Faculty - Emergency Medicine Update

Dr. Adrian Wu is an emergency physician at North York General and St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto. He completed his emergency medicine residency and ultrasound fellowship in Toronto. Clinically, he enjoys POCUS teaching and administration. In his leisure time, he enjoys shooting hoops, playing golf, and being a foodie.

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Dr. Alice Chan is an emergency physician at North York General Hospital in Toronto and Credit Valley Hospital in Mississauga. She received her medical degree at McMaster University, and completed her family medicine residency and emergency medicine fellowship at University of Toronto. She then went on to do an additional point-of-care ultrasound fellowship and has not been able to put the probe down since. She is actively involved in medical education and enjoys teaching learners at all levels.

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Dr. 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.

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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 splits his practice between academic (London Health Sciences Centre) and community (St. Thomas-Elgin General) sites, and has previously worked as a family and emergency physician in rural and remote locations. 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, dog, or a squash ball.

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Amy Cheng, MD MBA FRCPC, is an Emergency Medicine Physician and a member of Cleveland Clinic. Canada’s Medical Director Program. She is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Toronto. Dr. Cheng completed her Doctor of Medicine degree (MD) at the University of Toronto, and her MBA at the IE Business School in Madrid, Spain. Dr. Cheng has held a variety of leadership roles. Most recently, she was the Corporate Medical Director of Quality Improvement and Patient Safety and the Co-chair of Physician Wellness at the Department of Emergency Medicine at St. Michael’s Hospital. She works for Cleveland Clinic Canada as a Chief Medical Director in Advisory Services.

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Anthony is the Deputy Chief of Pediatrics at McMaster Children's Hospital and an Emergency Pediatrician. He is the creator of SketchyEBM, an online knowledge translation tool. Anthony is just completing his Global eMBA in Healthcare & Life Sciences at the Rotman School of Management. He has several interests which include how we as leaders within healthcare can influence change through a better understanding of health system structure and business best practices.

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Arun Sayal is an Emergency Physician at North York General Hospital where he runs a weekly Minor Fracture Clinic. His main teaching interests focus on ED MSK injuries.

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Dr. Bourke Tillmann is a Clinical Associate in the Department of Critical Care Medicine and a Trauma Team Leader at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre. He received his medical degree in 2010 from the University of Western Ontario and subsequently specialized in emergency medicine and adult critical care. Currently he is undertaking his PhD studies in Clinical Epidemiology and Health Care Research at the Institute of Health Policy, Management, and Evaluation at the University of Toronto. Dr. Tillmann’s research interest is in health services, seeking to improve equity in access to critical care and trauma care services.

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After completing her residency and fellowship at the University of Toronto, Dr. Varner joined Mount Sinai in July 2011. She is the Deputy Director and a Clinician Scientist of the Schwartz/Reisman Emergency Medicine Institute at Mount Sinai Hospital and the Deputy Editor of the Canadian Medical Association Journal. Her research focus is pregnancy and postpartum care in the emergency department.

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Chris Tsoutsoulas is a PGY-5 in Emergency Medicine at the University of Toronto and is currently pursuing a POCUS fellowship at Western University. His particular interests include resuscitative ultrasound and transesophageal echocardiography. He is an avid clinical teacher and the recipient of several teaching awards. Upon completion of his training, he will be joining North York General Hospital as a full-time Emergency Physician.

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Dr. David Carr is an Associate Professor in the Division of Emergency Medicine at the University of Toronto. He is an Emergency Physician and Clinical Investigator at the University Health Network and Mackenzie Health Hospital. He is also the Continuing Professional Development Lead in the Tri-Division of Emergency Medicine at the University of Toronto. He has been the recipient of multiple Undergraduate and Post Graduate Clinical Teaching awards. During the Baseball season, he works at the Roger's Centre as the Medical Director of Stadium Medicine for the Toronto Blue Jays. In 2010, he pursued his passions serving as an ER physician in the Athletes Village for the Winter Olympics in Vancouver. Since 2010, He has co-authored the chapter on Occlusive Arterial Disease in the 7-9th editions of Tintinalli's Emergency Medicine.

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David is an emergency physician who works at the Heart and Lung Institute in Quebec City. Besides his fellow 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 finally actively teaching to residents at Laval University. Finally, his only conflict of interest that some might consider a real issue… is the fact he doesn’t own a cellphone and is absent from every social network!

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Dr. Margolin is a neuro ophthalmologist at U of T and despite doing it for over 10 years, with the passage of time he is loving neuro-ophth more, not less! Most of all he enjoys teaching neuro-ophthalmology to ophthalmology and neurology residents and has received several teaching awards including PAIRO Excellency in Post Grad Teaching Award. He otherwise loves loud screaming and lots of commotion as he gets to come home to experience it every day with his 5 kids.

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Dr. Elisha Targonsky is an emergency physician at North York General Hospital and Lecturer at the University of Toronto. 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 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, including Sickle Cell Disease, Opioid Use Disorder, and Status Epilepticus. 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.

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Emily Austin is an Emergency Physician at St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto. She completed the Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology subspecialty program at the University of Toronto.

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Emily Whelan received a Bachelor of Science from Dalhousie University and continued her medical training at Dalhousie Medical School. She then completed her urology residency training at the University of Toronto in 2022. She is currently completing a one-year fellowship in endourology and robotic surgery at Michael Garron Hospital and will be joining the urology team at Humber River Hospital in July. She is currently completing a Masters in Quality Improvement and Patient Safety through the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto. Her work in this focuses on decreasing opioid use in the postoperative setting.

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Nicknamed “the negotiator” as a child, Fotini has been honing her skills her entire life. For the last decade she’s been helping Fortune 500 companies through high-stakes scenarios and facilitated intensive negotiation workshops for clients across the globe. Her first book, Say Less Get More (HarperCollins), hit shelves in April 2021. When not with clients, Fotini is a frequent TV guest and an instructor of MBA Negotiations in Toronto. She also offers her experience to non-profit initiatives and is determined to close the gender gap before it starts. Amongst her accomplishments, she’s been recognized with the Network of Executive Women’s National Inclusion award as Top 40 under 40 award.

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Gil is an emergency physician at NYGH and HRH with interests in simulation and medical education. He is the Simulation Co-Lead in both Emergency Departments and a recent recipient of the Excellence in Teaching in Emergency Medicine (Early Career) award by the University of Toronto DFCM. When he's not at work he enjoys travelling, working out, and yelling at the Leafs after another disappointing season. He perpetually hopes that this year will be different.

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Dr. Bielawska is a full-time Emergency Physician practising at Trillium Health Partners in Mississauga, Ontario. She completed medical school, Family Medicine residency, and an Emergency Medicine fellowship at the University of Toronto. Her academic interests are varied and include medical education, emergency ultrasound, breastfeeding medicine, and women’s health. Her other full-time job is raising two young boys, ages 5 and 5.

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Dr. Hyoung is an ER physician at North York General Hospital and an assistant professor in the DFCM at the 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 tries to explore different parts of the globe every chance he gets with his wife and four young children.

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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 training 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. Dr. Bogoch divides his clinical and research time between Toronto and several countries in Africa and Asia.

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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.

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Dr. Bryan is the founding Chair of the Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians Antiracism and Anticolonialism Committee. Her work is focused on equity in emergency medicine and is at the intersection of global health with antiracism and anticolonialism. She is an emergency physician, Director of Research in Emergency Medicine at the University Health Network and an Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto. She is the Director of Operations of the Toronto Addis Ababa Academic Collaboration in Emergency Medicine (TAAAC-EM) and a founding member of the University Health Network emergency department sickle cell working group.

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Dr. Guscott is a rural generalist and medical educator. His ever-evolving clinical practice has included Anesthesia, Emergency and Hospitalist medicine in Collingwood, Ontario. A passionate, award-winning educator, he is an Associate Professor and the long-standing Program Director for the McMaster Family Practice Anesthesia resident training program. He has leadership roles in simulation at McMaster, U of T and NOSM and he teaches a number of courses for practicing physicians and interdisciplinary healthcare teams.

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Joan Cheng is the Chief of Emergency Medicine at St. Joseph’s Health Centre – Unity Health and has been in this role for just a little over 7 mos. She has practiced both emergency medicine and family medicine in a variety of settings, ranging from a rural community to an academic centre, but the majority of her practice was spent practicing emergency medicine in the community setting at Markham Stouffville Hospital for over 20 years prior to her arrival at St. Joe’s. In terms of leadership roles, Joan was the inaugural Director of Medical Education at Markham Stouffville Hospital, and has also held various additional leadership roles there, both formal and informal. In this space, she was fortunate to be able to explore issues that were personally interesting to her, including issues related to peer support, both for colleagues and for learners, and to develop policy on anti-racism and anti-oppression. Joan has been married to her partner, Dr. Sydney Tam, a fellow Emergency Physician, for 28 years. Of all the work she has ever done, she regards her most important job as being the mother of their 3 children, ages 23, 21, and 17. She is eternally grateful for the wonderful humans who populate her home.

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You may already know Jonathan via the RnR Rounds Podcast (a Free Open-Access Medical education podcast discussing the unique challenges of Rural/Remote Resuscitation): podcast.RnRRounds.ca But if you haven't heard of it, well, Jonathan is essentially the physician equivalent of a hobo. A professional locum offering GP-Anesthesia and Rural Emergency Medicine services since 2009, he roams the Canadian wilderness in an electric car or single-engine Cessna to help out rural/remote hospitals in need. Oh, and he also completed an Ultrasound Fellowship in 2019, and is the co-founder of both the Rural Ultrasound Fellowship (RuralUltrasound.ca), the only Virtual ultrasound fellowship designed to meet the needs of practicing Canadian Rural Physicians, and RnR Rounds (sim.RnRRounds.ca), a sim-based Rural Resus training program. Jonathan is also a retired magician, likes to eat chocolate, plays the ukulele while singing to himself, and has a wife and two kids who inspire him every day.

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Justin is an emergency physician and the director of simulation education at Markham Stouffville Hospital. He loves skepticism, education, and medical ethics. He is the founder of the medical education blog First10EM.com and is an associate editor of Emergency Medicine Cases.

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Kirby Ding is a Point of Care Ultrasound fellow at Sunnybrook Hospital. He attended the University of Toronto for both his undergraduate medical education and emergency medicine residency. He spends his free time playing beach volleyball or rehabilitating from various volleyball-related injuries.

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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 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, painting, travelling, hiking, wreck diving, and mountain biking.

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Dr. Booth obtained her medical degree from the University of Toronto. Dr. Booth is an Emergency Physician at Collingwood General and Marine Hospital and the Medical Advisor for Ontario Health’s Peer-to-Peer program. She holds a faculty appointment in the Department of Family Medicine at McMaster University and is active in both undergraduate and postgraduate medical education. Dr. Booth has a special interest in rural trauma and resuscitation and Emergency Department ultrasound. Dr. Booth has received awards for teaching excellence and continues to present at various professional meetings in Emergency medicine.

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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. He believes that all ER physician can provide excellent care of head and neck emergencies when they are well trained to do so! He has done extensive teaching at the undergraduate, postgraduate and CME levels.

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Dr. Matt DiStephano is an Emergency Physician at Gray Bruce Health Services. He has been CASTED faculty since 2014. He is a motorsport coach, ski coach and a pasta aficionado.

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Dr. Megan Landes is the Head of Division of Emergency Medicine at U of T's Department of Family & Community Medicine (DFCM), and an Associate Professor and Clinician Investigator. Dr. Landes is a staff doctor in the Emergency Department of the University Health Network (UHN), the University of Toronto’s largest downtown teaching hospital, and a Strategic Director for the Toronto Addis Ababa Academic Collaboration in Emergency Medicine (TAAAC-EM), which is working with Addis Ababa University to deliver Ethiopia’s first emergency medicine residency program.

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Dr. Megan Boysen Osborn is Vice Chair for Education and Associate Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine at the University of California, Irvine (UCI). Dr. Osborn also serves as the Associate Dean for Students for UCI School of Medicine. Dr. Osborn is passionate about medical education, oncologic, ophthalmologic, ENT, and hematologic emergencies. Dr. Osborn has over 60 peer-reviewed publications and has won the Clinical Pathologic Case (CPC) Competition twice and the ACEP National Faculty Teaching Award. Dr. Osborn serves as the Senior Associate Editor for the innovative Journal of Education and Teaching in Emergency Medicine (JETem).

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Dr. Kilian completed his medical school and FRCP Emergency Medicine residency program at the University of Toronto, graduating in 2018. During this time he also completed a Clinical Fellowship in pediatric emergency medicine at the Hospital for Sick Children. He is a full time ER physician at NYGH and currently holds the role of Post-graduate Director for Medical Education for the department. He will be facilitating the airway workshop at EMU 2022

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Dr Michael Misch is an Emergency Physician at North York General Hospital. He is an EM Cases contributor and particularly enjoys bedside teaching with residents and medical students. When not in the ER, he can often be found in a greenside bunker or in his garden.

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Dr. Michelle Klaiman is an emergency and addiction medicine staff physician at St. Michael’s Hospital, assistant professor, and award-winning clinician teacher with the Division of Emergency Medicine, Department of Medicine, at the University of Toronto. She completed her FRCPC(EM) residency at the University of Toronto and an Addiction Medicine Fellowship at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health. She is the Emergency Medicine undergraduate Course Director at UofT. Leadership roles include those in Undergraduate Medical Education as the SMH EM Clerkship and ICE2 Site lead, ED Physician Wellness Lead, and the ED Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Co-Lead. Her research portfolio aims to improve the care of those presenting to the emergency department with alcohol and substance use related concerns.

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Natalie is a staff physician at both North York General Hospital and St. Michael's Hospital and a Trauma Team Leader at St. Michael's.

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Dr. Ahmadi obtained her medical school degree at the University of Toronto and completed her General Surgery residency at the University of Ottawa. During her residency, she attended Harvard University and obtained a Master of Public Health and Epidemiology. After general surgery training, Dr. Ahmadi completed a fellowship in Thoracic Surgery at McMaster University. She went on to complete advanced fellowship training in minimally invasive thoracic surgery at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston before returning to Canada and joining the group at Michael Garron Hospital.

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Dr. Nour Khatib is an emergency physician in Toronto working in community sites at Markham Stouffville Hospital and Lakeridge health. Several times a year, Dr. Khatib works in remote Northern communities in the Northwest Territories and Nunavut. She is currently the professional development and education lead at Lakeridge Health and lead preceptor for Lakeridge Health learners. She is the VP of Finance of a not-for-profit emergency education organization creating educational events for community emergency doctors. Prior to her career in medicine, she was a financial analyst for Pratt & Whitney Canada and has a background in Finance and an MBA. Her unique work and life experiences have fueled her passion for leadership, patient education, and quality improvement.

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Reuben Strayer was born on the shores of Lake Michigan but raised and schooled in Texas until moving to balmy Montreal for a residency in emergency medicine and now lives and works in New York City. His clinical areas of interest include airway management, analgesia, opioid misuse, procedural sedation, agitation, decision-making and error. His extra-clinical areas of interest include sweeping generalizations and jalapeño peppers. He is happily employed at Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, tweets @emupdates and writes at emupdates.com.

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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 his home-town of Sudbury at Laurentian University in the chemistry and biochemistry program. With his body unsuitable for mining or farming, he went on to complete medical school at the University of Ottawa, residency at the University of Toronto, and a POCUS fellowship at the Northern Ontario School of Medicine. He enjoys teaching weekend ACLS, PALS and POCUS courses. In his leisure time, Rob is a baseball fanatic and can be found cheering for his beloved Toronto Blue Jays.

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Dr. Robyn Shafer is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Emergency Medicine at the University of Toronto. She is an Emergency Medicine physician at North York General Hospital where she also serves as a Medical Director for Advanced Cardiac Life Support. She is actively involved in teaching and has received Undergraduate and Postgraduate teaching awards. She also serves as a Medical Director for Advanced Cardiac Life Support.

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Sarah Foohey works as a full-time Emergency Physician in Peterborough. Sarah is passionate about medical education. During her first three years of practice, she updated and led the exam prep curriculum for the University of Toronto CCFP-EM residents. She created the Virtual Resus Room, an award-winning open-access simulation platform, and has used this platform to help educators run simulation events across Canada and internationally. Sarah also enjoys making medical figures and infographics, striving to increase learner and provider confidence by boiling down daunting ED topics into practical approaches.

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Dr. Sarah Reid is a pediatric emergency physician at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario. She is an Associate Professor in the Departments of Pediatrics and Emergency Medicine at the University of Ottawa. Her major academic interest lies in improving the emergency care of children seen outside of pediatric hospitals. She is the Editor and Ontario Lead for Translating Emergency Knowledge for Kids (www.trekk.ca) which develops clinical resources for common and important PEM topics, and has taught emergency medicine audiences all across Canada.

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After graduating medical school at the University of Toronto, Dr. Caine spent 4 years in Calgary where he completed his residency in Family Medicine and a third year of training in Emergency Medicine. During his final year in Calgary he worked in the emergency departments of both the regional trauma centre at Foothills Hospital and Peter Lougheed Hospital. He returned to Toronto in July 2010 and worked both the UHN and North York General Hospital. He currently is working in London at the London Health Sciences Centre.

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Steve Socransky is an emergency physician at Health Sciences North and an Associate Professor at NOSM in Sudbury. Credits include: Started the CAEP Ultrasound Committee, Director of Canada’s first emergency ultrasound fellowship, Director of the EDE 2 Course (www.ede2course.com), Editor of Essentials of Point-of-Care Ultrasound, print and iBook. Steve has also presented and published research both nationally and internationally. He lives in the bush just outside Sudbury with his wife, 2 sons, Harper the dog and Peaches the cat.

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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 on the topics of stroke, anticoagulants, transfusions and drug interactions and the recipient of multiple teaching awards.

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Dr. Yashi Yathindra is an Emergency Physician at North York General Hospital and an Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto. She is actively involved with the undergraduate medical program and is passionate about medical education and teaching. When not at work, she enjoys all sports and being a mother to her two young children.

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Adrian Wu MD (he/him)

Alice Chan MD (she/her)

Amal Mattu MD (he/him)

Amit Shah MD (he/him)

Amy Cheng MD (she/her)

Anthony Crocco MD (he/him)

Arun Sayal MD (he/him)

Bourke Tillman MD (he/him)

Catherine Varner MD (she/her)

Christopher Tsoutsoulas MD (he/him)

David Carr MD (he/him)

David Pare MD (he/him)

Edward Margolin MD (he/him)

Elisha Targonsky MD (he/him)

Emily Austin MD (she/her)

Emily Whelan MD (she/her)

Fotini Iconomopoulos MD (she/her)

Gil Yehudaiff MD (he/him)

Hanna Bielawska MD (she/her)

Hyoung Lho MD (he/him)

Isaac Bogoch MD (he/him)

Jamie Blicker MD (he/him)

Jennifer Bryan MD (she/her)

Jesse Guscottt MD (he/him)

Joan Cheng MD (she/her)

Jonathan Wallace MD (he/him)

Justin Morgenstern MD (he/him)

Kirby Ding MD (he/him)

Katie Lin MD (she/her)

Kylie Booth MD (she/her)

Leeor Sommer MD (he/him)

Matt DiStefano MD (he/him)

Megan Landes MD (she/her)

Megan Osborn MD (she/her/hers)

Michael Killian MD (he/him)

Michael Misch MD (he/him)

Michelle Klaiman MD (she/her)

Natalie Wolpert MD (she/her)

Negaar Ahmadi MD (she/her)

Nour Khatib MD (she/her)

Reuben Strayer MD (he/him/his)

Rob Simard MD (he/him)

Robyn Shafer MD (she/her)

Sarah Foohey MD (she/her)

Sarah Reid MD (she/her)

Sean Caine MD (he/him)

Steve Socransky MD (he/him)

Walter Himmel MD (he/him)

Yashi Yathindra MD (she/her)

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