Claudia Dos Santos MD, MSc, FRCPC

Dr. Claudia Dos Santos is a Scientist in the Keenan Research Center of the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute of St. Michael's Hospital and an Assistant Professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Division of Respirology and Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care at the University of Toronto.

She did her BSc Hons in Biology at Trent University, her MSc degree at the Hospital for Sick Children in Molecular and Medical Genetics where she worked with Dr. Manuel Buchwald on Fanconi’s Anemia and DNA repair and her Medical degree, Internal Medicine and Critical Care training at the University of Toronto. She continued in Toronto for her post-doc in the lab of Dr. Arthur Slutsky, a world renowned expert on mechanical ventilation and Dr. Mingyao Liu an expert on mechanotransduction.

Dr. dos Santos now holds an appointment at the Institute of Medical Sciences and Collaborative Program in Genome Biology and Bioinformatics. Her clinical specialty is Critical Care Medicine. She held a Fellowship from the Parker B. Francis Foundation, a Phase I Clinician-Scientist from the Heart and Stroke Foundation, and now holds an Early Research Award from the Ministry of Research and Innovation and a New Investigator Award from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR).