Dr. Lakshmikumar Venkat Raghavan (Venkat) (MD, FRCA, FRCPC) is a Professor at the Department of Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine in the University of Toronto’s Temerty Faculty of Medicine. He completed his medical school and Anesthesia training in India. He then completed further anesthesia training in the United Kingdom, followed by a neuroanesthesia fellowship at Toronto Western Hospital. He has been working as a staff anesthesiologist at Toronto Western Hospital since 2005. He is the Director of Neuroanesthesia Program at Toronto Western Hospital and the medical director of the Neurosurgical Intraoperative Monitoring department at University Health Network. He was the program Director for the neuroanesthesia fellowship at Toronto Western Hospital from 2011 to 2023. During that time, he has mentored more than 60 fellows. Currently, he is the Director of Fellowship Program at the Department of Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine at the University of Toronto.

He is an active researcher and a clinician-investigator at the Krembil Brain Institute, with more than 120 peer-reviewed publications focusing on neuroscience and neuroanesthesia. His areas of expertise include functional neurosurgery, same-day discharge after neurosurgery, and functional neuroimaging, including the development of a brain stress test.

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