Donald Griesdale

Bio

Don is an anesthesiologist and intensive care physician at Vancouver General Hospital and Associate Professor in the Department of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology & Therapeutics at the University of British Columbia. Following his clinical training, he completed a Masters of Public Health in Quantitative Methods from the Harvard School of Public Health in 2008. His clinical and academics areas of interest include neurocritical care of patients with traumatic brain injury and hypoxemic ischemic brain injury following cardiac arrest. He is an active member of the Canadian Critical Care Trials Group. He is an co-investigator with his research partner and Principle Investigator, Dr. Mypinder Sekhon, on a CIHR Project Grant to help delineate pathophysiologic phenotypes in patients with hypoxic ischemic brain injury. Collaborating with Dr. Penny Brasher, he is the Principal Investigator on a 2023 /2024 Grant-in-Aid from the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada that will investigate the effect of VV-ECMO on cerebral blood flow in patients with ARDS.