Heyland | Department of Critical Care | School of Medicine

Dr. Daren Heyland MD, MSc, FRCPC

Position(s)

Professor, Internal Medicine / Critical Care

Director, Clinical Evaluation Research Unit, Kingston Health Sciences Centre

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Dr. Daren Heyland is a Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology at Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario Canada. He is trained in Internal Medicine, Critical Care Medicine, and Clinical Epidemiology. He currently serves as the Director of the Clinical Evaluation Research Unit which functions as a methods center for multicenter clinical research. For over a decade, he chaired a multidisciplinary research group which has had a focus on developing and evaluating strategies to improve communication and decision-making at the end of life (see www.thecarenet.ca ). The results of their research informed the development of 2 novel, free, online decision support tools: www.planwellguide.com and www.myicuguide.com. One of his current foci of activity is disseminating awareness of these planning tools. His motto is “To live well, age well, and die well, you need to plan well!”

In addition, he is the principal investigator on a number of large scale, multicenter clinical trials and quality improvement projects (see www.criticalcarenutrition.com ). Overall, Dr. Heyland has published more than 400 peer-reviewed papers, raised more than $120 million in external grant support including more than $55 million from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, and given > 400 international presentations.

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