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Justyna Bartoszko
Direct Financial Payment: Honoraria from Octapharma and Grifols
Membership: Advisory Board for Octapharma and Grifols
Funded Grants/ Clinical Trials: Octapharma and Grifols
Marta Berrio -Valencia
Funded Grants/ Clinical Trials: CIHR - The Virtual Study, Co-investigator
Laurel Charlesworth
Direct Financial Payment: consulting services with Transport Canada (Government of Canada)
Steven Cohen
Direct Financial Payment: Yes
Membership: AbbVie (ended), Persica (no money x 24 months), Vertex (ended), SPR Therapeutics, Sword Health
Funded Grants/ Clinical Trials: NIH, DoD, ARPA-H, Henry Jackson Foundation, and coordinated funding with Thai Ministry of Defence
Andre Denault
Direct Financial Payment: Honoraria
Membership: Elevate HEalthcare and BD
Funded Grants/ Clinical Trials:
Lucie Filteau
Direct Financial Payment: Payment from CAS (travel expenses)
Membership: CAS Board of Directors
Alana Flexman
Direct Financial Payment: Michael Smith Research Foundation (BC) - salary payments for research; Wolter-Kluwer - consultant fees for Journal work and Up To Date
Funded Grants/ Clinical Trials: Co-Investigator on study funded by Eisai, Inc.; Primary Investigator on study with in-kind support from Mindful Garden Digital Health, Inc.
Ronald George
Direct Financial Payment: Canadian Journal of Anesthesia, International Journal of Obstetric Anesthesia, Octapharma
Membership: Octapharma
Alexander Jackson
Direct Financial Payment: Becton Dickinson (BD) Advanced Patient Monitoring (see below)
Membership: Advisory board work for Becton Dickinson (BD) Advanced Patient Monitoring (previously Edwards Life Sciences)
Funded Grants/ Clinical Trials: research funding from BD Advanced Patient Monitoring
Investments and Relationships: I am a shareholder in PneumoRator Ltd, a small scale company developing a novel wearable respiratory sensor.
Discuss Investigational Products: Yes
Janny Xue Chen Ke
Direct Financial Payment: Dr. Janny Ke received salary support as the Clinical Data Lead, St. Paul’s Hospital, Vancouver, BC, Canada, for the project “Reducing Opioid Use for Pain Management” funded by DIGITAL, Canada’s Global Innovation Cluster for digital technologies, and a project consortium (Careteam Technologies Inc, Thrive Health Inc, Excelar Technologies (Connected Displays Inc), Providence Health Care Ventures Inc, and Xerus Inc [now part of Excelar]). Dr. Ke provided paid consulting for Careflow Technologies (Connected Displays Inc) via Providence Health Care Ventures (Vancouver, BC, Canada). Dr. Ke received research and salary support for the investigator-led, industry funded project "The impact of enhanced postoperative vitals monitoring in-hospital and at home vs. existing intermittent in-hospital monitoring for patients undergoing inpatient abdominal and vascular surgery: A pilot two-centre randomized controlled study" (ClinicalTrials NCT06584825), funded by DIGITAL and a project consortium (Medtronic of Canada ULC, Cloud Diagnostics Canada ULC, Excelar Technologies [Connected Displays Inc.], Providence Health Care Ventures Inc, 3D Bridge Solutions Inc, and FluidAI [NERv Technology Inc.]).
Funded Grants/ Clinical Trials: Dr. Ke received research and salary support for the investigator-led, industry funded project "The impact of enhanced postoperative vitals monitoring in-hospital and at home vs. existing intermittent in-hospital monitoring for patients undergoing inpatient abdominal and vascular surgery: A pilot two-centre randomized controlled study" (ClinicalTrials NCT06584825), funded by DIGITAL and a project consortium (Medtronic of Canada ULC, Cloud Diagnostics Canada ULC, Excelar Technologies [Connected Displays Inc.], Providence Health Care Ventures Inc, 3D Bridge Solutions Inc, and FluidAI [NERv Technology Inc.]).
Alayne Kealey
Direct Financial Payment: Physician Advisor for Royal College of Physician and Surgeons of Canada, Assessment and Examinations (as of Feb 2026)
Funded Grants/ Clinical Trials: Grant from the Sunnybrook AFP Innovation Fund (2026-27)
Pascal Laferriere-Langlois
Direct Financial Payment: Divocco Medical and Divocco AI, Medasense
Membership: Divocco AI and Divocco Medical
Funded Grants/ Clinical Trials: Medtronic, Appmed, Paperplane Therapeutics
Patents on Drug: Motorized intubation system
Manoj Lalu
Direct Financial Payment: Honoraria for consulting - Vertex Pharmaceuticals
Guillaume Martel
Direct Financial Payment: Yes, Baxter Healthcare (honorarium x1)
Funded Grants/ Clinical Trials: Research grants from CIHR and Canadian Blood Services
David Mazer
Direct Financial Payment: Dr. Mazer is supported by a Merit Award from the University of Toronto Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine and holds the Cara Phelan Chair in Critical Care at St Michael’s Hospital-Unity Health Toronto.
He has received honoraria and/or consulting fees from Alexion, Amgen, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Cardior, CSL Behring, Cytosorbents, Delex, Trimedic, Werfen, and VarmX
Funded Grants/ Clinical Trials: CIHR
David Neilipovitz
Other Investments/ Relationships: Ontario Medical Association (NFP): Sit on their Negotiation Committee (was to sunset April 1 but seems to be extended)
The Ottawa Hospital (NFP): Medical Director of Patient Flow
Ontario Health: Was a Physician Advisor (until March 2025)
Joshua Nicholas
Direct Financial Payment: Octa Pharma speaker honoraria
Anahi Perlas
Direct Financial Payment: Honoraria for consulting work from FUJIFILM-SonoSite and Sonosim
Phillipe Picard
Direct Financial Payment: Payment to come from Fresenius - webinar produced on February 25th about "TCI, Eleveld and EEG".
Investments and Relationships: Agreement with Bbraun for eventual workshops about how to use their TCI pumps/Eleveld model (yet to be approved by Health Canada).
Mateen Raazi
Membership: President, ACUDA; Consultant for RCPSC International
Stephan Schwartz
Direct Financial Payment: Editor-in-Chief, Canadian Journal of Anesthesia (Canadian Anesthesiologists' Society)
Kathryn Sparrow
Direct Financial Payment: Canadian Anesthesiologists' Society and Canadian Journal of Anesthesia CPD Editor, Airway and Airway Interventions and Management in Emergencies (AIME) Faculty
Funded Grants/ Clinical Trials: Prevention of persistent pain with LidocAine iNfusions in breast cancer surgery (PLAN) Trial Investigator
Jessica Spence
Direct Financial Payment: VarmX - Consultant Fees
Funded Grants/ Clinical Trials: CIHR, SCA, HaHSO - Peer-reviewed grant funding
Balachundhar Subramaniam
Direct Financial Payment: Merck, Inc and Masimo, Inc. Research support for investigator initiated research, sent to the department.
Funded Grants/ Clinical Trials: Investigator initiated research support
Matthew Turncock
Funded Grants/ Clinical Trials: Canadian space agency grant, Royal Columbian hospital foundation grant, Society for technology in anesthesia grant
Investments and Relationships: Space medicine consultant for Lunar Medical Inc.
Hilary Grocott
Direct Financial Payments: Up To Date – section editor
Other Investments/ Relationship: Anesthesia Labs Inc. - Consultant