In The News

2021

April 1, 2021 – Article in The Scientist: Anesthesia impairs memory in mice

2020

March 2020 – Dr. Orser receives the 2020 Canadian College of Neuropsychopharmacology Medal!

2019

October 22, 2019Congratulations to Dr. Orser on being inducted into the National Academy of Medicine!

August 2019 – Congratulations to our students!

2018

June 25, 2018 – CBC radio interview : “Under the knife and unaware? What happens when we’re under anesthesia

June 6, 2018 – Dr. Beverley Orser receives the 2018 Award for Excellence in Research from the American Society of Anesthesiologists.

April 2, 2018 – University of Toronto Institute of Medical Science IMS50 “50 Stories” 

March 12, 2018 – I’m having memory problems after anesthetic and surgery. Is that common?

2017

June 9, 2017 – BEYOND THE MASK: Interview with Dr. Beverley Orser

June 2, 2017 – The post-op brain

April 26, 2017 – Waking up the complexities of anesthesia

March 8, 2017 – How anesthesia affects your brain

February 13, 2017 – Invited Speaker to Members of Parliament on Parliament Hill, on behalf of Research Canada and the Canadian Neuroscience Association

February 9, 2017 – New U of T patent targets brain fog left behind by anesthesia

2016

June 13, 2016 – Is there still a place for opioids?

2014

November 9, 2014 – Anesthetics may cause prolonged memory loss, study finds

May 23, 2014 – In the news: the evolution of anesthesia

May 9, 2014 – Anesthesia and long-term memory loss in the news

May 8, 2014 – Dr. Beverley Orser: Interview at the 2014 ANZCA Annual Scientific Meeting

2013

September 21, 2013 – MacLean’s Magazine

2012

November 26, 2012 – Canadian Anesthesiologists’ Society press release: seizures linked to drugs used in surgery