CCCS Distinguished Lecturer Award
The Canadian Critical Care Society (CCCS) Distinguished Lecturer Award (DLA) recognizes an individual who has made an outstanding, sustained, and nationally or internationally impactful contribution to critical care in Canada. The award honours excellence across the full spectrum of critical care scholarship, practice, and service, and celebrates leaders whose work has advanced patient care, education, research, quality improvement, and the profession as a whole.
2026 CCCS Distinguished Lecturer Award
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CIHR-IRCH/CCCS Distinguished Lecturer Award
The CIHR Institute of Circulatory and Respiratory Health (ICRH) and the Canadian Critical Care Society (CCCS) have established an annual Distinguished Lecturer in Critical Care Sciences Award in recognition of an individual's outstanding contribution to the advancement of critical care sciences in Canada. The selected candidate will be an outstanding scientist who has conducted the majority of his/her research in Canada and who has contributed to the advancement of critical care sciences.
2024 CIHR-ICRH/CCCS Distinguished Lecturer Award in Critical Care Sciences Winner
Dr. Rob Fowler
2023 CIHR-ICRH/CCCS Distinguished Lecturer Award in Critical Care Sciences Winner
Dr. Jamie Hutchison
Dr. Jamie Hutchison has led and collaborated on multiple high-impact studies of molecular mechanisms, clinical translational biology studies and clinical trials focused on critical illness. These include studies of cardiac arrest, traumatic brain injury, transfusion medicine and septic shock. The current goal of Dr. Hutchison’s research program is to improve survival and quality of life among survivors of acquired brain injuries. He has been awarded 69 peer-reviewed research grants over his career, 24 as principal investigator (PI) and 45 as a co-investigator (Co-I), with more than $16 million as PI or Co-PI and more than $120 million as a Co-I. He has published 113 Peer-Reviewed articles and has had multiple visiting professorships and presentations at national and international academic hospitals and meetings. He is the Past-Chair of the Canadian Critical Care Translational Biology Group (CCCTBG), the current Co-chair, with Dr. Alexis Turgeon, of the Canadian Traumatic Brain Injury Research Consortium (CTRC), funded by CIHR, and a member of the International Initiative for Traumatic Brain Injury Research. He has trained more than 20 graduate students and post-doctoral research fellows in his laboratory and mentored multiple pediatric critical care trainees in research. He also helped start and lead highly successful research trainee programs for the Canadian Critical Care Trials Group, the CCCTBG and the CTRC. He is advocating to designate moderate to severe TBI as a chronic condition in Canada on behalf of patients and their families, the CTRC and Brain Injury Canada.
2022 CIHR-ICRH/CCCS Distinguished Lecturer Award Winner
Dr. Margaret Herridge
Dr. Herridge completed her MSc and MD at Queen’s University and her Respiratory and Critical Care training at the University of Toronto. She completed her research training at the Channing Laboratory/ Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston and her MPH at the Harvard School of Public Health. She is a Professor in the Department of Medicine, a Senior Scientist in the Toronto General Hospital Research Institute, Director of Critical Care Research for the Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care Medicine, Director of the RECOVER Program/Grace RECOVER Program for Chronic Critical Illness and co-lead of CANCOV (Canadian Multi-centre 2-year follow-up of patients/caregivers after COVID-19). She has published extensively on patient and caregiver outcomes after critical illness.
She has received several national and international research distinctions including the Dr. F. Marguerite Hill Lecturer (2015), Honorary Member of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (2016), Lifetime Achievement Award in Critical Care from the American Thoracic Society (2018), the University of Toronto Eaton Scholar Researcher of the Year Award (2019), the Deborah Cook Mentorship Award from the Canadian Critical Care Trials Group (2020) and has been inducted as a fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences (2021).
2019 CIHR-ICRH/CCCS Distinguished Lecturer Award Winner
Dr. Jacques Lacroix
Dr. Jacques Lacroix is professor, Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Université de Montréal. He is working at the Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Sainte-Justine and its Research Centre. He is teaching pediatric critical care medicine, general pediatrics and epidemiology. He co-founded the Pediatric Acute Lung Injury and Sepsis Investigators (PALISI) Network in 2002. He received the PALISI Leadership Award in 2014 and the “Deborah J. Cook Mentorship Award” (Canadian Critical Care Trials Group) in 2016. His main topics of research are transfusion medicine, trauma, and multiple organ dysfunction syndrome in critically ill children. He wrote 267 papers, 95 chapters, 294 abstracts, posters and free papers, and a textbook (Lacroix J, Gauthier M, Hubert P, Leclerc F, Gaudreault P, éds. Urgences et soins intensifs pédiatriques. 2e édition, Paris & Montreal: Massonn & Les Éditions de l’Hôpital Sainte-Justine, 2007:1368p). He gave 307 invited lectures, including 158 outside Canada. He completed three large randomized controlled trials, the TRIPICU study (N Engl J Med 2007;356:1609-19), the ABLE study (N Engl J Med 2015;372:110-8), and, with Marisa Tucci and Phil Spinella, the ABC-PICU trial (NCT01977547). Many international organizations have sought his expertise (Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development; National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute; Société de réanimation de langue française; Society of Critical Care Medicine). He was an Associate Editor of the journals Trials and Jornal de Pediatria, and is a Senior Editor of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine.
2018 CIHR-ICRH/CCCS Distinguished Lecturer Award Winner
Dr. John C. Marshall
We are delighted to announce that Dr. John C. Marshall has received the 2018 CIHR-ICRH/CCCS Distinguished Lecturer Award in Critical Care Sciences!
John Marshall is a Professor of Surgery at the University of Toronto, a trauma surgeon and critical care physician at St. Michael’s Hospital, and a Senior Investigator in the Keenan Research Centre for Biomedical Science. His academic interests lie in the area of sepsis and life-threatening infection, trauma, and the host innate immune response to these. His CIHR-funded laboratory studies the cellular mechanisms that prolong neutrophil survival in critical illness by preventing neutrophil programmed cell death, or apoptosis. He has an active clinical research interest in sepsis and ICU-acquired infection, and in the design of clinical trials and outcome measures. He leads research programs in antimicrobial resistance and the treatment of post-resuscitation fluid overload in critically ill patients, and has been an active investigator in more than two dozen clinical trials. He has developed a widely used tool to measure organ dysfunction in the ICU, the Multiple Organ Dysfunction Score, and proposed the PIRO model as a method of stratifying critically ill patients using an approach similar to that used in staging cancer.
He has published more than 450 manuscripts and book chapters, and has been cited more than 90,000 times. He is the founding chair of the International Forum of Acute Care Trialists (InFACT) – a global network of 33 investigator-led critical care clinical research groups, vice-chair of the International Severe Acute Respiratory and Emerging Infections Consortium, and a member of the Executive Committee of the Global Sepsis Alliance. He is past-chair of the International Sepsis Forum, past-President of the Surgical Infection Society, past Sectreary-General of the World Federation of Societies of Intensive and Critical Care Medicine, and past-chair of the Canadian Critical Care Trials Group. He has given more than 1000 invited lectures at more than 500 meetings around the world, and is an Associate Editor of the journals Critical Care Medicine and Critical Care.
Please join us in congratulating Dr. Marshall on this wonderful recognition of his work!
2017 CIHR-ICRH/CCCS Distinguished Lecturer Award Winner
Dr. Deborah Cook
Deborah Cook practices critical care medicine at St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton. At McMaster University, she is Distinguished Professor of Medicine, Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics and Academic Chair of Critical Care. Her multi-method multi-disciplinary research interests include life support technology, prevention of ICU-acquired complications, end-of-life care, and research ethics.
