What we're proud of: Inaugural Faculty co-Lead of Climate Change and Health in 2021. Starting PhD in Health Services Research focussed on equity-informed economic evaluation. Working on a number of funded research projects in global health, addictions, and sustainable health systems.
Favourite thing about working at UHN: Great camaraderie, team work, depth of knowledge, skills and interests that you can turn to.
What we're proud of: After a number of years working in academic, community and international settings, she is now settled at University of Toronto. Her focus is currently on the interface between human health and equity/climate disruption/environmental health, reporting on these issues in outlets such as the Toronto Star and Globe and Mail. Mother of a fabulous and feisty daughter, she juggles life as a mother, doctor, dancer, and a budding writer. Past academic activities include (in reverse order):
-Director, Royal College Emergency Medicine Program; Chair of the Emergency Medicine Program Competence by Design Committee; Co-founder of the Global Health Emergency Medicine group; Curriculum co-coordinator of the emergency medicine Toronto Addis Ababa Academic Collaboration; Fellow at the Centre for Innovation in Complex Care (CICC – now known as OpenLab) working on system redesign projects to improve the care of chronic disease patients including atrial fibrillation; Masters in Health Administration
What we're proud of: He has a Diploma in Sports and Exercise Medicine. Special interests include MSK trauma, concussions, and Emergency Department flow.
What we're proud of: Proud innovator on the Quality Improvement committee, edit the city-wide monthly QI digest and review return visits. His main academic interest is ECG education and quality improvement, I write a monthly ECG blog for emergencymedicinecases.com and tweet @ECGcases.
What we're proud of: Anna Jarvis Award 2021; DFCM Excellence in Teaching in Emergency Medicine 2019
Favourite thing about working at UHN: My colleagues! The team is kind, compassionate, and supportive.
What we're proud of: Former EM Program Director; Former Assistant Director (Education) Dept of EM UHN
Interests: Bioethics, Medical Literature
What we're proud of: She's the Medical Director, Division of Geriatric Emergency Medicine at UHN and Faculty for Geri EM Fellowship at Sinai. She is interested in Geriatric EM, policy, interface of law and medicine, scoping reviews, qualitative/mixed methods research. She was previously a lawyer and a strategy consultant!
What we're proud of: He served as Undergrad education assistant director, curriculum and evaluation committees. He also served on the UHN ER Selection and Finance committee work. MCC co chair for therapeutics examination, with special interest in examination writing and evaluations. Special interest in expedition medicine and billing/finances.
What we're proud of: Her academic interests include both qualitative and quantitative inquiries in a variety of EM and non-EM related topics. She is also the course director for the FRCP EM program's Clinical Epidemiology Course. Telisha also enjoys bedside clinical teaching, including POCUS applications. She is an avid baker, and has obtained a certificate in Baking Arts from George Brown College. She enjoys travel, exercise and playing bass guitar in a band.
What we're proud of: Chair of Acute Resuscitation Committee at UHN
Favourite thing about working at UHN: The supportive culture
What we're proud of: He has been the recipients of both 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. In 2015, he co- authored a chapter on Occlusive Arterial Disease in the 8th Edition of Tintinalli's Emergency Medicine.
What we're proud of: City wide leadership at covid recovery site for people experiencing homelessness, peer support worker program; 2020/2021 Medical Directors for COVID Recovery Site - Toronto’s shelter-hospital partnership with robust harm reduction, medical and peer supports for people experiencing homelessness. Developed and maintained an innovative program supporting more than 3000 admissions during the pandemic.
Favourite thing about working at UHN: Support from physician and nursing leadership for innovative initiatives to improve patient care, particularly for equity-seeking groups.
Health IT, Quality Improvement & Patient Safety Group
What we're proud of: CAEP Education Abstract finalist; ICRE Abstract finalist
What we're proud of: He has completed 6 field assignments with Medecins Sans Frontieres and served on the Canadian Board of Directors of MSF. He coordinated MSF’s telemedicine service for six years. With a family and a mortgage, I am pretty much now a bread and butter all-round emergency physician. I am most interested in solid clinical practise balancing quality of care, kindness, productivity, documentation and collegiality.
What we're proud of: He is the recipient of the DFCM Research Excellence Award, the Wightman-Berris Teaching Award (twice), the CAEP Educational Innovation Award, and is a certified yoga instructor.
Favourite thing about working at UHN: The broad away of talents and interests.
What we're proud of: Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences; Member College of Reviewers, CIHR
Favourite thing about working at UHN: Being part of the great group of people who work there.
What we're proud of: He is the Division Director of Emergency Medicine and an Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine at UofT. His other roles include being the Vice President of Medical Affairs at UHN and the Chair of the Inquiries, Complaints and Reports Committee of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario. Anil's primary areas of interest include University and Hospital administration, physician professionalism as well as medicolegal issues related to emergency medicine.
What we're proud of: CAEP Special Merit Award ("In recognition of outstanding contributions and dedicated service to emergency medicine in Canada. He is seen as a leader in the making in Canadian Emergency Medicine"). Associate Professor in DOM. Nominated for the Anna Jarvis Award. Inaugural Medical Director of Quality & Safety for UHN (just over a year ago, July 2020).
Favourite thing about working at UHN: The people - docs, nurses, everyone. And the 2-for-1: you work in one ED but really you get to work in two - different populations and pathologies, which is the ED physician's dream of breadth of work!
What we're proud of: Her photo essay about the COVID UHN frontline healthcare worker experience was published on the June 2020 cover of Maclean’s magazine. This work was supported by a National Geographic journalism grant. The cover won the Gold Grand Prix National Magazine Award for Canada’s best cover of the year. Also her op-ed “Don’t Call Me a Superhero” (about the burnout and stress of healthcare workers) was published by Maclean’s. This highlights their research interest in shame-based behaviours in medical culture. They also recently graduated from the U of T School of Continuing Studies Writing Certificate program where she specialized in creative non-fiction.
Favourite thing about working at UHN: Even though this past year was a good excuse to step back, my UHN colleagues stepped forward. The team has a place for everyone to find a sense of belonging.
What we're proud of: She completed a MSc in Infectious Disease Immunology at LSHTM. She completed subspecialty training in both Geriatric EM and Simulation. Her interests are care of the elderly, medical education and global health.
What we're proud of: She is an attending staff doctor in the Emergency Department of the University Health Network(UHN), the University of Toronto’s largest downtown teaching hospital and during the past five years has worked clinically in Lesotho, Malawi and Ethiopia in both emergency medicine and HIV services. She is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine. She specializes in operational research around the prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV in sub-Saharan Africa, and is a Research Scientist with Dignitas International in Malawi. Additionally, her research interests include the delivery of emergency medicine services in low-resource settings and she is a founding member of the Global Health Emergency Medicine (GHEM) group at the University of Toronto. She is the co-director of 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.
What we're proud of: He started an amazing podcast called “How’s My Financial Health Doc?” It has amazing pearls of wisdom for the doctor interested in financial literacy beyond maximizing billings!
Favourite thing about working at UHN: People have varied interests and we are not all expected to follow the same path
What we're proud of: Alia is a co-lead for ED In Situ Simulation; TAAAC Simulation Director; a former Simulation, Health Sciences and Resuscitation [SHRED] Fellow; and alumna of the Auckland Rescue Helicopter Trust [ARHT] Helicopter Emergency Medical Service [HEMS]. Since joining UHN, Alia’s interest has been in hybridizing knowledge translation, quality improvement, and simulation via infographics, videos, and just about any other way she can engage her buds in simulation. She also had developed clinical / resuscitation “hot” debriefing curricula and resources, to make each ED resuscitation better and safer than the last.
What we're proud of: She is an avid teacher in ethics at both the undergraduate and postgraduate levels, and co-director of the PGY2 ethics course for emergency medicine residents. She serves on the FRCP emergency medicine program Assessment Committee, developing written and oral exams for the residents.
What we're proud of: Their interests include medical education, and global health. In addition to working in rural Ontario, Iqaluit, and Antarctica, they have contributed actively to the Toronto Addis Ababa Academic Collaboration - Emergency Medicine Division.