For the past 10 years, Dr. Thomas Stewart has ensured excellent clinical care, education and research in Mount Sinai’s Intensive Care Unit as Director of Critical Care Medicine. In July 2009, Dr. Stewart will add Mount Sinai Physician-in-Chief to his list of accomplishments.

“Dr. Stewart has positioned Mount Sinai as a leading critical care centre that now attracts some of the brightest medical students, residents and fellows from Toronto and around the world,” says Dr. Maureen Shandling, Vice President, Medical.

During the SARS outbreak in 2003, Dr. Stewart’s leadership helped ensure Mount Sinai’s health-care teams could safely and effectively care for patients afflicted by SARS. He has since become a key advisor for provincial critical care services and the Critical Care Lead for the Local Health Integrated Network (LHIN).

Dr. Stewart is a Professor of Medicine and Anaesthesiology at the University of Toronto and collaborates on research projects in many countries outside of Canada.

He has published more than 100 peer-reviewed articles and 20 book chapters advancing critical care research and medicine. In addition, he has given more than 200 international presentations since coming to the Hospital. He has also organized several conferences to teach leadership and management skills to clinicians.