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Tina Mele

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Professor/MDDepartment of SurgeryWestern University

Tina Mele

Professor/MD

Department of Surgery

Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry

Western University

London, Ontario, Canada

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6 publications in the last five years, latest in 2025.
Principal investigator on 1 research grant (1 CIHR), most recently in 2019.

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Publications

242

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Grants

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Research

Read how they describe their research on their Western University profile.

Bacteremia Infection Mouse Models Staphylococcus Aureus T Cells Toxins

Latest papers

Mining, validating, and quantifying circular RNA transcriptome from total RNA as a biomarker or target.
Scientific reports · 2025
Stress Ulcer Prophylaxis during Invasive Mechanical Ventilation
New England Journal of Medicine · 2024
Frailty, Outcomes, Recovery and Care Steps of Critically Ill Patients (FORECAST): a prospective, multi-centre, cohort study
Intensive Care Medicine · 2024

All 26 publications

Latest funding

Mobilizing the Antiviral Capacities of MAIT Cells to Combat COVID-19: From Fundamental Immunology to Vaccine Optimization and Immunotherapy
CIHR · 2020 · Co-investigator
$1,032,750
Staphylococcus aureus at the commensal-pathogen interface: the superantigen paradox
CIHR · 2019 · Principal investigator
$1,090,126
Establishing Stakeholder Priorities for the Development and Implementation of Strategies to Support Gender Equity in Critical Care Medicine
CIHR · 2019 · Co-investigator
$9,970

All 3 grants and awards

26 publications.

Mining, validating, and quantifying circular RNA transcriptome from total RNA as a biomarker or target.

Wang TZ, Thapa RK, Yu F, Warsi A, Rong K, Jose P, Kashkoulinejad-Kouhi T, Win PW, Castellani CA, Mele T, Zheng X

Scientific reports2025

DOI: 10.1038/s41598-025-05652-3 PMID: 40594478

Stress Ulcer Prophylaxis during Invasive Mechanical Ventilation

Iqbal M, Reeve B, Forrest D, Trop S, Reynolds S, Saunders L, Heels-Ansdell D, Marshall J, English S, Ostermann M

New England Journal of Medicine2024108 citations

DOI: 10.1056/nejmoa2404245

Frailty, Outcomes, Recovery and Care Steps of Critically Ill Patients (FORECAST): a prospective, multi-centre, cohort study

Muscedere J, Bagshaw SM, Kho M, Mehta S, Cook DJ, Boyd JG, Sibley S, Wang HT, Archambault PM, Albert M

Intensive Care Medicine202473 citations

DOI: 10.1007/s00134-024-07404-9

Patient-important upper gastrointestinal bleeding in the ICU: A mixed-methods study of patient and family perspectives

Vanstone MG, Krewulak K, Taneja S, Swinton M, Fiest K, Burns KEA, Debigare S, Dionne JC, Guyatt G, Marshall JC

Journal of Critical Care202418 citations

DOI: 10.1016/j.jcrc.2024.154761

Annexin A5 in Patients With Severe COVID-19 Disease: A Single-Center, Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Feasibility Trial.

Martin CM, Slessarev M, Campbell E, Basmaji J, Ball I, Fraser DD, Leligdowicz A, Mele T, Priestap F, Tschirhart BJ, Bentall T, Lu X, Feng Q

Critical care explorations2023

DOI: 10.1097/cce.0000000000000986 PMID: 37811130

What counts as patient-important upper gastrointestinal bleeding in the ICU? A mixed-methods study protocol of patient and family perspectives

Cook DJ, Swinton ME, Krewulak KD, Fiest K, Dionne JC, Debigare S, Guyatt GH, Taneja S, Alhazzani W, Burns KEA

BMJ Open202315 citations

DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2022-070966

Circular RNA Foxo3 in cardiac ischemia-reperfusion injury in heart transplantation: A new regulator and target.

Su Y, Zhu C, Wang B, Zheng H, McAlister V, Lacefield JC, Quan D, Mele T, Greasley A, Liu K, Zheng X

American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons2021

DOI: 10.1111/ajt.16475 PMID: 33382168

Knowledge translation tools to guide care of non-intubated patients with acute respiratory illness during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Leasa D, Cameron P, Honarmand K, Mele T, Bosma KJ

Critical Care202117 citations

DOI: 10.1186/s13054-020-03415-2

The role of miR-711 in cardiac cells in response to oxidative stress and its biogenesis: a study on H9C2 cells.

Zhao D, Zheng H, Greasley A, Ling F, Zhou Q, Wang B, Ni T, Topiwala I, Zhu C, Mele T, Liu K, Zheng X

Cellular & molecular biology letters2020

DOI: 10.1186/s11658-020-00206-z PMID: 32308692

Improving gender equity in critical care medicine: a protocol to establish priorities and strategies for implementation

Leigh JP, de Grood C, Ahmed S, Bosma K, Burns KEA, Fowler R, Fox-Robichaud A, Mehta S, Mele T, Straus SE

BMJ Open202011 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2020-037090 PMID: W3034648069

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Tina Mele

Research

Latest papers

Latest funding

Mining, validating, and quantifying circular RNA transcriptome from total RNA as a biomarker or target.

Stress Ulcer Prophylaxis during Invasive Mechanical Ventilation

Frailty, Outcomes, Recovery and Care Steps of Critically Ill Patients (FORECAST): a prospective, multi-centre, cohort study

Patient-important upper gastrointestinal bleeding in the ICU: A mixed-methods study of patient and family perspectives

Annexin A5 in Patients With Severe COVID-19 Disease: A Single-Center, Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Feasibility Trial.

What counts as patient-important upper gastrointestinal bleeding in the ICU? A mixed-methods study protocol of patient and family perspectives

Circular RNA Foxo3 in cardiac ischemia-reperfusion injury in heart transplantation: A new regulator and target.

Knowledge translation tools to guide care of non-intubated patients with acute respiratory illness during the COVID-19 Pandemic

The role of miR-711 in cardiac cells in response to oxidative stress and its biogenesis: a study on H9C2 cells.

Improving gender equity in critical care medicine: a protocol to establish priorities and strategies for implementation

Mobilizing the Antiviral Capacities of MAIT Cells to Combat COVID-19: From Fundamental Immunology to Vaccine Optimization and Immunotherapy

Staphylococcus aureus at the commensal-pathogen interface: the superantigen paradox

Establishing Stakeholder Priorities for the Development and Implementation of Strategies to Support Gender Equity in Critical Care Medicine

Frequent collaborators

Xiufen Zheng

Ian Ball

Deborah Cook

Kirsten Fiest

Karen Burns

Sangeeta Mehta

John Muscedere

Bram Rochwerg

Joanna Dionne

Gordon Guyatt

Meredith Vanstone

Neil Parry

Douglas Quan

Bertha Garcia

Daniel Niven

Madeleine Verhovsek

Shane English

Ryan Zarychanski

Alexandra Binnie

Francois Lamontagne

Patrick Archambault

Maureen Meade

Patrick Archambault

Salmaan Kanji

Deborah Cook

Kirsten Fiest

Ryan Zarychanski

Maureen Meade

Marat Slessarev

John Muscedere

Patrick Archambault

Paul Hosek

Ingrid Morgan

Britt Dennis

Kimia Honarmand

Gloria Vazquez-Grande

Ryan Zarychanski

Lehana Thabane

Robert Fowler

Francois Lamontagne