Dr. PJ Devereaux

Dr. PJ Devereaux is AOC Co-Chair, and a Senior Scientist at the Population Health Research Institute (PHRI) of McMaster University and Hamilton Health Sciences, has led many large international RCTs that have impacted perioperative care globally. These trials have randomized >33,000 patients at >300 centres in >30 countries. He has published >400 peer-reviewed papers, including 14 in the New England Journal of Medicine, 11 in The Lancet, and 11 in JAMA, and he has an h-index of 109. He has received over $296 million in research funding, and he holds a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair. He has won 30 research awards, 5 teaching awards, and a mentorship award; 12 researchers he has mentored now lead their own international RCTs.

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.