Ewan Goligher MD, PhD is an Assistant Professor in the Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care Medicine and in the Department of Physiology at the University of Toronto and a Scientist at the Toronto General Hospital Research Institute.  His research program focuses on characterizing the mechanisms and impact of injury to the lung and diaphragm during mechanical ventilation and on the use of innovative clinical trial designs to test lung and diaphragm-protective ventilation strategies. He co-chairs the PRACTICAL international adaptive platform trial testing novel interventions for acute hypoxemic respiratory failure.