Christopher Parshuram MBChB, DPhil, FRACP, PhD

Dr. Christopher Parshuram, MBChB, DPhil, FRACP, Ph.D. graduated from Otago University of New Zealand in 1990, with prizes in medicine and pharmacology. Following a residency in Paediatrics at the Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne, Australia, he moved to Canada where he completed specialist fellowship training in Paediatric Critical Care Medicine and clinical Pharmacology. He completed his doctorate in Clinical Epidemiology in 2005, on the subject of patient safety.

Dr. Parshuram was appointed as a staff physician in the Department of Critical Care Medicine in The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) in 2003, and is a senior scientist in Child Health Evaluation Sciences in the Research Institute. In addition to formal training in systems of healthcare delivery, Dr. Parshuram has expertise in cardiac arrest prevention, medication safety, and fatigue in healthcare professionals. He has received over CAD$9M in peer-reviewed research funding from the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada, the Society of Critical Care Medicine, and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research.