Dr. David Sweet

Dr. David Sweet is an academic ICU physician at Vancouver General Hospital, Clinical Professor of Medicine at University of British Columbia, and Executive Medical Director of Health Quality BC. He is also is co-founder and co-president of the Clarity Foundation, a registered Charity formed to fight misinformation/Disinformation on social media and the internet. 

Dr Sweet completed both an emergency medicine residency and a Critical Care (ICU) fellowship at UBC. Since 2010 David has worked passionately at improving the quality of care delivered to sepsis and septic shock patients in British Columbia, as the provincial clinical lead for sepsis quality improvement with HQBC. In 2015 he received the Global Sepsis Award for his contributions to the field. In a recent publication, he announced that the BC Sepsis Network averted 981 sepsis cases and 172 deaths, and saved BC $50.6m over a 4 year period when compared to the rest of Canada. When the COVID-19 pandemic hit Canada in March 2020, he founded, led, and chaired the British Columbia COVID-19 Therapeutics Committee, a team of 50+ physicians, pharmacists, and scientists who performed real-time peer reviews of emerging treatments for COVID-19. Much of Canada followed these guidelines to determine which treatment should be available to COVID-19 patients. For this work, David received a Special Service Award for distinguished physicians who have contributed significantly to patient care, education, and research which is recognized locally, nationally, and internationally.