Merit Awards: 2018 - 2020 Cycle
Congratulations to the following individuals who received a competitive peer-reviewed Merit Award from the Department of Anesthesia, University of Toronto for the period of 2018-2020.
All award recipients to provide an interim progress report to The Office of the Chair, as stated on the memorandum of agreement upon receiving your award.The department has developed an online reporting system that will allow you to provide your interim project report in 2019 and the final project report in June 2020.
To submitt your interim project report, click HERE.
Excellence in Research Awards:
| Kavanagh, Brian | Hospital for Sick Children | Preventing Injury during Mechanical Ventilation | $60,000 |
| Wijeysundera, Duminda | UHN - Toronto General Hospital | Integrated Program to Improve Prediction and Preventionof Postoperative Complications | $60,000 |
| Wunsch, Hannah | Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre | Phamaco-epidemiology in surgery and critical illness | $60,000 |
Research Merit Awards:
| Baker, Andrew | St. Michael's Hospital | Investigating mechanisms of neurovascular pathophysiology and therapeutic intervention in modelled traumatic brain injury. | $40,000 |
| Balki, Mrinalini | UHN-Toronto Western Hospital | Optimization of oxytocin-induced myometrial contractility by propranolol: Potential applications in induction of labor and prevention of postpartum hemorrhage | $40,000 |
| Calvalho, Jose | Sinai Health System | Carbetocin at Elective Cesarean Deliveries: A Dose-finding Study in Morbidly Obese Women (BMI ≥ 40kg/m2) Gastric emptying following an oral carbohydrate load in women admitted for elective cesarean delivery Programmed intermittent epidural bolus (PIEB) for labor analgesia during first stage of labor: A sequential allocation trial to determine the optimum interval time between boluses of a fixed volume of 2.5ml of bupivacaine 0.25% plus fentanyl 8 mcg/ml |
$40,000 |
| Chan, Vincent | UHN - Toronto Western Hospital | Opioid Sparing Analgesic Strategies for Enhanced Recovery After Total Knee Arthroplasty | $40,000 |
| Choi, Stephen | Sunnybrook Health Science | Perioperative Cognitive Outcomes – Reducing Delirium and Persistent Post-operative Cognitive Dysfunction | $40,000 |
| Clarke, Hance | UHN-Toronto General Hospital | Ontario Transitional Pain and Opioid Safety Program: Improving Pain, Opioid, and Harm Reduction Practices, as well as, Cannabis Safety for Canadian Patients | $40,000 |
| Cuthbertson, Brian | Sunnybrook Health Science | The SuDDICU study; A study of the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of Selective Decontamination of the Digestive tract (SDD) in mechanically ventilated patients in the ICU | $40,000 |
| Djaiani, George | UHN-Toronto General Hospital | Role of Cerebral Oximetry In Reducing Postoperative End Organ Dysfunction or Failure After Complex Non-Cardiac Surgery | $40,000 |
| Hare, Gregory | St. Michael's Hospital | Defining Hypoxia as a Mechanism of Stroke in Patients with Sickle Cell Anemia (SCA): Assessing Interventions to Improve Brain Oxygen Delivery in Townes SCA Mice. | $40,000 |
| Jerath, Angela | UHN - Toronto General Hospital | Postoperative care models and morbidity on patient and health system outcomes | $40,000 |
| Karkouti, Keyvan | UHN - Toronto General Hospital | Optimal Coagulation Management in Cardiac Surgery | $40,000 |
| Kirkham, Kyle | UHN - Toronto General Hospital | De-implementing low value care: Does a theory-based intervention to improve accountability reduce low-value preoperative investigations in patients undergoing ambulatory surgery? | $40,000 |
| Ladha, Karim | UHN-Toronto General Hospita | Redefining a Win: A Mixed-Methods Approach to Improving Recovery After Surgery | $40,000 |
| Laussen, Peter | Hospital for Sick Children | Precision physiology & translational engineering in pediatric critical care | $40,000 |
| Maynes, Jason | Hospital for Sick Children | The Neonatal Cardiac Secretome as a Therapy for Heart Failure | $40,000 |
| Mazer, David | St. Michael's Hospital | Improving Clinical Outcomes in Patients with Cardiovascular Disease through Clinical Trials Research | $40,000 |
| Peng, Philip | UHN-Toronto Western Hospital | Innervation of Shoulder and Wrist Joints relevant to Image-Guided Intervention | $40,000 |
| Wong, Jean | UHN-Toronto Western Hospital | Obstructive sleep apnea and postoperative delirium |
$40,000 |
Education Merit Awards
| Friedman, Zeev | Sinai Health System | The Impact of Gender Bias on Resident Evaluations by Faculty | $20,000 |
Quality Assurance Merit Awards
| Siddiqui, Naveed | Sinai Health System | Opioid Reduction Strategies that would Enhance Patient Quality of Recovery after ERAS/ fast-track Surgicalprocedures Performed at Sinai Health System. | $20,000 |
Early Investigator Merit Awards:
| Parotto, Matteo | UHN-Toronto General Hospital | Improving outcomes in perioperative and critical care medicine | $20,000 |
| Singh, Mandeep | UHN-Toronto Western Hospita | The Development of a Novel Obstructive Sleep Apnea Perioperative pathway (The OSAP pathway) to Effectively Diagnose and Manage Surgical Patients with Obstructive Sleep Apnea: A Multi-center Prospective Cohort Study | $20,000 |