The Department of Critical Care Medicine along with support from Pulmonary Medicine is delighted to host Visiting Speaker Dr. Eddy Fan who will present at Grand Rounds on Tuesday, September 20 from 16:30 - 17:30 in Classroom F, 2J4.02 Walter C. MacKenzie Centre. Topic: Ventilatory Management of ARDS: Where are We 50 Years Later?
Dr. Fan is an Assistant Professor in the Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care Medicine and the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation at the University of Toronto and a Staff Intensivist at the University Health Network/Mount Sinai Hospital. Dr. Fan received his undergraduate degree from the University of Toronto, his medical degree from the University of Western Ontario and a PhD in Clinical Investigation from Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Fan's research has focused on advanced life support for acute respiratory failure and patient outcomes from critical illness. These include investigations on the epidemiology and use of mechanical ventilation and extracorporeal life support in patients with ARDS, as well as on the development of ICU-acquired weakness, early rehabilitation in ICU patients, and long-term outcomes in survivors of critical illness.
This visit has been funded in part by the Walter Mackenzie Visiting Speakers Fund, Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry.