Miranda Holmes

Dr Holmes attended medical school at the Australian National University. She completed her Anaesthesia training through St Vincent’s Hospital, Melbourne including undertaking Cardiac and complex adult anaesthesia fellowships at St Vincent’s Hospital, the Royal Melbourne Hospital and Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre in Australia. She became a Specialist Anesthesiologist in 2019, obtaining her Fellowship of the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists.

She then completed a Fellowship at Royal Papworth Hospital in the United Kingdom, specialising in cardiothoracic anaesthesia and critical care as well as Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation retrieval and care during England’s first Covid-19 wave. During this fellowship she attained Diplomate certification with the American National Board of Echocardiography in Transesophageal Echocardiography. 

She subsequently pursued further specialty training in Cardiac Anaesthesia, Perioperative Echocardiography and Cardiovascular Critical Care at Toronto General Hospital as a Cardiac Anesthesiology Fellow. Dr Holmes worked in Australia as a Staff Cardiac Anaesthetist at St Vincent’s Hospital, Melbourne prior to returning to join the University of Toronto and Toronto General Hospital. 

Publications

Rafiq MU, Valchanov K, Vuylsteke A, Taghavi FJ, Iyer SB, Sudarshan CD, Fowles, JA, Anderson, S, Govender, P, Holmes, M, White, A, Mishra, A, Mwaura, L, & Jenkins, DP,  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. Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 2020; doi:10.1093/ejcts/ezaa327.

Holwell A, McKenzie J, Holmes M, Woods R, Nandurkar H, Tam C, Bazargan A, Venous thromboembolism prevention in patients undergoing colorectal surgery for cancer, ANZ Journal of Surgery, 2014. Vol 84 (4): 284–288