Andrew Seely

Biography

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Dr. Andrew JE Seely, a Tier I Clinical Research Chair in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Ottawa, is a Professor of Surgery within the Divisions of Thoracic Surgery and Critical Care Medicine at the University of Ottawa, Vice-Chair of Research in the Department of Surgery at the University of Ottawa, Director of Research for the Ottawa Division of Thoracic Surgery, Scientist at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, President of the Canadian Association of Thoracic Surgeons, as well as Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Therapeutic Monitoring Systems Inc.

 

Appointments and Affiliations

• Tier I Clinical Research Chair, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa
• Full Professor of Surgery, Divisions of Thoracic Surgery and Critical Care Medicine, University of Ottawa
• Vice-Chair Research, Department of Surgery, University of Ottawa
• Director of Research, Department of Thoracic Surgery, The Ottawa Hospital
• Scientist, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute
• President, Canadian Association of Thoracic Surgeons
• Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Therapeutic Monitoring Systems (TMS) Inc

 

Background

Dr. Seely’s education includes an undergraduate honours in physics at Carleton University, followed by medical school, general surgery training, and a doctoral degree in basic science from McGill University, and thoracic surgery and critical care medicine training at the University of Ottawa. Dr. Seely’s scholarly interests include: 1) theoretical research exploring the clinical insights of complex systems science (e.g. emergence, uncertainty and dissipation); 2) physiologic understanding of complex biologic variability; 3) applied research monitoring multi-organ variability during exercise, onset and resolution of infection, critical illness and weaning and in the prediction of likelihood of organ donation success following Donation after Circulatory Death (DCD); and 4) development and implementation of a systematic means to continuously monitor all adverse events after all surgery, as well as provide feedback of that information to improve surgical care. Dr. Seely has supervised several graduate students and built research teams, has published over 145 peer-reviewed papers, presents annually at international meetings and has been awarded over $8.7 M in competitive grant funding. He shares his family life with Kathy Patterson and their daughters Phoebe and Ruby in Ottawa.