Dr. Conor McDonnell is a Staff Anesthesiologist at the Hospital for Sick Children and an Associate Professor at the Temerty Faculty of Medicine in the Anesthesia and Pain Medicine Department. He completed his MB BCh BAO from the National University of Ireland (1994) and his MD from the University College Cork (2003).

Dr. McDonnell’s two main research pathways are within the fields of Medication Safety and Quality Improvement. His first focus is opioid safety and stewardship throughout pediatric hospital medicine with specific recent focus on opioid-prescribing for home use at time of surgical discharge. Dr. Mc Donnell has broadened this focus to encompass regional and national medication safety and opioid stewardship strategies via the Canadian Anesthesia Society. His second research focus is the design and performance of quality improvement projects within the Department of Anesthesia & Pain Medicine. These are suggested by the data collected within the department’s quality & safety program and have been implemented throughout many different facets of clinical pediatric anesthesia practice.

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