Mike is a consultant physician in Critical Care
and Infectious Diseases at Mount Sinai Hospital and the University
Health Network in Toronto, Canada. Having practiced as a general
internist with a unique combination of interests in HIV and Critical
Care, Mike was prompted to undertake fellowships in Critical Care
and Infectious Diseases at McMaster University due to his
experiences with SARS in Toronto. During the SARS outbreak Mike was
involved on the ‘front lines’ of SARS as a clinician on the SARS
unit at Toronto General Hospital and also as an investigator working
with the Health Canada/CDC investigation task force at North York
General Hospital.
Mike’s academic pursuits focus on
disaster/outbreak management and emergency
preparedness. This field combines his infectious disease and
critical care interests with his previous experiences as a
paramedic. He recently lead an Ontario working group which developed
the first critical care triage protocol for use in a possible
pandemic. He is a member of the Ontario Ministry of Health,
Emergency Management Unit Scientific Advisory Committee, and was a
member of the American College of Chest Physician’s Critical Care
Task force on Mass Casualty Critical Care in addition to other
international task forces. Mike is currently a Director on the
founding Board of the Ontario Agency for Health Promotion and
Protection.
Mike is a CIHR funded principal investigator
and his publications include articles in the following journals:
New England Journal of Medicine; Canadian Medical Association
Journal; Clinical Infectious Diseases; Emerging Infectious Diseases;
CHEST; Disaster Medicine & Public Health Preparedness; and Canadian
Journal of Emergency Medicine.
He is a Global Advisor on the Editorial Board
of Disaster Medicine & Public Health Preparedness in addition to
being a reviewer for several journals including: Chest, Critical
Care, Emerging Infectious Diseases, Clinical Infectious Diseases,
and the Canadian Medical Association Journal.
Clinical
and Research interests:
- Infections
Diseases & Critical Care
- Disaster/Outbreak Management
- Transport Medicine (Ornge)
- Triage and allocation of scarce resources
Publications (Pubmed
link)
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