Marat Slessarev’s bio
Dr. Marat Slessarev BSc MSc MD PhD FRCPC is a clinician-scientist and an adult intensivist based at Western University in London, Canada. Dr. Slessarev was born and raised in Almaty, Kazakhstan, completed middle and high school in London, UK, and moved to Canada in 2000 for university studies. Dr. Slessarev completed an undergraduate degree in physiology, MSc in cardiopulmonary physiology under the supervision of Dr. Joseph A Fisher, MD degree and Internal Medicine residency, all at the University of Toronto. He then moved to London Ontario, where he completed his training in Adult Critical Care Medicine, followed by a Clinical Scholar Program and a PhD in Medical Biophysics under the supervision of Drs Christopher Ellis and Christopher McIntyre. He joined Western faculty in 2017 as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine, and does his clinical work at the London Health Sciences Centre. His research is focused on sedation, neurophysiology and cognition in critical illness. Dr. Slessarev is a co-lead of the CDTRP endorsed Neurologic Physiology after Removal of Therapy (NeuPaRT) program of research that is funded by CIHR and New Frontiers in Research Fund. He is also a Hospital Donation Physician and a Regional Medical Lead with Trillium Gift of Life Network (Ontario Health), Ontario’s organ donation organization.