CDTRP Research Connect Series

The CDTRP is pleased to host its new discussion-based meeting series called “Research Connect“.

This series streamlines the subset of Theme, Hub, and Working Group meetings that aimed to share and discuss the latest research findings across the network and our Webinar series, which featured national and international speakers. Theme, Hub, and Working Group meetings aimed at developing new initiatives, projects, or grants will be scheduled separately, approximately three times per year per group.

The series takes place every other Tuesday at 1-2 pm EST.

Our goal is to make it easy for our members to know about and attend high quality presentations across all Themes and topics of interest. We are aiming for active discussions including researchers, trainees, and patient, family, and donor partners, engaging the whole community as if we were having a family dinner rather than listening to a formal presentation.

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Dr. Sonny Dhanani – Implementation of Donation Advisor: A personalized clinical decision support tool for improved efficiency and effectiveness of deceased organ donation and transplantation

On May 2 we were pleased to have Dr. Sonny Dhanani, pediatric intensivist at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO) and Associate Professor at the University of Ottawa, to present on the topic: “Implementation of Donation Advisor: A personalized clinical decision support tool for improved efficiency and effectiveness of deceased organ donation and transplantation” as part of the CDTRP Theme 1 – Improve a Culture of Donation, and Theme 2 -Inform Universal Practices for Donation.

About Dr. Sonny Dhanani

Dr. Dhanani is the chief of the pediatric intensive care unit at the Children’sHospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO) in Ottawa and Associate Professor (Pediatrics) at the University of Ottawa.  

He is now the Chair of the Canadian Donation Physician Network, Chair of Canadian Blood Services’ national Deceased Donation Advisory Committee, and steering committee member of Health Canada’s Organ Donation and Transplantation Collaborative. Dr. Dhanani is Associate Director for donation research for the Canadian Donation and Transplant Research Program. 

His own area of focus is leading international research pertaining to practices and standards for determining death after cardiac arrest for the purposes of donation.