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Karim Ladha, MD, MSC

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Senior Scientist, Women’s College Hospital Research and Innovation Institute
Evelyn Bateman Recipe Chair in Ambulatory Anesthesia and Women’s Health, Women’s College Hospital Research and Innovation Institute
Staff Physician, Department of Anesthesia and Pain Management, Toronto Western Hospital
Associate Professor, Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, University of Toronto
Affiliate Scientist, Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute of St. Michael’s Hospital
Co-Director, PINNACLE Research Group
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Dr. Karim Ladha is an anesthesiologist and clinician-scientist at the University of Toronto. He received his undergraduate degree in economics from Brown University and his medical degree from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Dr. Ladha completed his residency training at Massachusetts General Hospital and pursued additional fellowship training in cardiac anesthesia at Toronto General Hospital.

He leads a diverse research program and conducts innovative studies in several areas, including acute and chronic pain, the use of anesthetic interventions to address mental health conditions, and the impact of psychosocial factors in perioperative medicine. Dr. Ladha has been awarded $15.6 million in peer-reviewed grant funding, with $7.8 million as principal investigator or co-principal investigator, from agencies such as the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute.

He has received several accolades, including a Career Scientist Award from the Canadian Anesthesiologists’ Society, the International Anesthesia Research Society’s Mentored Research Award, and the IMPACT Award in Anesthesia. Dr. Ladha has published over 130 manuscripts, cited approximately 2,500 times, with first or last authorship in high-impact journals such as JAMA, BMJ, and Annals of Internal Medicine. His research has also garnered attention in national and international media outlets, including CNN, the LA Times, The Globe and Mail and Nature.