Dr. Gregory Hare is a Staff Anesthesiologist at St. Michael’s Hospital and a Professor in the Department of Anesthesia at the University of Toronto. His clinical focus is to develop multimodal and inter-professional approaches to optimize patient outcomes through patient blood management strategies. His long term research goal is to define mechanisms of anemia-induced morbidity and mortality; and to design novel treatment strategies to prevent these adverse outcomes.
Dr. Hare’s research is focused on defining adaptive, and maladaptive, cardiovascular mechanisms in experimental models of acute anemia using integrative whole animal models. These translational studies have defined mechanism of anemia-induced tissue hypoxia and mortality. His laboratory has identified integrative adaptive cellular (nNOS and HIF) and physiological mechanisms which promote organism survival during acute anemia. In addition, their laboratory has demonstrated that acute beta-blockade interferes with adaptive cardiovascular mechanisms, which sustain cerebral oxygen delivery during anemia. This could possibly explain the negative interaction between acute anemia and beta-blockade and the increased incidence of stroke in perioperative patients.
The laboratory is currently focused on translational approaches to identify patient specific biomarkers of anemia-induced tissue hypoxia in order to identify when patients are at risk of anemia induced morbidity and mortality; and to derive patient specific therapies which can reduce morbidity and mortality associated with both anemia and red blood cell transfusion. The overall clinical goal is to reduce morbidity and mortality associated with acute and chronic anemia in perioperative patients.
