Dr. PJ Devereaux

Dr. Devereaux is a cardiologist, perioperative care physician, and clinical epidemiologist. He is the Director of the Division of Perioperative Care at McMaster University. Dr. Devereaux is the CEO and Scientific Director of the World Health Research Trust, an academic research organization focused on large international randomized clinical trials. He is the Deputy Director of the Population Health Research Institute (PHRI). He is a Senior Scientist and the Scientific Leader of the Anesthesiology, Perioperative Medicine, and Surgical Research Group at the PHRI. He is the Nominated Principal Applicant of the Accelerating Clinical Trials (ACT) Consortium, which is the Pan-Canadian Clinical Trials Consortium funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR). He also holds a Tier 1 Canadian Research Chair in Perioperative Medicine.

Dr. Devereaux is a full Professor at McMaster University. He is the President of the Society of Perioperative Research and Care. Dr. Devereaux has published >500 peer reviewed papers and >90 book chapters, editorials, and commentaries, including 19 in the New England Journal of Medicine, 15 in the Lancet, and 11 in JAMA. He has an h-index of 129. He has given >1000 lectures and research presentations in 44 countries. Dr. Devereaux’s research program focuses on major vascular complications during and after surgery. He has led many large international randomized trials and prospective cohort studies focused on major perioperative vascular complications.