Program

ATEM – Breaking New Ground: The Power of Innovation  

Conference Program Highlights

Day 1: Innovation

  • Breaking new ground in
    interprofessional education

  • Bringing the ICU and ED together

  • Innovations in trauma surgery

  • Lunch

  • Early care of the major
    burn patient
  • Have we reached the pinnacle
    of trauma care?

  • Prehospital cardiac arrest

Day 2: Excellence

  • From the stretcher, looking up: the patient perspective

  • Injury prevention three ways

  • Ensuring patient safety at the most critical points in care

  • Lunch

  • Facial fractures….who’s on first?

  • Ensuring excellence in managing orthopedic injuries

  • Excellence in prevention, care and recovery

Day 3: Change

  • Changing our thinking around cardiac arrest

  • Changes to consider in EMS and in smaller trauma centres

  • What does the NEXT decade bring?

Plenary Speakers

Dr. Sheri Lynn Price

Dr Sheri Price is a Professor with the School of Nursing at Dalhousie University, an Affiliate Scientist at the IWK and an active researcher. She is a passionate speaker on the value of interprofessional education and collaboration  – helping healthcare teams learn and perform at their best.

Dr. Price is a Professor with the School of Nursing, Dalhousie University, and an Affiliate Scientist at the IWK Health Centre in Halifax, Nova Scotia. She is a Collaborator with the Pan-Canadian Health Human Research Network (CHHRN), a Co-Investigator with the WHO Collaborating Centre for Health Workforce Planning and an Associate Research Scholar with the Healthy Populations Institute.

Dr. Price’s research is focused in the areas of health services, professional socialization, interprofessional collaboration and healthcare work environments using qualitative and narrative approaches.

Dr. Price has led several innovative knowledge translation and dissemination projects including the use of arts-based media to promote career choice, recruitment and interprofessional education and collaboration within the health professions.

Dr. Mike Christian

Dr. Mike Christian is the Chief Medical Officer for BC Emergency Health Services – but his experiences range from Canadian Forces deployments to work with London’s Air Ambulance program in the UK and beyond. Throughout, Mike leads through collaboration and a shared curiosity for how we can collectively do and be better. Check out his website: www.drmikechristian.com

Dr. Mike Christian joined BCEHS in December 2021. He has over thirty years of experience as a health care leader in areas including critical care, infectious diseases, military, aviation and prehospital medicine. He started his career as a paramedic and understands the essential contributions paramedics, nurses and physicians make to the field of prehospital and transport medicine.

Mike has a strong background in academic medicine, and he has been recognized for his teaching and leadership roles at the department and International society levels and through his appointment to the Critical Care Medicine Examination Board of the Royal College of Physicians of Canada. He was also recently one of the first three physicians in Canada to receive the Diplomate (DRCPSC) in Prehospital and Transport Medicine from the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. Mike completed an MSc in Public Health at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and is currently completing an MBA.

Dr. Christian Vaillancourt
He is a Full Professor with the Department of Emergency Medicine, and Cross-Appointed with the School of Epidemiology at uOttawa. 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.

Dr. Vaillancourt graduated from University of Montreal in 1994, completed his Royal College training in Emergency Medicine at McGill 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 uOttawa. 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. He is the current Chair of the Canadian Resuscitation Outcomes Consortium (CanROC).

Dr. Nick Sowers

Originally from New Brunswick, Dr. Nick Sowers is an Emergency Physician in Halifax, where he also serves as a Trauma Team Leader and a Medical Oversight Physician with EHS LifeFlight. He is heavily involved in medical education – specifically in airway management, emergency cardiology and trauma care.

Dr. Nick Sowers is originally from New Brunswick but left to go to medical school at Memorial and then Dalhousie for the Royal College of Emergency Medicine program. I work almost entirely at the QE2 in Halifax but occasionally show up in smaller hospitals. I’m a Trauma Team Leader with Trauma Nova Scotia and a Medical Oversight Physician with EHS LifeFlight. I’m heavily involved in medical education – usually focused on airway management (AIME and AIME Advanced Instructor), emergency cardiology and trauma (ATLS instructor even though I chirp ATLS a lot) which tend to be my areas of interest. I convinced someone awesome to marry me, have two small kids and am frequently covered in dog hair.

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