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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. I am a 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. 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 ICU-based leading practices in organ donation and research at the intersection of end-of-life care, death determination and deceased donation.

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 Apr;70(4):483-557. doi: 10.1007/s12630-023-02431-4. Epub 2023 May 2. PMID: 37131020.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Shemie SD, Torrance S, Wilson L, Hornby L, MacLean J, Mohr J, Gillrie C, Badiwala MV, Baker A, Freed DH, Simpson C, Teitelbaum J, Brodrecht D, Healey A. Heart donation and transplantation after circulatory determination of death: expert guidance from a Canadian consensus building process. Can J Anaesth. 2021 Feb 5. English. doi: 10.1007/s12630-021-01926-2. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 33543427.