiography, and he holds specialist registration in both Canada and Australia.

Research Synopsis

Teaching: Curriculum development and formal teaching sessions for Anesthesia residents.

Recent Publications

Rafiq, M. U., Valchanov, K., Vuylsteke, A., Taghavi, F. J., Iyer, S. B., Sudarshan, C. D., Fowles, J. A., Anderson, S., Govender, P., Holmes, M., White, A., Mishra, A., Mwaura, L., & Jenkins, D. P. (2020). Regional extracorporeal membrane oxygenation retrieval service during the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic: an interdisciplinary team approach to maintain service provision despite increased demand. European journal of cardio-thoracic surgery: official journal of the European Association for Cardio-thoracic Surgery, ezaa327

White, A. Patvardhan, C., Falter, F. (2020). Anesthesia for Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery. Journal of Thoracic Disease.

Flower L, Dempsey M, White A, Sanfilippo F, Olusanya O, Madhivathanan PR. Training and Accreditation Pathways in Critical Care and Perioperative Echocardiography. J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth. 2020 Jul 17:S1053-0770(20)30717-5.

Pavenski K, Ward SE, Hare GMT, Freedman J, Pulendrarajah R, Pirani RA, Sheppard N, Vance C, White A, Lo N, Waddell JP, Ho A, Schemitsch EH, Kataoka M, Bogoch ER, Saini K, David Mazer C, Baker JE. (2019). A rationale for universal tranexamic acid in major joint arthroplasty: overall efficacy and impact of risk factors for transfusion. Transfusion. 59(1):207-216.

White A, Fan E. (2016); What is ECMO? American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Vol. 193, No. 6