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Cheryl Misak

ResearcherCritical Care MedicineUniversity of Toronto

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Cheryl Misak

Researcher

Critical Care Medicine

Health Sciences

University of Toronto

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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Has led research grants, which requires an independent research appointment. Ask their department whether they supervise graduate students.
3 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Principal investigator on 10 research grants (7 SSHRC, 3 CIHR), most recently in 2023.

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Publications

1,110

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Grants

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Research

Caregivers Outcomes,Feasibility And Implementation Health Care System Knowledge Translation And Exchange Patient And Family Engagement Patient-Centred Outcomes Post-Icu Care Continuum Transitions In Care

Latest papers

Survey of Intensivist Coverage and Interprofessional Team Staffing in Canadian ICUs
Critical Care Medicine · 2026
Patient involvement in developing clinical guidelines.
BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2024
Case Report: What-or who-killed Frank Ramsey? Some reflections on cause of death and the nature of medical reasoning.
Wellcome open research · 2022 · first author

All 12 publications

Latest funding

Oxford Pragmatism
SSHRC · 2023 · Principal investigator
$24,498
Oxford Pragmatism
SSHRC · 2023 · Principal investigator
$43,011
Canadian COVID-19 Prospective Cohort Study (CanCOV)
CIHR · 2020 · Co-investigator
$2,112,500

All 13 grants and awards

12 publications.

Survey of Intensivist Coverage and Interprofessional Team Staffing in Canadian ICUs

Wunsch H, Manoharan V, Hill A, Garland A, Costa DK, Kho ME, Lamontagne F, Murthy S, Stelfox HT, Hancock J

Critical Care Medicine20261 citations

DOI: 10.1097/ccm.0000000000007188

Patient involvement in developing clinical guidelines.

Greenhalgh T, Misak C, Payne R, Swann N

BMJ (Clinical research ed.)2024

DOI: 10.1136/bmj.q2433 PMID: 39516039

Case Report: What-or who-killed Frank Ramsey? Some reflections on cause of death and the nature of medical reasoning.

Misak C, Naylor CD, Tonelli M, Greenhalgh T, Foster G

Wellcome open research2022First author

DOI: 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.17759.2 PMID: 37502738

Patient and Family Engagement in Critical Illness: Erratum.

Misak C, Herridge M, Ely EW, Clay A, Mikkelsen ME

Critical care medicine2021First author

DOI: 10.1097/ccm.0000000000005331 PMID: 34643595

Patient and Family Engagement in Critical Illness.

Misak C, Herridge M, Ely EW, Clay A, Mikkelsen ME

Critical care medicine2021First author

DOI: 10.1097/ccm.0000000000005136 PMID: 34091487

Effect of Hydrocortisone on Mortality and Organ Support in Patients With Severe COVID-19

Angus DC, Derde L, Al-Beidh F, Annane D, Arabi Y, Beane A, van Bentum-Puijk W, Berry L, Bhimani Z, Bonten M

Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA)2020827 citations

DOI: 10.1001/jama.2020.17022

Understanding and Enhancing Sepsis Survivorship. Priorities for Research and Practice

Prescott HC, Iwashyna TJ, Blackwood B, Calandra T, Chlan LL, Choong K, Connolly B, Dark P, Ferrucci L, Finfer S

American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine2019148 citations

DOI: 10.1164/rccm.201812-2383cp

Patient and Family Engagement in the ICU: Untapped Opportunities and Underrecognized Challenges

Burns KEA, Misak C, Herridge M, Meade MO, Oczkowski S

American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine2018134 citations

DOI: 10.1164/rccm.201710-2032ci

Acute respiratory distress syndrome.

Laffey JG, Misak C, Kavanagh BP

BMJ (Clinical research ed.)2017

DOI: 10.1136/bmj.j5055 PMID: 29146585

Engaging Survivors of Critical Illness in Health Care Assessment and Policy Development. Ethical and Practical Complexities.

Clay AS, Misak C

Annals of the American Thoracic Society2016Senior author

DOI: 10.1513/annalsats.201606-497oi PMID: 27574861

Oxford Pragmatism

Principal investigatorSSHRC2023Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Misak, Cheryl J.

Keywords: pragmatism; truth; meaning; Gilbert Ryle; J.L. Austin; Margaret Macdonald

$24,498

Oxford Pragmatism

Principal investigatorSSHRC2023Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Misak, Cheryl J.

Keywords: pragmatism; truth; meaning; Gilbert Ryle; J.L. Austin; Margaret Macdonald

$43,011

Canadian COVID-19 Prospective Cohort Study (CanCOV)

Co-investigatorCIHR2020Op Gr: COVID-19 Rapid Research FO - Clinical Mgmt/Health System Interventions

Principal investigators: Cheung, Angela M; Ahmed, Sofia B; Batt, Jane Andrea E; Binnie, Alexandra; Dos Santos, Claudia C; Ghassemi, Marzyeh; Herridge, Margaret S; Lamontagne, Francois; Morin, Suzanne N; Palepu, Anita; Razak, Fahad; Stelfox, Henry T; Strug, Lisa J; Tsang, Jennifer L; Verma, Amol; Yeung, Rae S

Keywords: Caregiver Health; Clinical Presentations & Trajectories; Full Spectrum Of Covid-19 Disease (Mild To Severe); Host Genetic Profiling; Knowledge To Action Cycles; Mental Health & Stigma; Prediction Models Using Machine Learning; Prospective Cohort Study; Sociodemographic And Clinical Predictors Of Outcomes; Transcriptomic, Epigenomic And Immunologic Host Response

$2,112,500

Frank Ramsey: A Sheer Excess of Powers

Principal investigatorSSHRC2019Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Misak, Cheryl J.

Keywords: Frank Ramsey; Ludwig Wittgenstein; truth theory; optimal savings theory; optimal taxation theory; history of analytic philosophy; Russell; Moore; Keynes; history of rational choice theory; foundations of mathematics; Ramsey theory

$99,823

RECOVER Program: A Care Continuum after Critical Illness

Principal investigatorCIHR2019Team Grant: TiC - Stream 1 - PHSI solutions for transitions in care gaps

Principal investigators: Herridge, Margaret S; Lawless, Bernard; Bayley, Mark T; Flannery, John F; Flockhart, Linda; Misak, Cheryl; Rush, Raphael; Tran, Jake

Keywords: Caregivers Outcomes,; Feasibility And Implementation; Health Care System; Knowledge Translation And Exchange; Patient And Family Engagement; Patient-Centred Outcomes; Post-Icu Care Continuum; Transitions In Care

$932,280

Canadian Adaptive Platform Trial in Intensive Care (CAPTIC) Program

Principal investigatorCIHR2018Operating Grant: SPOR Innovative Clinical Trial Multi-Year Grant

Principal investigators: Marshall, John C; Foster, Nadine K; Guerriero, Lynn; Misak, Cheryl; Fowler, Robert A; Murthy, Srinivas

Keywords: Comparative Effectiveness Research; Implementation Science

$1,497,200

Process Evaluation of the SuDDICU trial: An international randomized cluster crossover trial of the impact of a preventative antibiotic regimen (SDD) on patient outcome and antibiotic resistance within intensive care

Co-investigatorCIHR2018Project Grant

Principal investigators: Rose, Louise; Cuthbertson, Brian H; Murthy, Srinivas

Keywords: Critical Care; Process Evaluation; Prophylactic Antibiotics; Randomized Controlled Trial

$165,000

The SuDDICU study- A study of the impact of preventative antibiotics (SDD) on patient outcome and antibiotic resistance in the critically ill in intensive care

Co-investigatorCIHR2016Project Grant

Principal investigators: Cuthbertson, Brian H

Keywords: Antibiotic Resistance; Critical Illness; Ecology Of Infection; Hospital Acquired Infections; Morbidity; Mortality; Prevention Of Infection; Randomized Controlled Trial

$100,000

The SuDDICU study- A study of the impact of preventative antibiotics (SDD) on patient outcome and antibiotic resistance in the critically ill in intensive care

Principal investigatorCIHR2016Operating Grant: SPOR Innovative Clinical Trial Multi-Year Grant

Principal investigators: Cuthbertson, Brian H; Garber, Gary E; Misak, Cheryl; Rose, Louise; Murthy, Srinivas

Keywords: Antibiotic Resistance; Critical Illness; Hospital Acquired Infections; Morbidity; Mortality; Novel Trial Design; Prevention Of Infection; Randomized Controlled Trial

$2,999,929

Cambridge pragmatism

Principal investigatorSSHRC2015

Principal investigators: Misak, Cheryl J.

Keywords: housing demand; housing supply; government policy; neighborhood characteristics

$93,940

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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Cheryl Misak

Research

Latest papers

Latest funding

Survey of Intensivist Coverage and Interprofessional Team Staffing in Canadian ICUs

Patient involvement in developing clinical guidelines.

Case Report: What-or who-killed Frank Ramsey? Some reflections on cause of death and the nature of medical reasoning.

Patient and Family Engagement in Critical Illness: Erratum.

Patient and Family Engagement in Critical Illness.

Effect of Hydrocortisone on Mortality and Organ Support in Patients With Severe COVID-19

Understanding and Enhancing Sepsis Survivorship. Priorities for Research and Practice

Patient and Family Engagement in the ICU: Untapped Opportunities and Underrecognized Challenges

Acute respiratory distress syndrome.

Engaging Survivors of Critical Illness in Health Care Assessment and Policy Development. Ethical and Practical Complexities.

Oxford Pragmatism

Oxford Pragmatism

Canadian COVID-19 Prospective Cohort Study (CanCOV)

Frank Ramsey: A Sheer Excess of Powers

RECOVER Program: A Care Continuum after Critical Illness

Canadian Adaptive Platform Trial in Intensive Care (CAPTIC) Program

Process Evaluation of the SuDDICU trial: An international randomized cluster crossover trial of the impact of a preventative antibiotic regimen (SDD) on patient outcome and antibiotic resistance within intensive care

The SuDDICU study- A study of the impact of preventative antibiotics (SDD) on patient outcome and antibiotic resistance in the critically ill in intensive care

The SuDDICU study- A study of the impact of preventative antibiotics (SDD) on patient outcome and antibiotic resistance in the critically ill in intensive care

Cambridge pragmatism

Frequent collaborators

Margaret Herridge

Srinivas Murthy

Francois Lamontagne

Karen Burns

Robert Fowler

Laurent Brochard

Ewan Goligher

Anand Kumar

Robert Fowler

Ewan Goligher

Alexandra Binnie

Jennifer Tsang

Michael Chasse

Patrick Lawler

Ian Young

Alexis Turgeon

Bram Rochwerg

Robert Fowler

Lauralyn McIntyre

David Paterson

David Johnson

Andrea Jones

Sylvain Lother

Maureen Meade

Michelle Kho

Gloria Vazquez-Grande

Ryan Zarychanski

Dean Fergusson

Dean Fergusson

John Laffey

Hannah Wunsch

Karen Burns

Sean Bagshaw

Nick Daneman

Niall Ferguson

Lisa Burry

Neill Adhikari

Alexis Turgeon

John Marshall

Craig Dale