Emergency Medicine Research Day

Dr. Samina Ali is a pediatric emergency physician at the Stollery Children’s Hospital and a Professor of Pediatrics and Emergency Medicine (University of Alberta). She is a national award-winning researcher, mentor, educator, and leader. Dr. Ali is currently Chair of Pediatric Emergency Research Canada (PERC), Canada’s emergency research network for children. She is also the Western Canadian hub lead for Solutions for Kids in Pain (SKIP), a national organization dedicated to improving pain care for children. Dr. Ali’s internationally recognized research program concerns better treatment of children’s emergency care with a focus on pain treatment-related clinical trials, responsible prescribing of opioids, management of medical procedure-related pain, technology to improve pain care, and more recently, equitable access to care and better meeting family needs in the emergency department. Dr. Ali has published over 200 articles in emergency and pain care and had her works featured in local and international media and podcasts.

Dr. Shelley McLeod is a Clinical Epidemiologist and the Research Director of the Schwartz/Reisman Emergency Medicine Institute (SREMI) at Sinai Health, and an Associate Professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine and the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation at the University of Toronto. She has over 20 years of experience working in emergency medicine research with expertise in clinical research methodology and biostatistics and has published more than 130 papers in a varied array of emergency medicine topics. Her main academic interests include emergency department triage and flow, evidence synthesis including network meta-analysis, trial design, and program evaluation. In the last 5 years, she collaborated with researchers from across Canada to secure 30 grants totalling more than $13 million dollars in peer-reviewed funding.

Dr. Teresa Chan is a Canadian emergency physician and medical educator. She is currently an emergency physician and clinician educator at Hamilton Health Sciences in Ontario, Canada, as well as an associate professor in the Department of Medicine at McMaster University. Dr. Chan is also the founder and editor-in-chief of the medical education website, CanadiEM.org, which provides resources for medical learners and educators in Canada and around the world. She is a well-known leader in the medical education community and has received numerous awards for her contributions to the field.

Challenges, Collaborations, and Confluence:How to respond to ebb and flows of a career in research 

Objectives:
By the end of this session, participants will be able to:

• Identify strategies to rethink challenges (like a COVID-19 pandemic) as opportunities
• Name at least one way that collaborations can enhance a research program
• Articulate how to strategize around observed signs and signals.