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 inQuantitative Methods from the Harvard School of Public Health in 2008. His clinical and academics areas of interest include neurocritical care of patientswith traumatic brain injury and hypoxemic ischemic brain injury following cardiac arrest. He is an active member of the Canadian Critical Care TrialsGroup. Collaborating with Dr. Penny Brasher, he was the Principal Investigator on a 2023 /2024 Grant-in-Aid from the Heart and Stroke Foundation ofCanada that will investigate the effect of VV-ECMO on cerebral blood flow in patients with ARDS. He is currently the Assistant Director at the Centre forClinical Epidemiology & Evaluation at the Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute.

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Hypoxic-ischemic brain injury, critical care epidemiologic outcomes, neurocritical care

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ORCID: 0000-0001-5985-8624

PubMed: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=Griesdale+D

I practice critical care at Vancouver General Hospital. My clinical and research interest span two major areas: neurocritical care and epidemiologic outcomes from critical illness.

I’m currently the Assistant Director at the Centre for Clinical Epidemiology & Evaluation. I’ve previously served as the Associate Vice-President of Medicine, Quality and Safety at Vancouver Coastal Health.

I currently teach classes in PCTH 201 and PCTH 400. I’ve also taught a variety of medical undergraduate lectures. I also teach medical undergraduates and residents while on clinical service.