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Ashwin Sankar

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Assistant ProfessorDepartment of Anesthesiology and Pain MedicineUniversity of Toronto

Ashwin Sankar

Assistant Professor

Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine

Temerty Faculty of Medicine

University of Toronto

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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9 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 1 research grant (1 CIHR), most recently in 2021.

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Education

MSc, Clinical Epidemiology and Health Care Research
MD
BHSc, Health Science (Honours)

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Research

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Access To Care Marginalization Rurality Surgery

Latest papers

Social Determinants of Health and 30-Day Mortality After Inpatient Elective Surgery.
JAMA network open · 2026 · first author
Individualised positive end-expiratory pressure to minimise driving pressure and postoperative pulmonary complications in minimally invasive thoracic and abdominal surgery a systematic review and meta-analysis.
British journal of anaesthesia · 2026 · senior author
Predictive validity of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease phenotypes in inpatient elective surgery: a population-based study.
British journal of anaesthesia · 2025 · first author

All 15 publications

Latest funding

Effects of an Open Lung protective protective EXTubation strategy compared to a conventional extubation strategy on postoperative pulmonary complications after general anesthesia as part of a comprehensive lung protective ventilation strategy: a multicenter pilot randomized controlled trial (OLEXT-3 study)
CIHR · 2023 · Co-investigator
$401,625
The Surgical EQUITY initiative: Establishing equitable access to surgery following the pandemic
CIHR · 2021 · Principal investigator
$220,596

All 2 grants and awards

15 publications.

Social Determinants of Health and 30-Day Mortality After Inpatient Elective Surgery.

Sankar A, Ding J, Black B, Wilton AS, Hwang SW, Wijeysundera DN, Baxter NN, Gomez D

JAMA network open2026First author

DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2025.53228 PMID: 41525072

Individualised positive end-expiratory pressure to minimise driving pressure and postoperative pulmonary complications in minimally invasive thoracic and abdominal surgery a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Abbott M, Ma R, Chakera H, Kishibe T, Girard M, Turgeon AF, Serpa Neto A, Sklar MC, Sankar A

British journal of anaesthesia2026Senior author

DOI: 10.1016/j.bja.2026.02.036 PMID: 41966954

Predictive validity of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease phenotypes in inpatient elective surgery: a population-based study.

Sankar A, Daza JF, Munn JS, McIsaac DI, Wijeysundera DN, Austin PC, Gershon AS

British journal of anaesthesia2025First author

DOI: 10.1016/j.bja.2025.07.036 PMID: 40750463

Disparities in surgery rates during the COVID-19 pandemic: retrospective study.

Sankar A, Stukel TA, Baxter NN, Wijeysundera DN, Hwang SW, Wilton AS, Chan TCY, Sarhangian V, Simpson AN, de Mestral C, Pincus D, Campbell RJ, Urbach DR, Irish J, Gomez D

BJS open2024First author

DOI: 10.1093/bjsopen/zrae088 PMID: 39186678

Weaning from mechanical ventilation in the operating room: a systematic review.

Abbott M, Pereira SM, Sanders N, Girard M, Sankar A, Sklar MC

British journal of anaesthesia2024

DOI: 10.1016/j.bja.2024.03.043 PMID: 38816331

Complication Rates of Central Venous Catheters: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

Teja B, Bosch NA, Diep C, Pereira TV, Mauricio P, Sklar MC, Sankar A, Wijeysundera HC, Saskin R, Walkey A, Wijeysundera DN, Wunsch H

JAMA internal medicine2024

DOI: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2023.8232 PMID: 38436976

Evolution of the surgical procedure gap during and after the COVID-19 pandemic in Ontario, Canada: cross-sectional and modelling study.

Stephenson R, Sarhangian V, Park J, Sankar A, Baxter NN, Stukel TA, Simpson AN, Wijeysundera DN, Wilton AS, de Mestral C, Hwang SW, Pincus D, Campbell RJ, Urbach DR, Irish J, Gomez D, Chan TCY

The British journal of surgery2023

DOI: 10.1093/bjs/znad289 PMID: 37724806

Predictors of ICU admission associated with gastrointestinal endoscopy in medical inpatients: A retrospective cohort study.

Sankar A, Ladha KS, Grover SC, Jogendran R, Tamming D, Razak F, Verma AA

Journal of gastroenterology and hepatology2022First author

DOI: 10.1111/jgh.15969 PMID: 35869833

Prolonged mechanical ventilation after cardiac surgery: substudy of the Transfusion Requirements in Cardiac Surgery III trial

Sankar A, Rotstein AJ, Teja B, Carrier FM, Belley-Côté EP, Bolliger D, Saha T, Carmona P, Sander M, Shehata N

Canadian Journal of Anaesthesia202229 citationsFirst author

DOI: 10.1007/s12630-022-02319-9

Association of preoperative spirometry with cardiopulmonary fitness and postoperative outcomes in surgical patients: A multicentre prospective cohort study.

Sankar A, Thorpe KE, Gershon AS, Granton JT, Wijeysundera DN

EClinicalMedicine2020First author

DOI: 10.1016/j.eclinm.2020.100396 PMID: 32529180

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Ashwin Sankar

Research

Latest papers

Latest funding

Social Determinants of Health and 30-Day Mortality After Inpatient Elective Surgery.

Individualised positive end-expiratory pressure to minimise driving pressure and postoperative pulmonary complications in minimally invasive thoracic and abdominal surgery a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Predictive validity of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease phenotypes in inpatient elective surgery: a population-based study.

Disparities in surgery rates during the COVID-19 pandemic: retrospective study.

Weaning from mechanical ventilation in the operating room: a systematic review.

Complication Rates of Central Venous Catheters: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

Evolution of the surgical procedure gap during and after the COVID-19 pandemic in Ontario, Canada: cross-sectional and modelling study.

Predictors of ICU admission associated with gastrointestinal endoscopy in medical inpatients: A retrospective cohort study.

Prolonged mechanical ventilation after cardiac surgery: substudy of the Transfusion Requirements in Cardiac Surgery III trial

Association of preoperative spirometry with cardiopulmonary fitness and postoperative outcomes in surgical patients: A multicentre prospective cohort study.

The Surgical EQUITY initiative: Establishing equitable access to surgery following the pandemic

Frequent collaborators

Vahid Sarhangian

Bijan Teja

Jonathan Irish

Charles De Mestral

Fahad Razak

Martin Girard

Peter Giacobbe

Blake Woodside

Nadine Shehata

Emilie Belley-Cote

Fahad Razak

Hannah Wunsch

Jonathan Downar