Results of the Inaugural H. Barrie Fairley Scholars Competition
In 2020, Rob Fowler, holding the H Barrie Fairley professorship, proposed to invest a portion of the Fairley investment towards the best and brightest of our junior faculty in the IDCCM. In the summer of 2021, we announced to the IDCCM an opportunity to provide competitive a modest operational research support for a specific program of research, for up to three Assistant Professors within the first year of their appointment. Candidates must have demonstrated an early impressive track-record, have a high-quality innovative and creative program of research, and support from their department. From applications across the IDCCM, a diverse committee of adjudicators chaired by Rob chose three inaugural H. Barrie Fairley Scholars -Dr. Laveena Munshi, Dr. Lorenzo del Sorbo, and Dr. Victoria McCredie.
Congratulations to the awardees!
Please find below a brief bio and a link to their research program on our website!
Dr. Laveena Munshi
H. Barrie Fairley Scholar 2021-2023
Laveena Munshi is an Assistant Professor and Critical Care Physician at Sinai Health System in the Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care Medicine at the University of Toronto. She has research interests in critical care of the immunocompromised and oncologic patient populations with a focus on acute respiratory failure, the impact that a cancer diagnosis has on critical care outcomes, and the impact of critical illness on future oncology care and outcomes. She has completed her Master’s in Clinical Epidemiology at the University of Toronto. She was supported by a Canadian Institute for Health Research fellowship award during her graduate work and the Eliot Phillipson Clinician Scientist Training program. She is the co-founder of the Critical Care Oncologic Investigative Network – a local initiative established to improve quality of care between Oncology and Critical Care. She has been a member of the American Thoracic Society Mechanical Ventilation clinical practice guideline committee. During the COVID-19 pandemic, she has been a member of the Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Committee.
Dr. Lorenzo Del Sorbo
H. Barrie Fairley Scholar 2021-2023
Lorenzo Del Sorbo is an Intensive Care attending at Toronto General Hospital, and Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto since appointment in 2016. He trained in Internal Medicine at the University of Torino (1997-2003), and in adult Critical Care Medicine at the University of Toronto (2004-2007). He was appointed and worked as an Assistant Professor of Intensive Care Medicine at the University of Torino, Italy, from 2007 to 2017. Lorenzo's main academic interests focus on the application of innovative strategies to prevent the injury induced by invasive mechanical ventilation. These include investigations on extra-corporeal life support strategies in patients with ARDS and COPD exacerbation, and on non-invasive ventilation. His work also extends into the translational research defining the mechanisms of organ injury and developing novel therapeutic approaches in cell and animal models of critical illness. H. Barrie Fairley Scholar 2021-2023.
Dr. Victoria McCredie
H. Barrie Fairley Scholar 2021-2023
Victoria McCredie is an Assistant Professor in the Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care Medicine at the University of Toronto and a Clinician Scientist at the University Health Network. Victoria’s clinical research program aims to improve the delivery of neurocritical care and outcomes in acutely brain-injured patients. Specifically, she works to achieve this goal through two complementary research areas: (1) addressing clinical epidemiology questions relevant to neurocritical care processes of care, and (2) developing new strategies to detect and prevent secondary brain injury using an integrative neurophysiologic monitoring approach. Her research focuses on acquiring and analyzing high-frequency physiology data to improve our understanding of secondary brain injury mechanisms and facilitate the characterization of neurophysiologic biomarkers of poor outcomes in acute brain injury. As an Adjunct Professor at the University of Waterloo, she collaborates with the System Design Engineering Department to explore how the integration of highly granular data from multiple neuromonitoring devices can be improved through interface design to aid management at the bedside.