Professor
Anahi Perlas
Anesthesia
MD, FRCPC
Location
University Health Network - Toronto Western Hospital
Address
399 Bathurst Street, Toronto, Ontario Canada M5T 2S8
Appointment Status
Primary
Accepting
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Current positions:
- Professor of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine at the University of Toronto
- Director of Research and Director of the Perioperative POCUS Fellowship at the Department of Anesthesia, Toronto Western Hospital, in Ontario, Canada
- Executive Editor of the journal Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine
- Founding and current member of the American Society of Anesthesiologists Editorial Board on point-of-care ultrasound that oversees the ASA Certificate of Completion in POCUS.
Research focus and impact: Over the past 2 decades she has advanced anesthesia patient safety through the introduction of innovative applications of ultrasound imaging into anesthesia practice both for interventional (regional anesthesia) and diagnostic (gastric ultrasound) purposes. Her innovations have been adopted nationally and internationally.
She has published more than 100 peer-reviewed original articles on the areas of regional anesthesia and point-of-care ultrasound and has received several peer-reviewed grants to fund her work.