• Academic Rank
    Assistant Professor
  • Position Title
    Clinician Teacher
  • Area of Academic Focus
    • Liberation from extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO)
    • ECMO education and simulation
    • Critical Care echocardiography

Bio

Dr. Teijeiro Paradis obtained his Medical Degree from the Universidad Autonoma de Queretaro, Mexico. He completed his residency in Internal Medicine and Critical Care, and a fellowship in Cardiopulmonary Physiology before joining the Critical Care Medicine fellowship program at UHN-SHS in 2018. Dr. Teijeiro Paradis completed additional subspecialty training in extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) and advanced critical care echocardiography (NBE), graduating from the Master Teacher Program from the Department of Medicine, and receiving his Master’s Degree in medical sciences from the Institute of Medical Science, University of Toronto. He is currently an assistant professor in Critical Care Medicine and attending intensivist at Toronto General Hospital Medical Surgical ICU.

Affiliations

  • Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care Medicine, University of Toronto
  • Department of Medicine, Division of Respirology and Critical Care, University of Toronto

Honours and Awards

  • 2023 - Annual site teaching award - THW - Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care Medicine, University of Toronto.
  • 2024 - CAME Rising Star Certificate of Excellence Award Nominee

Significant Publications

  1. Teijeiro-Paradis R, Munshi L, Ferguson ND, Liu K, Fan E. Association of Standardized Liberation Trials and Duration of V-V ECMO in Patients with Acute Respiratory Failure. Ann Am Thorac Soc. 2025 Mar 5. doi:10.1513/AnnalsATS.202412-1252OC. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 40042540.
  2. Teijeiro-Paradis R, Ferguson ND. Prone Positioning During Venovenous ECMO for Severe ARDS. JAMA. 2023 Dec 26;330(24):2341-2342. doi: 10.1001/jama.2023.22456. PMID: 38038393.
  3. Teijeiro-Paradis R, Cherkos Dawit T, Munshi L, Ferguson ND, Fan E. Liberation From Venovenous Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation for Respiratory Failure: A Scoping Review. Chest. 2023 Jun 21:S0012-3692(23)00897-8. doi: 10.1016/j.chest.2023.06.018. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 37353070.
  4. Teijeiro-Paradis R, Gannon WD, Fan E, (2022) Complications Associated With Venovenous Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation-What Can Go Wrong? Crit Care Med 50: 1809-1818.
  5. Granton J, Teijeiro-Paradis R, (2022) Management of the Critically Ill Patient with Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension and Right Heart Failure. Clin Chest Med 43: 425-439.