Dr. Margaret Herridge is a Professor in the Department of Medicine and a Senior Scientist in the Toronto General Hospital Research Institute. She is the Director of the RECOVER Program/Grace RECOVER Program for Chronic Critical Illness and co-lead (with Dr. Angela Cheung) of CANCOV (Canadian multi-centre 2-year follow-up of patients/caregivers after COVID-19).

She obtained her MSc and MD from Queen’s University in Kingston, completed her clinical training in Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine at the University of Toronto and obtained her MPH at the Harvard School of Public Health concurrent with a clinical research fellowship at the Channing Laboratory. She is an international expert on ICU outcomes and has published close to 200 publications and book chapters on patient and family outcomes after critical illness. She has been the co-editor of the first two international textbooks on outcomes after critical illness: Textbook of Post-ICU Medicine: The Legacy of Critical Illness (2014, with co-editors Robert Stevens (US) and Nick Hart (UK)) (recent translation into Chinese 2018) and Textbook of Post-Intensive Care Syndrome (2019 with co-Editors Elie Azoulay (France) and Jean-Charles Preiser (Belgium)). Most recently, she co-chaired the WHO ‘Expanding our Understanding of the Post COVID-19 Condition’ Working Group/publication and served as a content expert for the COVID-19 Ontario Provincial Scientific Round Table including the published brief on the Post COVID-19 condition. She has published 2 editorials and 3 manuscripts in the New England Journal of Medicine on outcomes after ARDS and family caregivers after prolonged mechanical ventilation and is a frequent international speaker on outcomes after critical illness.