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Daniel McIsaac

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Assistant ProfessorAnesthesiologyUniversity of Ottawa

Daniel McIsaac

Assistant Professor

Anesthesiology

Faculty of Medicine

University of Ottawa

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

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8 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Senior (last) author on 1 recent paper, a sign of leading a research group.
Principal investigator on 19 research grants (19 CIHR), most recently in 2026.
Supervisor on 2 trainee awards (2 CIHR), most recently in 2025.

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Publications

Citations

135

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Research

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Surgery Exercise Prehabilitation Randomized Trials Frailty Health Policy Integrated Knowledge Translation Nutrition

Latest papers

Use of Conventional Artificial Intelligence Methods in the Identification of Frailty: A Scoping Review.
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society · 2026
Association between frailty and outcomes in emergency department patients requiring emergency general surgery: a retrospective cohort study.
Swiss medical weekly · 2026
Feasibility of measuring left ventricular outflow tract velocity time integral as a predictor for stroke volume in pregnant women in labor.
The ultrasound journal · 2026 · senior author

All 14 publications

Latest funding

ARC: Active Recovery across the surgical Continuum: A pilot feasibility randomized controlled trial of digital prehabilitation versus extended perioperative support
CIHR · 2026 · Co-investigator
$436,050
The ICONIC trial: Intraoperative Cell salvage to Optimize allogeNeic transfusion In liver Cancer surgery
CIHR · 2026 · Co-investigator
$1,640,542
The TOPGUN trial: Threshold for OPerative hemoGlobin trigger for red blood cell transfUsioN
CIHR · 2026 · Principal investigator
$4,039,200

All 32 grants and awards

14 publications.

Use of Conventional Artificial Intelligence Methods in the Identification of Frailty: A Scoping Review.

Dalsania KA, Ménard A, Sundararaman S, Rahgozar A, de Lima S, Lu X, Al-Ali A, Singh K, Hakimjavadi R, Yan H, Sethuram C, Bergman H, LaPlante J, McIsaac D, Rahimi SA, Sourial N, Thandi M, Wong S, Liddy C, Bandeen-Roche K, Karunananthan S

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society2026

DOI: 10.1111/jgs.70387 PMID: 41845582

Association between frailty and outcomes in emergency department patients requiring emergency general surgery: a retrospective cohort study.

Fehlmann CA, Stierlin C, Van Dooren K, Restellini R, McIsaac D, Rouyer F, Eagles D, Taljaard M, Perry J

Swiss medical weekly2026

DOI: 10.57187/5114 PMID: 42537629

Feasibility of measuring left ventricular outflow tract velocity time integral as a predictor for stroke volume in pregnant women in labor.

Eissa M, Dumitrascu G, Miller E, Racine J, Postnikova V, Rajaleelan W, Edwards W, Talab H, McIsaac D

The ultrasound journal2026Senior author

DOI: 10.5826/tuj.2026.18246 PMID: 41805896

Development of a survey to support assessment of safety learning systems.

Mahmoud HA, Mulpuru S, Thavorn K, McIsaac D, Forster AJ

BMJ open quality2024

DOI: 10.1136/bmjoq-2023-002738 PMID: 38926135

2023 Canadian Surgery Forum

Brière R, Habashi R, Merchant S, Cadili L, Alhumoud Z, Lau R, Gawad N, Valji R, Balmes PN, Tan JGK

Canadian Journal of Surgery20231 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1503/cjs.014223 PMID: W4389488805

Variation in Anesthesiology Provider-Volume for Complex Gastrointestinal Cancer Surgery: A Population-Based Study.

Hallet J, Sutradhar R, Eskander A, Carrier FM, McIsaac D, Turgeon AF, d'Empaire PP, Idestrup C, Flexman A, Lorello G, Darling G, Kidane B, Chan WC, Kaliwal Y, Barabash V, Coburn N, Jerath A

Annals of surgery2023

DOI: 10.1097/sla.0000000000005811 PMID: 36727738

Feasibility of a multidisciplinary Transitional Pain Service in spine surgery patients to minimise opioid use and improve perioperative outcomes: a quality improvement study.

Tierney S, Magnan MC, Zahrai A, McIsaac D, Poulin P, Stratton A

BMJ open quality2023

DOI: 10.1136/bmjoq-2023-002278 PMID: 37336575

Barriers and facilitators to improving patient safety learning systems: a systematic review of qualitative studies and meta-synthesis.

Mahmoud HA, Thavorn K, Mulpuru S, McIsaac D, Abdelrazek MA, Mahmoud AA, Forster AJ

BMJ open quality2023

DOI: 10.1136/bmjoq-2022-002134 PMID: 37012003

Prognostic association of frailty with post-arrest outcomes following cardiac arrest: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Mowbray FI, Manlongat D, Correia RH, Strum RP, Fernando SM, McIsaac D, de Wit K, Worster A, Costa AP, Griffith LE

Resuscitation202142 citations

DOI: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2021.06.009

Robotic surgery improves transfusion rate and perioperative outcomes using a broad implementation process and multiple surgeon learning curves.

McAlpine K, Forster AJ, Breau RH, McIsaac D, Tufts J, Mallick R, Cagiannos I, Morash C, Lavallée LT

Canadian Urological Association journal = Journal de l'Association des urologues du Canada2019

DOI: 10.5489/cuaj.5527 PMID: 30407153

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Daniel McIsaac

Research

Latest papers

Latest funding

Use of Conventional Artificial Intelligence Methods in the Identification of Frailty: A Scoping Review.

Association between frailty and outcomes in emergency department patients requiring emergency general surgery: a retrospective cohort study.

Feasibility of measuring left ventricular outflow tract velocity time integral as a predictor for stroke volume in pregnant women in labor.

Development of a survey to support assessment of safety learning systems.

2023 Canadian Surgery Forum

Variation in Anesthesiology Provider-Volume for Complex Gastrointestinal Cancer Surgery: A Population-Based Study.

Feasibility of a multidisciplinary Transitional Pain Service in spine surgery patients to minimise opioid use and improve perioperative outcomes: a quality improvement study.

Barriers and facilitators to improving patient safety learning systems: a systematic review of qualitative studies and meta-synthesis.

Prognostic association of frailty with post-arrest outcomes following cardiac arrest: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Robotic surgery improves transfusion rate and perioperative outcomes using a broad implementation process and multiple surgeon learning curves.

Frequent collaborators

Kednapa Thavorn

Sunita Mulpuru

Antoine Eskander

Angela Jerath

Gianni Lorello

Justin Presseau

Ilias Cagiannos

Natalie Coburn

Julie Hallet

Marco Magalhaes

Lawrence Gillman

Axel BENHAMED

Melanie Tsang

Kimberly LeBlanc

Rinku Sutradhar

Trafford Crump

Karineh Kazazian

Hesham Talab

Neil Parry

Eitan Prisman

Carl van Walraven

John Muscedere

Shane Smith

Sandra Webber

Susan Brogly

Philip Devereaux

Farid Foroutan

Mohit Bhandari

Sameer Parpia

Joanna Dionne

Andrea Eisen

Cagla Eskicioglu

Bradley Allan Petrisor

Timothy Whelan

Edward Passos

John Agzarian

Paul Engels

Ilun Yang

Dennis Hong

Bobby Shayegan