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Dr. Anton Helman is an Emergency Physician at North York General, Etobicoke General and St. Michael’s Hospitals in Toronto. He is a Lecturer and is on the CME committee at the University of Toronto, Division of Emergency Medicine. He is the owner and host of Emergency Medicine Cases.

Dr. Arun Sayal is an Emergency Physician at North York General Hospital in Toronto. He runs a weekly Minor Fracture Clinic there. He is also a co-director of North York General Hosptial’s Emergency Medicine Update conference. He is the director of CASTED, a full-day, CME accredited hands-on ED Orthopedics Course.

Dr. Natalie Mamen is an Emergency Physician at Toronto East General Hospital. She did her residency training at The Univeristy of Toronto where she also received her Dip Sp Med in sports medicine.  She is currently a Lecturer at The University of Toronto and has won multiple teaching awards in Emergency Medicine.

Dr. Dan Cass was an Emergency Physician at St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto until 2009 where he was the Chief of Emergency Services from 1997 to 2007. He completed his residency training in Emergency Medicine in 1993 at the University of Toronto. He currently holds the position of Regional Supervising Coroner for Toronto West.

Dr. Margaret Thompson is an Emergency Physician at St. Michael’s Hospital and the Medical Director of the Ontario Poison Centre at the Hospital for Sick Children. She is double certified in Emergency Medicine by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada and the American Board of Emergency Medicine. She is also a Fellow of the American College of Medical Toxicology.

Dr. Rahim Valani is an Emergency Physician at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre and Toronto East General Hospital. He is a graduate of the Queen’s University and completed his specialist training in Canada, UK, and Australia. Dr. Valani completed a Pediatric Emergency Medicine fellowship at the Hospital for Sick Children. He is also the co-editor of the Hospital for Sick Children Handbook of Pediatric Trauma.

Dr. Jennifer Riley is an Emergency Physician St. Michael’s Hospital and Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto.  She is an Assistant Professor at  The University of Toronto, Department of Medicine and Pediatrics.

Dr. Paul Rosenberg is an Emergency Physician at Etobicoke General Hospital and Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto. He was the cheif of emergency services at Etobicoke General Hospital from 1991 to 2001.

Dr. Lisa Thurger is an Emergency Physician at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto, and is the Emergency Medicine Undergraduate Co-ordinator for that site. She completed her residency training at the University of Toronto as well as a fellowship in Clinical Pharmacology. Dr Thurgur is the Theme Co-Coordinator for Pharmacology at the University of Toronto and is a Clinical Toxicologist at the Ontario Poison Centre at the Hospital for Sick Children.

Dr.Brian Steinhart is an Emergency Physician at St. Michael’s Hospital. He is certified in Emergency Medicine by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada and the American Board of Emergency Medicine. He has conducted and published original research in cardiac biomarkers and has been a delegate for Heart and Stroke Foundation Canada as well as the American Heart Association.

Dr. Eric Letovsky is an Emergency Physician at The Credit Valley Hospital, in Mississauga, Ontario, where he is the Chief of the Emergency Department . He is the Director of the Division of Emergency Medicine in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Toronto, where he is a Full Professor in the Faculty of Medicine.

Dr. Daniel Selchen is a Neurologist and a Rhodes Scholar. He is the Head of the Division of Neurology and Regional Stroke Program at St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto. He was the Medical Director of the West Greater Toronto Area Stroke Centre from 2001-2008, and is a researcher in stroke and TIA.

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.

Dr. Shirley Lee is an Emergency Physician and the Director of Education at the Schwartz/Reisman Emergency Centre, Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto, and an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto. She has served in a number of capacities at the undergraduate, postgraduate and CME level at the University of Toronto.

Dr. Dominick Shelton is an emergency physician at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre and Women’s College Hospital.  He is a former Director of the Emergency Department at Women’s College Hospital and is an Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto.

Dr. Jonathan Sherbino is an emergency physician at St. Joseph’s Hospital, Hamilton and a Trauma team Leader at the Hamilton General Hospital.  He is an assistant professor at McMaster University, where he is the Director of Continuing Professional Development for the Division of Emergency Medicine.

Dr. Mark Mensour practices Emergency Medicine and Anesthesiology at Huntsville District Memorial Hospital and South Muskoka Memorial Hospital and is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine for the Northern Ontario School of Medicine. He has lectured nationally and internationally on topics in Emergency Medicine and Anesthesiology.  He is the cofounder of the Evidence Based Resuscitation and FocusED Sonography courses.

Dr. Andrew Healey is an Emergency Physician at St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton and an Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine at McMaster University.  In addition to Emergency Medicine, he has completed formal training in ultrasound, echocardiography, and Critical Care Medicine.  He is the cofounder of the Evidence Based Resuscitation and FocusED Sonography courses.

Dr. George Porfiris is an Emergency Physician at Toronto East General Hospital where he is the Director of Emergency Medicine Education. He is the recipient of multiple teaching awards including the Emergency Medicine Undergraduate Education Teaching Award for 2009-2010 from The University of Toronto, where he as a an Assistant Professor.

Dr. Dave MacKinnon is an Emergency Physician and Trauma Team Leader at St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto. He is also the Emergency Medicine Postgraduate Co-ordinator at that site. He completed his residency training at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario.

Dr. Mike Brzozowski is an Emergency Physician and Trauma Team Leader at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto, where he is the Emergency/Trauma liason with the Trauma program. He completed his residency in Emergency Medicine at the University of Toronto in 1993, and trained in Toronto, New York, Denver, Baltimore and Perth, Australia in the field of trauma.

Dr. Doug Sinclair is an Emergency Physician and Administrator with a special interest in patient safety and medical error. He is currently Executive Vice President and Chief Medical Officer at St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto. He worked in Nova Scotia for 22 years where he held a number of positions including first Deputy Chair of EM at Dalhousie University, Chief of EM at Capital Health, the IWK Health Centre and Associate Dean of CME at Dalhousie. He completed his Family Medicine and Emergency Medicine residency training in Halifax and Toronto.

Dr. Chris Hicks is an Emergency Physician at St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto. In addition to his FRCP-EM training, he completed a Masters of Education at the University of Toronto. His academic interests include patient safety and medical error, simulation and critical event crisis management for high performing teams.

Dr. Steven Brooks is an Emergency Physician at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto and an Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto. He recently completed a clinical research fellowship within the Prehospital and Transport Medicine Research Program at the University of Toronto and a Masters of Health Sciences from the University of British Columbia. He is currently a member of the Advanced Cardiac Life Support Subcommittee of the American Heart Association and the ACS/MI Taskforce for the International Liaison Committee for Resuscitation.

Dr. Michael Feldman is an Emergency  Physician at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto and is a medical director of the Toronto EMS special operations program as well as a medical director of the firefighter prehospital care program. He is a collaborating investigator at the Keenan Research Centre at the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute at St. Michael’s Hospital in the Resuscitation Outcomes Studies on prehospital treatment of cardiac arrest.

Dr. David Carr is an Emergency Physician at the University Health Network (UHN) in Toronto and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine, Division of Emergency Medicine at the University of Toronto. He spent his 1st year of practice working in an Emergency Department in Sydney, Australia. He serves as the Assistant Director of Education at the UHN and in 2009 he was the recipient of both Undergraduate and Post Graduate Clinical Teaching awards.

Dr. Anil Chopra is an Emergency Physician at the University Health Network (UHN) in Toronto and an Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine, University of Toronto. He is the Head and Medical Director of Emergency Medicine at the University Health Network.

Dr. Stella Yiu is an Emergency Physician at the University Health Network (UHN) in Toronto and The Ottawa Hospital. She is a faculty member at both the University of Toronto and the University of Ottawa. She was the Assistant Director of Education at the Department of Emergency Medicine at UHN. She contributes regularly to various blogs and podcasts on academic emergency medicine.

Dr. Neil Fam is an Interventional Cardiologist at St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto. He is the Director of the Coronoary Care Unit at SMH and a an Assistant Professor and Clinical Teacher in the Division of Cardiology at the University of Toronto.

Dr. Joel Yaphe is an Emergency Physician at the University Health Network in Toronto. He is the Assistant Director of Education in the Department of Emergency Medicine at UHN and an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Toronto. He is the director of the University of Toronto’s Annual Update in Emergency Medicine conference in Whistler, B.C.

Dr. Indy Ghosh is an Emergency Physician as well as the Chief and Clinical Director of Emergency Medicine at York Central Hospital in Toronto. He was the Program Director for the CCFP (EM) residency program in the Division of EM at the McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario.

Dr. Greg Hall is an Emergency Physician at Brantford General Hospital and an Assistant Professor at McMaster University. He was the chief of the Emergency Department in Cambridge, Ontario for 5 years. He is a co-developer of EDE2: The Advanced Emergency Department Echo course. He is the winner of multiple awards including clinician of the year for his ultrasound instruction.

Dr. Jordan Chenkin is an Emergency Physician at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre and an Assistant Professor a the University of Toronto. He is a Master Instructor with the Canadian Emergency Ultrasound Society and an instructor for the EDE and EDE2 ultrasound courses. He has conducted and published original research on training for ultrasound-assisted procedures.

Dr. Paul Hannam is an Emergency Physician and chief of Emergency Services at Toronto East General Hospital and a Lecturer at the University of Toronto. He is an instructor for the EDE and EDE2 ultrasound courses and lectures on emergency ultrasound.

Dr. Jason Fischer is an Emergency Physician at The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto where he is the Physician Lead for Emergency Ultrasound. He is an Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto. He completed his Emergency Medicine and Pediatric Emergency Medicine training in Oakland, California as well as an Emergency Ultrasound fellowship. He has lectured and instructed physicians internationally on ultrasound in Pediatric Emergency Medicine and leads the Emergency Ultrasound Program at Sick Kids which includes the Pediatric Emergency Ultrasound Fellowship.

Dr. Anna Jarvis was an Emergency Physician at The Hospital For Sick Children in Toronto from 1997-2010. She is a full professor at the University of Toronto and the Associate Dean of the Office of Health Professions Student Affairs. She also created, implemented and supervised the Department of Paediatrics Clinical Fellowship Program in Paediatric Emergency Medicine for 13 years.

Dr. Stephen Freedman is an Emergency Physician at the Hospital For Sick Children in Toronto and an Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto. He completed his paediatric emergency medicine fellowship at Children’s Memorial Hospital in Chicago, and a Master of Science in Clinical Investigation at Northwestern University. He is a clinician-investigator in the Division of Emergency Medicine at U of T, and an associate scientist in Child Health Evaluative Sciences.

Dr. Nazanin Meshkat is an Emergency Physician at University Health Network and York Central Hospital. She is an assistant professor at the University of Toronto, and a consultant at the Centre for Innovation in Complex Care working on system redesign projects to improve the care of patients with atrial fibrillation. She is the co-editor of the web educational platforms Global Health Emergency Medicine Teaching Modules and the Emergency Medicine Radiology Database and Teaching Tool. She is also the curriculum co-coordinator of the first emergency medicine residency program in Ethiopia as part of the Toronto Addis Ababa Academic Collaboration.

Dr. Clare Atzema is an Emergency Physician at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto. She is an Adjunct Scientist with the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Toronto. She received her medical degree from the University of British Columbia. She did a research fellowship at UCLA prior to completing her post-graduate training in emergency medicine at the University of Toronto, and received an MSc in Epidemiology from the University of Toronto during her residency.

Dr. Bryan Au is an Emergency Physician at St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto and an Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto. He is a well-known speaker in Emergency Medicine and is the recipient of teaching awards.

Dr. John Foote is an Emergency Physician at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto and an Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto. He is the program director for the CCFP(EM) Emergency Medicine fellowship program at the University of Toronto.

Dr. David Dushenski is an Emergency Physician at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto, where he is the Deputy Director and Quality Assurance Coordinator.  He is a Lecturer at the Univeristy of Toronto and has won multiple post graduate teaching awards.

Dr. Ross Claybo is an Emergency Physician at North York General, Sunnybrook and Markham Stoffville Hospitals. He graduated from the University of Toronto Emergency Medicine training program in 1985 and has worked in the Middle East. He is a lecturer at the University of Toronto and is very active in undergraduate and resident training.

Dr. Laura Tate is a Plastic Surgeon at the Toronto East General Hospital. She was the Chief of Surgery and Co Program Medical Director at TEGH. She is an Assistant Professor of Surgery at the University of Toronto and has won multiple teaching awards. She was the Chair of the Women in Surgery Initiative at the University of Toronto from 2004-2008.

Dr. Andrew Arcand is an Emergency Physician and the chief of the emergency department at Markham Stouffville Hospital near Toronto.

Dr. Jamie Blicker is an Emergency Physician at North York General and St. Michael’s Hospitals in Toronto. He completed his Emergency Medicine training at the University of Manitoba and practiced in Cleveland before returning to Canada. He is the recipient of multiple teaching awards.