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Negar Ahmadi MD (she/her)
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Krishna Anchala MD (she/her)
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Mike Betzner MD (he/him)
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Dr. Mike Betzner is a graduate of University of Alberta Medical School in 1991 followed by a Royal College Residency in Emergency Medicine which was completed in 1996. Full-time Emergency Physician and Clinical Lecturer for U of C in Calgary Health Region since then.
Priyank Bhatnagar MD (he/him)
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Chelsea Billinkoff MD (she/her)
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Dr. Chelsea Billinkoff is an Emergency Physician at North York General Hospital and serves as the Paediatric Emergency Medicine Lead for the ED. She completed her FRCPC training in Emergency Medicine at the University of Toronto and a clinical Paediatric Emergency Medicine fellowship at McMaster Children’s Hospital. Prior to her medical career, she obtained a Master’s Degree in Community, Health and Development at the London School of Economics and worked in the non-profit sector. Outside of the emergency room, she enjoys travelling the world with her two sons and husband.
Jamie Blicker MD (he/him)
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Dr. Jamie Blicker is an Emergency Physician at North York General Hospital in Toronto. He completed his Emergency Medicine training at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Isaac Bogoch MD (he/him)
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Dr. Isaac Bogoch is an Associate Professor at the University of Toronto in the Department of Medicine and is an Infectious Diseases consultant and General Internist at the Toronto General Hospital with a focus on tropical diseases, HIV, and general infectious diseases. He completed medical school and Internal Medicine residency at the University of Toronto, and then specialised in Infectious Diseases at Harvard University. He holds a Masters Degree in Clinical Epidemiology from the Harvard School of Public Health and has completed fellowships in both Tropical Infectious Diseases and HIV care.
Sean Caine MD (he/him)
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Dr. Sean Caine is an Emergency Physician. He graduated from University of Toronto and completed residencies in Family Medicine and Emergency Medicine in Calgary.
Dennis Cho MD (he/him)
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Saswata Deb MD (he/him)
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Dr. Saswata Deb is an emergency physician and clinician scientist at the Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre. He is an Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto. His research focuses on cardiovascular emergencies and racial disparities in healthcare delivery.
Kirby Ding MD (he/him)
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Dr. Kirby Ding is an Emergency Physician at North York General Hospital. He completed his FRCPC training in emergency medicine at the University of Toronto and a POCUS fellowship at Sunnybrook Hospital. He enjoys playing beach volleyball in his free time.
Matt Distefano MD (he/him)
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Dr. Matt Distefano is an Emergency Physician at Gray Bruce Health Services. He has been CASTED faculty since 2014. He is a motorsport coach, ski coach, and pasta aficionado.
Andrea Ennis RN (she/her)
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Andrea has spent the past 24 years working in the Emergency Department where she has held a variety of different positions; Nurse, Educator, and Manager and her current role as the Director of the Emergency Services Program, Nursing Resource Team, and Co-Chair of Emergency Preparedness at North York General Emergency Department. Andrea has a Bachelor of Science in Nursing and a Master’s in Nursing Administration. Over the last few years, Andrea has collaborated with various Paramedic Programs and Emergency Departments in Ontario to improve Ambulance Offload Time and general ED flow. In her spare time Andrea is also part of the Toronto Maple Leaf’s Sports Medical Team providing medical care and support for the Toronto Maple Leafs, Toronto FC and Toronto Blue Jays.
Sarah Foohey MD (she/her)
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Jesse Guscott MD (he/him)
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Walter Himmel MD (he/him)
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Dr. Walter Himmel is an Emergency Physician at North York General, Scarborough General, and Toronto East General Hospitals. He is a world-renowned speaker in Emergency Medicine and recipient of multiple teaching awards.
Trevor Jain MD (he/him)
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Alex Jiang MD (he/him)
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Osman Kahiye MD (he/him)
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Dr. Osman Kahiye is an emergency physician at North York General Hospital and St. Joseph’s Health Centre in Toronto. He completed his family medicine and emergency medicine fellowship at the University of Toronto.
Eric Letovsky MD (he/him)
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Dr. Eric Letovsky is an emergency physician and Chief Emeritus at Trillium Health Partners in Mississauga, Ontario. He was formerly the Chief of the Department of Emergency Medicine for 26 years, and formerly the Head of the Division of Emergency Medicine at the University of Toronto. He is a Full Professor in the Faculty of Medicine with over 30 years experience as a medical legal expert.
Hyoung Lho MD (he/him)
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Dr. Hyoung Lho is ER physician at North York General Hospital and assistant professor in the DFCM at University of Toronto. He trained at NYGH and liked the place so much that he came back as a staff. He loves to travel and explore different parts of the globe with his wife and four young children.
Katie Lin MD (she/her)
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Dr. Katie Lin is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of Calgary, a Stroke Attending with the Calgary Stroke Program and a Flight Transport Physician with STARS Air Ambulance in Alberta. She completed her residency training and stroke fellowship in Calgary alongside a parallel Master of Public Health through Harvard. She enjoys interdisciplinary collaboration and all things sci-fi.
Marc Lipkus MD (he/him)
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Louisa Marion-Bellemare MD (she/her)
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Dr. Louisa Marion-Bellemare graduated from and completed her residency at the Northern Ontario School of Medicine. She works at the Timmins and District Hospital in the Paediatric Mental Health Department and as co-lead for the addiction medicine program, including the Acute Withdrawal Medical Unit and community withdrawal management service.
Amal Mattu MD (he/him)
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Dr. Amal Mattu completed an emergency medicine residency at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia, after which he completed a teaching fellowship with a special focus on emergency cardiology. Since joining the faculty at the University of Maryland in 1996, he has developed an academic niche in emergency cardiology and electrocardiography, and he also enjoys teaching and writing about other topics such as emergency geriatrics, faculty development, and risk management. He currently is a tenured professor and Vice Chair of Emergency Medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. He lives near Annapolis, Maryland with his wife and three kids.
Rohit Mohindra MD (he/him)
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Dr. Rohit Mohindra is the associate chief of research for the ED at NYGH, a researcher at the Schwartz Reisman Medicine Institute and Department of Medicine at the University of Toronto. He also holds positions at the Li Ka Shin Knowledge Institute at St. Michael’s Hospital and is faculty in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Toronto Metropolitan University. His research and academic interests include cardiac arrest care, refugee health, and artificial intelligence.
Justin Morgenstern MD (he/him)
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Dr. Justin Morgenstern is an emergency physician and the director of simulation education at Markham Stouffville Hospital. He is the founder of the medical education blog First10EM.com and an associate editor of Emergency Medicine Cases.
Curtis Newton (he/him)
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Erin O'Connor MD (she/her)
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David Pare MD (he/him)
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Dr. David Pare is an emergency physician who works at the Heart and Lung Institute in Quebec City. Besides his fellowship with the Resuscitation Leadership Academy and his interest in Wilderness Medicine, he mainly focuses his time on acute cardiology care. He is co-director at ECG-u Course, editor for TopMU and actively teaching residents at Laval University. He doesn’t own a cellphone and is absent from every social network.
Andrew Petrosoniak MD (he/him)
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Zoe Polsky MD (she/her)
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Nadia Primiani MD (she/her)
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Dr. Nadia Primiani works as a full-time Emergency Physician at Sinai Health System and Michael Garron Hospitals. She is involved in medical education as the associate program director for the Mount Sinai Emergency Medicine Fellowship and past chair of the 2SLGBTQIA+ committee for CAEP.
Arun Sayal MD (he/him)
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Dr. Arun Sayal is an Emergency Physician at North York General Hospital in Toronto. For the last several years, he has added weekly work managing patients in the Minor Fracture Clinic and assisting on ortho trauma cases. These led him to create CASTED, an ED orthopedics course which he has taught over 600 times in 10 countries to over 15,000 colleagues. He has won over 20 teaching awards and has written book chapters, ACEP Now articles, appeared on multiple podcasts, and given over 100 international lectures, all focused on ED orthopedics.
Amit Shah MD (he/him)
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Rob Simard MD (he/him)
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Dr. Robert Simard is an emergency physician who has interests in medical education, Point-of-Care Ultrasound (POCUS), and Advanced Life Support. He completed a Bachelor of Science in Sudbury at Laurentian University and medical school at the University of Ottawa, residency at the University of Toronto, and a POCUS fellowship at Northern Ontario School of Medicine.
Steve Socransky MD (he/him)
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Dr. Steve Socransky is an emergency physician at Health Sciences North and an Associate Professor at NOSM in Sudbury. Credits include starting the CAEP Ultrasound Committee, directing Canada’s first emergency ultrasound fellowship, and editing Essentials of Point-of-Care Ultrasound.
Leeor Sommer MD (he/him)
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Dr. Leeor Sommer is an emergency physician at Southlake and North York General Hospital in Toronto. He did his undergraduate and residency training at the University of Toronto. He has an interest in learning and teaching about ENT emergencies for the past 20 years.
Anand Swaminathan MD (he/him)
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Elisha Targonsky MD (he/him)
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Dr. Elisha Targonsky is an emergency physician at North York General Hospital and Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto. He has a passion for teaching at all levels including medical students, residents, and peers. His main academic interests include ED management of atrial fibrillation and vertigo. He is also a contributing editor for the Emergency Medicine Cases podcast. Outside of clinical and teaching duties, he enjoys spending time with his family, fishing, and solving Wordle and Squardle puzzles.
Chris Tsoutsoulas MD (he/him)
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Dr. Chris Tsoutsoulas is an Emergency Physician at North York General Hospital. He completed his FRCPC training in emergency medicine at the University of Toronto and an acute-care POCUS fellowship at the University of Western Ontario. He is also a Testamur of the National Board of Echocardiography and has a special interest in resuscitative transesophageal echocardiography. Chris is a passionate clinical teacher who has instructed several POCUS courses across Canada.
Modupe Tunde-Byass MD (she/her)
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Rajani Vairanthan MD (she/her)
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Dr. Rajani Vairavanathan is in emergency and family medicine at Michael Garron Hospital (MGH). She obtained her medical degree, completed her family medicine residency, and did enhanced skills training in low-risk obstetrics at the University of Toronto. She completed a fellowship in emergency medicine at McGill University.
Kevin Wasko MD (he/him)
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Dr. Kevin Wasko is the Chief of Emergency Medicine and Program Medical Director at North York General Hospital in Toronto. Prior to joining NYGH, he practiced as a rural family physician in Saskatchewan and served as the Physician Executive for Integrated Rural Health with the Saskatchewan Health Authority. He co-sponsored COVID-19 Immunization rollout and chaired several committees.
Natalie Wolpert MD (she/her)
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Gil Yehudaiff MD (he/him)
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