Dr. Shannon Fernando is a critical care physician at Lakeridge Health, and Assistant Professor in the Department of Critical Care Medicine at Queen’s University. He completed his MD degree at Queen\u2019s University, and postgraduate training in both emergency medicine and critical care medicine at the University of Ottawa, finishing in 2021. He holds a MSc from the Institute of Medical Science at the University of Toronto. He has published over 180 articles (85 first-author) in journals such as The New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, The BMJ, The Lancet Respiratory Medicine, and Annals of Internal Medicine. His primary research interests are in cardiac arrest, cardiogenic shock, and extracorporeal life support, with particular focus on long-term outcomes among ICU survivors. He is the principal investigator of the LOng Term oUtcomes of Survivors of Critical Illness (LOTUS-ICU) research program, a CIHR-funded program that uses administrative data to study long-term physical and mental health outcomes in survivors of critical illness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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