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Rakesh C. Arora, MD, PhD, FRCSC (he/him/his)

Director - Perioperative and Cardiac Critical Care
University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center
Cleveland, Ohio, United States

In 2022, Dr. Arora joined the Division of Cardiac Surgery in the Harrington Heart Vascular Institute (HHVI) at the University Hospitals as the Director of Perioperative and Cardiac Critical Care. He is presently a clinical professor at Case Western Reserve University, holds Dr. Alan H. Markowitz, MD, endowed Chair for Cardiac Surgery at University Hospitals. He is also the director of clinical research for the cardiac surgery division with the Harrington HV. His personal research interests have concentrated on enhancing the recovery and care of critically ill cardiac patients. He has a specific focus on delirium and frailty in older adults undergoing cardiovascular surgery. He has received funding from the CIHR, HSFC and the Canadian Frailty Network. Dr. Arora has over 290 peer-reviewed manuscripts and book chapters and is an internationally invited speaker for his team’s clinical and research endeavours.

In addition to this, he has held several prestigious positions, including Past-President of the American Delirium Society (2015) and Co-Founder of the International Federation of Delirium Societies (iDelirium), he has been appointed to the Executive of the Enhanced Recovery after Surgery Cardiac Surgery Society (ERAS-CS) (2018) and as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery (Perioperative Management Section), Chair Society of Thoracic Surgeons Workforce for Critical Care (2019) and the President for the Canadian Society of Cardiac Surgeons (2020).

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