Martin Urner is an Assistant Professor in the Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care Medicine and the Department of Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine at the University of Toronto and a Staff Intensivist at the Toronto General Hospital, University Health Network, in Toronto. Dr. Urner graduated from the University of Zurich Medical School and completed his specialty training in Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine in Switzerland. His research focuses on mechanical ventilation and extracorporeal life support using advanced methods for causal inference on large observational data.