海角社区

Marc Afilalo MD, MCFP(EM), CSPQ, FACEP, FRCP

Professor and Chair, Department of Emergency Medicine, 海角社区

Director, Emergency Department, Jewish General Hospital

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Marc Be茂que MD, FRCPC(EM)

Associate Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, 海角社区. Graduated from University of Ottawa in 1987. Graduated from the Royal College program at 海角社区 in 1991. Examiner for Royal College 1995-1999; EM Director at RVH then MUHC from 1996 until 2009. Member of the Executive of AMUQ from 1990 until 1998, President 1993-1995; co-founder of AMSUQ and President 2002-2004. Member for the CMQ assessment of grand-father clause (2001). 2009-2016 Member for the Direction Nationale des Urgences; IT Director at MUHC ED since 2009.

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Fran莽ois de Champlain, B.Eng, MD, FRCPC, DABEM, MSc(A)

Dr. Fran莽ois de Champlain completed his speciality in Emergency Medicine in 2003 at 海角社区 in Quebec, Canada. Since then, he has been working as an Emergency Physician and Trauma Team Leader at the 海角社区 Health Centre (MUHC). He completed a clinical research training with Harvard Medical School. He currently holds a position of Associate Professor with the Department of Emergency Medicine at 海角社区.

His main areas of expertise are Prehospital and Mass Gathering Medicine, Disaster Preparedness, Trauma care and cardiac resuscitation. He has been involved with the Montreal EMS as Associate Medical Director and currently serves on various provincial advisory committees aiming to develop the legislation, medical acts and new protocols for EMS agencies across Quebec. Since 2016, he has been a member of the MUHC ECMO committee and participated to the implementation of an in-hospital ECPR program.

Over the years, he has been the Medical Director for numerous endurance sporting events including the Montreal ITU Triathlon, the Mont-Tremblant IRONMAN and the Montreal Marathon. He is also involved in research with a primary focus on out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. He is the President of the Jacques de Champlain Foundation, whose mission statement is to increase the survival of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest by improving access and use of AEDs in Quebec.

When he is not working, you may cross him on the roads cycling or on the water sailing!

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Career Highlights: Program Director; Royal College EM specialty committee x 14 years; Director of Accreditation PGME; Assistant Dean PGME Accreditation (Interim); Royal College on-site accreditation surveyor.

Personal Highlights: Expeditions to both the North and South Poles.

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Saleh Fares Al-Ali, MBBS, MPH, DrPH, FRCPC(EM), FAAEM, FACEP, FIFEM, FFSEM

Dr. Fares Al-Ali is the first Canadian and American board-certified emergency physician from the United Arab Emirates. He completed the Royal College Emergency Medicine Residency Program at 海角社区 in Montreal, Canada (2002-2007). In 2008, he completed a fellowship in EMS at the University of Toronto in Canada followed by a Disaster Medicine Fellowship at BIDMC in Boston, a teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School, as Harvard鈥檚 first Disaster Medicine fellow and as co-founder of the program (2009). In May 2011, he obtained his MPH from Johns Hopkins University and obtained his DrPH in Health Care Management and Leadership from the same school (May 2021).

Dr. Fares Al-Ali is former Head of the ED and the former Program Director at Zayed Military Hospital. He is the founder and former chairman of the Trauma System Initiative of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi and also the founder and past president of the Emirates Society of Emergency Medicine (ESEM). Dr Fares Al-Ali was able to establish several key initiatives including the first official Trauma Registry in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi STEMI network involving the different stakeholders, as well as the approval of the UAE 鈥淕ood Samaritan Law鈥�, which is considered the first law of its kind in an Arab Country. He led the ESEM Conference to be the largest Emergency Conference in the MENA region and successfully hosted the ICEM21 for the first time in the MENA region, with over 2500 delegates. He was recently appointed as the Executive Director of the Center of Emergency Preparedness and Response (CEPAR) at the Department of Health 鈥� Abu Dhabi in April 2021. Dr Fares Al-Ali has contributed to several international textbooks and peer-reviewed articles in the field of EM, EMS and Disaster Medicine, and has presented in several conferences regionally and internationally.

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Robert Foxford MD/FRCPC(85)

Dip.SportMed

Associate Professor 海角社区

Medical Director IIHF

Performance Enhancing Substance Program Director NHLPA

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Lars Grant MD, PhD, CCFP(EM)

Dr. Grant completed a Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics at Harvard University in 2008 before embarking on a career in medicine. He subsequently obtained his medical degree from 海角社区 in 2011 and completed his residency family medicine and certification in Emergency Medicine in 2014. His primary focus of his research program at the Lady Davis Institute and in the 海角社区 Department of Emergency Medicine is the development, deployment and assessment of artificial intelligence tools for use in Emergency Medicine. His research is funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the National Science and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC).

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Carine Haggar, MDCM, FRCPC

Graduate of 海角社区 med school and went through the Med-P program. On staff at 海角社区 for 21 years now.

Site Coordinator for RVH in the past then became Program Director for the FRCP program from 2013-2021.

Currently Associate Chief of the MUHC ED.

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Dr. Kendall Ho is a practicing emergency medicine specialist and lead, Digital Emergency Medicine. He was the founding Director of the eHealth Strategy Office until 2015, and was the immediate past Associate Dean of the Division of Continuing Professional Development and Knowledge Translation (CPD/KT) up until February 2008, when CPD/KT was transitioned to two units: Continuing Professional Development (CPD) and the eHealth Strategy Office (eHealth).

Dr. Ho is a member of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada鈥檚 Professional Development Committee and a collaborator with the World Health Organization eHealth Observatory.

He is the executive director of the Technology Enabled Knowledge Translation Investigative Centre (TEKTIC) interdisciplinary research team in BC and the Vice President of the International Association of Humanitarian Medicine.

Dr. Ho鈥檚 academic and research interests fall into the domain of technology enabled knowledge translation (TEKT) 鈥� the use of information technologies to accelerate the incorporation of latest health evidence into routine practice. Specific directions within TEKT include telehealth, information and communication technologies (ICT) and patient safety, ICT and public engagement, and evidence based policy translation in eHealth. He is a recipient of a number of provincial, national, and international research grants in eHealth and eLearning, and has published related papers and textbook chapters in these subjects.

Val茅rie Homier, MD, FRCPC

Dr. Valerie Homier practices Emergency Medicine at the 海角社区 Health Centre (MUHC) in Montreal, Canada. Dr. Homier completed the European Masters of Disaster Medicine program in 2018. She frequently serves as advisor and Emergency Preparedness expert on different projects locally and abroad. She was appointed Medical Co-Director of Emergency Measures at the MUHC in 2017 and continued until 2022. Dr. Homier is a board member for the Centre of Excellence in Emergency Preparedness (CEEP) and leader of the Disaster Preparedness Podcast. Her research interests include patient decontamination, hospital information technology failures, patient tracking, and the use of drones in medicine.

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Dr. Kirsten Johnson MD, MPH, CCFP-EM is an Associate Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at 海角社区 and clinical faculty at the University of Toronto. She is the past-President of the Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians and a Health Advisor for the Canadian Red Cross鈥� Health in Emergencies Program. Dr. Johnson has spent the past fifteen years practicing Emergency Medicine in Montreal and more recently Toronto, Canada. She also works as a physician in the Cree and Inuit communities of Nunavik in Canada鈥檚 far North. She is the Director of Humanitarian U, an NGO that has trained over 50,000 professionals at the WHO, UN agencies, Emergency Medical Teams, academic institutions and humanitarian organizations.

Dr. Johnson has worked in emergency and disaster medicine, disaster risk reduction, humanitarian response, coordination and health sector capacity building throughout the world. Her research has focused on genocide, child combatants, sexual gender-based violence and conflict-related health, mental health and psychosocial support. She has worked extensively on the development of technical guidance and toolkits, briefings, publications, and book chapters across the emergency management cycle in fragile, conflict-affected and vulnerable settings including Humanitarian U鈥檚 Assessment of the Impact of eLearning on Humanitarian Aid work (2019), UNFPA鈥檚 State of the World Population Report (2015), Global Humanitarian Medicine and Disaster Relief in Auerbach鈥檚 Wilderness Medicine (2015) and M茅decins Sans Frontiers book on Professionalizing Humanitarian Action (2012). She is involved in humanitarian professionalization, working on the development of competencies and standards for the training, education and certification of humanitarian responders globally.

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Eddy Lang, MDCM CCFP(EM) CSPQ

Eddy Lang is a Professor and Department Head for Emergency Medicine at Cumming School of Medicine- University of Calgary and Alberta Health Services, Calgary Zone. His areas of interest are knowledge translation, evidence-based medicine and operations research. He is a member of the GRADE working group and has led the development of GRADE-based clinical practice guidelines in pre-hospital care in the US as well as with the International Liaison Committee for Resuscitation. Dr. Lang is also an award-winning educator having received recognition at both the university, national and international levels. He also serves as Senior Editor for the Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine, Associate Editor for both ACP Journal Club and the International Journal of Emergency Medicine. In addition, he is a member of the Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care (CTFPHC). Dr. Lang chaired the Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians Conference (CAEP) 2018 and he was appointed as the Scientific Director of the Emergency Strategic Clinical Network ESCN in Alberta. Dr. Lang is co-Chairing the 2022 Preventing Overdiagnosis Conference in Calgary.

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Jacques S. Lee MD, MSc, FRCPC

Dr. Jacques Lee is a husband, father, emergency physician and clinician scientist focused on improving the care of older people who come to the ED through science. He is extremely grateful to the Schwartz-Reisman Emergency Medicine Institute 鈥� their generosity has enabled the work I am about to present.

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鈥� Born 1952, St-F茅licien, Lac-St-Jean, Qc

鈥� MD 1974, Sherbrooke University

鈥� Practice license QC 1975

鈥� Emergency medicine practice as GP, Fleury Hospital, Montreal 1977 - 1984, Chief of CME committee 1982 - 1984

鈥� Scholarship from Association of Colleges and Universities of Canada, 1978 -1980:

- Certificate of proficiency in Chinese (spoken and written), Beijing Foreign Language Institute

- Certificate of proficiency in acupuncture (Beijing Traditional Medicine Institute)

鈥� Founding member, AMUQ 1982, Secretary 1982 -1986

鈥� Royal College EM Residency 1984 - 1987, FRCP (C) 1987

鈥� Attending Physician, Assistant-Professor in Medicine, Royal Victoria Hospital 1987 - 2003

鈥� 海角社区 EM Program Director 1988 - 1989, 1999 - 2001

鈥� Member of Executive Committee Quebec Association of EM Specialists 1998 - 2002

鈥� Vice-Chair, Central Executive Committee, MUHC CPDP 2000 - 2003

鈥� EM practice, Montreal Cardiology Institute 2003 to this date

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Zachary Levine, MD, CCFP(EM), FCFP

Dr. Zachary Levine is Chief of the Department of Emergency Medicine at the 海角社区 Health Centre. He is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at 海角社区.

He was Program Director of the 海角社区 CCFP-EM training program from 2011-2019.

He attended medical school at Queen's University and residency at 海角社区.

Dr. Levine has been involved in continuous quality improvement at the hospital and departmental levels. He was also involved in knowledge translation via print, audio, and visual media.

When not working Dr. Levine enjoys being with family, running, cycling, and swimming, sometimes all together at triathlons.

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Nisreen Maghraby, MBBS, FRCPC(EM), MM, MA

Dr. Nisreen Hamza Maghraby graduated from the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada as an Emergency Medicine Specialist. Completed a two-year fellowship in Trauma & Disaster Management at 海角社区.

Dr. Nisreen holds two master鈥檚 degrees from 海角社区. A Master of Arts (Education Psychology / Health Profession stream) & a Master鈥檚 in Management (International Masters for Health Leadership).

She is the Founder of the Emergency Department ECMO Team the 1st to our knowledge in the kingdom in addition to the Emergency Medicine Sim Team at KFHU/Alkhobar, which is an active team that provides education sessions via simulation for undergrad, postgrad & faculty members (Multidisciplinary in situ simulations). She is also the Founder & Former Chairperson of the Emergency & Disaster Preparedness Unit at King Fahd University Hospital, Al-Khobar.

Currently, Dr. Nisreen is an Assistant Professor & Consultant in EM/Trauma & Disaster Management at Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University (IAU). She is the founder & Director of the Simulation & Clinical Skill Center and was recently appointed as the Competency by design educational lead for post grad programs at the college of Medicine/IAU. In addition, she is the Chairperson for the Emergency Medicine Saudi Board & Diploma Exam Committees at Saudi Commission for Health Specialties.

She is an active National and International speaker & has joined several conference scientific Committees. She is an Editor for the Saudi Journal of Emergency Medicine, an international, peer-reviewed Journal & the Eurasian Journal of Emergency Medicine, an open access, scientific publication of the Emergency Medicine Physicians Association of Turkey.

Her academic interests are Trauma, Health care facilities Disaster Preparedness, Medical Education/Simulation, Faculty Development & Research.

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Sean Moore MD CM FRCPC

Dr Moore is Chief of Staff and Chief of Emergency Medicine at Lake of the Woods District Hospital, Northern Medical Director of Ornge Transport, Associate Medical Director of CritiCall Ontario and an assistant professor at the Northern Ontario School of Medicine University. He has way too many kids, records and hot pepper plants.

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Laurie J. Morrison is a mother of three children (two in medicine, one鈥檚 a chef), an adventure travel enthusiast who loves to host dinner parties and to tend to a vegetable garden collaboratively with the deer at her cottage on Weslemkoon Lake.

She is Professor and Clinician Scientist in the Division of Emergency Medicine, Department of Medicine at the University of Toronto and Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre. She held the from 2008 until 2020. Her program of research is focused on the evaluation and implementation of time sensitive interventions in acute emergencies. She conducts clinical trials, systematic reviews and meta-analyses in topics pertaining to Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine. She established a collaborative prehospital research network to conduct randomized controlled trials and outcome validation studies in resuscitation research (cardiac arrest and trauma) on behalf of the Rescu Investigators. (, )

She co leads the developing clinical decision rules to guide the emergency management of suspected COVID 19. She has held research grants from the US National Institute of Health, Canadian Institute of Health Research, Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada, Laerdal Foundation, Ontario Government, Brain Canada and the American Heart Association. She has , held over $17M as a principal investigator and has an h index of 65 (web of science). She contributed to the development of the 2005 and 2010 and 2015 AHA Guidelines. She is currently providing scientific oversight of the Continuous Evidence Evaluation strategy for .

Dr Morrison is the founding director of the of graduate training at the University of Toronto. There are 84 students enrolled since inception in 2012 and of these 48 have graduated. There are over 50 faculty involved from 14 different departments or institutes. Students have accrued over 1.5M in salary support. She is the founding director of the biannual international meeting which brings senior and emerging scientists together in a format conducive to learning, sharing and building capacity in science. She is founding member and current chair of the . This network provides peer review and mentorship of emerging researchers and support for multicenter trials.

Dr Morrison has received the Canadian Medical Association award for excellence in mentorship; the and a similar award from the U of T with the Department of Medicine; . She was awarded the from the Department of Medicine at the University of Toronto for outstanding contribution as a leader and scholar in Emergency Medicine. And, she and her committee were awarded the U of Toronto for Excellence and Achievement in Faculty Development for Sustained Contribution to the field. She received the distinction of in 2016 and was granted honorary membership by the for life time achievement in resuscitation sciences in 2017. She was awarded the 2017 by the American Heart Association. In 2021 she was named a by the International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation.

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Vincent Poirier, MDCM, FRCPC, DAvMed

Dr. Vincent Poirier is the current 海角社区 FRCP EM Program Director, an Aviation Medicine specialist and Associate Professor at 海角社区. He is Senior Medical Advisor for Air Canada, Medical Consultant for Air Transat and the co-founder of the Onboard Medical Emergencies course that teaches how to manage in-flight medical emergencies. When he is not flying or stuck in an airport, he works full time as an Emergency Physician at the MUHC.

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D. Gregory Powell, OC, AOE, MD FRCPC

Dr. Greg Powell has an exemplary and notable career of leadership and innovation that spans 45 years in the fields of emergency and aviation medicine, education, and research. He is a Professor Emeritus, Emergency and Family Medicine, University of Calgary and is a founder of STARS (Shock Trauma Air Rescue Service) and the STARS Foundation (Shock Trauma Air Rescue Service Foundation. He held the position of Chief Executive Officer, STARS & STARS Foundation until March 2012 and continues today in the role of founder and director emeritus. Dr. Powell is an internationally recognized leader in critical patient care, air medical transportation and emergency medical training and education and has received many awards and significant recognition throughout his career.

In December 2021, Dr. Powell was invested into the Alberta Order of Excellence, Alberta's highest civilian award, "in recognition of service of the greatest distinction and of singular excellence for or on behalf of the residents of Alberta".

In 2006, Dr. Powell was appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada, Canada's highest civilian award, in recognition of his contribution to the community and Canada.

Additional significant awards include: Honorary Baccalaureate Degree, SAIT, Business Administration (2017); naming of Foothills Medical Centre Helipad, Calgary as The Dr. Greg Powell Helipad (2015), Queen Elizabeth 11 Diamond Jubilee Medal (2012), One of 100 Outstanding Albertans (2012), one of Alberta's "One Hundred Physicians of the Century" (2006).

In June 2018, Dr. Powell was inducted into the Canadian Aviation Hall of Fame.

He attained his initial medical training at the University of British Columbia, post-graduate training at University of Calgary and subsequently, emergency medicine specialty training at 海角社区 through the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program.

Over the past five years, he has been very involved in the organ and tissue donation community in Alberta and Canada, as a result of a very personal and family interest.

He currently holds the role of Vice-Chair, Health Quality Council of Alberta and Chair, Board of Directors, Foothills Country Hospice Society in Okotoks.

Greg and his wife Linda raised their two sons and daughter in rural Alberta (Millarville) and they have two grandchildren.

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Robert Primavesi, MDCM, FCFP(EM)

Dr. Robert Primavesi is Associate Chair Education for the Department of Emergency Medicine at 海角社区 and a member of the Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians (CAEP) Board. He is an active contributor to continuing professional development, undergraduate and postgraduate medical education. He was named to the 海角社区 Faculty Honour List for Educational Excellence, presented with the student Osler Award for Outstanding Teaching, is a recipient of the CFPC Jim Ruderman Academic Family Medicine Leadership Award and the CAEP President鈥檚 Award. In his spare time, Rob is an avid traveller, adventurer and whitewater rafting guide.

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Andrew Reid, MDCM, CCFP(EM)

Assistant Professor - 海角社区 Department of Emergency Medicine

Program Director - Enhanced Skills in Emergency Medicine

Attending Physician - St. Mary's Hospital

ED Areas of interest include Medical Education, ED Administration, POCUS and MSK.

Graduate of 海角社区's CCFP(EM) program in 2009

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Sam Sabbah, MD, FRCPC

Dr. Sam Sabbah is the Medical Director of Emergency Medicine at University Health Network and a Clinician In Quality and Innovation at University of Toronto at the rank an Assistant Professor. Dr. Sabbah is a tireless advocate for his patients and is passionate about improving UHN operations while ensuring patient care and safety. His main interests lie in quality improvement as well as in the power of information technology and innovation to reduce wait times and improve the overall patient experience.

Sam completed his Emergency Medicine residency training at 海角社区 and went on to complete a master鈥檚 degree in health information science through University of Victoria and a certificate course in Quality Improvement and Paint Safety through U of T. Over the 13 years at UHN, Sam has developed and implemented several innovative initiatives and built collaborative partnerships within UHN and other organizations. He is driven by his desire to have a positive impact on people鈥檚 lives and works tirelessly towards that goal every day. Dr. Sabbah was also awarded the first annual UHN Local Impact Award for a Clinician for his significant commitment and contributions to patient care in UHN鈥檚 Emergency Departments.

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H. Mitchell Shulman MDCM FRCPC CSPQ

Dr. Mitch as he鈥檚 known to his followers on radio (he鈥檚 a medical consultant/contributor for Bell media); TV (he appears on Global TV鈥檚 Montreal This Morning); and, in print ( he鈥檚 an award winning columnist for The Suburban, the largest English language weekly in Quebec) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at 海角社区 and an attending physician in the 2 emergencies of the 海角社区 Health Center. He is an ACLS Master Instructor. He still does nights, weekends, and holidays! He continues to teach at 海角社区 and volunteers his time speaking at charitable events. After completing his undergraduate training at Harvard (BA'75 Magna cum laude), he returned to Montreal to study at 海角社区 Medical School (MDCM'79). That鈥檚 also where he did his residency in Emergency Medicine (1980-1982), where he was Chief Resident. He was the first FRCPC Emergency Medicine fellow (1982-1983) and the first from our department to train at "Shock Trauma" at the University of Maryland. Dr Mitch was among the first Royal College certified Emergency Medicine specialists (1983) and served as an examiner for the Royal College. He was acting Director of the Emergency Department and served as its Research Director. He currently is chair of the MUHC CME committee.

For 16 years, while continuing to work in the Emergency at the MUHC, he held senior executive positions at 2 multinational pharmaceutical companies. He鈥檚 been a community doc and an occupational health physician. Currently, he also serves as a medical scientist on an ethics review committee and works at the 海角社区 Student Health Center. He was the Medical Director of his community (and responsible for its First Responder program) and coached hockey (to the Junior level). He still refs local ice hockey and plays.

It's a tremendous honor and privilege to be a part of bringing together our 海角社区 Emergency Medicine alumni.

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Born in Quebec city, August 17, 1947

BA with a major in biochem, Loyola College, Montreal, 1968.

MD Sherbrooke University

1972 Graduate in Emergency Medicine 海角社区

1977 Program Director, Emergency Medicine Residency, 海角社区

Appointments to both departments of Surgery and Medicine, 海角社区

Examiner for the specialty in Emergency Medicine, both for the Royal College and the Quebec College of Physicians

Director of Sherbrooke University Emergency Department

Medical Director, EMS, Eastern Townships

Member and co author of 2 reports detailing what EMS entails and recommendations necessary for its improvement:

-Chaque Minute Compte, the Fr茅chette Report

-Il y a urgence d'agir, the Ouellet Report 2016

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Ian Stiell, MD, MSc, FRCPC

Dr. Ian Stiell is Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Ottawa, Distinguished Professor, University of Ottawa, and Senior Scientist of the Clinical Epidemiology Program, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute. He leads a productive team of Emergency Medicine researchers and chairs an Internationally recognized Emergency Medicine Research Fellowship. He presently holds and has held millions of dollars of peer-reviewed funding and has published 433 peer-reviewed papers including 30 in very high impact journals. His major research initiatives have been in two main areas within the field of emergency health services: a) development of clinical decision rules, and b) resuscitation clinical trials. He developed the Ottawa Ankle Rules and Canadian C-Spine Rule and was the Principal Investigator for the landmark OPALS Studies for prehospital care. His current research interests include acute atrial fibrillation and acute heart failure. Dr. Stiell was appointed Editor-in-Chief of the Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine in 2018.

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Reuben Strayer, MD, FRCPC, FACEP, FAAEM

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 jalape帽o peppers. He is happily employed at Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, tweets @emupdates and writes at emupdates.com.

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Bernard Unger, MD, CCFP(EM), FCFP, CSPQ

Graduated from the Facult茅 de M茅dicine de l鈥橴niversit茅 de Montr茅al in 1982. Completed Family Medicine and CCFP(EM) residencies in 1987 at 海角社区, eventually receiving the EM specialist certification in Quebec in the late 1990s. Started working at the Reddy Memorial ED in 1983, Urgences Sant茅 for 7 years, then at Saint Mary鈥檚 hospital ED. Still working full time at the Jewish General Hospital ED for the past 36 years and as an Associate Director for most of those years. The third 海角社区 CCFP(EM) residency director for 3 陆 terms. Co-authored CTAS, and authored other Canadian medico-administrative tools. Has special interest in ED design and championed the design of JGH EDs in 1997 and 2014.

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Christian Vaillancourt, MD, MSc, FRCPC, CSPQ

Dr. Vaillancourt graduated from University of Montreal in 1994, completed his Royal College training in Emergency Medicine at 海角社区 in 1999, and completed a Masters degree in Epidemiology at University of Ottawa in 2003. He is a Full Professor with the Department of Emergency Medicine, and Cross-Appointed with the School of Epidemiology at University of Ottawa. He is a Senior Scientist at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, was awarded a uOttawa Research Chair in Emergency Cardiac Resuscitation, and is an Associate Medical Director for the Regional Paramedic Program for Eastern Ontario.

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1960鈥檚: newspaper delivery boy (Toronto Star), window washer, dishwasher, waiter, pipeline construction worker, copper/gold miner, Peace and Love

1970鈥檚: pipeline construction worker, CBC research assistant, sailor on an oil tanker, actor - Kenya, dock worker loading grain ships, taxi driver, MA Anthropology

1980鈥檚: Assistant MD Katete Zambia, Emergency Medicine MD Montreal, multiple committees and administrative roles, MD Director Montreal Jazz Festival

1990鈥檚: EM MD Montreal, RVH ED Director, multiple committees and administrative roles, MD Director Montreal Jazz Festival

2000鈥檚: EM MD Riyadh Saudi Arabia, EM MD Charlottetown and Souris PEI, EM MD Montreal, multiple committees and administrative roles, Medical Director UN Climate Change Conference Montreal, MD Director Montreal Jazz Festival

2010鈥檚: EM MD Montreal, Short Stay Unit Director, multiple committees and administrative roles, Medical Director International Preparatory Conference on Haiti, EM MD Petit Goave Haiti, MD Director Montreal Jazz Festival

2020鈥檚: EM MD Montreal, many fewer committees and administrative roles