Reshma Amin

Dr. Reshma Amin

Investigator

Director of Sleep Medicine and Long-term Ventilation, Respirologist and Sleep Physician, The Hospital for Sick Children | Professor, Department of Pediatrics, University of Toronto

Clinician Investigator, Senior Associate Scientist, Child Health and Evaluative Sciences, SickKids Research Institute


NMD4C Involvement: Pillar 2: Clinical Research, Pillar 3: Clinical Practice Research, Theme 4: Knowledge Translation & Impact Assessment

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Biography

Dr. Reshma Amin is the Director of Sleep Medicine and Long-term Ventilation and a Clinician-Investigator at the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada. She is a Professor at the University of Toronto. She is also a Senior Associate Scientist in Child Health and Evaluative Sciences at the SickKids Research Institute. She is an expert pulmonologist experienced in the rehabilitation and care of children with neuromuscular disorders, particularly for impaired pulmonary function and assisted ventilation. She leads a clinical research program focused on program evaluation and innovative care delivery for children with neuromuscular disease as well as those requiring long-term ventilation at home. She was the lead author of the Canadian Thoracic Society’s Pediatric Home Ventilation Guidelines. She has more than 125 peer-reviewed publications and has been fortunate to be funded by CIHR with partnership funds from Muscular Dystrophy Canada, VHA Home Healthcare, Boehringer-Ingelheim, ProResp, Praxair and Cure SMA Canada.

Within NMD4C, she is working on the development of clinical care guidelines for NMDs and patient advocacy training modules for NMD and supports knowledge transfer to patients and other knowledge users.


Recent Publications

Sirianansopa, K, Massicotte, C, Bola, S, Chiang, J, Narang, I, Wolter, NE et al.. Extreme pediatric obstructive sleep Apnea: Clinical Features, management, long-term outcomes and mortality. Sleep Med. 2025.133 106652 PMID:40592246

Amin, R, Duytschaever, M. The VARIPULSE Pulsed Field Ablation Platform. Card Electrophysiol Clin. 2025.17 (2)259-265 PMID:40412874

De Smet, MAJ, El Haddad, M, De Becker, B, François, C, Amin, R, Tavernier, R et al.. Radiofrequency-aided venous ethanol vs optimized radiofrequency for primary and repeat ablation of left ventricular summit arrhythmias: A propensity score-matched comparison. Heart Rhythm. 2025. PMID:40315943

Huynh, N, Zhang, J, Pliska, B, Amin, R, Narang, I, Chadha, N et al.. Prevalence of Altered Craniofacial Morphology in Children With OSA. J Sleep Res. 2025. e70060 PMID:40243024

Shah, NM, Apps, C, Amin, R, Kaltsakas, G, Hart, N, Murphy, PB et al.. Core Outcome Set for Studies Investigating Secretion Clearance Interventions Used in the Community by Patients With Neuromuscular Disease. Respir Care. 2025. PMID:40219610

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