Vincent Lau

Dr. Lau has completed a Master’s degree in Health Research Methodology under Drs. Deborah Cook, Bram Rochwerg and Feng Xie in the Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact at McMaster University. His thesis was on the health economic evaluation of probiotics in the prevention of ventilator-associated pneumonia and other healthcare-associated infections (e.g. Clostridioides Difficile associated diarrhea) as a sub-study of the international, multi-centered PROSPECT (Probiotics: Prevention of Severe Pneumonia and Endotracheal Colonization Trial). Dr. Lau is a member of GUIDE (Guidelines in Intensive Care Medicine, Development and Evaluation) and ACCADEMY (Academy of Critical Care: Development, Evaluation, and Methodology) groups at McMaster University.

His areas of research interests are:
• Health systems outcomes research, clinical epidemiology and trials methodology (randomized control trials, observational studies)
• Health economic evaluation/technology assessment (trial-based and model-based economic evaluations: cost-effectiveness/cost-utility analyses)
• Patient-reported quality-of-life outcomes and health-utility
• Systematic reviews, meta-analysis, guideline development
• Medical informatics (utilization of large registry databases)

He has also completed a critical care ultrasound fellowship at Western University under Dr. Robert Arntfield, and is a Diplomate of the National Board of Echocardiography (Examination of Special Competence in Critical Care Echocardiography). His education interests are on the importance of critical care/resuscitation medicine uses of advanced point-of-care ultrasound applications (quantitative TTE, TEE, transcranial Doppler/neuro-sonology and whole body ultrasound: cardio-vascular, abdominal, thoracic, MSK, head and neck) and health research methodology.