Allan Garland
Allan Garland is Associate Professor in the Departments of Medicine and Community Health Sciences at the University of Manitoba. He is co-head of the Section of Critical Care Medicine, and an Adjunct Scientist at the Manitoba Centre for Health Policy.
Dr. Garland received a B.S. from the University of Michigan and M.A. from Harvard University, both in physics. He completed his MD, Internal Medicine residency, and fellowship in Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine at the University of Chicago, where he studied neural mechanisms in asthma. Subsequently he has been on the Faculty at the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in New Jersey, and Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in Ohio. While at those Institutions he was the Director of their Medical Intensive Care Units.
Dr. Garland’s areas of research include: (1) the epidemiology and long-term outcomes of critical illness, (2) disparities in ICU access, (3) performance improvement in medical care, especially the relationships between clinical outcomes and ICU organization/structure, (4) variation in medical practice, (5) end-of-life care, (5) understanding and reducing use of useless and/or dangerous interventions in ICU care, and (6) statistical modeling methods.