University Appointment:

Professor of Medicine, University of Toronto

Hospital Appointments:

Site Director, Intensive Care Unit, Mount Sinai Hospital

Education Director, Intensive Care Unit, Mount Sinai Hospital

Active Staff, Mount Sinai Hospital

Associate Staff, University Health Network

Clinical activities:

Critical care

General Respirology

Respiratory diseases in pregnancy

Research interests:

Critical care management of the pregnant patient

Development of a pregnancy-specific severity of illness score

Mechanical ventilation in acute lung injury

Non-invasive ventilation in acute respiratory failure

Technology Application in Critical care (www.medtau.org)

Publications (Pubmed link)

Recent Book Chapters

Lapinsky SE, Slutsky AS. Ventilator Management, In: Wachter RM, Goldman L, Hollander H (eds) Hospital Medicine, Lippincott Williams and Wilkens, 2000

Schaefer OP, Lapinsky SE, Grossman RF. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. In: Manual of Intensive Care Medicine, 3^rd edition, R. Irwin (ed), Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2000.

S. Lapinsky, J. Weshler, M. Varkul, S. Mehta, T. Stewart. Evaluation of Handheld Computers in Critical Care. Evaluation of handheld computers in critical care. In: H-P. Bruch, F. Kockerling, R. Bouchard, C. Schug-Pab (Eds), New Aspects of High technology in Medicine, p279 - 284; Monduzzi Editore, Bologna, Italy, 2000

Lapinsky SE.  Trauma in pregnancy. In: APICE - Proceedings of the 16^th Postgraduate Course in Critical Care Medicine, Gullo A (Ed), Springer Verlag, Milan, Italy, 2001

Lapinsky SE. Care of the critically ill pregnant patient. In: Parsons & Wiener-Kronish (eds),  Critical Care Secrets 3^rd Ed, Hanley and Belfus Inc, Philadelphia, 2003

 Granton JT, Lapinsky SE. ICU management of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome. In: Griffiths MJD, Evans TW (Eds) Respiratory Management in Critical Care. BMJ Books, London, 2004

 Lapinsky SE, Slutsky AS. Pulmonary manifestations of systemic conditions: Pregnancy, In: Albert, Spiro and Jett (eds), Clinical Respiratory Medicine, 2nd Ed, Mosby, Philadelphia, 2004.

 Lapinsky SE.  The expanding role for handheld computing in the hospital.  In: Hospital Healthcare Europe 2004/5, Campden Publishing Limited, London, 2004.

 Lapinsky SE, Slutsky AS. Ventilator Management, In: Wachter RM, Goldman L, Hollander H (eds) Hospital Medicine, 2nd ed, Lippincott Williams and Wilkens, 2005

Rizk N, Lapinsky SE. The lungs in obstetric and gynaecologic disease. In: Murray and Nadel, Textbook of Respiratory Medicine. 4th Ed, Elsevier, Philadelphia, 2005.