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Dr. Brian Grunau is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the University of British Columbia (UBC) Department of Emergency Medicine, a Scientist at the Centre for Advancing Health Outcomes within the Providence Healthcare Research Institute, the Resuscitation Innovation Lead in the BC Emergency Medicine Network, and is the Director of the St. Paul’s Hospital (SPH) ECPR program for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA). Since completing a Doctor of Medicine from the University of Manitoba, and residency training at UBC, he has worked as a staff Emergency Physician at SPH since 2011. He completed a clinical research fellowship and a Masters of Health Sciences (MHSc) at the UBC School of Population and Public Health (2014 – 2016).
Dr. Grunau’s primary research interest is the management of OHCA in refractory arrest, and has published over 140 peer-reviewed articles. He a Canadian Resuscitation Outcomes Consortium steering committee member, and is the co-Director of the BC Resuscitation Research Collaborative . He has twice been awarded the American Heart Association (AHA) Young Investigator Award, and in 2023 was selected for the 3CPR AHA Mid-Career Investigator Award & Lecture. Dr. Grunau volunteers as a content expert for the Heart and Stroke Foundation (HSF), and is a member of the International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation Advanced Life Support Task Force.
Extracorporeal CPR (ECPR) is a research interest of Dr. Grunau, and he played the lead role in the development of the ED-based SPH OHCA ECPR Program, and in the expansion of this service to a regional program in partnership with BC Emergency Health Services. He is specifically interested in how the integration of ECPR into the management of OHCA’s may improve the overall survival of eligible patients within a regional emergency medical system. He has spoken internationally to multiple audiences on the topic of ECPR program development.
