Karim Ladha

Karim Ladha, MD, MSc, is the Evelyn Bateman Recipe Chair in Ambulatory Anesthesia and Women’s Health at Women’s College Hospital and an Associate Professor at the University of Toronto. Dr. Ladha received his undergraduate degree in Economics from Brown University and obtained his medical degree from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He then completed his residency training at the Massachusetts General Hospital and undertook a Health Services Research Fellowship with the Department of Pharmacoepidemiology at Harvard Medical School. He leads a diverse research program that conducts innovative studies in acute and chronic pain. He has been awarded $16.4 million in grant funding ($8.4 million as PI or co-PI) from various organizations such as CIHR, PCORI and Health Canada’s Substance Use and Addictions Program. In addition, he has received several awards including a Career Scientist Award from the Canadian Anesthesiologists’ Society, the International Anesthesia Research Society Mentored Research Award and the IMPACT Award in Anesthesia. He has published over 150 manuscripts, which have been cited ~2,700 times. His research has also been covered in both national and international media including CNN, the Times of India, the Globe and Mail, and Nature.