CanadiEM's Editorial Board is composed of a leadership team and section-specific editors. All editors, authors, and contributors to CanadiEM contribute on a volunteer basis. All contributions to CanadiEM undergo a rigorous vetting process that involves review and copy-editing from one or more editors. Most medical pieces are also reviewed by an independent physician. When available prior to publication. These reviews are published openly at the bottom of each post.
If you would like to contribute to CanadiEM get more information here. If you are an attending physician we are always in need of reviewers for our medical pieces. Please contact us at [email protected] if you are interested in assisting.
CanadiEM Leadership Team
Teresa Chan, MD FRCPC
Teresa Chan is a medical educator and researcher. She is the Founding Dean (School of Medicine) and Vice-President (Medical Affairs) at Toronto Metropolitan University. Before that, she was an Emergency Physician and Director of Continuing Professional Learning at McMaster University. She was a longstanding editor at BoringEM, a key driver in the development of CanadiEM, and is currently the Chief Strategy Officer.
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Brent Thoma, MD FRCPC
Brent Thoma is a medical educator and researcher. He currently works at the University of Saskatchewan as an Emergency Physician and trauma team leader. He founded BoringEM as a resident, designed the CanadiEM website, and is currently the Chief Executive Officer.
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Blair Bigham, MD
Blair is an award-winning journalist, scientist and physician who trained in emergency and critical care medicine at McMaster and Stanford Universities. He was a Global Journalism Fellow at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Associate Scientist at St Michael’s Hospital. His work has appeared in newspapers, magazines, newscasts, podcasts and medical journals. He leads the CanadiEM Digital Scholarship Fellowship as the Chief People Officer.
Revathi (Rey) Nair, B. Sc Hon
Rey is a medical student at the University of Saskatchewan. She got involved with CanadiEM through the junior editor program in the Infographics team. Her academic interests include PoCUS, FoAMed, and Critical Care. Outside of medicine, Rey enjoys cooking (often pretending to be a contestant on Masterchef), in addition to kayaking, and writing poetry. She is currently the Director of Multimedia coordinating the CanadiEM Podcasts.
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Kara Tastad, MD
Kara Tastad is an Emergency Medicine Resident at the University of Toronto. She works as a co-Director of Design for CanadiEM and is one of the co-founders of CarmsCast.
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Editors
Ahmed Taher, MD
Ahmed is an Emergency Physician in Toronto and the founder and editor of the Health Informatics, Quality Improvement, and Patient Safety (HiQUIPS) section.
Dillan Radomske, MD
Dillan is an Emergency Medicine Resident at the University of Saskatchewan and one of the new voices of the CrackCast Podcast.
Owen Scheirer, MD
Owen is an Emergency Medicine Physician and trauma team leader living and working in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. He is one of the voices of the CrackCast Podcast.
Andrew Shih, MD
Andrew is a hematologist and one of the founders of the 'Blood and Clots' series.
Sparsh Shah, MD
Sparsh is an Emergency Medicine Resident at the University of Toronto. He has interests in design, healthcare leadership, and innovation. He works with both the Junior Editor and Infographic teams.
Lauren Beals, MD
Lauren is an Emergency Medicine Resident at McMaster University and one of the co-founders of ClerkCast.
Ben Forestall, MD
Ben Forestell is an Emergency Medicine Resident at McMaster University. His interests include FOAMed for medical learners (ClerkCast!), quality improvement, and simulation.
Paula Sneath, MD, FRCPC
Paula is an Emergency Medicine Physician in Hamilton and an Advanced Care Paramedic in Ontario. She has a strong interest in improving access to education and resources for paramedics in Canada and fostering relationships between EM providers. She writes and edits 'Sirens to Scrubs.'
Eric Tsang, MD
Eric is a hematologist and one of the founders of the 'Blood and Clots' series.
Wen (Will) Wu, MD, CCFP-EM
Will is an Emergency Medicine Physician in Vancouver, and the editor of the ‘Case Reports’ series. He has an interest in exploring innovations in medical education. Outside of work, you can find him at the ice rink or outside soaking up nature.
Tetyana Maniuk, MD
Tetyana is an Emergency Medicine Resident at the University of Ottawa and the Editor of ArtsPRN.
Associate Editors
Michael Pratte, MD
Michael Pratte is an Internal Medicine Resident at the University of Ottawa. His academic interests include point-of-care ultrasound, critical care and evidence-based emergency medicine. Outside of medicine, he occupies his time with reading, video games, triathlons, and his very loving pug, Apnea.
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Jeremi Laski
Jeremi Laski is a Canadian medical student studying at Central Michigan University College of Medicine. He started at CanadiEM as a junior editor and is now an associate editor, helping to train new junior editors to join the CanadiEM team.
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Edward Feng, MD
Edward Feng is a Family Medicine +1 in EM resident at the University of Toronto. His interests include medical education and health policy. In his free time he can be found playing board games or cooking up a storm.
Alex Senger, MD
Alex Senger is an Emergency Medicine Resident in Kelowna, BC. He helped to get the newsletter program off the ground and is excited about writing articles with CanadiEM.
Alumni and Reviewers
Edmund Kwok, MD FRCPC
Edmund Kwok is an Emergency Medicine Physician at the University of Ottawa. He founded the successful editorial blog Frontdoor2Healthcare before joining with BoringEM to create CanadiEM. He has interests in healthcare systems, change management, and quality improvement.
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Shahbaz Syed, MD
Shahbaz Syed is an emergency medicine resident at the University of Ottawa. He is currently undertaking a fellowship in digital scholarship and online educational resources. He makes substantial contributions to both the EM Ottawa blog and was a key contributor to the Frontdoor 2 Healthcare blog.
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Nadim Lalani, MD FRCPC
Nadim is an Emergency Physician at the South Health Campus in Calgary, Alberta. He is passionate about online learning and recently made a transition into human performance coaching. He is currently working on introducing the coaching model into medical education.
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Niresha Velmurugiah, MD
Niresha Velmurugiah is an Emergency MedicineResident at the University of Alberta. Her interests include exploring filmmaking and other media forms as tools for advocacy and social justice. She heads the "Physicians as Humans" series on CanadiEM.
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Adam Thomas, MD
Adam Thomas is a newbie to MedEd. He cofounded the CrackCast project to fill the obvious gap in current FOAMed. He is a true podcasting supporter, and finds it to be the best way he learns. Currently a resident in the FRCP program at the University of British Columbia.
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Chris Lipp, MD
Chris Lipp is one of the founding Fathers for CrackCast and an EM Resident in Victoria, BC. His interests are in sports, exercise, and wilderness medicine. When he isn’t out on one of his accidental 20km trail runs, you can find him jamming with friends, or outdoors, and reading Rosen’s…
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Sarah Luckett-Gatopoulos, MD
"Luckett" is an Emergency Physician at Western and McMaster University. She founded the successful blog The Liminal Space and was initially recruited as a resident editor for BoringEM. She helped to pioneer BoringEM's "Coached Peer Review Process."
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Fareen Zaver, MD FRCPC
Fareen Zaver is an Emergency Medicine Physician at the University of Calgary. She is the lead editor and co-founder of the ALiEM AIR Pro series as well as co-author of the 2016 edition of must read EM journal articles. She also lead the CanadiEM Digital Scholarship Fellowship as the Chief People Officer.
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