Dr. Mohamed Eltorki
Positions
Associate Professor
Cumming School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics
Child Health and Wellness Researcher
Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute
Chair of Scholarly Oversight Committee (General Pediatrics PGME)
University of Calgary
Pediatric Emergency Medicine Specialist
Alberta Childrens Hospital
Contact information
Web presence
Phone number
Office: 403.955.7723
Location
Office: ACH C4-638
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Research partners
Intervnetional trials in acute and chronic pediatric pain, abdominal disorders including appendicitis, constipation or gastro-enteritis.
Study participants
Patients with lived experience of acute or chronic pain
Background
Credentials
FRCPC General Pediatrics, Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, 2014
FRCPC Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, 2015
Biography
Dr. Eltorki, who relocated to Calgary in September 2024, joins us from McMaster University as an associate professor of pediatrics. With a robust track record in pediatric emergency medicine and trial methodology, Dr. Eltorki has been instrumental in establishing a research program at McMaster Children’s Hospital and has been awarded several prestigious grants, including several Hamilton Health Sciences new investigator grants, an innovation grant from the Ministry of Health for studying kiwi effects on constipation, and the inaugural Team Builder's Grant from the Department of Pediatrics at McMaster University for a ketorolac dosing trial. He is currently CIHR-funded for the Keto-APP trial, an ongoing multi-centre national trial to treat pain in children with suspected appendicitis. He is an inaugural early career researcher award recipient from IMPaCT and has won several teaching awards and supervised numerous award-winning graduate students. Returning to Calgary, where he completed his postgraduate training, he is eager to expand his research program and contribute to the advancement of acute pediatric care at the Alberta Children’s Hospital Research Institute.
Research
Areas of Research
Approximately 70 per cent of all Emergency Department visits are a direct result of a painful condition. Among those painful conditions is acute abdominal pain. Many of those children spend hours in our Emergency Departments to complete an assessment and investigations to rule out potentially dangerous conditions such as appendicitis. During that time, their pain is treated with either an opioid such as morphine, or other non-opioid pain medications. My research program compares differing analgesics to each other through randomized trials to determine what the most effective and safest pain medication we can use for children in acute pain.
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