Featured Speakers
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Dr Bill Dunn |
Dr. Bill Dunn is Medical Director of the Mayo Clinic Multidisciplinary Simulation Center, and Past President of the Society for Simulation in Healthcare. On Mayo staff since 1989, he is a practicing pulmonologist, intensive care specialist and educator. His team created a leading center of clinical simulation-based experiential learning—the Mayo Clinic Multidisciplinary Simulation Center. He is recipient of multiple awards for clinical and educational excellence, including Fellowship in the American Colleges of Critical Care Medicine and Chest Physicians, the Karis Award (Mayo clinical excellence), the Mayo Excellence in Teamwork Award, Mayo’s “Quality Star” Award and the Mayo Clinic Department of Medicine’s Education Innovation Award. Dr. Dunn serves on the Editorial Board of the Journal Simulation in Healthcare, in addition to being Co-editor of the series within the Journal CHEST entitled “Transparency in Healthcare” (now “Patient Safety Forum”) since 2007. Additionally, he is on the Editorial Boards of the journals “Simulation in Healthcare” and “Anatomical Sciences Education.” In an effort to support the functioning of a globally active, interdisciplinary collaborative field of healthcare simulation, he continues to actively work within various roles of the Society for Simulation in Healthcare. These include serving on the SSH Accreditation Council, SSH Accreditation Board of Review, and chairing the SSH Systems Integration Accreditation Subcommittee. He is currently actively engaged in teaming with leaders in simulation-based learning at all Mayo sites, in an effort to create a seamless, web-integrated network of experiential learning, serving the “One-Mayo” practice. |
Dr Gurmeet Singh |
Gurmeet Singh, MD MSc FRCSC is currently an Assistant Clinical Professor of Critical Care Medicine and Cardiac Surgery at the Mazankowski Alberta Heart Institute, University of Alberta, Edmonton and Quality Assurance Coordinator, Cardiac Surgery. He received his medical degree from the Faculty of Medicine, University of Alberta followed by residency in cardiac surgery, during which he completed an MSc in Experimental Surgery. After completing his FRCSC, he did fellowship training at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation in heart failure surgery, cardiac transplantation, and mechanical circulatory support. He further obtained Royal College certification in Critical Care Medicine and trained in echocardiography. His clinical interests include critical care of the cardiac surgical patient, mechanical circulatory support for heart failure, and extracorporeal life support for respiratory failure. |
Dr Marc Roznar |
Marc A. Rozner, PhD, MD, is Professor of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine in the Division of Anesthesiology and Critical Care and Professor of Cardiology at the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, TX. |
Dr Peter Slinger |
Dr. Peter Slinger completed medical school training at the University of Western Ontario in 1973. Following a Family Medicine residency at the University of Alberta and Family Practice in Yellowknife NWT, he did an Anesthesia Residency at McGill University and the University of Montreal. He is currently a Professor of Anesthesia at the University of Toronto, a member of the Anesthesia Staff at the Toronto General Hospital and Director of CME in the Dept. of Anesthesia. His area of interest is Anesthesia for Thoracic Surgery, with specific interests in pre-operative assessment, management of one-lung anesthesia, peri-operative lung injury and trans-esophageal echocardiography. He has edited, authored and co-authored numerous texts, articles and chapters relating to Thoracic Anesthesia. He serves as Associate Editor for Thoracic Anesthesia, Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia. |
Dr Bhavesh Patel |
Bhavesh Patel attended medical school and critical care fellowship training in Canada and is now an Assistant Professor of Medicine and Anesthesiology and Consultant in the Department of Critical Care at Mayo Clinic Arizona where he is also serves as the Director of Education for the Department of Critical Care and Medical Director for the Department of Respiratory Therapy. He has been involved with Mayo Clinic’s Program in Underserved Global Health in Haiti and is the lead for the Acute Care Diagnostics initiative bringing bedside sonography education to Haitian physicians. He has also served in global relief efforts in Kenya, Bangladesh, Nepal and Fiji. |
Dr Seton Henderson |
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Dr Andre Denault |
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Clinical scientist, Junior 1 FRSQ EDUCATION PUBLICATIONS |
Lynette Brandsma |
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Dr Sam D. Shemie |
Dr. Shemie’s area of specialty is organ replacement in critical illness. He is pediatric critical care physician and director of Extracorporeal Life Support program at the Montreal Children’s Hospital, McGill University. His recent research interests have included the clinical and policy impact of organ failure support technologies and the development and implementation of national ICU based organ donation strategies. He is the former chair of the Donation Committee of the Canadian Council for Donation and Transplantation. In April 2003, he chaired a Canadian Forum entitled “From Severe Brain Injury to Neurological Determination of Death” which has developed new medical standards for brain death determination and organ donation in Canada for all age groups. In February 2004, he chaired a Canadian Forum entitled “Medical Management to Optimize Donor Organ Potential” which has developed national consensus guidelines to optimize organ donor function for the purposes of transplantation. In February 2005, he chaired a Canadian Forum on ‘Donation after Cardiocirculatory Death’. In December 2006, he was appointed as the Bertram Loeb Chair in Organ and Tissue Donation in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Ottawa. The mandate of the Loeb chair is to provide research leadership in current and emerging issues related to technology, death, organ donation and transplantation with an emphasis on collaborative interdisciplinary research (ethical, philosophical, religious, cultural, legal, technological and biomedical). In August 2008, he was appointed Executive Medical Director(Donation), Organs and Tissues, for the Canadian Blood Services. With CBS, he has been involved with health care system redesign for organ/tissue donation and transplantation in Canada, including advancing the development of ICU-based donation physician specialists. |
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Dr Tony O'Leary |
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Dr Keith Walley |
Keith R. Walley, MD Dr. Walley received his MD from the University of Manitoba in 1981, trained in Internal Medicine at McGill University, and subsequently trained in Critical Care Medicine at the University of Chicago. He has been a practicing Intensivist at St. Paul’s Hospital ICU and investigator at the University of British Columbia Heart + Lung Institute laboratories since 1988. The focus of Dr. Walley's research is to investigate 1) the mechanism of decreased left ventricular contractility and other organ failure during sepsis and 2) the impact of genotype on patient outcomes in sepsis and systemic inflammatory states. He collaborates with Dr. James A. Russell on clinical trials involving critically ill patients to translate basic discoveries into clinical practice in the ICU. Dr. Walley has published more than 150 peer-reviewed manuscripts. Some recent publications include: Russell JA, Walley KR, Singer J, et al. Vasopressin versus norepinephrine infusion in patients with septic shock. N Engl J Med 358:877-887, 2008. Boyd JH, Kan B, Roberts H, Wang Y, Walley KR. S100A8 and S100A9 mediate endotoxin-induced cardiomyocyte dysfunction via the receptor for advanced glycation end products. Circ Res. 102:1239-1246, 2008. Russell JA, Walley KR, Gordon AC, Cooper DJ, Hébert PC, Singer J, Holmes CL, Mehta S, Granton JT, Storms MM, Cook DJ, Presneill JJ, Ayers D for the Vasopressin and Septic Shock Trial (VASST) Investigators. Interaction of vasopressin infusion, corticosteroid treatment and mortality of septic shock. Crit Care Med. 37(3):811-8, 2009. Nakada TA, Russell JA, Boyd JH, Aguirre-Hernandez R, Thain KR, Thair SA, Nakada E, McConechy M, Walley KR. β2-Adrenergic receptor gene polymorphism is associated with mortality in septic shock. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 181(2):143-149, 2010. Thair SA, Walley KR, Nakada TA, McConechy MK, Boyd JH, Russell JA. A single nucleotide polymorphism in NF-kB inducing kinase is associated with mortality in septic shock. J Immunol. 15;186(4):2321-2328, 2011. Nakada TA, Russell JA, Wellman H, Boyd JH, Nakada E, Thain KR, Thair SA, Hirasawa H, Oda S, Walley KR. Leucyl/cystinyl aminopeptidase gene variants in septic shock. Chest, 139;1042-1049, 2011. |
Alexandra Kroetsch |
Alexandra Kroetsch lives in Vancouver BC. She holds a B.A in psychology from UBC and a degree in marketing management from BCIT. She is both an entrepreneur and a child care provider. |
Chris Considine |
Chris Considine values the best interests of his clients, providing them with sound and responsive advice. Chris is one of British Columbia’s most respected lawyers with over three decades of experience. Chris offers trusted legal advice and representation across a wide variety of legal subject areas. His practice areas include: personal injury, criminal law, employment law, medical malpractice, civil litigation, civil rights issues, corporate and commercial litigation, estate litigation and administrative law. |
Dr Lorraine LeG... |
Originally from Montréal, Dr. Lorraine LeGrand Westfall received her medical degree from the University of Montréal in 1981. From 1981 to 1982, she completed her internship in surgery at the University of Toronto and from 1982 to 1986 completed her residency in general surgery at the University of Ottawa. She practised general surgery from 1986 to 2006 at the Centre hospitalier des Vallées de l’Outaouais – Pavillon Gatineau, serving on many hospital committees, on council for the hospital from 1996 to 1999, and as chief of surgery from 1999 to 2003. She was a member of the Québec Regional Advisory Committee of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada from 1995 to 2001. From 2003 to 2006, Dr. LeGrand Westfall was a member of Council of the CMPA when, in March 2006, she accepted a position as Physician Risk Manager. Since 2006, she has given hundreds of educational and risk management presentations to Canadian physicians. In March 2011, Dr LeGrand Westfall was appointed Director of Regional Affairs and is responsible for managing relationships with governments, medical organizations and other key stakeholders, with a primary focus in Québec. |
Dr Tex Kissoon |
Dr. Kissoon is the Vice-President, Medical Affairs at BC Children’s Hospital and Professor, Pediatric and Surgery (EM) Department of Pediatrics at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, BC as well as the UBC BCCH Professor in Acute and Critical Care – Global Child Health. He completed his medical studies at the University of West Indies in Jamaica in 1978, followed by residencies in Pediatrics and Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine. As a recognized expert in the field of pediatric emergency and critical care, he has contributed to over 200 peer reviewed publications and authored over 50 book chapters. He has been a visiting professor at more than 55 institutions worldwide along with being a member of editorial boards for 10 journals. Dr. Kissoon’s international work has included work in China, India, Brazil and Africa, often in areas of vulnerability and limited resources for the critically ill child. |
Dr Peter Cox |
Professor, Departments of Anaesthesia, Critical Care Medicine and Paediatrics, Adjunct Professor, Mechanical Engineering, University of Toronto |
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Dr Steve Reynolds |
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Dr Damon Scales |
Dr. Scales graduated from the University of Toronto (UofT) in 1997. Following residencies in Internal Medicine (2001) and Critical Care Medicine (2003) in Toronto, he completed a PhD in Clinical Epidemiology and Health Care Research (UofT) in 2007. He is now an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Toronto, Staff Intensivist at the Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Scientist at the Sunnybrook Research Institute, and an Adjunct Scientist at the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences. He is also the Program Director of the University of Toronto Adult Critical Care Medicine Residency program. Dr. Scales currently holds a New Investigator Award from the Canadian Institutes for Health Research (CIHR). He conducts health services research that investigates system-level factors and interventions that influence the outcomes of critically ill patients. He has also conducted several large quality improvement randomized trials (RCT). Most recently, he was the co-Principal Investigator of the SPARC (Strategies in Post Arrest Resuscitation Care) stepped-wedge cluster RCT to improve the use of therapeutic hypothermia in cardiac arrest survivors (funded by CIHR & Heart and Stroke Foundation (HSF)). He is now conducting (as PI) a stepped-wedge cluster RCT to improve the application of evidence-based neuroprognostication for cardiac arrest survivors (PremaTOR; funded by HSF) and also an individual patient RCT (as PI) of pre-hospital cooling by paramedics of cardiac arrest victims (ICE-PACS, funded by CIHR). Dr. Scales is an active member of several national and international committees, including the organizing committee for the Critical Care Canada Forum, the Quality Improvement Committee of the American Thoracic Society (ATS), and the Critical Care Program Committee of the ATS. His email address is damon.scales@utoronto.ca. |
Dr Lawrence D H Wood |
Born and educated in Canada, Dr. Lawrence D. H. Wood received his MD degree at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, and his PhD at McGill University in Montreal. After completing his internal medicine residency and critical care training, Dr. Wood joined the faculty at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg in 1975. In 1982, Dr. Wood joined the faculty at the University of Chicago, where his leadership was instrumental in building a strong program in critical care within a new section of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine. In 1984, less than two years after joining the University of Chicago, the medical school graduates presented Dr. Wood with the J.A. McClintock Award as the Outstanding Teacher in the medical school. He was subsequently named one of the Outstanding Teachers for the next 20 consecutive years. Dr. Wood co-authored 167 articles linking pathophysiology to clinical medicine, and he co-edited three books on the principles of critical care. When the American Thoracic Society established a section on Critical Care in 1984, Dr. Wood was elected as its first chairperson. A teacher acclaimed for encouraging and challenging his students to think critically, he trained over 100 pulmonary and critical care fellows, many of whom now hold leadership positions as investigators and teachers. After serving as Dean for Medical Education at the Pritzker School of Medicine from 1996 through 2003, Dr. Wood retired. Currently, there are two teaching awards at the University of Chicago named in his honor: the Lawrence D.H. Wood Award for "selfless, tireless, and excellent teaching of medical students" in the preclerkship years and the new Lawrence D.H. Wood Teaching Scholar Award, created by the University of Chicago Academy of Distinguished Medical Educators, to honor a senior faculty member for outstanding contributions to medical education at the Pritzker School of Medicine. In 2006, Dr. Wood was named as one of the six inaugural members to the University of Chicago Academy of Distinguished Medical Educators. |
Dr Peter Brindley |
Peter Brindley will always describe himself, first and foremost, as a full-time Critical Care Physician. He is proud to work at the University of Alberta Hospital in both the General Systems Intensive Care Unit and its Neuro Sciences Intensive Care Unit. |
Dr Michael Murphy |
Michael F Murphy MD, FRCPC (EM), FRCPC (ANES)
He is currently the Professor and Chair, Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, University of Alberta; and Zone Chief, Department of Anesthesiology, Edmonton Zone in Edmonton, Alberta Canada an |
