Brent Winston

Brent Winston, Professor (GFT)
Clinical Activities: FMC-MSICU and Neuro-TraumaICU

Departments of Critical Care Medicine, Medicine, and Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. 
Member: Immunology Research Group and Airway Inflammation Research Group, Snyder Institute for Chronic Diseases, Cumming School Of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
Administrative Responsibilities: Coordinator for Post Graduate DCCM Graduate Education Committee.  Member of the DCCM Research Committee and the DCCM Residency Education Committee.
Fellowship and Postgraduate Training: Critical Care Medicine, Pulmonary Medicine, Internal Medicine and Postgraduate Fellowship in molecular biology research.

Research Focus:

• We are primarily interested in using metabolomics to study human diseases in Critical Care. We continue to study metabolomics in sepsis, lung injury (ARDS) and head injury (traumatic brain injury, TBI).
• We have participated in the CanTBI Tissue bank platform collecting samples from TBI patients.  We have begun to analyze severe TBI patient samples using a metabolomics  approach with the goal of examining if metabolomics can be used for sTBI prognosis.
• Clinical/Translational studies on sepsis. We have participated in a number of sepsis clinical studies.  To this end, I have created a Critical Care Tissue bank (CCEPTR) to conduct translational research on clinically important problems in the ICU and have also created a wet lab within the ICU to manage patient samples.

My laboratory is particularly interested in conducting translational research on clinically relevant Critical Care disease processes with a particular interest in TBI, sepsis and ARDS.