Visiting Professor Rounds
The Visiting Professor Program is a core academic initiative of the Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care Medicine (IDCCM), bringing leading scholars from across North America and internationally to engage with our faculty and trainees. Scheduled throughout the academic year, the program provides opportunities for intellectual exchange, mentorship, and collaboration across a broad range of critical care and related disciplines.
Invited Visiting Professors deliver a keynote lecture at departmental grand rounds, meet with faculty and trainees, and participate in scholarly discussions that foster cross-institutional collaboration. The program reflects the diverse strengths of the IDCCM, highlighting excellence in scientific discovery, clinical research, educational scholarship, leadership, and quality improvement.
The scope of the program is intentionally broad. Visiting Professors may include internationally recognized scientists, physician-scientists, and PhD-trained investigators advancing biomedical research and patient outcomes, as well as leaders in education and quality improvement whose work enhances teaching, learning, and the delivery of high-quality, safe, and equitable care.
Through these visits, the program aims to:
- Support cross-disciplinary dialogue and collaboration
- Provide trainees and early-career faculty with access to mentorship and external perspectives
- Highlight emerging developments across clinical, translational, and educational domains
- Strengthen institutional partnerships nationally and internationally
By bringing together diverse perspectives across research, education, and healthcare improvement, the Visiting Professor Program contributes to a dynamic academic environment that supports learning, innovation, and high-quality patient care.
Past Visiting Professor Rounds
Visiting Professor Rounds: 2026
- January Title: Transfusion Triggers in SAH – the SAHaRA Results and Beyond
January 2026 Visiting Professor Rounds.pdf
- February Title: Immunomodulation for septic cancer patients: are we ready?
February 2026 Joint IDCCM Visiting Professor and COIN Rounds.pdf
- March Title: Respiratory physiology in infants/children: how does this impact the ventilation support strategy?
March 2026 Joint IDCCM Visiting Professor and Kavanagh Physiology Rounds.pdf
- May Title: Too Much and Not Enough: The Triage Paradox in Geriatric Trauma
Visiting Professor Rounds: 2025
- January Title: The Future of Health Professions Education: Should we be rethinking what, and how, we educate?
January 2025 Visiting Professor Rounds.pdf
- March Title: Phenotyping ARDS: Insights from Metabolomics
March 2025 Visiting Professor Rounds.pdf
- October Title: From Question to Care: The Tale of Brain Perfusion Research
Visiting Professor Rounds: September - December 2024
- September Title: Bringing the lab to the bedside - precision microbiome therapy to combat nosocomial infections in the ICU
September 2024 Visiting Professor Rounds.pdf
- October Title: Persistent critical illness: Truths, myths, and unknowns
October 2024 Visiting Professor Rounds.pdf
- November Title: Organ Failure of the Brain: Current and Future Management of ICU Delirium
November 2024 Joint Visiting Professor Rounds.pdf
- December Title: Critically ill cancer patients - do all you can do including ECMO?
Visiting Professor Rounds: January - May 2024
- January Title: The fate and impact of the endothelial glycocalyx during sepsis
January 2024 Visiting Professor Rounds.pdf
- February Title: Prevention in the P Soup of Critical Care Trials
February 2024 Visiting Professor Rounds.pdf
- March Title: Making it Count for More: Translating Clinical Education into Research
March 2024 Visiting Professor Rounds.pdf
- May Title:A Sustainable ICU?! The Journey Begins...
Visiting Professor Rounds: September - December 2023
- October Title: A Closer Look: Confronting the complexity of critical illness
October 2023 Visiting Professor Round.pdf
- November Title: Pathogen Invasion, ARDS, and the Provisional Matrix
November 2023 Visiting Professor Rounds.pdf
- December Title: Oscillating Evidence: How Do We Improve the Reproducibility of Research in Critical Care Medicine?
Visiting Professor Rounds: January - May 2023
- January Title: Mechanical ventilation optimization using transpulmonary pressure: Let’s not ignore overdistension
January 2023 Visiting Professor Round & Kavanagh Physiology Round.pdf
- February Title: Oscillometry in Asthma and Acute Lung Injury: What Can It Tell Us?
February 2023 Visiting Professor Round & Kavanagh Physiology Round.pdf
- March Title: Informative Observational Research through COVID-19 and Beyond
March 2023 Visiting Professor Round.pdf
- April Title: Scavengers, Sensors, and Couriers: How Red Cells Sense Danger and Coordinate the Immune Response
Visiting Professor Rounds: September - December 2022
- September Title: Leveraging anesthesia for neuroprognostication in unresponsive patients
September 2022 Visiting Professor Round.pdf
- October Title: Host Defense Mechanisms During Pneumonia
October 2022 Visiting Professor Round.pdf
- November Title: Pediatric ECMO for the Adult Intensivists
Visiting Professor Rounds: January - May 2022
- January Title: Respiratory Infections: Lungs Learn from Experience
January 2022 Visiting Professor Round & Kavanagh Physiology Round.pdf
- February Title: Rapid antibiotics for sepsis: Saving lives or driving overuse?
February 2022 Visiting Professor Round.pdf
- March Title: Can we compare long-term non-mortality outcomes in critical care trials?
March 2022 Visiting Professor Round.pdf
- April Title: Vulnerability to persistent brain dysfunction after sepsis
April 2022 Visiting Professor Round.pdf
- May Title: Tie2 and the host vascular response to severe infection