Biography

Dr. Steve Lin is an emergency physician, trauma team leader, and scientist in the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute of St. Michael’s Hospital. He is an Associate Professor and clinician-scientist in the Division of Emergency Medicine, Department of Medicine with appointments at the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, and the Institute of Medical Science at the University of Toronto. He is also an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Physics at Ryerson University. Dr. Lin’s translational research program aims to improve resuscitation and outcomes in cardiac arrest patients. He is the Co-PI of the Canadian Sudden Cardiac Arrest Network (c-scan.org) and of the CIHR-funded Epinephrine Dose: Optimal Versus Standard Evaluation (EpiDOSE) randomized controlled trial (NCT03826524).

Dr. Lin is an Advanced Cardiac Life Support medical director and instructor at the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada, and is currently the medical director of the ACLS education program at Unity Health Toronto. He is an evidence reviewer for the International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation and a chapter author for the 2015 American Heart Association Guidelines for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Emergency Cardiovascular Care.

Recent Publications

  1. O'Neill, M, Cheskes, S, Drennan, I, Keown-Stoneman, C, Lin, S, Nolan, B et al.. Injury severity bias in missing prehospital vital signs: Prevalence and implications for trauma registries. Injury. 2024; :111747. doi: 10.1016/j.injury.2024.111747. PubMed PMID:39054233 .
  2. Lordly, K, Karataş, AE, Lin, S, Umapathy, K, Mohindra, R. Effectiveness of a suction device for containment of pathogenic aerosols and droplets. PLoS One. 2024;19 (7):e0305842. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0305842. PubMed PMID:39046940 .
  3. Lin, S, Drennan, IR. Challenges in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest trial design. Resuscitation. 2024;201 :110317. doi: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2024.110317. PubMed PMID:39009273 .
  4. Darabi, F, Tan, NS, Allan, KS, Lin, S, Angaran, P, Dorian, P et al.. ICD Implantation Rates in Cardiac Arrest Survivors in Canada. CJC Open. 2024;6 (5):699-707. doi: 10.1016/j.cjco.2023.12.011. PubMed PMID:38846442 PubMed Central PMC11150952.
  5. Armour, R, Ghamarian, E, Helmer, J, Buick, JE, Thorpe, K, Austin, M et al.. Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Canadian emergency medical system management of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: A retrospective cohort study. Resuscitation. 2024;194 :110054. doi: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2023.110054. PubMed PMID:37992799 .
  6. Rahimi, M, Dorian, P, Cheskes, S, Lebovic, G, Lin, S. The Effect of Time to Treatment With Antiarrhythmic Drugs on Survival and Neurological Outcomes in Shock Refractory Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest. Crit Care Med. 2023;51 (7):903-912. doi: 10.1097/CCM.0000000000005846. PubMed PMID:37318289 .
  7. Myers, V, Mastoras, G, Lin, S, Gray, S. Just the facts: sodium bicarbonate usage in the emergency department. CJEM. 2023;25 (6):465-467. doi: 10.1007/s43678-023-00484-4. PubMed PMID:36967407 .
  8. Sem, M, Mastrangelo, E, Lightfoot, D, Aves, T, Lin, S, Mohindra, R et al.. The ability of machine learning algorithms to predict defibrillation success during cardiac arrest: A systematic review. Resuscitation. 2023;185 :109755. doi: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2023.109755. PubMed PMID:36842672 .
  9. Fernando, SM, Mathew, R, Sadeghirad, B, Rochwerg, B, Hibbert, B, Munshi, L et al.. Epinephrine in Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest: A Network Meta-analysis and Subgroup Analyses of Shockable and Nonshockable Rhythms. Chest. 2023;164 (2):381-393. doi: 10.1016/j.chest.2023.01.033. PubMed PMID:36736487 .
  10. Rennie, O, Lin, S, Mohindra, R. Resuscitation meets precision medicine: Towards a model of patient-centered, perfusion-guided cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Resusc Plus. 2022;12 :100313. doi: 10.1016/j.resplu.2022.100313. PubMed PMID:36211326 PubMed Central PMC9535313.
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Affiliations & Other Activities

  • Emergency Physician and Trauma Team Leader, St. Michael’s Hospital
  • Associate Professor, Clinician-Scientist, Division of Emergency Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto