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null Sam Shemie, MD

Associate Investigator, RI-MUHC, Glen site

Cardiovascular Health Across the Lifespan Program

Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, McGill University

Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Critical Care, MUHC

 

Keywords

brain death • neurological determination of death • organ donation • organ donor management • pediatric • severe brain injury • donation after cardiac death • transplantation

Research Focus

My area of interest is organ replacement during critical illness and the continuum between life, death and oxygen delivery. My academic focus is advancing the science and practice of deceased organ donation. My research interests include the clinical and policy impact of organ failure support technologies, the development and implementation of national and international ICU-based leading practices in organ donation and research at the intersection of end-of-life care, dying, death and deceased donation.

I am a division director of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, pediatric critical care physician and ECMO specialist at the Montreal Children’s Hospital, McGill University Health Centre, a professor of Pediatrics at McGill University, and honorary staff member of the Department of Critical Care Medicine, Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto. I am a medical advisor, deceased organ donation, with Canadian Blood Services.

Selected Publications

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  • Shemie SD, Wilson LC, Hornby L, Basmaji J, Baker AJ, Bensimon CM, Chandler JA, Chassé M, Dawson R, Dhanani S, Mooney OT, Sarti AJ, Simpson C, Teitelbaum J, Torrance S, Boyd JG, Brennan J, Brewster H, Carignan R, Dawe KJ, Doig CJ, Elliott-Pohl K, Gofton TE, Hartwick M, Healey A, Honarmand K, Hornby K, Isac G, Kanji A, Kawchuk J, Klowak JA, Kramer AH, Kromm J, LeBlanc AE, Lee-Ameduri K, Lee LA, Leeies M, Lewis A, Manara A, Matheson S, McKinnon NKA, Murphy N, Briard JN, Pope TM, Sekhon MS, Shanker JJS, Singh G, Singh J, Slessarev M, Soliman K, Sutherland S, Weiss MJ, Shaul RZ, Zuckier LS, Zorko DJ, Rochwerg B. A brain-based definition of death and criteria for its determination after arrest of circulation or neurologic function in Canada: a 2023 clinical practice guideline. Can J Anaesth. 2023 May 2. English. doi: 10.1007/s12630-023-02431-4. Epub ahead of print. PA Official Journal of the Canadian Critical Care Society. PMID: 37131020.

  • Sarti AJ, Sutherland S, Meade M, Hornby L, Wilson LC, Landriault A, Vanderspank-Wright B, Valiani S, Keenan S, Weiss MJ, Werestiuk K, Beed S, Kramer AH, Kawchuk J, Cardinal P, Dhanani S, Lotherington K, Pagliarello G, Chassé M, Gatien M, Parsons K, Chandler JA, Nickerson P, Shemie S; Canadian Critical Care Trials Group (CCCTG). Death determination by neurologic criteria-what do families understand? Can J Anaesth. 2023 May 2. English. doi: 10.1007/s12630-023-02416-3. Epub ahead of print. SRA Official Journal of the Canadian Critical Care Society. PMID: 37131029.

  • Shemie SD, Briard JN, Boyd JG, Gofton T, Kramer A, Chassé M, Taran S, Gros P, Singh JM. Infratentorial brain injury and death by neurologic criteria in Canada: a narrative review. Can J Anaesth. 2023 May 3. English. doi: 10.1007/s12630-023-02427-0. Epub ahead of print. PA Official Journal of the Canadian Critical Care Society. PMID: 37138155.

  • Dhanani S, Hornby L, van Beinum A, Scales NB, Hogue M, Baker A, Beed S, Boyd JG, Chandler JA, Chassé M, D'Aragon F, Dezfulian C, Doig CJ, Duska F, Friedrich JO, Gardiner D, Gofton T, Harvey D, Herry C, Isac G, Kramer AH, Kutsogiannis DJ, Maslove DM, Meade M, Mehta S, Munshi L, Norton L, Pagliarello G, Ramsay T, Rusinova K, Scales D, Schmidt M, Seely A, Shahin J, Slessarev M, So D, Talbot H, van Mook WNKA, Waldauf P, Weiss M, Wind JT, Shemie SD; Canadian Critical Care Trials Group; Canadian Donation and Transplantation Research Program. Resumption of Cardiac Activity after Withdrawal of Life-Sustaining Measures. N Engl J Med. 2021 Jan 28;384(4):345-352. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa2022713. PMID: 33503343.

  • Greer DM, Shemie SD, Lewis A, Torrance S, Varelas P, Goldenberg FD, Bernat JL, Souter M, Topcuoglu MA, Alexandrov AW, Baldessari M, Bleck T, Citerio G, Dawson R, Hoppe A, Jacobe S, Manara A, Nakagawa TA, Pope TM, Silvester W, Thomson D, Al Rahma H, Badenes R, Baker AJ, Cerny V, Chang C, Chang TR, Gnedovskaya E, Han, M, Honeybul S, Jimenez E, Kuroda Y, Liu G, Mallick UK, Marquevich V, Mejia-Mantilla J, Piradov M, Quayyum S, Shrestha GS, Su Y, Timmons SD, Teitelbaum J, Videtta W, Zirpe K, Sung G. Determination of brain death/death by neurologic criteria around the world: the world brain death project. JAMA. 2020 Sep 15;324(11):1078-1097. doi: 10.1001/jama.2020.11586. PMID: 32761206.