Andrew J.E. Seely MD, PhD, FRCSC
Divisions of Thoracic Surgery & Critical Care Medicine
University of Ottawa
Ottawa Health Research Institute
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Presentation Title
Individualized Evaluation of Variability in Health and Critical Illness
Andrew J.E. Seely is an Assistant Professor of Surgery within the Divisions of Thoracic Surgery and Critical Care Medicine at the University of Ottawa, and is an Associate Scientist with the Ottawa Health Research Institute (OHRI). Education includes a Bachelors of Science in Honours Physics at Carleton University (BSc ’89), medical school (MDCM ’94) and General Surgery (FRCSC ’01), and a doctoral degree in basic science (PhD ’02) at McGill University followed by Critical Care Medicine (2003) and Thoracic Surgery (FRCSC ’04) training at the University of Ottawa.
Having joined the faculty at the University of Ottawa in 2004, Dr. Seely is active as a thoracic surgeon, intensivist and scientist. Major research interests include theoretical research applying complex systems science to the care and understanding of critically ill and peri-operative patients, and experimental research applying dynamical analysis to the bedside of surgical and intensive care unit patients. Other clinical and research interests include outcomes following minimally invasive foregut surgery and the role of melatonin in preventing lung cancer recurrence, as well as past research regarding the role of neutrophil membrane receptor expression in regulating the processes of neutrophil migration and cell death (doctoral thesis).
Dr. Seely currently runs a hospital-based Dynamical Analysis Laboratory, and is currently supervising a post-doctoral fellow, as well as surgical residents and students, whom are involved in several research projects in collaboration with colleagues. Rooted in a paradigm of complex systems science, the underlying hypothesis of ongoing research is that continuous multiorgan variability analysis offers a novel means to establish early diagnosis and real-time prognosis of critical illness. Current experiments address changes in multi-organ variability during exercise, as well as in the presence of infection and critical illness. Dr Seely was recently awarded a New Investigator Award by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), and has received funding from local and regional funding organizations.