Presenter: Victoria McCredie

Biography: Dr. Victoria McCredie is an Assistant Professor in the Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care Medicine at the University of Toronto and a Clinician Scientist at the University Health Network. Dr. McCredie trained in acute and internal medicine at the University of Manchester, moving to Canada in 2009 to complete fellowships in critical care medicine and sub-specialty neurocritical care medicine at the University of Toronto. Her Ph. D. in clinical epidemiology examined the relationship between processes of care, structure, and outcome for critically ill patients with acute brain injury. Dr. McCredie’s ongoing clinical research program focuses on the optimal delivery of neurocritical care for patients with acute brain injury. Specifically, she works to achieve this goal by evaluating integrative neurophysiologic monitoring strategies to improve the time to detection of secondary brain insults. Leveraging sophisticated electronic infrastructure, Dr. McCredie is developing a novel user interface to explore whether data visualization design improves the translation of neuromonitoring-driven treatment paradigms. This research also aims to support health care providers in identifying deviations from best practices and delivering a consistently high-level clinical performance at the bedside. She is a co-lead for the University of Toronto Neurocritical Care Network– a local collaborative initiative to improve and expand clinical, education and research endeavours within neurocritical care medicine. She is also very active in the Neurocritical Care Society, serving as the current Science Sub-Committee co-chair and has recently joined the editorial board for the journal of Neurocritical Care. She is involved in several international working groups developing consensus recommendations for mechanical ventilation and fever management in acute brain injury and common data elements for coma and disorders of consciousness.