Director
Dr. Elizabeth Wilcox, Director
Dr. Elizabeth Wilcox completed her MD (‘03) at the University of Calgary, followed by residencies and a critical care fellowship at the University of Toronto. She then moved to the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in the U.K., where she obtained a master of public health (‘11) before returning to Toronto for her PhD (‘19).
Throughout this period she spent time as an attending physician at Toronto’s University Health Network and a faculty member at the University of Toronto, and as an affiliated scientist at . She joined the ¾ÅÐãÖ±²¥ in 2023, where she is an associate professor in the Department of Critical Care Medicine. She also shares her clinical time between the general systems and neuroscience intensive care units at the ¾ÅÐãÖ±²¥ Hospital and is the medical director of the neurosciences ICU and high intensity unit.
Dr. Wilcox has a special research interest in long-term outcomes after critical illness with a specific focus on cognition and sleep. Her study was the first multisite, comprehensive project to link sleep and circadian function, rhythmic cortical electrophysiological activity and long-term cognitive impairment. She has also served as a co-investigator of major international studies.