Message from the Research Director

IDCCM is home to an extraordinary community of clinicians, researchers, educators, and trainees, with a long history of leadership and innovation in critical care research. Across the IDCCM, our faculty lead internationally recognized programs spanning clinical and translational research, basic science, health services and outcomes research, quality improvement, physiology, and education. Our work addresses some of the most important challenges in critical care medicine.

Our paediatric critical care research spans neurocritical care and brain injury, resuscitation science, respiratory failure and mechanical ventilation, cardiac critical care and complex congenital heart disease, nutrition and metabolism, extracorporeal support, recovery and long-term outcomes after critical illness of patient and families, ICU design, simulation, education, and data science.

Our adult critical care research investigates respiratory failure including non invasive supports, mechanical ventilation and extracorporeal support, sepsis, resuscitation, neuro- and trauma critical care, critical illness in specialized populations (oncology, transplant and obstetrical), recovery after critical illness, health systems, and the development of new approaches to how we deliver and study critical care. This breadth of expertise, across both adult and paediatric critical care and across our academic hospital sites, creates tremendous opportunities for discovery and collaboration.

Looking forward, my vision as Research Director is to build on the strengths in our program by making it easier for great ideas and great people to succeed. I am excited to work on this alongside our IDCCM executive committee, colleagues, staff and trainees. Our goal is to create the infrastructure, connections, and culture that allow research to happen ever more efficiently and collaboratively across our sites, disciplines, and career stages, and indeed with collaborators across Canada and around the world.

One of our central priorities is to foster collaboration across the IDCCM - connecting investigators with shared interests, creating opportunities for cross-site research, reducing barriers to research execution, and ensuring that our research teams and their work is supported and visible. Equally important is developing the next generation of critical care researchers and creating meaningful opportunities for trainees, early-career faculty and our alumni to participate and lead.

I am delighted to help lead and support our entire IDCCM community as we continue to enjoy and grow an inclusive, collaborative, and internationally leading research program.

Please spend time on the website to familiarize yourself with the adult and paediatric critical care faculty in the IDCCM and the incredible research opportunities that are available across Clinical and Basic Science, Health Services Research, Quality Improvement, Physiology and Education.

Laveena Munshi