Rakesh C. Arora, MD, PhD, FRCSC

Head, Cardiac Surgery and Cardiac Critical Care
University of Manitoba
CSCS and CANCARE Society

Dr. Arora completed his Cardiac Surgery Residency and PhD During at Dalhousie University in 2004. After completing two further years of training at the University of Calgary, in Calgary, Alberta, Dr. Arora became the first Cardiac Surgeon in Canada to also complete a fellowship in Critical Care Medicine in 2006. Dr. Arora joined the Cardiac Sciences Program and the Section of Critical Care Medicine at the University of Manitoba as an Academic Clinician-Scientist in 2006.
Dr. Arora’s current research interests have concentrated on the enhancing recovery and care of the critically ill cardiac patient. He has specific interests understanding the impact of delirium, depression and frailty in the older adult undergoing cardiovascular surgery and has received funding from the CIHR, HSFC and the Canadian Frailty Network. Dr. Arora has over 150 peer-reviewed manuscripts and book chapters and is an internationally invited speaker for his team’s clinical and research endeavours.
In 2009, Dr. Arora has pioneered a national society, The CANadian CARdiovascular critical care (CANCARE) Society (www.cancaresociety.com) that aims to advance the care of critically-ill cardiovascular patients using interdisciplinary expertise in a cooperative model. In addition he is a Past- President of the American Delirium Society (2014) and a Co-Founder of the International Federation of Delirium Societies (iDelirium). Most recently (2018) he has been appointed to the Executive of the Enhanced Recovery after Surgery – Cardiac Surgery Society.
Dr. Arora was appointed the Director of Research for the Section of Cardiac Surgery 2007 and the Associate Director of Research for the Department Surgery in 2015 to 2017. Dr. Arora was promoted to the Full Professor in Surgery, Anesthesia and Physiology & Pathophysiology at the University of Manitoba in 2016. In 2017 was appointed to Section Head of Cardiac Surgery for the WRHA and University of Manitoba.

Presentation(s):

• CANADA'S CARDIO-TWITTERATI PRESENT: TWEETCHATS, TWEETORIALS AND TWITTER RAFTS

  Thursday, October 24
  1:30 PM – 2:00 PM

• "CHIP"PING AWAY AT HF: A FRANK DISCUSSION ON FRAILTY, HFREF AND PROCEDURAL INTERVENTIONS

  Friday, October 25
  9:00 AM – 10:00 AM

• "CHIP"PING AWAY AT HF: A FRANK DISCUSSION ON FRAILTY, HFREF AND PROCEDURAL INTERVENTIONS

  Friday, October 25
  9:00 AM – 10:00 AM

• CANCARE LIMELIGHT SESSION: PAIN, AGITATION/SEDATION, DELIRIUM, IMMOBILITY, AND SLEEP IN CARDIOVASCULAR CRITICAL CARE: NEW GUIDELINES AND UPDATES FROM THE SOCIETY OF CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE

  Friday, October 25
  12:00 PM – 12:30 PM

• THE FUTURE OF HEART TRANSPLANTATION IN CANADA IS HERE! WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT DONATION AFTER CIRCULATORY DEATH?

  Saturday, October 26
  9:00 AM – 10:00 AM

• THE OPTIMAL TIMING OF CARDIAC SURGERY FOR PATIENT WITH A MECHANICAL COMPLICATION FROM STEMI WHO ARE NOT HEMODYNAMICALLY UNSTABLE

  Saturday, October 26
  9:00 AM – 10:00 AM

• 264 - PREVENTION AND MANAGEMENT OF SPINAL CORD ISCHEMIA FOLLOWING AORTIC SURGERY: A NATIONWIDE SURVEY

  Saturday, October 26
  10:45 AM – 11:00 AM

• PLANNING YOUR RESEARCH CAREER: LIFE AFTER THE PHD

  Saturday, October 26
  2:00 PM – 3:00 PM