Robert Stenstrom, MD, PhD, CCFP-EM
Robert Stenstrom is an emergency physician was research director of the Department of Emergency Medicine at St Paul’s Hospital in Vancouver until 2019. He is currently a senior researcher there and completed medical school at McMaster University in Hamilton, emergency medicine residency training at the University of Ottawa, and a PhD in epidemiology and biostatistics at McGill University. He is currently the Innovation Program Lead for Sepsis and infections for the BC Emergency Medicine Network. Dr Stenstrom is a clinical professor of emergency medicine at the University of British Columbia and a scientist at the Centre for Health Evaluation and Outcome Sciences (CHÉOS).
Dr. Stenstrom’s primary research areas are sepsis and septic shock, infectious diseases, resistant bacteria, Hepatitis C and HIV, and out of hospital cardiac arrest. He was also involved in SARS research and Covid therapeutics. He currently is investigating biomarkers and genetic tests for severe sepsis, as well as investigating the utility of blood cultures in septic patients. Dr Stenstrom also has a strong interest and active involvement in health care in developing countries.
Email: rob.stenstrom@ubc.ca