Dr. Donald Griesdale is an Assistant Professor in the
Department of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology and Therapeutics at the University
of British Columbia (UBC) in Vancouver, BC, Canada. He is also the Associate
Director of the Centre for Clinical Epidemiology and Evaluation and an
intensive care physician at Vancouver General Hospital. Following his clinical
training, Dr. Griesdale completed a Master of Public Health (MPH) from the
Harvard School of Public Health (Boston, MA, USA). He is an Associate Scientist
at the Centre for Clinical Epidemiologist and Evaluation with the Vancouver
Coastal Health Research Institute. Dr. Griesdale’s clinical and academics areas
of interest include neurocritical care of patients with traumatic brain injury
and hypoxemic ischemic brain injury following cardiac arrest.
Dr. Francis Bernard, an internist-intensivist and
researcher at the HSCM Research Center, specialized in neurological intensive
care at Addenbrooke's Hospital, University of Cambridge, England. He is also
a Professor in the Department of Medicine at the University
of Montreal, Deputy Director of the Trauma/Acute Care Research Division at the
Research Center, and Director of the Neurological Intensive Care Unit at
Sacré-Cœur Hospital. Dr. Bernard leads research projects on traumatic brain
injuries, cerebral monitoring, transcranial Doppler use, delirium, and quality
improvement in clinical practices to enhance patient care. Currently, his
research mainly focuses on Traumatic brain injury management and outcomes, Cerebral
monitoring, particularly brain oxygen and transcranial Doppler in ICU, and Protocols to improve care
quality and reduce delirium.
Dr. Francois Mathieu completed his medical training
(2015) and neurosurgery residency (2021) at the University of Toronto, followed
by a clinical fellowship in critical care medicine (2023). He spent one year
completing a master’s in clinical neurosciences under the supervision of
Professor David Menon at the University of Cambridge (2018-2019), during which
he developed computer vision methods to analyze the vast amount of neuroimaging
data gathered as part of the CENTER-TBI study. He returned to Addenbrooke’s
Hospital in 2023 to acquire additional expertise in multimodal neuromonitoring
in patients with an acute brain injury before joining the St-Michael’s Hospital
neurosurgery and critical care teams. François’ main clinical interests include
neurotrauma, spinal surgery and neurocritical care. The overarching goal of his
research work is to develop a more nuanced approach at prognostication and
management in acute brain injury by applying computer vision techniques to
large imaging datasets and by using multimodal neuromonitoring to individualize
physiological targets at the bedside.
Dr. Marcel Aries currently works in the intensive care
unit of MUMC+ as a neurologist-intensivist and as a researcher at the School of
Mental Health and NeuroSciences (MHeNS) of Maastricht University. He was
trained as a neurologist and intensivist at the University Medical Center
Groningen. He is also an honorary research associate at the Brain Physics
laboratory of the University of Cambridge (UK). Furthermore, he is the founder
of the BrainBattle fund of the Maastricht University (2017) and initiator of
the Doctors for Safe Cycling collective (2021). He is also an editor of the
Neurocritical Care journal.
