Michael Goldfarb
Dr. Michael Goldfarb is an assistant professor of Cardiology at McGill University and a cardiologist at the Jewish General Hospital in Montreal. He completed medical school, internal medicine residency, cardiology fellowship, MSc in Experimental Medicine and the Clinician Investigator Program at McGill University before training in Critical Care medicine at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. He is the Director of the Quality of Care and Safety committee in the Division of Cardiology at Jewish General Hospital and is an active member of the Canadian Cardiovascular Critical Care Society.
Areas of interest: Quality Improvement
Top quality improvement interests:
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Patient-reported outcomes
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Family engagement in care
Open to supervising trainees in QI research?
No, not at this time
Dr. Goldfarb’s research program is focused on improving patient- and family-centered care and outcomes in the intensive care setting. In particular, Dr. Goldfarb has led studies evaluating the role and impact of family engagement strategies in intensive care delivery. His team developed and validated an instrument to measure family engagement in care (the FAME tool). Dr. Goldfarb was the Chair of the American Heart Association statements on Patient-Centered Adult Cardiovascular Care and Engaging Families in Adult Cardiovascular Care.