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 ß÷ßäÉçÇø 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 ß÷ßäÉçÇø 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.