Associate Professor, Department of Critical Care Medicine
Lakeridge Health/Queen's University
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Randy S. Wax, MD, MEd, dABEM(EMS), FRCPC, FCCM
Department of Critical Care Medicine, Lakeridge Health, Oshawa, Canada
Associate Professor, Department of Critical Care Medicine, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada
Dr. Wax is the Chief of Staff and a medical/surgical intensivist at Lakeridge Health in Durham Region, just east of Toronto, Canada. He is an Associate Professor in the Department of Critical Care Medicine at Queen's University. Dr. Wax is a Transport Medicine Physician with Ornge, Ontario's Air Ambulance and Critical Care Transport Service. He oversees critical care services for the Central East Subregion of Ontario as Physician Subregion Lead with Ontario Health.
Dr. Wax has served in leadership roles with SCCM as Chair of the Fundamental Disaster Management course, Co-Chair of the Rapid Response Team course, and has participated in Society disaster response efforts in response to the H1N1 Influenza Pandemic and the earthquake disaster in Haiti/Dominican Republic. He currently co-chairs the group developing the SCCM/ACCM Guidelines on Recognizing and Responding to Clinical Deterioration Outside the Intensive Care Unit. Dr. Wax is also the Co-Chair of the Critical Care Response Team Network for Critical Care Services Ontario. Dr. Wax's academic interests include Cardiac Arrest, Septic Shock, Medical Education, Simulation, Disaster Medicine/Triage and Biohazard Reponse. He has received many awards including multiple Presidential Citations from SCCM and the Certificate of Merit from the Canadian Association for Medical Education.
Recommendations for Overall Rapid Response System Design Including Quality Improvement Components
Guidelines: Recognizing Critical Illness Outside the ICU
Sunday, January 21, 2024
4:50 PM – 5:10 PM MT