Dr. Simon Oczkowski Wins Department of Medicine Annual Award for Associate Professors
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Dr. Oczkowski has received a number of awards for his work including a Diamond Citation from the Society of Critical Care Medicine.
Congratulations to Dr. Simon Oczkowski on winning one of the Department’s Annual Awards for Associate Professors. He was promoted to Associate Professor, in the Division of Critical Care effective July 2020. He joined the Department in 2016. He was also appointed as an active staff member at Hamilton Health Sciences (HHS).
Dr. Oczkowski obtained his BASc and MD from McMaster University and completed his internal medicine residency and critical care residency also at McMaster. Subsequently, he obtained his MHSc in bioethics from the University of Toronto (UofT) in 2015 and gained experience as a clinical scholar in the Department of Medicine from 2014-2016. Since being a faculty member, Dr. Oczkowski took additional training at McMaster and obtained MSc in Clinical Epidemiology in 2018.
Among many achievements, Dr. Oczkowski has developed a mini-curriculum on bioethics in critical care where topics such as consent and capacity, disagreements over end-of-life care, research ethics and patient/ family- centered ICU care are discussed. Also, he collaboratively leads the Critical Care Journal Club where he is responsible for selecting articles for critical appraisal and mentoring critical care trainees.
Dr. Oczkowski has developed guidelines for the Society of Critical Care Medicine, European Society of Intensive Care Medicine, American Thoracic Society, European Respiratory Society, and European Society of Clinical Nutrition. Further, he has worked with HHS in developing medication policies, order sets, and documentation standards, most recently as an Associate Chief Medical Information Officer for the organization. He was also featured in a documentary entitled “The People’s Health”, which highlighted McMaster’s unique approach to medical education.
Dr. Oczkowski is a member of the Hamilton Integrated Research Ethics Board. In addition, he is Co-Chair of the Canadian Association of MAID (Medical Assistance in Dying) Assessors and Providers Research Committee, and has recently been on the executive of the Hamilton Academy of Medicine and an OMA Delegate (District 4) where he has been responsible for representing the interests of local physicians at the provincial level.
Dr. Oczkowski has published several systematic reviews and clinical guidelines. Currently, he has published over 70 peer reviewed papers, many as first or senior author, on a variety of topics in critical care and end of life care.
For his work, he has received a Diamond Citation from the Society of Critical Care Medicine, a Canadian Critical Care Trials Group Research Fellowship Award, and an Internal Career Award from the Department of Medicine at McMaster. He was also awarded the Medicine Subspecialty Selectives Teaching Award (2017/2018).
Please see Dr. Oczkowski’s Scholarly work at Mac Experts website.
Please read more about the Department’s Annual Awards ceremony here.
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