Victoria McCredie

Dr. Victoria McCredie is an Assistant Professor and clinician-scientist in the Department of Medicine and Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care at the University of Toronto, and a staff physician at Toronto Western Hospital, a division of the University Health Network. Dr. McCredie graduated from the Universities of St. Andrews and Manchester combined medical school program in 2003, and subsequently trained in General Internal Medicine and Acute Medicine at the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom. Dr. McCredie moved to Canada in 2009 to complete fellowships in Critical Care Medicine and Neurocritical Care at the University of Toronto. Her certifications include Internal Medicine from Royal College of Physicians U.K., Internal Medicine and Critical Care Medicine from the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, and Neurocritical Care Medicine from the United Council for Neurological Subspecialties in the United States.

In 2017, Dr. McCredie completed her Ph.D. in Clinical Epidemiology and Health Care Research at the University of Toronto examining the relationships between processes of care, organizational structure, and outcomes for critically ill patients with acute brain injury. Her thesis evaluated the effects of early withdrawal of life-sustaining therapies on traumatic brain injury outcomes and the optimal timing of tracheostomy in acutely brain-injured patients. Her doctoral studies also include the most extensive study to date on the organization of neurocritical care services for traumatic brain injured patients within North American trauma centres. Dr. McCredie’s ongoing research focuses on organizational approaches to improving the quality of critical care for subarachnoid hemorrhage patients, optimal airway management strategies to liberate brain-injured patients from mechanical ventilation, and the development of an integrated neurocritical care clinical informatics platform to evaluate pathophysiologic mechanisms contributing to secondary brain injury during critical illness.

• Pathophysiologic mechanisms contributing to secondary brain insults during critical illness
  
• Organization of neurocritical care
  
• Airway management strategies in acute brain injury
  
• Withdrawal of life-sustaining therapies
  
• Statistical modelling methods

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