Jeff Perry

Contact Information

Jeff Perry, MD, MSc, CCFP-EM
613-798-5555 ext 18763
jperry@ohri.ca

Carolyne Kennedy
Research Administrator:
Tel: 613-798-5555 x 18683
Email: cakennedy@ohri.ca

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Jeff Perry

Senior Scientist, Acute Care Research
Ottawa Hospital Research Institute
Director, Acute Care Research Program
Ottawa Hospital Research Institute
Professor and Vice-Chair Research/Scholarship, Department of Emergency Medicine
University of Ottawa
Research Chair in Emergency Neurological Research
University of Ottawa
Emergency Physician
The Ottawa Hospital

Research Interests

Clinical Decision Rules
Subarachnoid Hemorrhage
Emergency Medicine
Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
Transient Ischemic Attack

Brief Biography

Dr. Perry is a Full Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine and the School of Epidemiology and Public Health at the University of Ottawa. He serves as the Director and Senior Scientist of the Acute Care Research Program at The Ottawa Hospital Research Institute and is an attending physician in the Emergency Department at The Ottawa Hospital. Recognized internationally for his expertise in clinical decision rules, Dr. Perry has authored over 275 publications. He co-founded and served as the inaugural chair of the Canadian Network of Emergency Research (NCER), an initiative dedicated to mentoring new investigators and advancing large-scale, multicenter studies.

Selected Publications

Seely A, Barnaby D, Hudek N, Herry C, Scales N, Fernando S, Brehaut J, Perry JJ. A Heart Rate Variability-Derived Decision Support Tool for Prognostication in Emergency Department Patients with Suspected Infection – A Prospective Observational Feasibility Implementation Study. Submitted, Journal of Intensive Care Medicine, Nov 2024.

Lee JS, Chenkin J, Simard R, Bhandari T, Woo MY, Perry JJ, Eagles D, Wong C, McRae AD, Lang E,l Newbigging J, Sivilotti MLA Chernoff I, Borgundvaag B, McLeod SL, Melady D, Kiss A, Emond M. ED Ultrasonographic Guided Regional Anesthesia by Emergency Physicians for Hip Fractures Reduces Delirium (EDU RAPID):  A Stepped-Wedged, Cluster Randomized Clinical Trial. Submitted, JAMA September 2024.

Sirois MJ, Blais J, Aubertin-Leheudre M, Emond M, Carmichael P-H, Doust R, Eagles D, Lee J, Perry JJ, Salbach N, Blanchette A, Fruteau de Laclos L. Effectiveness of Exercises in Older Adults Discharged from Emergency Departments: the CEDeComS stepped-wedge Clinical Trial  Revise &Resubmit, June 2025 Journal of the American Geriatrics Society (JAGS)

Hohl C, Hau J, Rosychuk R, Vaillancourt S, Grant J, Brooks S, Morrison L, Perry JJ. Sensitivity and diagnostic yield of SARS-CoV-2 Nucleic Acid Amplification Testing in Patients presenting to hospital. JAMA Netw Open. 2022 Oct 3;5(10):e2236288. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.36288.

Perry JJ, Sivilotti MLA, Emond M, Stiell IG, Stotts G, Lee J, Worster A, Morris J, Cheung KW, Jin AY, Oczkowski WJ, Sahlas DJ, Murray HE, Mackey A, Verreault S, Camden MC, Yip S, Teal P, Gladstone DJ, Boulos MI, Chagnon N, Shouldice E, Atzema C, Slaoui T, Teitlebaum J, Abdulaziz K, Nemnom MJ, Wells GA, Sharma M.  A Prospective Cohort Study to Validate and Compare the Canadian TIA Score to the ABCD2 and ABCD2i for Subsequent Stroke Risk Following Transient Ischemic Attack. BMJ 2021;372:n49 (published online 4 Feb 2021).

Stiell IG, Sivilotti MLA, Taljaard M, Birnie D, Vadeboncoeur A, Hohl CM, McRae AD, Rowe BH, Brison RJ, Thiruganasambandamoorthy V, Macle L, Borgundvaag B, Morris J, Mercier E, Clement CM, Brinkhurst J, Sheehan C, Brown E, Nemnom MJ, Wells GA, Perry JJ. Electrical versus pharmacological cardioversion for emergency department patients with acute atrial fibrillation (RAFF2): a partial factorial randomised trial. Lancet. 2020 Feb 1;395(10221):339-349.


  

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