Wendy Sligl

Area of Study / Keywords

bacteremia ICU antibiotic duration outcomes critical illness infection; prevention; probiotics; critical care; bacteremia; critical care; duration of therapy

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About

Dr. Wendy Sligl is a Professor in the Department of Critical Care Medicine and Division of Infectious Diseases at the University of Alberta. She graduated from the University of British Columbia with a BSc in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology in 1996 and MD in 2001. She completed her training in General Internal Medicine, Infectious Diseases, and Critical Care Medicine at the University of Alberta from 2001-2007. She practices in the Intensive Care Unit as well as in General and Transplant Infectious Diseases. She has a Master’s of Science in Epidemiology from the Harvard School of Public Health and holds an Adjunct Appointment in the University of Alberta's School of Public Health. She is a Clinician Scientist with interests in sepsis, pneumonia, bloodstream infections, respiratory viral infections and infections in the immune compromised host.

Buzo BF, Preiksaitis JK, Halloran K, Nagendran J, Townsend DR, Zelyas N, Sligl WI.

Transplant Infectious Disease. 2022 August; 10.1111/tid.13940

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Saito S, Shahbaz S, Sligl W, Osman M, Tyrrell DL, Elahi S.

Microbiol Spectr.. 2022 August; 10 (4):e0173022 10.1128/spectrum.01730-22

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Kariyawasam R.M., Dingle T.C., Kula B.E., Vandermeer B., Sligl W.I., Schwartz I.S.

Clin Microbiol Infect. 2022 July; 28 (7):920-927 10.1016/j.cmi.2022.01.027

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Lamontagne F., Masse M.H., Menard J., Sprague S., Pinto R., Heyland D.K., Cook D.J., Battista M.C., Day A.G., Guyatt G.H., Kanji S., Parke R., McGuinness S.P., Tirupakuzhi Vijayaraghavan B.K., Annane D., Cohen D., Arabi Y.M., Bolduc B., Marinoff N., Rochwerg B., Millen T., Meade M.O., Hand L., Watpool I., Porteous R., Young P.J., D'Aragon F., Belley-Cote E.P., Carbonneau E., Clarke F., Maslove D.M., Hunt M., Chasse M., Lebrasseur M., Lauzier F., Mehta S., Quiroz-Martinez H., Rewa O.G., Charbonney E., Seely A.J.E., Kutsogiannis D.J., LeBlanc R., Mekontso-Dessap A., Mele T.S., Turgeon A.F., Wood G., Kohli S.S., Shahin J., Twardowski P., Adhikari N.K.J.

NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE. 2022 June; 386 (25):2387-2398 10.1056/NEJMoa2200644

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JAMMI. 2022 June; 10.3138/jammi.7.s1.abst

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Bradbury C.A., Lawler P.R., Stanworth S.J., McVerry B.J., McQuilten Z., Higgins A.M., Mouncey P.R., Al-Beidh F., Rowan K.M., Berry L.R., Lorenzi E., Zarychanski R., Arabi Y.M., Annane D., Beane A., Van Bentum-Puijk W., Bhimani Z., Bihari S., Bonten M.J.M., Brunkhorst F.M., Buzgau A., Buxton M., Carrier M., Cheng A.C., Cove M., Detry M.A., Estcourt L.J., Fitzgerald M., Girard T.D., Goligher E.C., Goossens H., Haniffa R., Hills T., Huang D.T., Horvat C.M., Hunt B.J., Ichihara N., Lamontagne F., Leavis H.L., Linstrum K.M., Litton E., Marshall J.C., McAuley D.F., McGlothlin A., McGuinness S.P., Middeldorp S., Montgomery S.K., Morpeth S.C., Murthy S., Neal M.D., Nichol A.D., Parke R.L., Parker J.C., Reyes L.F., Saito H., Santos M.S., Saunders C.T., Serpa-Neto A., Seymour C.W., Shankar-Hari M., Singh V., Tolppa T., Turgeon A.F., Turner A.M., Van De Veerdonk F.L., Green C., Lewis R.J., Angus D.C., McArthur C.J., Berry S., Derde L.P.G., Webb S.A., Gordon A.C.

JAMA-JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION. 2022 April; 327 (13):1247-1259 10.1001/jama.2022.2910

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Opgenorth D., Baig N., Fiest K., Karvellas C., Kutsogiannis J., Lau V., Macintyre E., Senaratne J., Slemko J., Sligl W., Wang X., Bagshaw S.M., Rewa O.G.

Trials. 2022 March; 23 (1) 10.1186/s13063-022-06115-0

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Wang K., Gheblawi M., Nikhanj A., Munan M., MacIntyre E., O’Neil C., Poglitsch M., Colombo D., Del Nonno F., Kassiri Z., Sligl W., Oudit G.Y.

HYPERTENSION. 2022 February; 79 (2):365-378 10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.121.18295

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Ali K., Azher T., Baqi M., Binnie A., Borgia S., Carrier F.M., Cavayas Y.A., Chagnon N., Cheng M.P., Conly J., Costiniuk C., Daley P., Daneman N., Douglas J., Downey C., Duan E., Duceppe E., Durand M., English S., Farjou G., Fera E., Fontela P., Fowler R., Fralick M., Geagea A., Grant J., Harrison L.B., Havey T., Hoang H., Kelly L.E., Keynan Y., Khwaja K., Klein G., Klein M., Kolan C., Kronfli N., Lamontagne F., Lau M., Lee T.C., Lee N., Lim R., Longo S., Lostun A., MacIntyre E., Malhamé I., Mangof K., McGuinty M., Mergler S., Munan M.P., Murthy S., O’Neil C., Ovakim D., Papenburg J., Parhar K., Parvathy S.N., Patel C., Perez-Patrigeon S., Pinto R., Rajakumaran S., Rishu A., Roba-Oshin M., Rushton M., Saleem M., Salvadori M., Scherr K., Schwartz K., Semret M., Silverman M., Singh A., Sligl W., Smith S., Somayaji R., Tan D.H.S., Tobin S., Todd M., Tran T.V., Tremblay A., Tsang J., Turgeon A., Vakil E., Weatherald J., Yansouni C., Zarychanski R., Antuna-Puente B., Arhanchiague E., Arlotto P., Aslam Z., Auld F., Bellemare D., Bogoch I., Chaubey V., Cloutier È., Connora W., Costerousse O., DiDiodato G., Fell C., Gamble G., Giilck S., Ginocchio G., Go S., Graham C., Gupta K., Guy B., Heendeniya A., John S., Kandel C., Ladelfa A., Lellouche F., Mah A., Mandelzweig K., Manocha S., Marek C., Marticonrena R.M., Matte S., Messier-Peet M., Mitchell P., Owen E., Parfitt E., Patterson L., Peermohamed S., Poirier G., Poutanen S.M., Powis J., Press N., Sales V., Taylor M.

CANADIAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION JOURNAL. 2022 February; 194 (7):E242-E251 10.1503/CMAJ.211698

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Philippe Bégin, Jeannie Callum, Richard Cook, Erin Jamula, Yang Liu, Andrés Finzi, CONCOR-1 Study Group; Donald M Arnold

Nature Medicine. 2022 January; 28 (1):53-58 10.1038/s41591-021-01639-5

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Bégin P, Callum J, Jamula E, Cook R, Heddle NM, Tinmouth A, Zeller MP, Beaudoin-Bussières G, Amorim L, Bazin R, Loftsgard KC, Carl R, Chassé M, Cushing MM, Daneman N, Devine DV, Dumaresq J, Fergusson DA, Gabe C, Glesby MJ, Li N, Liu Y, McGeer A, Robitaille N, Sachais BS, Scales DC, Schwartz L, Shehata N, Turgeon AF, Wood H, Zarychanski R, Finzi A; CONCOR-1 Study Group, Arnold DM.

Nature Medicine. 2022 January; 28 (1):212 10.1038/s41591-021-01667-1

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Lau V.I., Binnie A., Basmaji J., Baig N., Opgenorth D., Cameron S., O’Hearn K., McDonald E., Senaratne J., Sligl W., Zuege D.J., Rewa O., Bagshaw S.M., Tsang J.

Journal of Intensive Care Medicine. 2021 December; 10.1177/08850666211064844

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Convalescent plasma for hospitalized patients with COVID-19: an open-label, randomized controlled trial. Bégin P, Callum J, Jamula E, Cook R, Heddle NM, Tinmouth A, Zeller MP, Beaudoin-Bussières G, Amorim L, Bazin R, Loftsgard KC, Carl R, Chassé M, Cushing MM, Daneman N, Devine DV, Dumaresq J, Fergusson DA, Gabe C, Glesby MJ, Li N, Liu Y, McGeer A, Robitaille N, Sachais BS, Scales DC, Schwartz L, Shehata N, Turgeon AF, Wood H, Zarychanski R, Finzi A; CONCOR-1 Study Group, Arnold DM.

NATURE MEDICINE. 2021 November; 27 (11):2012-2024 10.1038/s41591-021-01488-2

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Estcourt L.J., Turgeon A.F., McQuilten Z.K., McVerry B.J., Al-Beidh F., Annane D., Arabi Y.M., Arnold D.M., Beane A., Bégin P., Van Bentum-Puijk W., Berry L.R., Bhimani Z., Birchall J.E., Bonten M.J.M., Bradbury C.A., Brunkhorst F.M., Buxton M., Callum J.L., Chassé M., Cheng A.C., Cove M.E., Daly J., Derde L., Detry M.A., De Jong M., Evans A., Fergusson D.A., Fish M., Fitzgerald M., Foley C., Goossens H., Gordon A.C., Gosbell I.B., Green C., Haniffa R., Harvala H., Higgins A.M., Hills T.E., Hoad V.C., Horvat C., Huang D.T., Hudson C.L., Ichihara N., Laing E., Lamikanra A.A., Lamontagne F., Lawler P.R., Linstrum K., Litton E., Lorenzi E., Maclennan S., Marshall J., McAuley D.F., McDyer J.F., McGlothlin A., McGuinness S., Miflin G., Montgomery S., Mouncey P.R., Murthy S., Nichol A., Parke R., Parker J.C., Priddee N., Purcell D.F.J., Reyes L.F., Richardson P., Robitaille N., Rowan K.M., Rynne J., Saito H., Santos M., Saunders C.T., Serpa Neto A., Seymour C.W., Silversides J.A., Tinmouth A.A., Triulzi D.J., Turner A.M., Van De Veerdonk F., Walsh T.S., Wood E.M., Berry S., Lewis R.J., Menon D.K., McArthur C., Zarychanski R., Angus D.C., Webb S.A., Roberts D.J., Shankar-Hari M.

JAMA-JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION. 2021 November; 326 (17):1690-1702 10.1001/jama.2021.18178

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Johnstone J., Meade M., Lauzier F., Marshall J., Duan E., Dionne J., Arabi Y.M., Heels-Ansdell D., Thabane L., Lamarche D., Surette M., Zytaruk N., Mehta S., Dodek P., McIntyre L., English S., Rochwerg B., Karachi T., Henderson W., Wood G., Ovakim D., Herridge M., Granton J., Wilcox M.E., Goffi A., Stelfox H.T., Niven D., Muscedere J., Lamontagne F., D'Aragon F., St.-Arnaud C., Ball I., Nagpal D., Girard M., Aslanian P., Charbonney E., Williamson D., Sligl W., Friedrich J., Adhikari N.K., Marquis F., Archambault P., Khwaja K., Kristof A., Kutsogiannis J., Zarychanski R., Paunovic B., Reeve B., Lellouche F., Hosek P., Tsang J., Binnie A., Trop S., Loubani O., Hall R., Cirone R., Reynolds S., Lysecki P., Golan E., Cartin-Ceba R., Taylor R., Cook D.

JAMA-JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION. 2021 September; 326 (11):1024-1033 10.1001/jama.2021.13355

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Kanji J.N., Bailey A., Fenton J., Ling S.H., Rivera R., Plitt S., Sligl W.I., Taylor S., Turnbull L.A., Tipples G., Charlton C.L.

VACCINE. 2021 September; 39 (39):5563-5570 10.1016/j.vaccine.2021.08.022

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Shahbaz S., Xu L., Sligl W., Osman M., Bozorgmehr N., Mashhouri S., Redmond D., Rosero E.P., Walker J., Elahi S.

Journal of Immunology. 2021 August; 207 (4):1099-1111 10.4049/jimmunol.2100446

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Arabi YM, Gordon AC, Derde LPG, Nichol AD, Murthy S, Beidh FA, Annane D, Swaidan LA, Beane A, Beasley R, Berry LR, Bhimani Z, Bonten MJM, Bradbury CA, Brunkhorst FM, Buxton M, Buzgau A, Cheng A, De Jong M, Detry MA, Duffy EJ, Estcourt LJ, Fitzgerald M, Fowler R, Girard TD, Goligher EC, Goossens H, Haniffa R, Higgins AM, Hills TE, Horvat CM, Huang DT, King AJ, Lamontagne F, Lawler PR, Lewis R, Linstrum K, Litton E, Lorenzi E, Malakouti S, McAuley DF, McGlothlin A, Mcguinness S, McVerry BJ, Montgomery SK, Morpeth SC, Mouncey PR, Orr K, Parke R, Parker JC, Patanwala AE, Rowan KM, Santos MS, Saunders CT, Seymour CW, Shankar-Hari M, Tong SYC, Turgeon AF, Turner AM, Van de Veerdonk FL, Zarychanski R, Green C, Berry S, Marshall JC, McArthur C, Angus DC, Webb SA; REMAP-CAP Investigators.

INTENSIVE CARE MEDICINE. 2021 August; 47 (8):867-886 10.1007/s00134-021-06448-5

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REMAP-CAP Investigators; ACTIV-4a Investigators; ATTACC Investigators, Goligher EC, Bradbury CA, McVerry BJ, Lawler PR, Berger JS, Gong MN, Carrier M, Reynolds HR, Kumar A, Turgeon AF, Kornblith LZ, Kahn SR, Marshall JC, Kim KS, Houston BL, Derde LPG, Cushman M, Tritschler T, Angus DC, Godoy LC, McQuilten Z, Kirwan BA, Farkouh ME, Brooks MM, Lewis RJ, Berry LR, Lorenzi E, Gordon AC, Ahuja T, Al-Beidh F, Annane D, Arabi YM, Aryal D, Baumann Kreuziger L, Beane A, Bhimani Z, Bihari S, Billett HH, Bond L, Bonten M, Brunkhorst F, Buxton M, Buzgau A, Castellucci LA, Chekuri S, Chen JT, Cheng AC, Chkhikvadze T, Coiffard B, Contreras A, Costantini TW, de Brouwer S, Detry MA, Duggal A, D�avík V, Effron MB, Eng HF, Escobedo J, Estcourt LJ, Everett BM, Fergusson DA, Fitzgerald M, Fowler RA, Froess JD, Fu Z, Galanaud JP, Galen BT, Gandotra S, Girard TD, Goodman AL, Goossens H, Green C, Greenstein YY, Gross PL, Haniffa R, Hegde SM, Hendrickson CM, Higgins AM, Hindenburg AA, Hope AA, Horowitz JM, Horvat CM, Huang DT, Hudock K, Hunt BJ, Husain M, Hyzy RC, Jacobson JR, Jayakumar D, Keller NM, Khan A, Kim Y, Kindzelski A, King AJ, Knudson MM, Kornblith AE, Kutcher ME, Laffan MA, Lamontagne F, Le Gal G, Leeper CM, Leifer ES, Lim G, Gallego Lima F, Linstrum K, Litton E, Lopez-Sendon J, Lother SA, Marten N, Saud Marinez A, Martinez M, Mateos Garcia E, Mavromichalis S, McAuley DF, McDonald EG, McGlothlin A, McGuinness SP, Middeldorp S, Montgomery SK, Mouncey PR, Murthy S, Nair GB, Nair R, Nichol AD, Nicolau JC, Nunez-Garcia B, Park JJ, Park PK, Parke RL, Parker JC, Parnia S, Paul JD, Pompilio M, Quigley JG, Rosenson RS, Rost NS, Rowan K, Santos FO, Santos M, Santos MO, Satterwhite L, Saunders CT, Schreiber J, Schutgens REG, Seymour CW, Siegal DM, Silva DG Jr, Singhal AB, Slutsky AS, Solvason D, Stanworth SJ, Turner AM, van Bentum-Puijk W, van de Veerdonk FL, van Diepen S, Vazquez-Grande G, Wahid L, Wareham V, Widmer RJ, Wilson JG, Yuriditsky E, Zhong Y, Berry SM, McArthur CJ, Neal MD, Hochman JS, Webb SA, Zarychanski R.

New England Journal of Medicine. 2021 August; 385 (9):777-789 10.1056/NEJMoa2103417

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ATTACC Investigators; ACTIV-4a Investigators; REMAP-CAP Investigators, Lawler PR, Goligher EC, Berger JS, Neal MD, McVerry BJ, Nicolau JC, Gong MN, Carrier M, Rosenson RS, Reynolds HR, Turgeon AF, Escobedo J, Huang DT, Bradbury CA, Houston BL, Kornblith LZ, Kumar A, Kahn SR, Cushman M, McQuilten Z, Slutsky AS, Kim KS, Gordon AC, Kirwan BA, Brooks MM, Higgins AM, Lewis RJ, Lorenzi E, Berry SM, Berry LR, Aday AW, Al-Beidh F, Annane D, Arabi YM, Aryal D, Baumann Kreuziger L, Beane A, Bhimani Z, Bihari S, Billett HH, Bond L, Bonten M, Brunkhorst F, Buxton M, Buzgau A, Castellucci LA, Chekuri S, Chen JT, Cheng AC, Chkhikvadze T, Coiffard B, Costantini TW, de Brouwer S, Derde LPG, Detry MA, Duggal A, D�avík V, Effron MB, Estcourt LJ, Everett BM, Fergusson DA, Fitzgerald M, Fowler RA, Galanaud JP, Galen BT, Gandotra S, García-Madrona S, Girard TD, Godoy LC, Goodman AL, Goossens H, Green C, Greenstein YY, Gross PL, Hamburg NM, Haniffa R, Hanna G, Hanna N, Hegde SM, Hendrickson CM, Hite RD, Hindenburg AA, Hope AA, Horowitz JM, Horvat CM, Hudock K, Hunt BJ, Husain M, Hyzy RC, Iyer VN, Jacobson JR, Jayakumar D, Keller NM, Khan A, Kim Y, Kindzelski AL, King AJ, Knudson MM, Kornblith AE, Krishnan V, Kutcher ME, Laffan MA, Lamontagne F, Le Gal G, Leeper CM, Leifer ES, Lim G, Lima FG, Linstrum K, Litton E, Lopez-Sendon J, Lopez-Sendon Moreno JL, Lother SA, Malhotra S, Marcos M, Saud Marinez A, Marshall JC, Marten N, Matthay MA, McAuley DF, McDonald EG, McGlothlin A, McGuinness SP, Middeldorp S, Montgomery SK, Moore SC, Morillo Guerrero R, Mouncey PR, Murthy S, Nair GB, Nair R, Nichol AD, Nunez-Garcia B, Pandey A, Park PK, Parke RL, Parker JC, Parnia S, Paul JD, Pérez González YS, Pompilio M, Prekker ME, Quigley JG, Rost NS, Rowan K, Santos FO, Santos M, Olombrada Santos M, Satterwhite L, Saunders CT, Schutgens REG, Seymour CW, Siegal DM, Silva DG Jr, Shankar-Hari M, Sheehan JP, Singhal AB, Solvason D, Stanworth SJ, Tritschler T, Turner AM, van Bentum-Puijk W, van de Veerdonk FL, van Diepen S, Vazquez-Grande G, Wahid L, Wareham V, Wells BJ, Widmer RJ, Wilson JG, Yuriditsky E, Zampieri FG, Angus DC, McArthur CJ, Webb SA, Farkouh ME, Hochman JS, Zarychanski R.

New England Journal of Medicine. 2021 August; 385 (9):790-802 10.1056/NEJMoa2105911