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Assistant Professor (status only)

Gordon Tait

Anesthesia
Gordon Tait

gtait@uhnres.utoronto.ca

(416) 340-4800

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Location
Toronto General Hospital
Address
200 Elizabeth Street, Toronto, Ontario Canada M5G 2C4
Research Interests
education, simulation
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Research Synopsis

Dr. Tait has two main research interests: perioperative interactive education (PIE) and perioperative risk.

The PIE team is dedicated to creating interactive animated online teaching aids for perioperative medicine at the undergraduate, graduate and continuing education level. These online modules can be used by medical schools around the world for lectures, small group teaching sessions, one-on one instruction or self-study. The products of this initiative can be seen on the PIE team Web site (http://pie.med.utoronto.ca). The PIE websites attract over 750,000 visitors per year from 800 universities and 400 hospitals in 180 countries around the world.

For perioperative risk, a dataset of risk factors and outcomes on 128,068 inpatient non-cardiac surgical procedures from 2003 to 2014 has been assembled from the UHN Electronic Data Warehouse. This data has been matched with transfusions of blood products from the Blood Bank and preoperative assessments from the CAIS system to provide a rich source of observational data for studies of perioperative risk.