Dr Damon Scales
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- Dr Damon
- Last name
- Scales
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Dr. Scales graduated from the University of Toronto (UofT) in 1997. Following residencies in Internal Medicine (2001) and Critical Care Medicine (2003) in Toronto, he completed a PhD in Clinical Epidemiology and Health Care Research (UofT) in 2007. He is now an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Toronto, Staff Intensivist at the Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Scientist at the Sunnybrook Research Institute, and an Adjunct Scientist at the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences. He is also the Program Director of the University of Toronto Adult Critical Care Medicine Residency program.
Dr. Scales currently holds a New Investigator Award from the Canadian Institutes for Health Research (CIHR). He conducts health services research that investigates system-level factors and interventions that influence the outcomes of critically ill patients. He has also conducted several large quality improvement randomized trials (RCT). Most recently, he was the co-Principal Investigator of the SPARC (Strategies in Post Arrest Resuscitation Care) stepped-wedge cluster RCT to improve the use of therapeutic hypothermia in cardiac arrest survivors (funded by CIHR & Heart and Stroke Foundation (HSF)). He is now conducting (as PI) a stepped-wedge cluster RCT to improve the application of evidence-based neuroprognostication for cardiac arrest survivors (PremaTOR; funded by HSF) and also an individual patient RCT (as PI) of pre-hospital cooling by paramedics of cardiac arrest victims (ICE-PACS, funded by CIHR). Dr. Scales is an active member of several national and international committees, including the organizing committee for the Critical Care Canada Forum, the Quality Improvement Committee of the American Thoracic Society (ATS), and the Critical Care Program Committee of the ATS. His email address is damon.scales@utoronto.ca.
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