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Stephen Lapinsky

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ProfessorDepartment of MedicineUniversity of Toronto

Stephen Lapinsky

Professor

Department of 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.
Senior (last) author on 1 recent paper, a sign of leading a research group.

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Publications

603

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Education

MSc
MB.BCh

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Research

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Respiratory diseases Critical care medicine and emergency medicine Maternal and newborn care

Latest papers

Comments on "Maternal Sepsis: Review and Update".
Mayo Clinic proceedings · 2026 · first author
What Ontario’s Maternal Death Reviews Reveal About Canada’s Missed Opportunities for Preventing Maternal Mortality
Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Canada · 2026
Feasibility of establishing a Canadian Obstetric Survey System (CanOSS) for severe maternal morbidity: results of a nationwide survey
Public Health in Practice · 2025

All 22 publications

Latest funding

PREGTRIAL (Inclusion of PREgnant and lactatinG people in clinical TRIALs)
CIHR · 2024 · Co-investigator
$598,561
Improving Maternity Outcomes by Engaging Stakeholders in a Holistic Assessment of the Social and Clinical Determinants of Severe Maternal Morbidity in Canada - a Feasibility Study
CIHR · 2021 · Co-investigator
$321,300
Regional and temporal variations in incidence, prevalence and outcomes of critical illness among pregnant and post-partum women and newborns in Canada
CIHR · 2015 · Co-investigator
$46,415

All 9 grants and awards

22 publications.

Comments on "Maternal Sepsis: Review and Update".

Lapinsky S, Rojas-Suarez J

Mayo Clinic proceedings2026First author

DOI: 10.1016/j.mayocp.2025.09.006 PMID: 41348065

What Ontario’s Maternal Death Reviews Reveal About Canada’s Missed Opportunities for Preventing Maternal Mortality

Cook JL, Dore S, Fleming K, Lapinsky S, McNaughton-Filion L, Vineberg B

Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Canada2026

DOI: 10.1016/j.jogc.2026.103220

Feasibility of establishing a Canadian Obstetric Survey System (CanOSS) for severe maternal morbidity: results of a nationwide survey

Malhamé I, Seymour RJ, Ashraf R, Gehrke P, Beyene J, Seedu T, Ahmed R, Dzakpasu S, Thorne S, Fell D

Public Health in Practice20251 citations

DOI: 10.1016/j.puhip.2025.100650

Outcome reporting in studies on critically ill obstetric patients: A systematic review

Viau-Lapointe J, Kfouri J, Thompson M, Ashraf R, D’Souza R, Lapinsky S

Obstetric Medicine20243 citationsSenior author

DOI: 10.1177/1753495x241302848

Limiting life-sustaining treatment for very old ICU patients: cultural challenges and diverse practices.

Beil M, van Heerden PV, Joynt GM, Lapinsky S, Flaatten H, Guidet B, de Lange D, Leaver S, Jung C, Forte DN, Bin D, Elhadi M, Szczeklik W, Sviri S

Annals of intensive care2023

DOI: 10.1186/s13613-023-01189-8 PMID: 37884827

Incidence, morbidity, and associated factors for sepsis in women hospitalized for delivery: a nationwide retrospective observational population-based study in Canada.

Balki I, Baghirzada L, Walker A, Lapinsky S, Balki M

Canadian journal of anaesthesia = Journal canadien d'anesthesie2022

DOI: 10.1007/s12630-021-02158-0 PMID: 34939139

Adapting obstetric and neonatal services during the COVID-19 pandemic: a scoping review

Gold S, Clarfield L, Johnstone J, Diambomba Y, Shah PS, Whittle W, Abbasi N, Arzola C, Ashraf R, Biringer A

BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth202218 citations

DOI: 10.1186/s12884-022-04409-4

Feasibility of establishing a Canadian Obstetric Survey System (CanOSS) for severe maternal morbidity: a study protocol

D’Souza R, Seymour RJ, Knight M, Dzakpasu S, Joseph KS, Thorne S, Ospina MB, Barrett J, Cook J, Fell DB

BMJ Open20225 citations

DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2022-061093

A Detailed Review of Critical Care Considerations for the Pregnant Cardiac Patient.

Kidson KM, Lapinsky S, Grewal J

The Canadian journal of cardiology2021

DOI: 10.1016/j.cjca.2021.08.020 PMID: 34534620

Selection and Receipt of Kidney Replacement in Critically Ill Older Patients with AKI

Bagshaw SM, Adhikari NKJ, Burns KEA, Friedrich JO, Bouchard J, Lamontagne F, McIntrye LA, Cailhier J-F, Dodek P, Stelfox HT

American Society of Nephrology. Clinical Journal201931 citations

DOI: 10.2215/cjn.05530518

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Stephen Lapinsky

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Comments on "Maternal Sepsis: Review and Update".

What Ontario’s Maternal Death Reviews Reveal About Canada’s Missed Opportunities for Preventing Maternal Mortality

Feasibility of establishing a Canadian Obstetric Survey System (CanOSS) for severe maternal morbidity: results of a nationwide survey

Outcome reporting in studies on critically ill obstetric patients: A systematic review

Limiting life-sustaining treatment for very old ICU patients: cultural challenges and diverse practices.

Incidence, morbidity, and associated factors for sepsis in women hospitalized for delivery: a nationwide retrospective observational population-based study in Canada.

Adapting obstetric and neonatal services during the COVID-19 pandemic: a scoping review

Feasibility of establishing a Canadian Obstetric Survey System (CanOSS) for severe maternal morbidity: a study protocol

A Detailed Review of Critical Care Considerations for the Pregnant Cardiac Patient.

Selection and Receipt of Kidney Replacement in Critically Ill Older Patients with AKI

Frequent collaborators

Rohan D'Souza

Ron Wald

Karen Burns

Michelle Hladunewich

Mark Soth

Jocelynn Cook

Francois Lamontagne

Peter Dodek

Amy Metcalfe

Anand Kumar

Rohan D'Souza

Leslie Skeith

Margaret Herridge

David Klein

John Muscedere

Edward Clark

Rahim Moineddin

Marianna Ofner

Deborah Cook

Sangeeta Mehta

David Chitayat

Lauralyn McIntyre