Mackenzie Health

Dr. Kimia Honarmand specializes in internal medicine, critical care, and clinical epidemiology. Co-champion Dr. Tess Fitzpatrick specializes in neurology and stroke. Mackenzie Health is composed of two full-service acute care hospitals, Mackenzie Richmond Hill and Cortellucci Vaughan Hospital, and supports an extensive network of community-based services located across Vaughan, Richmond Hill, Toronto, and Barrie. Their critical care program catchment area serves over 550,000 people and their stroke/neurology centre catchment area serves over 1.2 million people, whose diverse population includes recent immigrants, persons with refugee status, racial and ethnic minorities, and older adults. Research areas of interest include critical care, deceased organ donation, neurology, stroke, nephrology, infectious diseases, emergency medicine, and peri-operative medicine

Networks:

Canadian Critical Care Trials Group (CCCTG), Canadian Donation and Transplantation Research Program (CDTRP), Canadian Stroke Consortium (CSC), Canadian Stroke Prevention Intervention Network (CSPIN), CanStroke Recovery Trials

The Accelerating Clinical Trials Consortium is generously supported through multi-year funding from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research’s Clinical Trials Fund, as part of Canada’s Biomanufacturing and Life Sciences Strategy to ensure that Canadians are well served by a national clinical trials network.