Critical Care
The Section of Critical Care Medicine at the University of Manitoba provides clinical services for Manitoba, northwestern Ontario, and Nunavut through the ICUs of the Health Sciences Centre, the St. Boniface General Hospital, and the community hospitals in Winnipeg. The Section also provides Critical Care education for medical students, residents and fellows and performs clinical and basic research into sepsis, life-threatening infection including ventilator-associated pneumonias, shock, resuscitation, resource utilization, quality improvement, and sedation.
The clinical program involves over 25 faculty members at 6 hospitals encompassing 4 tertiary care and 4 community ICUs. Included are separate Medical and Surgical/Trauma ICUs at Health Sciences Centre and a mixed Medical-Surgical and a Cardiovascular ICU at St. Boniface Hospital. Intensive Care Units within the city possess advanced support capability including standard mechanical ventilation (approximately 75 beds), continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT) and Extra-Corporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO). Approximately 5000 patients are admitted to the ICUs in Winnipeg annually.
The clinical program involves over 25 faculty members at 6 hospitals encompassing 4 tertiary care and 4 community ICUs. Included are separate Medical and Surgical/Trauma ICUs at Health Sciences Centre and a mixed Medical-Surgical and a Cardiovascular ICU at St. Boniface Hospital. Intensive Care Units within the city possess advanced support capability including standard mechanical ventilation (approximately 75 beds), continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT) and Extra-Corporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO). Approximately 5000 patients are admitted to the ICUs in Winnipeg annually.
| CRITICAL CARE FACULTY | |
| Medicine | |
| Dr. Kendiss Olafson | |
| Dr. Bojan Paunovic | |
| Dr. Dan Roberts | |
| Dr. Mustafa Selaman | |
| Dr. Kim Wiebe | |
| Rheumatology | |
| Dr. Thomas Jacob | |
| Infectious Diseases | |
| Dr. Anand Kumar | |
| Dr. Bruce Light | |
| Hematology | |
| Dr. Ryan Zarychanski | |
| Pulmonary Medicine | |
| Dr. Zoheir Bshouty | |
| Dr. Gregg Eschun | |
| Dr. Steve Mink | |
| Dr. Clare Ramsey | |
| Dr. Allan Garland | |
| Dr. Sat Sharma | |
| Emergency Medicine | |
| Dr. Dave Easton | |
| Dr. Adrian Robertson | |
| Anesthesia | |
| Dr. Dean Bell | |
| Dr. Duane Funk | |
| Dr. Eric Jacobsohn | |
| Dr. Faisal Siddiqui | |
| Dr. Stephen Kowalski | |
| Dr. Johann Strumpher | |
| Surgery | |
| Dr. Lawrence Gillman | |
| Dr. Diamond Kassum | |
| Dr. Brendan McCarthy | |
| Dr. Luis Oppenheimer | |
| Dr. Ross Stimpson | |
| Cardiovascular | |
| Dr. Rakesh Arora | |
| Dr. Rizwan Manji | |
| Dr. Rohit Singhal | |