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Duminda Wijeysundera

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ProfessorDepartment of Anesthesiology and Pain MedicineUniversity of Toronto

Duminda Wijeysundera

Professor

Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine

Temerty Faculty of Medicine

University of Toronto

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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8 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Principal investigator on 11 research grants (11 CIHR), most recently in 2025.
Supervisor on 2 trainee awards (2 CIHR), most recently in 2021.

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Publications

218

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Publications by year

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Education

PhD, Clinical Epidemiology, Health Policy, Management and Evaluation
MD
BSc, Biochemistry

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Research

Read how they describe their research on their University of Toronto profile.

Postoperative Complications Prognostic Studies Exercise Testing Disability Perioperative Medicine Quality Of Life Preoperative Risk Assessment Chronic Neuropathic Pain

Latest papers

Interventions in the middle meningeal artery for refractory headache: the need for a randomized trial
Journal of NeuroInterventional Surgery · 2026
Comparative effectiveness of virtual versus in-person anaesthesiology consultations: the VIRTUAL retrospective cohort study.
British journal of anaesthesia · 2026
Describing Successful Multimodal Prehabilitation Before Colorectal Cancer Resection: A Recursive Partitioning Analysis of Pooled Trial Data.
Anesthesia and analgesia · 2026

All 31 publications

Latest funding

The PLATform for INnovative Multicentre trials for comorbid chronic Pain and Depressive disorders (PLATINuM-PD)
CIHR · 2026 · Co-investigator
$730,576
Ecstasy to Alleviate SEvere Chronic Neuropathic Pain (EASE Pain) - A Multi-centre Internal Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial
CIHR · 2025 · Principal investigator
$1,034,806
Perioperative Vitamin C to reduce persistent pain after total knee arthroplasty (PROVISION): a multicentre randomized controlled trial
CIHR · 2025 · Co-investigator
$100,000

All 29 grants and awards

31 publications.

Interventions in the middle meningeal artery for refractory headache: the need for a randomized trial

Diestro JDB, Rodrigues RF, Monsour D, Churchill N, Wijeysundera D, Vyas M, Schweizer T, Lagman-Bartolome M

Journal of NeuroInterventional Surgery2026

DOI: 10.1136/jnis-2026-025072

Comparative effectiveness of virtual versus in-person anaesthesiology consultations: the VIRTUAL retrospective cohort study.

Engel J, Berrio M, Hladkowiz E, Holst P, Kobewka D, Moloo H, Trivedi V, Wijeysundera D, Talarico R, McIsaac DI, VIRTUAL Study Investigator Group

British journal of anaesthesia2026

DOI: 10.1016/j.bja.2026.06.012 PMID: 42509157

Describing Successful Multimodal Prehabilitation Before Colorectal Cancer Resection: A Recursive Partitioning Analysis of Pooled Trial Data.

Tsang J, Gillis C, Dendukuri N, Carli F, Feldman LS, Wijeysundera D, Baldini G, Mayo N

Anesthesia and analgesia2026

DOI: 10.1213/ane.0000000000008209 PMID: 42575104

Transplantation and Employment Earnings in Kidney Transplant Recipients.

Thomas D, Diep C, Huszti E, Diaz-Martinez JP, Wijeysundera D, Witiw CD, Sayed BA, Ladha KS

JAMA network open2026

DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2025.60157 PMID: 41712208

Large language models and their current use in perioperative medicine: a scoping review protocol.

Mbadjeu Hondjeu AR, Zhao ZY, Newton L, Ajenkar A, Termos B, Shorr R, Ladha K, Wijeysundera D, McIsaac DI

JBI evidence synthesis2025

DOI: 10.11124/jbies-25-00003 PMID: 41017313

Clinical Characteristics of Inpatients with Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorder Treated with Electroconvulsive Therapy: A Population-Level Cross-Sectional Study: Titre: Caractéristiques cliniques des patients hospitalisés présentant un trouble du spectre de la schizophrénie et traités par électrochocs : Une étude de population transversale.

Kaster TS, Babujee A, Sharpe I, Rhee TG, Gomes T, Kurdyak P, Foussias G, Wijeysundera D, Blumberger DM, Vigod SN

Canadian journal of psychiatry. Revue canadienne de psychiatrie2025

DOI: 10.1177/07067437241290181 PMID: 39529283

A Prospective Cohort Study of Acute Pain and In-Hospital Opioid Consumption After Cardiac Surgery: Associations With Psychological and Medical Factors and Chronic Postsurgical Pain.

Pagé MG, Ganty P, Wong D, Rao V, Khan J, Ladha K, Hanlon J, Miles S, Katznelson R, Wijeysundera D, Katz J, Clarke H

Anesthesia and analgesia2024

DOI: 10.1213/ane.0000000000006848 PMID: 38295119

Patient Sex and Postoperative Outcomes after Inpatient Intraabdominal Surgery: A Population-based Retrospective Cohort Study.

He JW, Sun LY, Wijeysundera D, Vogt K, Jones PM

Anesthesiology2022

DOI: 10.1097/aln.0000000000004136 PMID: 35188547

Preoperative Sedative-hypnotic Medication Use and Adverse Postoperative Outcomes.

Gaulton TG, Wunsch H, Gaskins LJ, Leonard CE, Hennessy S, Ashburn M, Brensinger C, Newcomb C, Wijeysundera D, Bateman BT, Bethell J, Neuman MD

Annals of surgery2021

DOI: 10.1097/sla.0000000000003556 PMID: 31415004

Anesthesiologist to Patient Communication: A Systematic Review.

Tylee MJ, Rubenfeld GD, Wijeysundera D, Sklar MC, Hussain S, Adhikari NKJ

JAMA network open2020

DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.23503 PMID: 33180130

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Duminda Wijeysundera

Research

Latest papers

Latest funding

Interventions in the middle meningeal artery for refractory headache: the need for a randomized trial

Comparative effectiveness of virtual versus in-person anaesthesiology consultations: the VIRTUAL retrospective cohort study.

Describing Successful Multimodal Prehabilitation Before Colorectal Cancer Resection: A Recursive Partitioning Analysis of Pooled Trial Data.

Transplantation and Employment Earnings in Kidney Transplant Recipients.

Large language models and their current use in perioperative medicine: a scoping review protocol.

A Prospective Cohort Study of Acute Pain and In-Hospital Opioid Consumption After Cardiac Surgery: Associations With Psychological and Medical Factors and Chronic Postsurgical Pain.

Patient Sex and Postoperative Outcomes after Inpatient Intraabdominal Surgery: A Population-based Retrospective Cohort Study.

Preoperative Sedative-hypnotic Medication Use and Adverse Postoperative Outcomes.

Anesthesiologist to Patient Communication: A Systematic Review.

Frequent collaborators

Keyvan Karkouti

Hance Clarke

Joel Katz

Angela Jerath

Marcin Wasowicz

Paul Ritvo

Duminda Wijeysundera

Daniel Santa Mina

Paul Ritvo

Karim Ladha

Tara Gomes

Antonio Finelli

André Denault

Sylvain Boet

Peter Jüni

Dolores McKeen

Peter MacDougall

Thomas Mutter

Paul Kurdyak

Alain Deschamps

Manoj Lalu

Summer Syed

Norman Buckley

Danny Monsour

Andreas Laupacis

Michael Murphy

Alexis Turgeon

George Foussias

David Mazer

Tom Schweizer

Brian Kavanagh

James Paul

Peter MacDougall