• Portrait of Dr. Murdoch Leeies.
  • Assistant professor

    Max Rady College of Medicine
    Emergency Medicine
    S203 Medical Services Building
    750 Bannatyne Avenue
    University of Manitoba
    Winnipeg, MB, R3E 0W2

    murdoch.leeies@umanitoba.ca

Leadership

Dr. Leeies is the director of the research program for the department of emergency medicine and is leading the development of an infrastructure to durably support research in emergency medicine in Manitoba. In addition to research, Dr. Leeies is an advocate for health equity in his clinical and academic spheres. He co-chairs an interdisciplinary committee on equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) for the department of emergency medicine and is an active member of the Canadian Association of Emergency Medicine 2SLGBTQIA+ committee. Dr. Leeies chairs the University of Manitoba Critical Care Medicine EDI committee and is the director of EDI for the Canadian Critical Care Society.

Teaching

Dr. Leeies loves working with learners and trainees, as well as colleagues seeking continuing medical education. He supervises medical students and resident physicians in both emergency medicine and critical care medicine during their clinical rotations. Dr. Leeies leads the research curriculum for the department of emergency medicine and is developing an equity, diversity and inclusion curriculum for interdisciplinary staff in emergency medicine and critical care medicine.

Research summary

Dr. Leeies leads a program of research with a focus on health equity in organ and tissue donation and transplantation in Canada with a goal of improving access and outcomes through targeted interventions. Dr. Leeies is developing a 2SLGBTQIA+ patient advisory team for the Transplant Manitoba Gift of Life organ donation program in partnership with the University of Manitoba's Centre for Healthcare Innovation and the Manitoba Society for Patient Oriented Research.

Other areas of research interest include the promotion of equity and the disruption of racism in emergency medicine, immunomodulatory therapies in septic shock and advanced airway management.

Keywords

  • Health equity
  • Equity
  • Diversity
  • Inclusion
  • Trauma informed care
  • Social justice

Research groups

 

Biography

Dr. Murdoch Leeies is an assistant professor in the Max Rady College of Medicine at the University of Manitoba. He works clinically in Manitoba as an emergency medicine, critical care medicine and organ donation specialist physician. Dr. Leeies is trained in clinical epidemiology and is the research director for the department of emergency medicine at the University of Manitoba. Dr. Leeies is leading a collaborative program of research with a focus on the promotion of equity, diversity and inclusion in organ donation and transplantation in Canada.

Education

  • Bachelor of Science (Psychology), BSc, University of Manitoba (2005)
  • Medical Doctorate, MD, University of Manitoba (2010)
  • Master of Science (Clinical epidemiology), MSc, University of Manitoba (2019)

 

Contact us

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Emergency Medicine
S203 Medical Services Building
750 Bannatyne Avenue 
University of Manitoba (Bannatyne campus)
Winnipeg, MB R3E 0W2 Canada

204-272-3060