WCICC2025 Speaker Presentations

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Tuesday, September 16, 2025

Plenary Session

Plenary Session 1: Caring Intensively

  • The Art of Critical Care - John Marshall - Click Here

Concurrent Sessions - Block 1

Session 1: Critical Care Education 1

  • Supporting New Graduate Nurse Transition into Adult Critical Care - Brandi Vanderspank-Wright - Click Here

  • Advanced Nurse Practice in Critical Care: Northern Ireland's Innovative Educational Journey - Nuala Devlin - Click Here

  • Navigating the Future of Medical Education in Critical Care Medicine - Dominique Piquette - Click Here

  • Pharmacy Critical Care Education - Amy Dzierba - Click Here

Session 2: My Roles in the ICU

  • A Study to Evaluate New and Alternative Staffing Models in Intensive Care: a Realist Investigation of Safe Staffing - Natalie Pattison - Click Here

  • The Roles of the Respiratory Therapist in Canadian Critical Care - Carolyn McCoy - Click Here

  • Role of the Pharmacist - Jeffrey Barletta - Click Here

  • Role of Nurse Practitioner in ICU - Lauren Sorce - Click Here

Session 3: Caring Together

  • Multidisciplinary Rounds in the ICU: Caring Together - Andre Amaral - Click Here

  • Power Sharing in the Intensive Care Unit - Andreas Xyrichis - Click Here

  • Challenge Integrating Family During Rounds - Michael Goldfarb - Click Here

  • Benefit of Integrating Families in ICU - Joanna Hart - Click Here

Session 4: Caring with Family

  • What Does it Mean to Truly Care with the Family? - Prachi Khanna - Click Here

  • Family as partner perspective of the HCP - Louise Rose - Click Here

  • What Donor Families Teach Us About Family Centered Care in the Intensive Care Unit - Aimee Sarti - Click Here

Innovation Session 1: Focus on the Patient (CCCTG)

  • Engaging Diverse Humans in ICU Research - Sabira Valiani - Click Here

  • Engaging Indigenous Communities in ICU Research - Kusum Menon - Click Here

  • Engaging Pediatric Patients in ICU Research - Patricia Fontella - Click Here

  • Consent Innovation in ICU Research - Holly Longstaff, Brenda Lucas - Click Here

Concurrent Sessions - Block 2

Session 5: Critical Care Education 2

  • Strengthening Interprofessional Collaboration by Team-based Leadership Development - Aanchal Kapoor - Click Here

  • The Value, Meaning and Use Assessment Brings to and for the Physician - Helen Toews - Click Here

  • Developing a Goals of Care Critical Care Communication Curriculum - Maria Jogova - Click Here

Session 6: Caring for the Environment

  • Getting to Zero: Critical Care, the Climate Crisis, and our Responsibilities - Srinivas Murthy - Click Here

  • Caring for the Environment – Opportunities for Health Professionals - Katie Huffling - Click Here

  • Can a PICU Go Green: Concrete Actions and Challenges from the Field - Florence Blondel - Click Here

Session 7: Healthcare Provider Wellness

  • Moral Distress and Burnout in Intensivists Causes and Consequences - Peter Dodek - Click Here

  • ICU Learners' Wellness: A Practical Approach to Trainee Support - Sarah McMullen - Click Here

  • Beyond the Pandemic: Elevating Wellness in Critical Care Nursing - Sarah Crowe - Click Here

Session 8: Building the Intensive Care Unit

  • An Intensive Care Unit Design of the Future - Anil Chillmuntha - Unavailable

  • Patient-Centered ICU Design to Optimise Recovery - Oystein Tronstad - Click Here

  • High Stakes, Higher Standards: Attracting and Keeping ICU Nurses - Kathleen Vollman - Click Here

  • Night Time Physician Staffing in the ICU - Jose L. Pascual Lopez - Click Here

Innovation Session 2: Focus on the Network (CCCTG)

  • How Trial Networks Support Clinical Research: CCCTG and Beyond - Kusum Menon - Click Here

  • How Trial Networks Support Clinical Research: CCCTG and Beyond - John Marshall - Click Here

  • How Trial Networks Support Clinical Research: CCCTG and Beyond - Bram Rochwerg - Click Here

  • Building Capacity for Research in Community Hospitals in Canada (RICH-Canada) - Jennifer Tsang - Click Here

  • Learning to Engage in Health Research: Challenges and Opportunities - Dominique Piquette - Click Here

Plenary Session

Plenary Session 2: ICU and Sustainability

  • Sustainability in the ICU - Katie Huffling - Click Here

Plenary Session 3: Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM)

  • Providing CCM in Low Resource Setting - Fathima Paruk - Click Here

  • The Sepsis Chain of Survival - Jorge Hidalgo - Click Here

  • The Role of SCCM in Global Critical Care Medicine - Lauren Sorce - Click Here

Wednesday, September 17, 2025

Plenary Session

Plenary Session 4: Family Engagement & Rapid Response Systems

  • Family Engagement and Rapid Response Systems - Alex Psirides - Unavailable

  • Martha's Rule - Lindsay Garcia - Click Here

Plenary Session 5: The Global Impact of Antimicrobial Resistance

  • Testing and Controlling for AMR - David Goldfarb - Click Here

  • Impact of AMR and the Use of Infection Control Practices in Low Resource Settings - Sharmili Sinha - Click Here

Concurrent Sessions - Block 1

Session 9: Recognizing who is at Risk of ICU Admission 1

  • Risk of Sepsis - Luciano Azevedo - Click Here

  • Recognizing Who is at Risk of ICU Admission - Oncologic and Immunocompromised Patients - Laveena Munshi - Click Here

  • Recognising the Risks of a PICU Admission - Michelle Dunphy - Click Here

  • Older Patients at Risk of ICU Admission - Gabriele Leonie Schwarz - Click Here

Session 10: Frailty

  • Screening for Frailty - Mark Mikkelsen - Click Here

  • Long Term Outcomes of Frail ICU Patients - Thomas Rollinson - Click Here

  • Cost implications of Frailty in ICU Patients - Sean Bagshaw - Click Here

  • What should we do about frailty in ICU patients? - John Muscedere - Click Here

Session 11: Prehospital and Rapid Response Systems

  • Creating a Rapid Response System - Geoff Lighthall - Click Here

  • Japan's Prehospital Systems: Strengths and Ongoing Challenges - Kenji Kandori - Click Here

  • Early Intervention on the Wards: The Saudi Experience in Preventing Clinical Deterioration - Yaseem Arabi - Click Here

Session 12: Disaster Management

  • Disaster Management - Kelsey Freeman - Click Here

  • Military Disaster Medicine and the Intensive Care Unit - Ian Ball - Click Here

  • Sharing key strategies for effective ICU disaster preparedness - Randy Wax - Click Here

Innovation Session 3: Focus on Dissemination

  • The Changing Landscape of Peer Review and Publishing in Biomedicine - David Maslove - Click Here

  • Tips for Reviewing Manuscript for Peer Review Journal - Jonathan Sevransky - Click Here

  • Producing Rigorous Guideline - Bram Rochwerg - Click Here

  • Communication of Results to Participants and their Surrogate Decision Maker: A Case Study of the LOVIT Randomized Controlled Trial - Annabelle Cumyn - Click Here

Concurrent Sessions - Block 2

Session 13: Blood Transfusion in Neurocritical Care – Lessons Learned from Recent Trials

  • The HEMOTION Trial - Alexis Turgeon - Unavailable

  • The TRAIN Trial - Fabio Silvio Taccone - Unavailable

  • The SAHaRA Trial - Shane English - Unavailable

Session 14: ICU Leadership

  • Improving Gender Balance in Critical Care - Sheila Myatra - Click Here

  • Sociotechnical Change in Modern Trauma Systems - Morad Hameed - Click Here

Session 15: Preventing ICU Admission

  • Pediatric Critical Care Outreach in British Columbia - Fiona Muttalib - Click Here

  • Bridging the Distance: Supporting Critically Ill Children Closer to Home – Nurse Perspective - Anna Weir & Jennifer Retallack - Click Here

Session 16: Shock 1

Session 17: Pediatric 1

  • Pediatric ARDS: PALICC-2 and Beyond - Guillaume Emeriaud - Click Here

  • Neuro-prognostication in the Brain-injured Critically Ill Child - Rishi Ganesan - Click Here

  • PICU Liberation: Impact on Outcomes and Practical Considerations - Karen Choong - Click Here

  • Long Stay Pediatric Critical Care patients: Evidence Based Approaches and Best Practice - Vanessa Madrigal - Click Here

Innovation Session 4: Focus on the Research Design

  • The Platform Trial: A Tool for Global Research Collaboration - John Marshall - Click Here

  • Platform Trial - Neill Adhikari - Click Here

  • Health Economic Evaluations: Cost-Effectiveness and Cost-Utility Anal - Vincent Lau - Click Here

Concurrent Sessions - Block 3

Session 18: Patient Safety

  • Team Debrief After an Adverse Event- Hot, Cold and Just Right - Stephen Warrillow - Click Here

  • Managing Surprise: The Art of Nothing Happening - Neil Spencely - Unavailable

  • Early Warning Scores on ICU - Edita Hajdini - Click Here

  • We Want Progress, But We're Resistant to Change - Gil Wernovsky - Click Here

Session 19: Neurocritical Care

  • Neuromonitoring in Critical Care - Donald Griesdale - Click Here

  • Critical Care of Neurovascular Patients - Julie Kromm - Click Here

  • Principles of Neuroprognostication - Andreas Kramer - Click Here

  • Management of Stroke and Other Neurological Emergencies in a Community/Regional Setting - Errin Sawatsky - Click Here

  • Controversies in Surgical Management of Traumatic Brain Injury - Peter Gooderham - Click Here

Session 20: ECLS

  • Transfusion Thresholds in ECMO - Hussein Kanji - Click Here

  • Drug pharmacokinetics During ECMO - David Williamson - Click Here

  • Anticoagulation in Patients Requiring Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Support - Stephanie Carlin - Click Here

  • Weaning from ECMO - Gurmeet Singh - Click Here

Session 21: Sepsis 1

  • Phoenix Sepsis Score - Mark Peters - Click Here

  • Targeting DAMPs in Sepsis: A Therapeutic Strategy - Takaaki Totoki - Click Here

  • Sepsis and AI for Recognition - Na Li - Click Here

  • Creating a National Preclinical Sepsis Platform: Lessons Learned and Future Directions - Asher Mendelson - Click Here

Innovation Session 5: Focus on Artificial Intelligence

  • Use of AI in Critical Care - Jim Russel - Click Here

  • Echoes of Intelligence: AI in POCUS and the Role of the Clinician Mind - Derek Wu - Click Here

  • Implementation of artificial intelligence in clinical practice - Philippe Jouvet - Click Here

Plenary Session

Plenary Session 6: ACIOS The African Critical Illness Outcomes Study

  • ACIOS: The African Critical Illness Outcomes Study - Karima Khalid - Click Here

  • ACIOS and EECC - Tim Baker - Click Here

Plenary Session 7: Transforming Pre-clinical and Critical Care Research

  • Transforming Pre-clinical and Critical Care Research - Manoj Lalu - Click Here

Thursday, September 18, 2025

Plenary Session

Plenary Session 8: Sepsis 2030

  • A Moonshot for Sepsis: Improving Outcomes - Tex Kissoon - Click Here

Session 9: Creating a Forum for Reporting Critical Care Clinical Trials

  • Creating a Forum for Reporting Critical Care Clinical Trials - Rob Mac Sweeney - Unavailable

Concurrent Sessions - Block 1

Session 22: Sepsis 2

  • Stem Cells in Septic Shock - Lauralyn Mcintyre - Click Here

  • Immunothrombosis in critical illness: From mechanisms to novel therapeutic strategies - Patricia Liaw - Click Here

  • Sepsis Recognition and Priority Management: From the ICU Nursing Lens - Katherine Kissel - Click Here

Session 23: Shock 2

  • Introduction to the 10 D's of Fluid Stewardship - Manu Malbrain - Click Here

  • Fluid Responsiveness - Asking the Right Question - Kiran Rikhraj - Click Here

  • Methylene Blue in Septic Shock - More than Just the Kitchen Sink? - Shannon Fernando - Click Here

  • High-Dose Vitamin B12 in Septic Shock: The Rationale for a Phase III Trial - Jayshil Patel - Click Here

Session 24: Mechanical Ventilation 1

  • Prone Positioning: Examining a Key Supportive Strategy in ARDS

  • PROMIZING Study: Proportional Assist Ventilation for Minimizing the Duration of Mechanical Ventilation - Karen Bosma - Click Here

  • Should we let intubated children breathe spontaneously? - Guillaume Emeriaud - Click Here

  • A 'New' Target for Mechanical Ventilation in AHRF: Driving Pressure - Niall Ferguson - Unavailable

Session 25: Pharmacotherapy in ICU

  • Drug interactions - Jeffrey Barletta - Click Here

  • Pharmacodynamic/Kinetics Changes in Critically Ill Patient; Therapeutic Drug Monitoring - Paul Williams - Click Here

  • Drug Shortage - Salmaan Kanji - Click Here

  • Pharmacokinetic Considerations During ECMO - Celine Thibault - Click Here

Session 26: Organ Donation and Normothermic Regional Perfusion

  • Overview of Donation After Death by Circulatory Criteria - Frederick D’Aragon - Click Here

  • Normothermic Regional Perfusion: A Global Perspective - Dan Harvey - Click Here

  • Reviving Organs, Preserving Trust: The Safety Imperative in NRP - Marat Slessarev - Click Here

  • NRP-Impact on the system - George Isac - Click Here

Session 27: Early Mobilization 1

  • Cycling in the ICU: Current State of the Literature - Heather O’Grady - Click Here

  • Early Mobilization from the Rehabilitation Perspective - Thomas Rollinson - Click Here

  • Transforming Critical Care: Nurses Leading the Awake and Walking ICU Movement - Kali Dayton - Click Here

  • Is ICU Mobilization Safe? - Michelle Kho - Click Here

Session 28: Mechanical Ventilation 2

  • Predicting Extubation Failure - Karen Burns - Click Here

  • Electrical Impedance Tomography (EIT) to Titrate PEEP in Patients with ARDS - Robert Hyzy - Click Here

  • Preventing Diaphragmatic Dysfunction - Elizabeth Rohrs - Click Here

  • Proportional Modes of Ventilation: Is There a Role for PAV and NAVA in Weaning Patients from Invasive Mechanical Ventilation? - Karen Bosma - Click Here

Concurrent Sessions - Block 2

Session 29: Delirium

  • Pharmacological Treatment of Delirium - Joanna Stollings - Click Here

  • Beyond Medication: Digital Solutions for Delirium-Related Agitation - Steve Reynolds - Click Here

  • Reimagining Delirium Care: The Role of Families as Partners in Prevention - Gideon Johnson - Click Here

Session 30: Pain in the Intensive Care Unit

  • Pain management in the ICU and the Opioid Crisis - Kunal Karamchandani - Click Here

  • What is the Place of Ketamine in the ICU - Kimia Honarmand - Click Here

  • Thinking Critically About Pain in the ICU - Amanda Roze des Ordons - Unavailable

  • The Impact of eras on ICU Care - Nandita Divekar - Click Here

Session 31: Hematological Emergency

  • It's a Bloody Mess: Nursing Consideration for Massive Transfusion - Emily Taylor - Click Here

  • Massive Transfusion - Sebastian Vuong - Click Here

  • CAR-T Cell Therapy and Cytokine Release Syndrome - Srinivas Samavedam - Click Here

  • Secondary HLH - Deepak Govil - Click Here

Session 32: Pediatric 2

  • Conservative vs liberal oxygenation targets in critically ill children: The Oxy-PICU trial - Mark Peters - Click Here

  • Iron Deficiency and Anemia after PICU - Genevieve Du Pont Thibodeau - Click Here

  • Impact of a Diagnostic POCUS program in a PICU - Thomas Conlon - Click Here

  • Improving the Patient Transition from Paediatric to Adult Critical Care - Stephen Warrillow - Click Here

Concurrent Sessions - Block 3

Session 33: Non-Invasive Mechanical Ventilation

  • Awake Prone Positioning - Is Tummy Time Ready for Prime Time? - Ken Parhar - Click Here

  • Titration and Transitioning Between HFNO and Invasive Mechanical Ventilation - Thomas Piraino - Click Here

  • Non-Invasive Ventilation in Pediatric ARDS: Helpful or Detrimental - Guillaume Emeriaud - Click Here

Session 34: Sedation and Anxiety

  • Communication Tools in ICU - Sabira Valiani - Click Here

  • Inhaled Anesthetic Sedation in the ICU - Angela Jerath - Click Here

  • Use of Music-based Interventions to Change the Care Landscape in the ICU - Annie Heiderscheit - Click Here

Session 35: Early Mobilization 2

  • Goals of Care/End-of-Life Discussions and Decision-making Using Augmentative and Alternative Communication - Fiona Campbell - Click Here

  • Recovering Lives, Not Just Patients: Post-ICU Syndrome in Everyday Living - Fuchsia Howard - Click Here

  • Acute & Critical Care Occupational Therapy: Enhancing Recovery Through Collaboration, Equity, and Excellence - Melissa Kandel - Click Here

  • Early mobilization in patients on ECMO - Geetha Kayambu - Click Here

Session 36: Acute Renal Failure

  • Effect of Lower vs. Standard CRRT Dose-Intensity - Sean Bagshaw - Click Here

  • Drug Dosing in CRRT - David Williamson - Click Here

Plenary Session

Plenary Session 10: AI in the ICU: Ethics and Biases

  • AI in the ICU: Ethics and Biases - Johnathan Montomoli - Click Here

Plenary Session 11: Death Definition and Determination

  • All Death is Brain-Based - Sam Shemie - Click Here

Friday, September 19, 2025

Plenary Session

Plenary Session 12: The Cost of ICU

  • The Costs of Critical Illnesses - Kali Barrett - Click Here

Plenary Session 13: End of Life and Organ Donation

  • Determination of Death: When is Dead, Really Dead? - Sonny Dhanani - Click Here

Concurrent Sessions - Block 1

Session 37: Critical Care Ventilator Weaning and Recovery Program

  • The Critical Care Long Stay Program in Vaughan Ontario - Kimia Honarmand - Click Here

  • Provincial Center for Excellence in Prolonged Ventilation Weaning - Laura Istanboulian - Click Here

  • Grace RECOVER Program - Margaret Herridge - Click Here

  • Digital Technologies to Enhance Recovery After Critical Illness - Louise Rose - Click Here

Session 38: Organ Donation 2

  • Breathing Life into Donation: Innovations in Phrenic Nerve Pacing for Organ Preservation - Steve Reynolds - Click Here

  • MAID in Canada: Organ Donation Following Medical Assistance in Dying - Matthew Weiss - Click Here

  • Patient and Family Centred Approaches in Organ Donation - Allana LeBlanc - Click Here

  • Symptoms Management during End of Life Care in ICU - Nikolaos Efstathiou - Click Here

Session 39: Intoxication in Intensive Care Unit

  • Approach to the critically ill poisoned patient - Maude St-Onge - Click Here

  • Extracorporeal Treatment in the Management of Acute Intoxication - Jessie Beaulieu - Click Here

  • Trends and Challenges of New Illicit Drugs - Janice Zimmerman - Click Here

Innovation Session 6: Focus on the Infrastructure

  • Integrating Research in Clinical Practice - Francois Lamontagne - Click Here

  • Leveraging the Canadian Biobank Alliance for Advancing Intensive and Critical Care Research - Angela M. Crawley - Click Here

  • Integrating Research in Clinical Practice: The Example of CANPoint Point Prevalence Study - Monica Sean - Click Here