Dr. Elaine Gilfoyle is the Division Head of the PICU and the Geoffrey Barker Chair of Critical Care Medicine at the Hospital for Sick Children and Associate Professor in the Department of Paediatrics, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto. Dr Gilfoyle completed her Medical Degree at the University of Western Ontario in 1999, her General Pediatrics residency at the same institution in 2003, and her Pediatric Critical Care Medicine fellowship at McGill University in Montreal in 2005. She received a Masters of Medical Education from the University of Dundee, Scotland in 2012.
Dr. Gilfoyle is currently the Vice-Chair and Chair-Elect of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada’s Critical Care Medicine Specialty Committee and the immediate past Chair of the Critical Care Medicine Exam Board. She is the co-director of the PICU Follow Up Clinic at SickKids and the SickKids medical lead of VPS™, an international PICU benchmarking, quality improvement and research database. Areas of her research include a) long-term outcomes in PICU survivors and b) teamwork during pediatric resuscitation, including the use of simulation to teach practicing clinicians.
In this week's session of Grand Rounds, she presents the survival of children who experienced critical illness, which has improved drastically over the past 50 years. However, survivors and their families often do not return to full health right away. Systematically following children following critical illness will allow us to identify children and their families who need ongoing care and support.