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Shaf Keshavjee

Co-founder and Chief Medical Officer, HALO Telemonitoring

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Dr. Shaf Keshavjee is a thoracic surgeon-scientist and co-founder of HALO Telemonitoring, where he is chief medical officer. He and nurse practitioner Marijana Zubrinic co-invented HALO's remote patient observation service at UHN's Toronto General Hospital. His lung transplant research includes the Toronto ex vivo lung perfusion system. He is an Officer of the Order of Canada.

Shaf hasn’t spoken on a TechTO, TechVancouver or TechWaterloo stage. This profile is here because Shaf co-founded HALO Telemonitoring, which appears in 1 talk in the archive.

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Interview
Keynote Speech: An Interview With Shaf KeshavjeeCTSNet
2024
Interview
Prof. Shaf Keshavjee: innovating lung transplantation and facing the challenges of the unknownJournal of Thoracic Disease
2019
Video
Giants of Cardiothoracic Surgery: An Interview With Shaf KeshavjeeCTSNet
2018

Quick answers

What is Shaf Keshavjee's role at HALO Telemonitoring?

HALO's About page, checked 2026-09-19, lists Dr. Shaf Keshavjee as Chief Medical Officer and Co-Founder. Canadian Healthcare Technology also described him as HALO's co-founder and chief medical officer on 2025-10-01.

How did he come to co-found HALO?

UHN Commercialization reported on 2026-01-29 that HALO started at the bedside at Toronto General Hospital with nurse practitioner Marijana Zubrinic and Keshavjee, calling them its clinical co-founders. The pair's team was named UHN's Inventors of the Year for 2025.

What is his role at UHN?

UHN Commercialization's 2026-01-29 article gives his title as Chief of Innovation, UHN, and calls him UHN's former Surgeon-in-Chief. Canadian Healthcare Technology also called him UHN's chief of innovation on 2025-10-01.

What is his work in lung transplantation?

A January 2019 interview in the Journal of Thoracic Disease credits Keshavjee with establishing the EVLP Toronto system for ex vivo lung perfusion, which it says can keep a donor lung at normal body temperature for 12 to 18 hours.

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