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Karen Burns

ResearcherCritical Care MedicineUniversity of Toronto

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Karen Burns

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 2025.
Principal investigator on 9 research grants (9 CIHR), most recently in 2022.

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Publications

2,873

Citations

h-index

119

Collaborators

Grants

Publications by year

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Research

Mechanical Ventilation Randomized Trial Spontaneous Breathing Trials Weaning Critical Care Patient And Family Engagement Screening Circulatory And Respiratory Health

Latest papers

Coenrollment in a critical care trial: Characteristics and consequences
Contemporary Clinical Trials · 2025
Clinical reporting for personalized cancer genomics requires extensive access to subscription-only literature
Journal of the Medical Library Association · 2023
Patient and Family Representation in Randomized Clinical Trials Published in 3 Medical and Surgical Journals
JAMA Network Open · 2022

All 28 publications

Latest funding

The Randomized Embedded Multifactorial Adaptive Platform Trial in Community-Acquired Pneumonia (REMAP-CAP): Enshrining a Global Pandemic Research Response to COVID-19 and Beyond
CIHR · 2022 · Co-investigator
$883,029
Canadian Critical Care Trials Group COVID-19 Response: defining critical care capacity in Canada; testing treatments through large-scale adaptive clinical trials; & establishing the evidence base to inform clinical and health system management decisions
CIHR · 2022 · Co-investigator
$1,000,000
A survey of Canadian critical care staffing to inform current policy and future need
CIHR · 2022 · Principal investigator
$150,000

All 33 grants and awards

28 publications.

Coenrollment in a critical care trial: Characteristics and consequences

Clarke F, Hand L, Deane A, Zytaruk N, Hardie M, Arabi Y, Al-Fares A, Heels-Ansdell D, Dechert W, Ostermann M

Contemporary Clinical Trials20254 citations

DOI: 10.1016/j.cct.2025.107938

Clinical reporting for personalized cancer genomics requires extensive access to subscription-only literature

D'Souza S, Downs G, Hendrikx S, Fazelzad R, Boldt G, Burns K, Chapman D, Dawes D, Giannarakos A, Oja LA

Journal of the Medical Library Association2023

DOI: 10.5195/jmla.2023.1572

Patient and Family Representation in Randomized Clinical Trials Published in 3 Medical and Surgical Journals

Benizri N, Hallot S, Burns K, Goldfarb M

JAMA Network Open202232 citations

DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.30858

Separation from mechanical ventilation and survival after spinal cord injury: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Schreiber AF, Garlasco J, Vieira F, Lau YH, Stavi D, Lightfoot D, Rigamonti A, Burns K, Friedrich JO, Singh JM

Annals of Intensive Care202136 citations

DOI: 10.1186/s13613-021-00938-x

Clinical trials in COVID-19 management & prevention: A meta-epidemiological study examining methodological quality

Honarmand K, Penn J, Agarwal A, Siemieniuk R, Brignardello-Petersen R, Bartoszko JJ, Zeraatkar D, Agoritsas T, Burns K, Fernando SM

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology202116 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2021.07.002 PMID: W3181906237

Response

Chaudhuri D, Burns K, Rochwerg B

Chest2021Open Access

DOI: 10.1016/j.chest.2020.12.021 PMID: W4248104861

The authors reply.

Granton D, Chaudhuri D, Burns K, Rochwerg B

Critical Care Medicine2021

DOI: 10.1097/ccm.0000000000004868 PMID: W4242875369

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

Patient and Family Engagement in Care in the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit

Goldfarb M, Bibas L, Burns K

Canadian Journal of Cardiology202054 citationsSenior author

DOI: 10.1016/j.cjca.2020.03.037

Data initiatives supporting critical care research and quality improvement in Canada: an environmental scan and narrative review

Jackson Chornenki N, Liaw P, Bagshaw S, Burns K, Dodek P, English S, Fan E, Ferrari N, Fowler R, Fox-Robichaud A

Canadian Journal of Anaesthesia20206 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1007/s12630-020-01571-1 PMID: W3002111770

The Randomized Embedded Multifactorial Adaptive Platform Trial in Community-Acquired Pneumonia (REMAP-CAP): Enshrining a Global Pandemic Research Response to COVID-19 and Beyond

Co-investigatorCIHR2022Operating Grant: Clinical Trials Projects - Indirect Costs

Principal investigators: Marshall, John C; Dalziel, Sandra; Kho, Michelle E; Lamontagne, Francois; Leligdowicz, Aleksandra; Murthy, Srinivas; Park, Jay; Smith, Kathleen F

Keywords: Acute Organ Dysfunction; Covid-19; Critical Illness; Global Health; Hemodynamic Management; Platform Trial; Research Collaboration; Ventilatory Support

$883,029

Canadian Critical Care Trials Group COVID-19 Response: defining critical care capacity in Canada; testing treatments through large-scale adaptive clinical trials; & establishing the evidence base to inform clinical and health system management decisions

Co-investigatorCIHR2022Operating Grant: CNCCTN Extension - Indirect Costs

Principal investigators: Fowler, Robert A; Adhikari, Neill K; Archambault, Patrick; Bagshaw, Sean M; Binnie, Alexandra; Chasse, Michael; Cook, Deborah J; Daneman, Nick; Fiest, Kirsten M; Fox-Robichaud, Alison E; Goligher, Ewan C; Herridge, Margaret S; Kho, Michelle E; Lamontagne, Francois; Lawler, Patrick R; Lee, Todd C; Marshall, John C; McDonald, Emily G; McNally, James D; Meade, Maureen O; Mehta, Sangeeta; Menon, Kusum; Murthy, Srinivas; O'Hearn, Katharine J; Piquette, Dominique; Rochwerg, Bram N; Russell, James A; Tsang, Jennifer L; Turgeon, Alexis F; Wollny, Krista; Yada, Nicole; Zarychanski, Ryan

Keywords: Clinical Trials; Covid-19; Network

$1,000,000

A survey of Canadian critical care staffing to inform current policy and future need

Principal investigatorCIHR2022Cat Gr:Policy Res. for Health Sys. Transf.- ICRH - Circulatory and Resp. Health

Principal investigators: Wunsch, Hannah; Burns, Karen E; Gershengorn, Hayley

Keywords: Circulatory And Respiratory Health; Intensive Care Unit; Staffing

$150,000

The Randomized Embedded Multifactorial Adaptive Platform Trial in Community-Acquired Pneumonia (REMAP-CAP): Enshrining a Global Pandemic Research Response to COVID-19 and Beyond

Co-investigatorCIHR2022Operating Grant: Clinical Trials Projects - CRPPHE

Principal investigators: Marshall, John C; Dalziel, Sandra; Kho, Michelle E; Lamontagne, Francois; Leligdowicz, Aleksandra; Murthy, Srinivas; Park, Jay; Smith, Kathleen F

Keywords: Acute Organ Dysfunction; Covid-19; Critical Illness; Global Health; Hemodynamic Management; Platform Trial; Research Collaboration; Ventilatory Support

$3,532,110

Canadian Critical Care Trials Group COVID-19 Response: defining critical care capacity in Canada; testing treatments through large-scale adaptive clinical trials; & establishing the evidence base to inform clinical and health system management decisions

Co-investigatorCIHR2022Op Gr.: Canadian Network of COVID-19 Clinical Trials Networks (CNCCTN) Extension

Keywords: Clinical Trials; Covid-19; Network

$4,000,000

The Randomized Embedded Multifactorial Adaptive Platform Trial in Community-acquired Pneumonia (REMAP-CAP): Building an International Research Response to Variant COVID-19

Co-investigatorCIHR2021Operating Grant: Emerging COVID-19 Research Gaps and Priorities - Variants

Principal investigators: Marshall, John C

Keywords: Capacity-Building; Clinical Trial; Covid-19; Critical Illness; Global Health Collaboration; Immune Modulation; Intensive Care Unit; Platform Trial; Renin-Angiotensin System; Ace2; Sars-Cov2 Variants

$1,000,000

Liberation from mechanical ventilation using Extubation Advisor Decision Support: The multicentre (LEADS) Pilot Trial

Nominated PICIHR2021Project Grant

Principal investigators: Burns, Karen E; Seely, Andrew J

Keywords: Artificial Intelligence; Clinical Decision Support Software; Covid-19; Critical Care Medicine; Extubation; Mechanical Ventilation; Predictive Modelling; Respiratory Rate Variability; Spontaneous Breathing Trial; Variability Analysis

$455,176

CANCOV2.0: 2-year follow up of the Canadian COVID-19 Prospective Cohort Study

Co-investigatorCIHR2021Op. Gr: Emer. COVID Res. Gaps/Prior- Dif. Impacts on Hist. Excl/Underserved Pops

Principal investigators: Herridge, Margaret S; Cheung, Angela M

Keywords: Caregiver Health; Clinical Presentations & Trajectories; Covid-19 Research Gaps; Determinants And Prevalence Of Long-Term Outcomes Of Covid; Functional And Neuropsychological Health & Quality Of Life; Long Covid Serologic, Immunologic & Inflammatory Biomarkers; Longitudinal Study; Mitigating Factors For Disability & Impact Of Rehabilitation; Neurocognitive, Respiratory, Cardiac & Muscle Systems

$500,000

A Labyrinth of Inequity: A Feminist Political Economy Approach to the Gender Gap in Academic Medicine

Co-investigatorSSHRC2021Insight Development Grant

Principal investigators: Pritlove, Cheryl

Keywords: Gender; Gender gap; Equity; Diversity; Inclusion; Academic medicine; Feminist political economy theory; Intersectionality; Qualitative methods; Knowledge synthesis

$71,164

The Canadian Network of COVID-19 Clinical Trials Networks

Co-investigatorCIHR2020Op Gr: Network of Clinical Trials Networks: COVID-19 and Intervention Strategies

Principal investigators: Fowler, Robert A; Adhikari, Neill K; Bagshaw, Sean M; Binnie, Alexandra; Chasse, Michael; Cook, Deborah J; Daneman, Nick; Fiest, Kirsten M; Fox-Robichaud, Alison E; Goligher, Ewan C; Kho, Michelle E; Lamontagne, Francois; Lawler, Patrick R; Lee, Todd C; Marshall, John C; McDonald, Emily G; Menon, Kusum; Murthy, Srinivas; Russell, James A; Tsang, Jennifer L; Turgeon, Alexis F; Zarychanski, Ryan

Keywords: Clinical Trials; Covid-19; Network

$6,000,000

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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Karen Burns

Research

Latest papers

Latest funding

Coenrollment in a critical care trial: Characteristics and consequences

Clinical reporting for personalized cancer genomics requires extensive access to subscription-only literature

Patient and Family Representation in Randomized Clinical Trials Published in 3 Medical and Surgical Journals

Separation from mechanical ventilation and survival after spinal cord injury: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Clinical trials in COVID-19 management & prevention: A meta-epidemiological study examining methodological quality

Response

The authors reply.

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

Patient and Family Engagement in Care in the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit

Data initiatives supporting critical care research and quality improvement in Canada: an environmental scan and narrative review

A Labyrinth of Inequity: A Feminist Political Economy Approach to the Gender Gap in Academic Medicine

Frequent collaborators

Karen Burns

Sangeeta Mehta

Deborah Cook

Peter Dodek

Maureen Meade

Lisa Burry

Robert Fowler

Deborah Cook

Niall Ferguson

John Muscedere

Dean Fergusson

Margaret Herridge

John Granton

Bram Rochwerg

Dean Fergusson

Francois Lamontagne

Srinivas Murthy

Robert Fowler

Maureen Meade

Louise Rose

Alison Fox-Robichaud

Shane English

Michael Jacka

Ian Ball

John Marshall

Michael Goldfarb

Andrew Seely

Laurent Brochard

Sean Bagshaw

Claudio Martin

Jennifer Tsang

Dean Fergusson

Diane Heels-Ansdell

Ryan Zarychanski

Dipayan Chaudhuri

Gloria Vazquez-Grande

Alison Fox-Robichaud

James Downar

David Cape

Simina Luca