Researcher

Title

• Head, Research Axis - Infectious Diseases and Acute Care, CHU Sainte-Justine
• Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Université de Montréal (2023)
• Chercheur chevronné du Fonds de recherche du Québec en Santé (2023)

• PhD in Medicine and Biomedicine Signal and Imaging, Doctoral School of Health and Medical Engineering, Cognitive Processes and Environment, Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble 1, France, 2005-2009. Subject: Functional residual capacity variation in newborns and interaction with assisted ventilation.
• MSc in Biomedical Science, Epidemiology, University of Montreal, 2005.
• Interuniversity Diploma in Pediatric Intensive Care and Emergency, Université Claude Bernard, Lyon 1, France, 2005.
• Fellowship in Pediatric Intensive Care, CHU Sainte-Justine, Montreal, 2001-2003.
• Medical training and specialization in Pediatrics, Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble 1, France, 2001.

Dr. Emeriaud's area of research comprises 2 main pillars of applied clinical research:

• Improving pediatric assisted ventilation, in particular by optimizing interactions between patient and ventilator in pediatric intensive care. In particular, he has developed expertise in monitoring diaphragmatic function by evaluating the electrical activity of the diaphragm. The results of this work have led to less invasive and more effective assistance for children, notably with the NAVA (neurally adjusted ventilatory assist) mode.
• The development of automated decision support systems, notably in the field of neuromonitoring and craniocerebral trauma. Based on a unique IT infrastructure and high-frequency database, Dr Emeriaud's team aims to develop automated systems to assist clinical teams and ensure in real time that patients are in the best possible condition to heal.

• Pediatric invasive and non-invasive assisted ventilation
• Monitoring respiratory function in children in critical situations
• Pediatric Acute respiratory distress syndrome
• NAVA ventilation
• Neuromonitoring
• Automated clinical decision support systems 

Career Summary

Dr. Guillaume Emeriaud trained and specialized in pediatrics at the University of Grenoble. He then completed a sub-specialization in pediatric intensive care at the Université de Montréal and in France. In parallel with this subspecialization, he began training in clinical research, first at the Université de Montréal, then as part of a PhD at Grenoble's Université J Fourier.

He joined CHU Sainte Justine in 2009 as a clinician-researcher and pediatric intensivist.

He has always been supported as a FRQS scholar-clinician, as Junior 1, Junior 2, Senior, then  chercheur chevronné.

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Awards and Distinctions

• Prix d’Excellence en Recherche du Département de Pédiatrie, Université de Montréal. 2022
• CIHR Peer Review: Recognition of Outstanding Contributions. Récompensant la qualité de revision. 2023, 2021
• Guest Speaker, Conférence de Prestige Gilbert Huault du congrès Réanimation, Paris, France 2018
• Junior 2 Clinical Research Scholar, Fonds de recherche du Québec – Santé, 2015-2016
• Junior 1 Research Scholar, Fonds de recherche du Québec en santé, 2011-2015

Presentations

• PARDS: Controversies on Steroids and iNO. Emeriaud G. 16th European conference onf Pediatric and Neonatal Ventilation. Montreux, Suisse, 2023
• Self-inflicted Lung Injury : Do we have any evidence for it in children and neonates? Emeriaud G. 16th European conference onf Pediatric and Neonatal Ventilation. Montreux, Suisse, 2023
• Highlights of the new PALICC-2 recommendations. Emeriaud G. Critical Care Canada Forum (CCCF). Toronto, 2022
• Do we need the HFNC in the weaning process of NIV? Emeriaud G. 5th international Pediatric and Neonatal NIV meeting. Barcelona (Spain) 2022
• Electrical activity of the diaphragm as a monitoring parameter. Emeriaud G. 44th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Repiratory Care Medicine (JSRCM44). Japan

Publications

1. Emeriaud G, Pons-Òdena M, Bhalla AK, Shein SL, Killien EY, Modesto i Alapont V, Rowan C, Baudin F, Lin JC, Grégoire G, Napolitano N, Mayordomo-Colunga J, Diaz F, Cruces P, Smith L, Khemani RG, Pediatric Acute Respiratory Distress syndrome Incidence and Epidemiology (PARDIE) Investigators, Pediatric Acute Lung Injury and Sepsis Investigators (PALISI) Network. Non-Invasive Ventilation for Pediatric Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (PARDS): experience from the 2016/2017 PARDIE (PARDS Incidence and Epidemiology) prospective cohort study. Pediatr Crit Care Med 2023 Sep 1;24(9):715-726.
2. Tabone L, El-Tannoury J, Levy M, Sauthier M, Joram N, Du Pont-Thibodeau G, Bourgoin P, Al Omar S, Poirier N, Emeriaud G et Thibault C (co-senior authors). Determining optimal mean arterial blood pressure based on cerebral autoregulation in children after cardiac surgery. Pediatr Cardiol. 2024 Jan;45(1):81-91.
3. Milési C, Baudin F, Durand P, Emeriaud G, Essouri S, Pouyau R, Baleine J, Beldjilali S, Bordessoule A, Breinig S, Demaret P, Desprez P, Gaillard-Leroux B, Guichoux J, Guilbert AS, Guillot C, Jean S, Levy M, Noizet-Yverneau O, Rambaud J, Recher M, Reynaud S, Valla F, Radoui K, Faure MA, Ferraro G, Mortamet G, on behalf of the French speaking group for pediatric intensive and emergency care. Clinical Practice Guideline: Management of severe bronchiolitis in infants under 12 months old admitted to a pediatric critical care unit. Intensive Care Med 2023 ;49(1):5-25
4. Kneyber MCJ, Khemani RG, Bhalla A, Blokpoel RGT, Cruces P, Dahmer MK, Emeriaud G, Grunwell J, Ilia S, Katira BH, Lopez-Fernandez YM, Rajapreyar P, Sanchez-Pinto LN, Rimensberger PC. Understanding clinical and biological heterogeneity to advance precision medicine in paediatric acute respiratory distress syndrome. Lancet Respir Med 2023 Feb;11(2):197-212
5. Emeriaud G, López-Fernández YM, Iyer NP, Bembea MM, Agulnik A, Barbaro RP, Baudin F, Bhalla A, Brunow de Carvahlo W, Carroll CL, Cheifetz IM, Chisti MJ, Cruces P, Curley MAQ, Dahmer M, Dalton HJ, Erickson SJ, Essouri S, Fernández A, Flori HR, Grunwell JR, Jouvet P, Killien EY, Kneyber MCJ, Kudchadkar SR, Kwasi Korang S, Lee JH, Macrae D, Maddux A, Modesto i Alapont V, Morrow B, Nadkarni VM, Napolitano N, Newth CJL, Pons-Odena M, Quasney MW, Rajapreyar P, Rambaud J, Randolph AG, Rimensberger P, Rowan CM, Sanchez-Pinto LN, Sapru A, Sauthier M, Shein SL, Smith LS, Steffen K, Takeuchi M, Thomas NJ, Tse SM, Valentine S, Ward S, Watson RS, Yehya N, Zimmerman JJ, Khemani RG, for the Second Pediatric Acute Lung Injury Consensus Conference (PALICC-2) Group on behalf of the Pediatric Acute Lung Injury and Sepsis Investigators (PALISI) Network. Executive Summary of the Updated International Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Pediatric Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (PALICC-2). Pediatr Crit Care Med 2023;24(2):143-168
6. Plante V, Poirier C, Guay H, Said C, Sauthier M, Al-Omar S, Harrington K, Emeriaud G. Elevated diaphragmatic tonic activity in PICU patients: age-specific definitions, prevalence, and associated risk factors. Pediatr Crit Care Med 2023;24(6):447-457
7. Crulli B, Kawaguchi A, Praud JP, Petrof BJ, Harrington K, Emeriaud G*. Evolution of inspiratory muscle function in children during mechanical ventilation. Crit Care. 2021; 25(1):229.
8. Emeriaud G*, Napolitano N, Polikoff L, Giuliano J, Toedt-Pingel I, Crulli B, Miksa M, Li S, Nadkarni V, Bysani K, Hsing DD, Nett S, Turner D, Sanders R, Lee JH, Adu-Darko M, Owen EB, Gangadharan S, Parker M, Montgomery V, Craig N, Brunet F, Nishisaki A, and Near4KIDS investigators. Impact of failure of non-invasive ventilation on the safety of pediatric tracheal intubation. An international multicenter study. Crit Care Med. 2020:48:1503-1512
9. Rochon ME, Lodygensky GE, Essouri S, Morneau S, Sinderby C, Beck J, Emeriaud G*. Continuous Neurally Adjusted Ventilation (NeuroPAP): a feasibility study in preterm infants. Arch Dis Childhood Fetal and Neonatal edition. 2020;105(6):640-645
10. Mortamet G, Larouche A, Ducharme-Crevier L, Flechelles O, Constantin G, Essouri S, Pellerin-Leblanc AA, Beck J, Sinderby C, Jouvet P, Emeriaud G*. Patient-ventilator asynchrony during conventional mechanical ventilation in children. Annals of Intensive Care; 2017;7(1):122.