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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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Dr. Sarah Foohey works as an Emergency Physician at Peterborough Regional Health Centre. Sarah is passionate about medical education and loves teaching residents on shift. She is the co-lead of her department’s simulation program and the creator of the Virtual Resus Room, an award-winning open-access simulation platform. Sarah also enjoys making medical figures and infographics, shared through Foohey’s Figures on the First10EM website.
Jesse Guscott MD (he/him)
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Nihal Haque MD (he/him)
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Quang Ngo MD (he/him)
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Alexandra Hamelin MD (she/her)
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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 at Trillium Health Partners, and an ED Lead for Ontario Health, Central Region. He has held numerous leadership positions in emergency medicine: he was the previous Chief of Emergency Medicine at Trillium for 26 years. He was the Director of the CCFP EM residency program at the University of Toronto for 17 years. He was the Director of the Division of Emergency Medicine in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University for 10 years. He has been the lead peer assessor for emergency medicine for the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario for over 20 years. In 2018 he was the recipient of the prestigious Presidents Award from the Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the discipline of emergency medicine. He has been practising emergency medicine for 45 years and is still going strong.
Hyoung Lho MD (he/him)
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Dr. Hyoung Lho is an Emergency Physician at North York General Hospital and an Assistant Professor at the DFCM, University of Toronto. He completed CCFP(EM) program at the University of Toronto and joined North York General where he did his family medicine training. He enjoys learning from medical students and residents as much as teaching them.
Katie Lin MD (she/her)
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Dr. Katie Lin is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine and Clinical Neurosciences at the University of Calgary, Emergency Physician at the Foothills Medical Centre, Stroke Physician with the Calgary Stroke Program, and Flight Transport Physician with STARS Air Ambulance in Alberta. She is also the creator and director of the SYNAPSE: EM Neuro Essentials Course (SynapseCourse.com). She completed her emergency medicine residency training and stroke fellowship in Calgary alongside a parallel Masters of Public Health through Harvard. She loves med ed, brains, interdisciplinary collaboration and all things sci fi. Outside the hospital and helicopter base, you’ll find her reading, baking, hiking, and traveling.
Marc Lipkus MD (he/him)
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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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Rohit Mohindra is the associate chief of research for the ED at NYGH and 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 a faculty member in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Toronto Metropolitan University. His research and academic interests include cardiac arrest care, refugee health, and artificial intelligence. Outside of work, he enjoys training for triathlons, music, and books.
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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Curtis was born in Swift Current and raised on a grain farm. He is a graduate of the School of Rehab Sciences at the University of Saskatchewan in 2005. He started his career as a Physiotherapist at Medicine Hat Hospital and the Medicine Hat Primary Care Network in a Patient’s Medical Home.
Curtis has been assessing and treating vertigo since receiving his vestibular rehab certification from Emory University in Atlanta in 2007. He completed the Saskatchewan Leadership Program in 2015, Lean Improvement Leaders training in 2017, Clinical Quality Improvement Program in 2019 and is currently enrolled in Healthcare Excellence Canada’s EXTRA executive training program.
Curtis is the Director Primary Health Care with the Saskatchewan Health Authority in SW5 and continues to work in private practice.
Curtis is passionate about improving health quality with data supported approaches and team based care.
Erin O'Connor MD (she/her)
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David Paré MD (he/him)
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Dr. David Paré 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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Dr. Petrosoniak is an emergency physician and trauma team leader at St. Michael’s Hospital. He’s the medical director of the simulation program at Unity Health Toronto. He’s also an assistant professor at the University of Toronto where his research work focuses on 1) using in situ simulation to improve systems and design and 2) optimizing the care of bleeding patients. He regularly publishes and speaks at on topics of resuscitation and simulation. When not in the hospital or simulation lab, Petr can usually be found driving his two daughters to dance competitions or grappling with the even tougher challenge of being a devoted Raptors fan.
Zoe Polsky MD (she/her)
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Nadia Primiani MD (she/her)
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Nadia Primiani works as a full-time Emergency Physician at Sinai Health System and Micheal Garron Hospitals. She completed her medical degree at McGill University in Montreal and her residency program at the University of British Columbia. She is involved in medical education is the associate program director for the Mount Sinai Emergency Medicine Fellowship and past chair of the 2SLGBTQIA+ committee for CAEP (Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians). She is interested in learning through simulation and is working to develop complex simulation cases for curriculae. She co-developed an in-situ simulation program at Mount Sinai and Michael Garron Hospitals in which she worked with multidisciplinary teams running cases such as perimortem hysterotomies, code whites and massive upper GI bleeds. She has become an advocate for marginalized patients and has an interest in increasing awareness of their health needs, while promoting non-violent communication between physicians and patients. She has been an invited speaker nationally and internationally to advocate for trans and non-binary patients.
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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Amit Shah is an Associate Professor in the Division of Emergency Medicine. He completed Medicine at Western University, and residency at the University of Ottawa. He is an emergency physician at St. Thomas-Elgin General Hospital, a Peer consultant for Peer 2 Peer Ontario, and the Emergency Medicine Lead for Ontario Health – South West region. He has worked as a family and emergency physician in rural and remote locations, and as an academic emergency physician at London Health Sciences Centre . His interests include procedural sedation, thrombolysis for pulmonary embolus, ED efficiency, and procedures in the ED. When not in the ED, he can be found trying to keep up with his children, chasing a squash ball, or trying to find his golf ball.
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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Anand Swaminathan, MD, MPH, FACEP (@EMSwami) completed his medical school training at The University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey – New Jersey Medical School in 2005 and his residency training in Emergency Medicine at the Bellevue/NYU Emergency Medicine Program in 2009. He is currently an ABEM board-certified physician with an appointment as an assistant clinical professor of Emergency Medicine at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Paterson, NJ.
Dr. Swaminathan is an assistant clinical professor of Emergency Medicine at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Paterson, NJ. His main interests are in resident education, faculty development, resuscitation, and knowledge translation. He is a deputy editor and conference chair for EM: RAP and the managing editor for EM Abstracts. He is a big believer in and contributor to the Free Open Access Medical Education (FOAM) movement. Dr. Swaminathan is also an associate editor for REBEL EM and REBELCast and a regular contributor to the EM Cases Quick Hits podcast.
When not working, Dr. Swaminathan enjoys long-distance running and building Legos with his kids (Matt 11, Maya 8, and Luke 4).
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 in the Department of Family and Community Medicine. Elisha has a passion for teaching at all levels including medical students, residents and peers. His main academic interests include the management of atrial fibrillation in the ED, vertigo, and the role of social media in medical education. He is also a contributing editor for the Emergency Medicine Cases podcast. At the hospital, Elisha strives to standardize and optimize care in the ED, and has helped with a number of clinical pathways/order sets. Outside of clinical and teaching duties, Elisha enjoys spending time with his family, fishing, and sipping his morning coffee while solving the daily Wordle puzzle.
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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Dr. Tunde-Byass is a Fellow of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists of Canada and the UK. She her medical degree from the University of Ibadan in 1987. She completed her OBGYN training in the UK and Canada. She has been an active staff at NYGH since 2004. Dr. Tunde-Byass has held major administrative positions e.g Residency site coordinator and Interim Chief of OBGYN at NYGH. She is involved in key quality initiatives at the local and Provincial levels. She was the Co-chair for the Quality Standard on Increasing access to Vaginal Birth After Cesarean section and an expert panel member for Early pregnancy complications and loss (Joint projects of PCMCH and HQO). She has received numerous teachings and innovation awards. She is involved in medical education. Her research interest is in Early pregnancy complications and decreasing CS rate by increasing access to trial of labour after Caesarean section. She has presented some of her research at international conferences and has publications in peer review journals.
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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Dr. Gil Yehudaiff is an emergency medicine physician with interests in medical education and simulation based learning. He is the recipient of multiple teaching awards and is the current co-lead for the CCFP(EM) residency sim program at UofT. On his days off, he enjoys spending time with his family and traveling the world. He enjoys all things sports, and as an avid Leafs fan perpetually hopes that this year will be different.
