Wiseman | School of Medicine | Queen's University

Dr. Jessica Wiseman

Position(s)

Jessica Wiseman was born in Germany and lived there for the first five years of her life before moving to Canada. Growing up as the child of a Canadian Armed Forces member, she developed a strong ability to adapt as they relocated to new cities. This skill proved invaluable throughout her journey, particularly while pursuing a medical degree on the small Dutch Caribbean Island of Saba, where she spent two years immersed in a unique learning environment.

Following this, she moved to the United States to undertake clinical rotations in Baltimore, New York City, and Cape Cod, gaining new experiences. She continued her medical education in the United States, completing an internal medicine program at the University of Connecticut. She was fortunate to be selected for the Chief Medical Resident position and remained an additional year in Connecticut to gain leadership and educational mentorship experience. Early in her residency training, she was interested in Critical Care Medicine and was fortunate to return to Canada after matching into the Critical Care Fellowship Program at Queen’s University.

Her research interests focus on critically ill patients in the intensive care unit (ICU) and exploring interventions to optimize patient outcomes. She is conducting a pragmatic, unblinded feasibility study on peripheral vasopressor use in patients with mild refractory shock.

Jessica’s goal is to contribute to developing protocols to prevent unnecessary procedures and complications arising from invasive procedures. She is also interested in conducting quality improvement projects to improve patient outcomes and decrease ICU length of stay. She is working on a project to re-introduce daily sedation vacations in mechanically ventilated patients to decrease ventilator days.

Team