Labs and Groups

Vaillancourt Group

Vaillancourt Group

April 2026
LIFETIME FUNDING
-Total peer-reviewed funding received………………………………………  $41,586,111.04
        As Principal Investigator (external)………….…………………..........    $8,540,837.72
        As Principal Investigator (internal)……………………………………    $3,662,568.52
-Total non-peer-reviewed funding received………………………………           $86,800.00
        As Principal Investigator……………………………………………….           $46,800.00

 

Support
Period
TitleOrganizationRoleTotal Amount
2026-2027

Innovative Use of Large Language Model Assistance to Accurately Recognize the Presence of Sudden Cardiac Arrest and Rapidly Initiate Life-Saving CPR Instructions During Conversations Between 9-1-1 Callers and Telecommunicators

 

TOHAMO-Innovation

PI: Christian Vaillancourt

$132,574.00

2025-2026

Prognostic Accuracy of the Pulmonary Embolism Severity Index and the Simplified Pulmonary Embolism Severity Index Quick in Patients with a Confirmed Pulmonary Embolism: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

 

Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians – CanVECTOR

 

PI: Kevin Durr, PGY5

Supervisor:

C. Vaillancourt

 

$5,000.00

2024-2025

Monitoring Impaired Driving in Canada 

Transport Canada Enhanced Road Safety Transfer Payment Program

 

PI: Jeff Brubacher

Co-Investigator

C. Vaillancourt

 

$1,385,130.00

2024-2026

Improving Resuscitation Care and Survival with Preserved Neurological Outcomes for In-Hospital Sudden Cardiac Arrest Victims

TOHAMO Quality and Patient SafetyPI: Christian Vaillancourt

$19,450.00

2024-2025

Canadian Resuscitation Outcomes Consortium (CanROC)

Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada

 

Co-PI:

C. Vaillancourt

$302,214.00

2024-2029

Artificial Intelligence Supported In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Prediction, Prevention, and Management

CIHR

PI: Christopher Sun

Co-Investigator

C. Vaillancourt

 

$1,450,725.00

2024-2026

Multi-Centre Implementation of an Educational Program to Improve the Cardiac Arrest Diagnostic Accuracy of Ambulance Telecommunicators and Survival Outcomes for Sudden Cardiac Arrest Victims 

 

CIHRPI: Christian Vaillancourt

$141,526.00

2024-2025

Multi-Centre Implementation of an Educational Program to Improve the Cardiac Arrest Diagnostic Accuracy of Ambulance Telecommunicators and Survival Outcomes for Sudden Cardiac Arrest Victims 

 

TOHAMO InnovationPI: Christian Vaillancourt

$98,200.00

2024-2025

CAN-BLEED Score for Risk Stratification of Traumatic Hemorrhage: Validation and Assessment of Potential Impact

TOHAMO Innovation

PI: Alexandre Tran

Co-PI: Christian Vaillancourt

 

$99,300.00

2024-2025

Paramedic ST elevation myocardial infarction bypass in Eastern Ontario: A sex lens evaluation

Canadian 

Association of 

Emergency 

Physicians

 

PI: Ayesha Zia

Co-Investigator

C. Vaillancourt

 

$5,000.00

2023

Canadian Resuscitation Outcomes Consortium (CanROC)

Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada

 

Co-PI:

C. Vaillancourt

$158,260.00

2023-2024

Innovative Use of Machine-Learning Algorithm Assistance to Rapidly Recognize the Presence

of Sudden Cardiac Arrest and Initiate Life-Saving CPR Instructions During Conversations Between 9-1-1 Callers and Telecommunicators.

 

Program: CIHR Planning and Dissemination

Funding from:

Strategy for Patient-Oriented Research

FRN 190955

 

PI: Christian Vaillancourt

$19,200.00

2023-2025

Monitoring drug impaired driving in Canada through toxicological analyses of injured drivers

 

Public Safety Canada Grant and Contribution Programs

 

PI: Jeff Brubacher

Co-Investigator

C. Vaillancourt

 

$1,539,000.00

2023

Impact of COVID19 Protected Code Blue Protocol on In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Care and CPR Quality. – Summer Student Award 

for Erica Shligold

 

The Mach-Gaensslen Foundation of Canada

 

PI: 

C. Vaillancourt

$5,500.00

2023

Canadian Resuscitation Outcomes Consortium (CanROC)

Canada Summer Jobs 2023

PI:

C. Vaillancourt

$4,768.00

2022-2023

Evaluation of Massive Transfusion Protocol Activation Efficiency and Wastage of Blood Products in Patients with Traumatic Hemorrhage.

PSI Foundation

PI: Tyler Lamb

Co-Investigator/

Supervisor

C. Vaillancourt

 

$29,500.00

2022-2025

Innovative Use of Machine-Learning Algorithm Assistance to Rapidly Recognize the Presence of Sudden Cardiac Arrest and Initiate Life-Saving CPR Instructions During Conversations Between 9-1-1 Callers & Telecommunicators

 

TOHAMO InnovationPI: Christian Vaillancourt

$99,400.00

2022-2025

REmote cardiac MOnitoring of at-risk SYNCope patients after Emergency Department discharge – A Randomized Controlled Trial: REMOSYNCED

TOHAMO Innovation

PI: Venkatesh

Thiruganasam-bandamoorthy

Co-Investigator

C. Vaillancourt

 

$98,900.00

2022-2024

Improving Resuscitation Care and Survival with Preserved Neurological Outcomes for In-Hospital Sudden Cardiac Arrest Victims

TOHAMO Quality and Patient SafetyPI: Christian Vaillancourt

$19,849.00

2022-2025

AED on the Fly: A Medical Drone Implementation Project

Canadian Arrhythmia Network (CANet)

PI: Sheldon Cheskes

Co-Investigator

C. Vaillancourt

 

1$$$95,982.00

Jan.-Dec. 2022

The Influence of Socioeconomic Status on Quality of Care Following Major Traumatic Injury: Evaluating Implicit Bias with Contemporary Electronic Medical Records

AMS Small Grant in Compassion and Artificial Intelligence Application

PI: Alexandre Tran

Co-PI:  

Tyler Lamb

Co-PI: 

C. Vaillancourt

 

$ 19,195.00

2021-22

Canadian Resuscitation Outcomes Consortium (CanROC)

Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada

 

Co-PI:

C. Vaillancourt

$252,776.00

2021 (half)

Canadian Resuscitation Outcomes Consortium (CanROC) 

Zoll Medical Inc. via Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada

 

Co-PI:

C. Vaillancourt

$51,934.00

2021-2023

Monitoring Impaired Driving in Canada

Transport Canada's Enhanced Road Safety Transfer Payment Program

 

PI: Jeff Brubacher

Co-Investigator

C. Vaillancourt

$1,991,770.00

2021-2022

Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on out-of-hospital cardiac arrest

Canada Summer Jobs 2021

PI:

C. Vaillancourt

$4,509.00

2021-2022

Impact of Race and Socioeconomic Status on Time to Intervention in Patients with Traumatic Hemorrhage

Resident Research Grant, Department of Surgery

PI: Tyler Lamb

Co-Investigator/

Supervisor

C. Vaillancourt

 

$5,000.00

2021-2022

Validation of the Canadian Prehospital Syncope Risk Score

CIHR

PI: Venkatesh

Thiruganasam-bandamoorthy

Co-Investigator

C. Vaillancourt

 

$397,800.00

2021-2022

Impact of Delayed Intervention in Patients with Traumatic Hemorrhage: A Study of Clinical

Outcomes, Hospital Costs, and Accuracy of Resident Predictions

 

TOHAMO

PI: Tyler Lamb

Co-Investigator/

Supervisor

C. Vaillancourt

$8,000.00

2020-2023

The Impact of Provincial Cannabis Policy on Impaired Driving

CIHR (Partnerships for Cannabis Policy Evaluation)

PI: Jeff Brubacher

Co-Investigator

C. Vaillancourt

$509,781.00

2019-2022

Monitoring and Preventing Drug-Impaired Driving in Canada.

Health Canada (Substance use and Addictions Program – SUAP)

 

PI: Jeff Brubacher

Co-Investigator

C. Vaillancourt

$1,361,356.00

2019-2020

AED on The Fly: An AED drone delivery feasibility program

Canadian Arrhythmia Network (CANet)

PI: Sheldon Cheskes

Co-Investigator

C. Vaillancourt

 

$150,000.00

2019-2020

Neighbours saving Neighbours: Planning a community volunteer resuscitation program for victims of out-of-hospital cardiac

arrest in Canada

 

CIHR – Planning and Dissemination

PI: Steven Brooks

Co-Investigator

C. Vaillancourt

$14,992.00

2019-2020

Implementation of the Canadian Syncope Risk Score: Phase-1

TOHAMO

PI: Venkatesh

Thiruganasam-bandamoorthy

Co-Investigator

C. Vaillancourt

 

$99,897.00

2018-2021

Improving the Care and Survival for Prehospital SCD Victims via Transformative Changes to 9-1-1 Ambulance Communication-Assisted CPR Instructions and the Development of Innovative Technology: A CANet-CanROC-Industry Partnership

 

Canadian Arrhythmia Network (CANet)

PI: 

C. Vaillancourt

$718,600.00

 

2018-2020

A Clinical Decision Score for Patients Requiring Major Interventions for Traumatic Hemorrhage: Prospective Validation, Refinement and Provider Perspectives

 

TOHAMO

PI:

C. Vaillancourt

$95,466.00

2017-2018

Monitoring Impaired Driving in Canada

(subsite)

Ontario Ministry of Transportation

PI: Jeff Brubacher

Co-Investigator

C. Vaillancourt

 

$21,426.00

2017-2020

Targeted Initiatives to Decrease the Burden of Sudden Cardiac Death in Canada – A CANet-CanROC Collaboration 

 

Canadian Arrhythmia Network (CANet)

 

PI: Paul Dorian

Co-investigator

C. Vaillancourt

$1,246,942.47

2017-2022

The Epinephrine

Randomized Optimal Versus Current Dose (EpiROC) Canada Trial

CIHR

PI: Paul Dorian

Co-investigator

C. Vaillancourt

$2,509,200.00

2017-2018

Resuscitation in Motion (RiM) 2018 - From Research to Real World Resuscitation - Dissemination and knowledge exchange for best practice

Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Circulatory and Respiratory Health

 

PI: Laurie Morrison

Co-investigator

C. Vaillancourt

$15,000.00

2016-2017

Analysis of Bystander CPR Quality During Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrests Using Data Derived from Automated External Defibrillators

Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians

PI: Shannon Fernando, PGY3

Supervisor:

C. Vaillancourt

 

$5,000.00

2015-2016

The Canadian Cardiac Arrest Witness Registry Think Tank: Working together to build an interactive citizen engagement opportunity.  Planning and Dissemination Grant Program - Institute Community Support.

 

Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Insitute of Circulatory and Respiratory Health

PI: K.N. Dainty

Co-investigator

C. Vaillancourt

$24,550.00

2015-2018

A Pragmatic Strategy Empowering Paramedics to Assess Low-Risk Trauma Patients with the Canadian C-Spine Rule and Selectively Transport them Without Immobilization

 

Ontario SPOR Support Unit (OSSU) IMPACT Award – Gov. of Ontario and CIHR

 

PI: 

C. Vaillancourt

$1,456,990.00

2015

Preparation grant for invited submission: 

A Pragmatic Strategy Empowering Paramedics to Assess Low-Risk Trauma Patients with the Canadian C-Spine Rule and Selectively Transport them Without Immobilization

 

Ontario SPOR Support Unit (OSSU) IMPACT Award – Gov. of Ontario and CIHR

PI: 

C. Vaillancourt

$14,109.00

2015-2017

Innovative Use of AEDs by Nurses and Respiratory Therapists During In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest

 

TOHAMO

PI: 

C. Vaillancourt

$98,343.10

2015-2020

CanROC - Canadian Resuscitation Outcomes Consortium: Toward a National Resuscitation Clinical Research Network

Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Institute of Circulatory and Respiratory Health (ICRH) 

 

Co-PIs

L. Morrison

I.G. Stiell

J. Christenson

C. Vaillancourt

 

$1,500,000.00

2015-2020

CanROC - Canadian Resuscitation Outcomes Consortium: Toward a National Resuscitation Clinical Research Network

Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada

 

Co-PIs

I.G. Stiell

J. Christenson

L. Morrison

C. Vaillancourt

 

$1,500,000.00

2015-2020

Canadian Arrhythmia Network (CANet) for syncope, atrial fibrillation, and sudden death

Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Canadian Institutes of Health Research

 

PIs:

A. Tang

B. Sheldon

G.A. Wells

Co-investigator

C. Vaillancourt

$26,262,024.00

Not counted in total funding

2015-2022

Improving Care for Emergency Department and Pre-Hospital patients with Acute and Life-Threatening Conditions

 

Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Foundation Scheme

PI: I.G. Stiell

Project expert

C. Vaillancourt

$2,093,539.00

2015-2022

Promoting Implementation of 

Evidence-Based Care

 

Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Foundation Scheme

PI: J. Grimshaw

Project expert

C. Vaillancourt

$2,128,007.00

2015-2017

The utility of ECG characteristics as prognostic markers in pulseless electrical activity arrests: a retrospective observational cohort study – Resident project funds for Mike Ho

 

Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians

PI: Mike Ho PGY3

Supervisors:

C. Vaillancourt

M. Gatien

$5,000.00

2014-2018

Utilization of Quantitative ECG Measures During Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation

 

U.S. National Institutes of Health

(Ancillary RO1)

PI:  

J. Menegazzi

Co-investigator

C. Vaillancourt

 

$1,791,947.00

(amount in US$)

2014-2015

Innovative use of AEDs by nurses and respiratory therapists during in-hospital cardiac arrest. – Summer Student Award 

for Justin Godbout

 

The Mach-Gaensslen Foundation of Canada

 

PI: 

C. Vaillancourt

$5,000.00

2013-2014

Innovative use of AEDs by nurses and respiratory therapists during in-hospital cardiac arrest. – Summer Student Award 

for Hannah Buhariwalla

 

Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario 

 

PI: 

C. Vaillancourt

$5,000.00

2013-2014

Innovative use of AEDs by nurses and respiratory therapists during in-hospital cardiac arrest. – Summer Student Award 

for Hannah Buhariwalla

 

(Government of) Canada Summer Jobs

 

PI: 

C. Vaillancourt

$2,780.00

2012-2013

A Prospective Evaluation of the Safety and Effectiveness of a Provincial Trauma Bypass Protocol for Adult Major Trauma Patients in Eastern Ontario

 

Northern Ontario Academic Health Science Centers Funding Plan

PI: C. Evans

Co-investigator

C. Vaillancourt

$92,000.00

2012-2015

Improving the Cardiac Arrest Diagnostic Accuracy of 9-1-1 Emergency Medical Dispatchers

Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario

PI: 

C. Vaillancourt

$272,978.00

2011-2012

Catalysis of new initiatives and collaborations to improve community bystander CPR rates

 

Canadian Institutes of Health Research, KT Canada

PI: 

C. Vaillancourt

$30,000.00

2010-2014Evaluation of the Safety of C-Spine Clearance by ParamedicsCanadian Institutes of Health Research

PI: 

C. Vaillancourt

$424,138.00

2010-2015Resuscitation Outcomes Consortium (ROC) Renewal InitiativeCanadian Institutes of Health Research

PI: I. Stiell

Co-investigator  C. Vaillancourt

$1,000,000.00

2010-2015Resuscitation Outcomes Consortium (ROC) Renewal InitiativeHeart and Stroke Foundation of canada

PI: I. Stiell

Co-investigator  C. Vaillancourt

$1,500,000.00

2010-2015Resuscitation Outcomes Consortium (ROC) Regional Clinical Center - Ottawa-OPALS-BC

U.S. National Institutes of Health

(Funding renewed)

PI: I. Stiell

Co-investigator  C. Vaillancourt

$1,657,800.00 (amount in US$)

2010-2011

Improving the Safety of Patients who Present to The Emergency Department

With Respiratory Distress: An Analysis of Adverse Events

 

The Physicians’ 
Services 
Incorporated 
Foundation

PI: L. Calder

Co-investigator  C. Vaillancourt

$39,835.00

2008-2014Knowledge Translation Canada: A CIHR Strategic Training Initiative in Health ResearchCanadian Institutes of Health Research

PIs:  

S. Straus

J. Grimshaw

Co-investigator

C. Vaillancourt

 

$1,778,626.00

2008-2010A Survey of Factors Associated with the Successful Recognition of Agonal Breathing and Cardiac Arrest by 9-1-1 Call Takers

Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario

 

PI: 

C. Vaillancourt

$49,000.00

2007-2010Effectiveness of Dispatch-Assisted CPR 
Instructions: An Evaluation of 9-1-1 Calls
Canadian Institutes 
of Health Research 

PI: 

C. Vaillancourt

$378,517.00 

2007-2010Effectiveness of Dispatch-Assisted CPR 
Instructions: An Evaluation of 9-1-1 Calls
(Award declined in favor of CIHR funding)
Heart and Stroke
Foundation of 
Canada

PI: 

C. Vaillancourt

($340,565.00)

Award declined 

2007-2009A Survey of Attitudes and Factors Associated
with Successful CPR Knowledge Transfer in
an Older Population Most Likely to Witness
Cardiac Arrest
Heart and Stroke
Foundation of 
Canada, partnership with CIHR

PI: 

C. Vaillancourt

$98,269.00 

2005-2007The Ontario Cardiac Arrest Registry: 
an integrated data system measuring and 
improving out-of-hospital cardiac arrest and 
other critically ill patient outcomes.
Canada Foundation 
for Innovation

PI: 

C. Vaillancourt

$196,000.00 

2005-2009Resuscitation Outcomes Consortium Epistry StudyCanadian Institutes of Health Science

PI: I. Stiell

Co-investigator  C. Vaillancourt

$999,999.00

2004-2009Proposal to Create a Canadian Collaborative Regional Clinical Center within the Resuscitation Research ConsortiumU.S. National Institutes of Health

PI: I. Stiell

Co-investigator  C. Vaillancourt

$3,350,335.33

2003-2005The Prehospital Validation of the Canadian 
C-Spine Rule by Paramedics.
The Physicians’ 
Services 
Incorporated 
Foundation

PI: 

C. Vaillancourt

$162,000.00 

2003-2004The Prehospital Validation of the Canadian 
C-Spine Rule by Paramedics.
Ontario Ministry of 
Health and 
Long-Term Care

PI: 

C. Vaillancourt

$58,207.62 

2002-2003Understanding and improving low bystander 
CPR rates: A systematic review and 
meta-analysis of the literature.
Canadian 
Association of 
Emergency 
Physicians

PI: 

C. Vaillancourt

$1,235.00 

2000-2002Research FellowshipMinistry of Health and Long-Term Care – Emergency Health Services Branch

PI: 

C. Vaillancourt

$60,000.00