Professor, Department of Anesthesia

University of Toronto

Canada

Dr. Peter Slinger completed medical school training at the University of Western Ontario in 1973. Following a Family Medicine residency at the University of Alberta and Family Practice in Yellowknife NWT, he did an Anesthesia Residency at McGill University and the University of Montreal. He is currently a Professor of Anesthesia at the University of Toronto, a member of the Anesthesia Staff at the Toronto General Hospital and Director of CME in the Dept. of Anesthesia. His area of interest is Anesthesia for Thoracic Surgery, with specific interests in pre-operative assessment, management of one-lung anesthesia, peri-operative lung injury and trans-esophageal echocardiography. He has edited, authored and co-authored numerous texts, articles and chapters relating to Thoracic Anesthesia. He serves as Associate Editor for Thoracic Anesthesia, Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia.

Honors and Awards include: Colin Woolf Award for Excellence in Teaching, U of T Faculty of Medicine; Francis “Joe” Dannemiller Memorial Award for Educational Excellence in Anesthesiology. Dannemiller Education Foundation, San Antonio, TX; Bev Leech Memorial Lecturer, University of Saskatchewan, Dept. Anesthesia, Saskatoon; Elected Fellow, College of Anaesthetists, Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland; Bernard H. Eliasberg Medal, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York; Winner of the Richard Knill Research Competition, Canadian Anesthetists’ Society; and Harold Griffith Memorial Lecturer, McGill University.