• Stroke and acute cerebrovascular disease,
• Subarachnoid hemorrhage and neurovascular critical care,
• Disorders of consciousness,
• Neurocritical care,
• General critical care medicine,
• Perioperative medicine and care of high-risk surgical patients,
• Pain medicine

Dr. Mohamed Badawy is an anesthesiologist and intensivist at the McGill University Health Centre (MUHC) and serves as Anesthesiologist-in-Chief of the MUHC Department of Anesthesia. He practices across multiple MUHC sites, with clinical interests in perioperative medicine, neurocritical care, and complex critical illness.

Dr. Badawy completed his medical training and specialty training in anesthesiology and critical care medicine at McGill University, where he also completed the Graduate Certificate in Healthcare Management. His clinical work focuses on the management of critically ill surgical and neurological patients, with particular interest in multidisciplinary care, systems-based practice, and improving transitions between the operating room and intensive care unit.

In addition to his clinical work, Dr. Badawy is actively involved in departmental and institutional leadership. His work focuses on clinical operations, workforce planning, and the modernization of care delivery models to improve patient access, safety, and sustainability in academic health systems. He has led several initiatives aimed at strengthening interprofessional collaboration and advancing quality improvement across multiple hospital sites.

Dr. Badawy’s academic interests include leadership in healthcare, organizational transformation, and the integration of innovation and technology into clinical practice. He is committed to education and mentorship, contributing to the training of residents, fellows, and interdisciplinary learners in anesthesia and critical care medicine.

Selected Publications:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34748722/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36710363/mohamed Mo
https://preventad.loris.ca/acknowledgements/acknowledgements.php?Stage=2&authors

• Weaning from mechanical ventilation
• Non-invasive ventilation

Dr. Dial's interests are critical care and observational research. She is director of the Respiratory Weaning Program and thus is responsible for the development of approaches to weaning patients from mechanical ventilation.

Selected Publications:

• Shahin J, DeVarennes B, Tse CW, Amarica DA, Dial S. The relationship between inotrope exposure, six-hour postoperative physiological variables, hospital mortality and renal dysfunction in patients undergoing cardiac surgery. Crit Care. 2011 Jul 7;15(4):R162.
• Dial S, Delaney JA, Barkun AN, Suissa S. Use of gastric acid-suppressive agents and the risk of community-acquired Clostridium difficile-associated disease. JAMA. 2005 Dec 21;294(23):2989-95.
• Martinu T, Menzies D, Dial S. Re-evaluation of acid-base prediction rules in patients with chronic respiratory acidosis. Can Respir J. 2003 Sep;10(6):311-5.

• Neurocritical Care
• End-of-life
• Goals of care
• Multimodal neuromonitoring
• Organ and Tissue Donation

Dr. Hannouche is currently the Division Director of Neurocritical Care at the Neuro since April 2020 and the lead physician-coordinator for Organ and Tissue Donation at the MUHC since 2016. He provides clinical service in GIM, Critical Care and Neurocritical Care at the MUHC (MGH, RVH and the Neuro) as well as at the Jewish General Hospital. He also works for Transplant Quebec by providing on-call medical expertise in donation for them.

Selected publications:

• English SW, Delaney A, Fergusson DA, Chassé M, Turgeon AF, Lauzier F, Tuttle A, Sadan O, Griesdale DE, Redekop G, Chapman M, Hannouche M, Kramer A, Seppelt I, Udy A, Kutsogiannis DJ, Zarychanski R, D'Aragon F, Boyd JG, Salt G, Bellapart J, Wood G, Cava L, Pickett G, Koffman L, Watpool I, Bass F, Hammond N, Ramsay T, Mallick R, Scales DC, Andersen CR, Fitzgerald E, Talbot P, Dowlatshahi D, Sinclair J, Acker J, Marshall SC, McIntyre L; SAHARA Trial Investigators on behalf of the Canadian Critical Care Trials Group; Canadian Critical Care Trials Group. Liberal or Restrictive Transfusion Strategy in Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage. N Engl J Med. 2025 Mar 13;392(11):1079-1088. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa2410962. Epub 2024 Dec 9. PMID: 39655786.
• Chassé M, Shankar JJS, Fergusson DA, English SW, Dhanani S, Lauzier F, Turgeon AF, Ball I, Darvesh S, Neves Briard J, Essig M, Boucher-Roy D, Titova P, Lebrasseur M, Couillard P, Kramer A, D'Aragon F, Hannouche M, Tampieri D, Meade MO, Menon BK, Green R, Baker AJ, Burns KEA, Zarychanski R, Shahin J, Boyd JG, Binnie A, Gibson A, Wang HT, Shemie S; INDex InvestigatorsCanadian Critical Care Trials Group. Computed Tomography Perfusion and Angiography for Death by Neurologic Criteria. JAMA Neurol. 2025 Sep 1;82(9):932-940. doi: 10.1001/jamaneurol.2025.2375. PMID: 40512483; PMCID: PMC12166499.
• Claudio F, Aalamian A, Cummings BA, Hannouche M, Zanelli P, Tourian L. Residency redeployment during a pandemic: Lessons for balancing service and learning. Can Med Educ J. 2020 Sep 23;11(5):e132-e133. doi: 10.36834/cmej.70267. PMID: 33062109; PMCID: PMC7522867.

• Medical Education
• Simulation

Dr. Patrick Iannattone is the Chief of the Intensive Care Unit at St. Mary’s Hospital. A proud McGill alumnus, he completed dual residency training in both General Internal Medicine and Critical Care Medicine. Following his clinical training, he pursued a specialized Fellowship in Medical Education Research and Simulation at the University of Ottawa. Dr. Patrick Iannattone is deeply committed to medical education, a passion recognized by his receipt of the 2026 UGME Teaching Excellence Award for Clerkship.

• Pulmonary embolism
• Obstetrical critical care
• Mechanical circulatory support

Dr. Lipes is an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Critical Care and Medicine at McGill University and attending physician at the Jewish General Hospital in the divisions of Critical Care and General Internal Medicine.
He completed his Internal Medicine and Critical Care training at McGill University followed by a cardiac critical care fellowship at the Institut universitaire de cardiologie et de pneumologie de Québec (IUCPQ). Dr. Lipes completed additional fellowship training in echocardiography at the Jewish General Hospital.
Dr. Lipes is active in teaching postgraduate trainees in Internal Medicine and Critical Care Medicine at McGill, with a particular focus on point of care ultrasound (POCUS). He is currently the Program Director for the McGill Critical Care Residency Program. Dr. Lipes' clinical and research interests include pulmonary embolism, obstetrical critical care and mechanical circulatory support.

Selected Publications:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=Lipes+J&sort=date

• Trauma Surgery and Critical Care
• Acute Care Surgery

After completing medical school at McGill University in 2011, Dr. McKendy stayed on to pursue residency training in General Surgery. During this time, she completed a master’s degree in Educational Psychology (2015), with a focus in surgical education. Her research interests include curriculum development, performance assessment, and feedback. Upon graduating in 2011, she went on to complete further fellowship training in Trauma and Acute Care Surgery at the University of Toronto in 2018, as well as Critical Care Medicine at McGill University in 2019. She now works as an Assistant Professor of Surgery at McGill University with a clinical focus in her areas of fellowship training. She was the Associate Program Director in General Surgery from 2020 to 2025 and holds additional academic roles within the university as a member of the General Surgery Competency Committee, the MGH Clerkship Site Director for Surgery, and the lead for the simulation curriculum for Critical Care fellows. In 2025, she was appointed as the Associate Chief of Critical Care of the MUHC and the Site Chief of the Montreal General Hospital ICU. Beyond the university, she is an ATLS Instructor and Educator and a member of the CAGS Exam Development Committee.

• Cardiac Arrest Resuscitation,
• End of Life Care in the Critical Care Unit

Dr. Blair Schwartz is an Associate Professor of Medicine and attending critical care medicine physician at the Jewish General Hospital. He received his medical degree from McGill University in 2006, and continued at McGill to complete residency and fellowship training in General Internal Medicine and Critical Care Medicine. Thereafter, in 2013, he completed a Master of Health Sciences degree in the Graduate Training Program in Clinical Investigation at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, Maryland where his training focused on Patient Safety and Quality Improvement methodology.

Since joining the division in 2013, his clinical interests have included in-hospital resuscitation practices, palliative care in the ICU and Medical Aid in Dying, in addition to a general Critical Care practice. He is the medical lead for the in-hospital resuscitation team at the Jewish General Hospital. His research focuses largely on interventions and protocols to improve the safe delivery of care to hospitalized patients, with a particular interest in medication related adverse events.

Dr. Schwartz is regularly involved in teaching medical students, residents and fellows on a variety of critical care topics, both at McGill University and at the Jewish General Hospital, and has an interest in leveraging technological means to deliver didactic materials in a non-traditional format.

Selected Publications:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=Schwartz+BC&cauthor_id=35211876

• Quality Improvement
• Mechanical Ventilation
• Weaning, Communication.

Dr. Warshawsky is an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Critical Care Medicine and Medicine at McGill University.

He has been the chief of Adult Critical Care Medicine at the Jewish General Hospital since 2009. He completed residency training in Internal Medicine, followed by Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at McGill University. After residency he completed a research fellowship at Loyola University of Chicago where his research interest was control of breathing and mechanical ventilation.

Dr. Warshawsky has a special interest in mechanical ventilation and weaning from mechanical ventilation. He also has an associate appointment at the McGill University Health Center (MUHC) where he works in a specialized ICU dedicated to weaning patients from mechanical ventilation. He has a strong interest in quality of care, and has acted as a Medical Examiner for the CIUSSS du Centre-Ouest-de-l'Île-de-Montréal (CCOMTL) as well as having been a member of many quality related committees including the Medical Executive and the Committee for the Assessment of Medical Acts of the CIUSSS-CCOMTL.

Dr. Warshawsky was a member of the Ministerial Sub-committee for COVID-19 Critical Care and the Technical Committee for Acute and Surgical Care Services of Health Standards Organization. He is currently a member of the Table nationale d’orientation stratégique, Soins intensifs.

Selected publications:

• Laghi F, Cattapan SE, Jubran A, Parthasarathy S, Warshawsky P, Choi YS, Tobin MJ. Is weaning failure caused by low-frequency fatigue of the diaphragm? Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2003 Jan 15;167(2):120-7. doi: 10.1164/rccm.200210-1246OC. Epub 2002 Oct 31. PMID: 12411288.
• Schwartz BC, Jayaraman D, Warshawsky PJ. Survival from in-hospital cardiac arrest on the Internal Medicine clinical teaching unit. Can J Cardiol. 2013 Jan;29(1):117-21. doi: 10.1016/j.cjca.2012.03.024. Epub 2012 May 27. PMID:22640493.
• Yang SS, Lipes J, Dial S, Schwartz B, Laporta D, Wong E, Baldry C, Warshawsky P, McMillan P, Hornstein D, de Marchie M, Jayaraman D. Outcomes and clinical practice in patients with COVID-19 admitted to the intensive care unit in Montréal, Canada: a descriptive analysis. CMAJ Open. 2020 Nov 24;8(4):E788-E795. doi: 10.9778/cmajo.20200159. PMID: 33234586; PMCID: PMC7721255.
• Dundaru-Bandi D, Zhu LM, Schipper M, Warshawsky PJ, Schwartz BC. Mortality and patient disposition after ICU tracheostomy for secretion management vs. prolonged ventilation: a retrospective cohort study. BMC Anesthesiol. 2025 Feb 3;25(1):54. doi: 10.1186/s12871-025-02912-7. PMID: 39901113; PMCID: PMC11792180.

• Acute Care Surgery
• Trauma and Critical Care

Dr. Evan Wong completed his Medical Degree and General Surgery residency at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec. During residency, he earned a Masters of Public Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, Maryland, where he specialized in Epidemiology & Biostatistics and published extensively on access to trauma and surgical care in low-resource settings. After completion of his residency program, he then pursued subspecialty training in Critical Care Medicine at McGill prior to returning to Johns Hopkins University to complete a Trauma and Acute Care Surgery Fellowship.

Dr. Wong is cross-appointed at the Jewish General Hospital and the McGill University Health Centre, as well as across the Departments of Surgery and Critical Care Medicine. He is certified by the Royal College of Surgeons of Canada in General Surgery and Critical Care Medicine and by the American Board of Surgery in General Surgery and Surgical Critical Care. Dr. Wong is an active Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Canada and a Fellow of the American Board of Surgery. He sits on committees of the Canadian Association of General Surgeons as well as the Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma. He holds specialist certificates from the Collège des Médecins du Québec in General Surgery and Critical Care Medicine.

Dr. Wong is active in Undergraduate and Postgraduate Education, in both General Surgery and Critical Care Medicine, and is the current Chair of the General Surgery Competence Committee. He holds surgical privileges at the Ungava Tulattavik Health Center in Kuujjuaq, Quebec, as well as at the Inuulitsivik Health Centre in Puvirnituq, Quebec. As such, he has been appointed the lead for Trauma and General Surgery services in Nunavik and focuses on building patient-centered care pathways, quality improvement initiatives and healthcare professional education programs in conjunction with the local communities. His research interests focus on these goals, notably disparities in access to care, trauma systems and patient-centered outcomes.

Selected Publications:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=evan+wong%5BAuthor%5D&sort=date