Franco Carli

Profilo biografico

Francesco Carli, MD, MPhil, FRCA, FRCPC

Academic Profile

Professor of Anesthesia at McGill University and Associate Professor in the School of Dietetics and Human Nutrition at McGill University.

Previously Wesley Bourne Professor and Chairman of the McGill Department of Anesthesia (1994-2004)

Gold Medal, Canadian Anesthesiologists Society, 2012

Invited member of the American Academy of Anesthesiology

Board Member of the International Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) Society

President American Prehabilitation Society

President of the Peri-Operative Program (POP) Charitable Foundation

 Training

Completed his medical training and anesthesia training in Turin, Italy, Paris, France and London, England. 

Completed a Master in Surgical Metabolism at the University of London, England

Served as volunteer physician/educator at the Medical College of Monrovia (Liberia) (1974-1977), at Centre-Hopitalo Universitaire de Kigaly (Rwanda) (2006-2018).

Research interests

1. metabolic changes associated with surgery and the impact of perioperative interventions (regional analgesia, nutrition, hormones, exercise) on postoperative recovery;

2. evaluation of functional outcome measures during the surgical recovery process;

3. prehabilitation of surgical patients.

Author of over 250 peer-review scientific articles and recipient of over 50 peer and non peer-review grants.