Sahil Gupta
Track Chair
Sahil Gupta is an emergency room physician at St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto. He has a focus in his practice on health equity and works on projects that improve care for disadvantaged groups in the ED. Sahil also dabbles as a freelance journalist with a focus on social issues affecting healthcare. He also leads the Health Equity Working Group within CAEP, which is always looking for more members to join!
James Liu
Vice-Chair
James Liu is an emergency physician focused on social medicine and health
equity, with particular emphasis on Indigenous health. His interests include identifying and addressing the root causes of health care disparity as a way to put reconciliation into action.
Erin Ingoldsby
Learner Lead
Currently a 2nd year student at McMaster University interested in rural/community emergency medicine. I am a learner lead on the EM & Society track and am looking forward to being a part of CAEP23 this year!
Monday, May 29th
9:15 AM - 9:25 AM
Speakers:
Steve Fisher
Nana Owusu Essel, MD, MPH, MSc
Stephanie Couperthwaite
Esther Yang
Brian H. Rowe
9:25 AM - 9:45 AM
Learning objectives:
- Understand the role of emergency physicians in the recognition and treatment of human trafficking
- Identify emergency medicine specific resources and how these can be easily incorporated into daily practice
- Introduce steps that can be taken to develop local protocols and treatment pathways
Speakers:
Julianna Deutscher, MD
Susan Andrea Bartels
Amanda Collier
Jodie Pritchard, MD MPH FRCPC
9:45 AM - 10:05 AM
Learning objectives:
Discuss outcomes after discharge of the poisoned youth in your ED.
Speakers:
Yaron Finkelstein, MD, FACMT
Hospital for Sick Children
10:05 AM - 10:45 AM
Learning objectives:
- To describe the extent of firearm injury and death in Canada
- To learn ways the emergency physician can prevent future firearm violence related to each of unintentional, intentional and self-harm injury and death.
- To reflect on what you will do on your next shift
Speakers:
Carolyn Snider
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
Learning objectives:
- Identify the presence of a foreign body and supraglottic infections (epiglottitis, lingual tonsillitis, supraglottitis)
- Demonstrate the presence and severity of upper airway burns
- Assess the presence and degree of angioedema, in other to determine the need for intubation and how to plan it
Speakers:
Matthieu Vincent
2:30 PM - 2:40 PM
Speakers:
Julia Robertson
Scott Wakeham
Claire Acton
Kelsey Ragan
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
Learning objectives:
- Identify the presence of a foreign body and supraglottic infections (epiglottitis, lingual tonsillitis, supraglottitis)
- Demonstrate the presence and severity of upper airway burns
- Assess the presence and degree of angioedema, in other to determine the need for intubation and how to plan it
Speakers:
Matthieu Vincent
2:30 PM - 2:40 PM
Speakers:
Julia Robertson
Scott Wakeham
Claire Acton
Kelsey Ragan
2:40 PM - 2:50 PM
Speakers:
Michael McCue, BScN
Riley Reel
Jamie Ward
Donovan MacDonald
Matthew Carere
2:50 PM - 3:00 PM
Speakers:
Jason Thompson, BScN
Warren Stevenson
3:30 PM - 5:20 PM
Learning Objectives:
- Develop a working definition of social emergency medicine in Canada. Identify core knowledge areas, skills, and approaches that compose social emergency medicine.
- Work towards developing priorities for CAEP membership and board for advancing social EM in Canada.
- Identify approaches that can be developed in clinical environments for practicing and teaching social EM.
Speakers:
James Liu, BSc MD CCFP(EM)
Sahil of Gupta, MD
5:20 PM - 5:30 PM
Details to follow
Tuesday, May 30th
9:15 AM - 10:05 AM
Learning Objectives:
- Participants will be able to articulate that First Nations understandings of quality of emergency care will differ from Western institutional definitions, and will reflect together on why this is important for equity and anti-racism efforts in EDs.
Speakers:
Lea Bill, RN
Patrick McLane
10:05 AM - 10:25 AM
Learning objectives:
- Recognize the commitment of a Health system leadership team to embrace listening to Indigenous peoples tell their stories of the past, acknowledge the inequities and commit to the truths and initiate reconciliation.
- Reflect on personal past experience and bias and consider how their next patient interaction could be focused on listening, understanding, acting and being the change in Indigenous health.
Speakers:
Jeff Beddome
Esther Tailfeathers
10:25 AM - 10:45 AM
Learning objectives:
- Understand how emergency clinician's clinical suspicion may become inappropriately lowered by biases, and strategies on how to mitigate this.
- Understand strategies on removing barriers that may impede our ability to thoroughly assess Indigenous patients.
- Understand how to optimize our management plans, by taking into account the impact of trauma and structural violence facing Indigenous patients.
Speakers:
James Liu, BSc MD CCFP(EM), BSc MD CCFP(EM)
1:30 PM - 1:40 PM
Speakers:
Jessica Moe, MD, MSc, MA
Tamara Chavez, BSW
Jane Buxton, MBBS, MHSc
1:40 PM - 2:00 PM
Learning objectives:
- The how, where, and when of dying in Canada has changed over the last 100 years.
- Bring awareness of this shift to healthcare providers, especially ED providers.
- Suggest ways to prepare more effectively through medical education for trainees and attending physicians, as well as implementing policies within our departments.
Speakers:
Shayla Behrens
2:00 PM - 2:20 PM
Learning objectives:
- By the end of this experience, participants will be able to: Apply novel practices and strategies to better care for mental health and addictions patients boarded in the Emergency Department.
- By the end of this experience, participants will be able to: Understand departmental level interventions to address crowding and staff burnout secondary to boarding mental health and addiction patients.
- By the end of this experience, participants will be able to: Better advocate for appropriate policy initiatives aimed at addressing the issue of mental health and addictions patients boarded in the Emergency Department.
Speakers:
Davis Maclean
Eddy S. Lang
3:30 PM - 4:10 PM
Learning objectives:
- Describe the three common pitfalls when caring for patients with symptoms of early pregnancy loss.
- Recognize the importance of language when caring for patients with early pregnancy loss.
- Reflect on opportunities to provide collaborative care for patients with symptoms of early pregnancy loss in your setting.
Speakers:
Catherine Varner
Roopan Gill
Modupe Tunde-Byass
4:10 PM - 4:20 PM
Speakers:
Renee Bailey, MSc
Lanre Tunji-Ajayi, BSc.
Serena Thompson
Marie-Pascale Poku, BA
Ruth Appiah-Boateng, BSc
Nia Navarro, BSc
Hasan Sheikh
Jennifer Hulme, MD CM, MPH, CCFP-EM
Markus Gulilat
Jennifer Bryan, MD, MSPH, MA, FRCP
4:20 PM - 5:00 PM
Speakers:
Alim Pardhan
Joan Cheng, BSc, MSc CH, MD, CCFP(EM), FCFP
Gillian Sheppard, MD CCFP(EM)
Wednesday, May 31st
11:00 AM - 11:40 AM
Learning Objectives:
- Describe the complexity of HIV testing in the ED, including barriers and facilitators from pilot sites in Ontario
- Apply the lessons learned from the FAST-HIV pilot sites when implementing new laboratory testing at their own hospitals
- Implement best practices in HIV testing in the ED, taking into account provider variation and lived patient experiences
Speakers:
Megan Landes, MD, MSc., CCFP(EM)
Jennifer Hulme, MD CM, MPH, CCFP-EM
Meghan Garnett, BHSc, MD, FRCPC
Kyle Vose
11:40 AM - 11:50 AM
Speakers:
Jessica Kent-Rice
Janelle Lazor
Galo Fernando Ginocchio, MScCH (AMH)
Michelle Klaiman
Evelyn Dell
Lisa M Puchalski Ritchie
Megan Landes, MD, MSc., CCFP(EM)
Jennifer Hulme
Meghan Garnett, BHSc, MD, FRCPC
Aya Alsefaou
Elayna Fremes, MPH
Hannah Girdler, MSc
Alex McKnight
11:50 AM - 12:30 AM
Learning objectives:
- To empower attendees with tools and strategies to be able to advocate for the health equity issue of overcrowding
- Applying a Canadian Lens, leaders in emergency medicine will share successes and failures within their departments
- To give feedback on how to leverage an international campaign for emergency crowding for a Canadian context
Speakers:
Tyara Marchand
Eddy S. Lang