Dr. Zorko is a pediatric intensivist, Assistant Professor in the Division of Pediatric Critical Care, Department of Pediatrics at McMaster University. He completed his Pediatrics residency in the Clinician-Investigator Program at McMaster University while concurrently obtaining his Master of Science degree in Health Research Methodology. He subsequently completed his Pediatric Critical Care Medicine training at The Hospital for Sick Children.

His motivation to conduct research is to improve the evidence base informing clinical care in the pediatric intensive care unit, which lacks rigorous data from clinical trials. Of particular interest, Dr. Zorko’s research program seeks to better understand how clinical practices within the PICU impact long-term health outcomes in pediatric critical illness survivors. He is the Physician Lead for Chronic Critical Illness at McMaster Children’s Hospital, with the mandate of translating post-PICU outcome knowledge into scalable programs and implemented best practices to mitigate adverse post-PICU health outcomes for children and families.

Outside of medicine, you’ll find him outside doing just about anything active, but mostly hiking and trail running with his Siberian Husky, Lennox.