• Area of Academic Focus
    • Respiratory physiology, more specifically respiratory effort during mechanical ventilation and its influence on ventilation induced lung injury and diaphragmatic dysfunction.
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Bio

Dr. Irene Telias is an Assistant Professor in the Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care Medicine in the University of Toronto and a Clinician Scientist-Staff Intensivist at Toronto Western Hospital ICU. She was trained in the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina.

She undertook her doctoral studies at the Institute of Medical Sciences in the University of Toronto. Her research program is focused on understanding the determinants, physiological, and clinical consequences of abnormal patient-ventilator interactions and sleep physiology during acute respiratory failure and developing innovative monitoring tools, ventilation, and sedation strategies to achieve lung, diaphragm, and brain protection.

She’s also developing a research network for the conduct of clinical trials in patients with acute respiratory failure in Argentina and her research program has been funded and is receiving ongoing funding from competitive granting agencies (CIHR, AMO, Lung Health).

Affiliations

  • Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care Medicine, University of Toronto
  • Clinician Scientist - Staff Intensivist, Division of Respirology and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Toronto Western Hospital, University Health Network, and Sinai Health System
  • Associate Member, Institute of Medical Sciences, Temerity Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto

Honours and Awards

  • 2024
    2024 Institute of Medical Science (IMS) Siminovitch-Salter Award. Graduating IMS doctoral student who has made outstanding scholarly contributions – Institute of Medical Sciences – Temerty Faculty of Medicine - University of Toronto.

  • 2023
    Best Overall Abstract. Art Slutsky Day-Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care Medicine – University of Toronto.

  • 2023
    Assembly of Critical Care 2023 Abstract Scholarship. “Sleep Architecture Measured with The Odds Ratio Product In Mechanically Ventilated Patients With Acute Hypoxemic Respiratory Failure”. American Thoracic Society.

  • 2022
    ATS - Critical Care Assembly´s Early Career Professional Highlight. American Thoracic Society.

  • 2020
    Best Physiological Abstract. Art Slutsky Day-Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care Medicine – University of Toronto.

  • 2017
    Research Education and Innovation Day (REID) award for discovery and innovation. Li Ka Shing Institute of Knowledge-St. Michael´s Hospital. Recipients: Critical Care Research Unit at St.Michael´s Hospital. Brochard L, Chen L, Gu J, Junhasavasdikul D, Pham T, Sklar M, Telias I, Sandhu G, Hodder J, Santos M, Yoshida M, Damiano F, Melo L, Piraino T. Toronto, Canada.

  • 2016
    Garner King Award, Best Clinical or Quality Improvement Project. “IMproving PAtient Consenting Transparency: A Quality Improvement Project”. Critical Care Canada Forum, 2016. Toronto, Canada.