2025
June 11, 2025
Impacts of Emergency Department Opioid Prescribing on Health Outcomes
Speaker: Dr. Jake Hayward
May 14, 2025
“You are not confident enough”: Gender differences in resident feedback
Speaker: Dr. Xin Mei Liu
March 12, 2025
COVID-19 Outcomes for People Experiencing Homelessness
Speaker: Dr. Shari Li
February 12, 2025
Findings from the provincial evaluation of Ontario’s virtual urgent care pilot program
Speaker: Dr. Shelley McLeod
January 15, 2025
Slaying Canada’s Healthcare Hydra
Speaker: Dr. Alecs Chochinov
2024
December 11, 2024
From the Ward to the Board: Healthcare Context and Considerations in 2024
Speaker: Dr. Devin Harris
October 9, 2024
An exploration of current practices of government and charity-funded critical care transport and retrieval organizations
Speaker: Mr. Adam Greene
September 11, 2024
Coronary disease in the ED: Getting the right patients the right testing at the right time
Speakers: Dr. Andrew McRae
June 12, 2024
Novel opioid use disorder interventions in the fentanyl era: From bench to bedside to community
Speakers: Dr. Pouya Azar
May 8, 2024
Disaster Medicine in BC: Gaps in our preparedness and how to address them
Speakers: Drs. Anthony Fong & Christopher Lee
March 13, 2024
Improving Emergency Care in BC: An Overview of ECBC
Speaker: Lori Korchinski & the ECBC Team
February 14, 2024
Derivation of the Falls Decision Rule to Exclude Intracranial Bleeding without CT Head in Older Adults
Speaker: Dr. David Barbic
January 10, 2024
Can the Canary Fix the Coal Mine?
Speaker: Dr. Grant Innes
2023
December 13, 2023
Contemplating a Trauma Resuscitation Clinical Practice Guideline for BC
Speaker: Dr. David Evans
November 8, 2023
The Evolving Approach to Febrile Young Infants in the Emergency Department (Joint PEM/DEM rounds)
Speaker: Dr. Garth Meckler
September 13, 2023
It’s Not Knowledge We Lack: Edifying Cultural Safety, Humility and Humanity
Speaker: Derek K Thompson – Thlaapkiituup, Director, Indigenous Engagement, Health Engagement, UBC Faculty of Medicine
June 14, 2023
Three Decades of Mistakes: Learning From My Cautionary Tales
Speaker: Dr. Dan Kalla, Clinical Associate Professor, UBC Department of Emergency Medicine, and Senior Medical Director, Providence Health Care
May 10, 2023
Racism in medical research: history and future directions
Speaker: Dr. Frank Scheuermeyer, Clinical Associate Professor and Interim Research Director, UBC Department of Emergency Medicine
March 8, 2023
ECMO Cold Plunge
Speaker: Dr. Sonny Thiara, Assistant Professor, Division of Critical Care Medicine at UBC
February 8, 2023
My Farewell to Emergency Medicine: A Journey
Speaker: Dr. Sunil Mangal, Clinical Assistant Professor, UBC Department of Emergency Medicine
January 11, 2023
Pediatric post-concussion symptoms, an evidence review
Speaker: Dr. Quynh Doan, MDCM, PhD; Clinician scientist; Director of Clinical Research and Interim Senior Executive Director, BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute
Past Presentations:
December 14, 2022
Frontiers in Overdose Prevention: Buprenorphone/Naloxone Microdosing in Emergency Departments
Speaker: Dr. Jessica Moe, MD FRCPC DABEM MSc MA, Emergency Physician; Assistant Professor, UBC DEM; Clinician Scientist BCCDC
November 9, 2022
Emergency Physicians as Leaders in Trauma Care
Speaker: Dr. John Taylor, MD, MPH, FRCPC, Emergency Physician and Trauma Team Leader at Royal Columbian Hospital (RCH)
October 12, 2022
Serotonin Syndrome: a distracting spectrum disorder
Speaker: Dr. Andrew Dawson, MB, FRACP (Edin), FCCP; Professor, Clinical Pharmacology & Toxicology, University of Sydney (Australia)
September 14, 2022
RAFF4 Trial: Vernakalant vs. Procainamide for Acute Atrial Fibrillation in the ED
Speaker: Dr. Ian Stiell, Distinguished Professor and Senior Scientist, Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Ottawa
June 8, 2022
Equity, Diversity and Inclusion: Why it matters to all of us in Emergency Medicine
Speaker: Dr. Neila Miled, Anti-Racism Advisor, Faculty of Medicine Office of Respectful Environments, Equity, Diversity & Inclusion (REDI)
May 11, 2022
Results from the Canadian COVID-19 Rapid Response Network
Speaker: Dr. Corinne Hohl, Associate Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine
March 9, 2022
Staying awake in the ED while managing the difficult airway
Speaker: Dr. George Kovacs, Professor, Dalhousie University, Departments of Emergency Medicine, Anesthesia, and Medical Neuroscience and Division of Medical Education
February 9, 2022
Cannabis and Road Safety – What's New?
Speaker: Dr. Jeffrey Brubacher, Associate Professor, UBC Department of Emergency Medicine
January 12, 2022
Distributed Education Model for Critical Care Paramedics in BC: A Pilot Project
Speaker: Dr. Floyd Besserer, Assistant Professor, UBC Department of Emergency Medicine
December, 8, 2021
Rapid Agitation Control with Ketamine in the Emergency Department: How did we arrive here, and what does the future hold?
Speaker: Dr. David Barbic, Clinical Assistant Professor, UBC Department of Emergency Medicine
November 10, 2021
HEiDi (HealthLInk BC Emergency iDoctor-in-assistance)
Speakers: Dr. Rina Chadha, Emergency Physician, Island Health Authority & Assistant Medical Director, HEiDi, HealthLink BC 8-1-1; Dr. Kendall Ho, Professor, UBC Emergency Medicine & Lead, UBC Digital Emergency Medicine
October 13, 2021
Racism in the Emergency Department
Speaker: Dr. Bernard Ho, Emergency Physician, Department of Emergency Medicine, Queensway Carleton Hospital, Ottawa
September 15, 2021
Life is Too Short to Drink Bad Wine: Prehospital Blood-based Trauma Resuscitation
Speaker: Dr. Erik Vu, Clinical Assistant Professor, UBC Department of Emergency Medicine
June 9, 2021
Evaluating ActionADE: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Speaker: Dr. Corinne Hohl
May 12, 2021
Should I Stay or Should I Go? Controversies in Out of Hospital Resuscitation
Speaker: Dr. Brian Grunau
March 10, 2021
A Case of Severe Accidental hypothermia: from the start but nowhere near the finish
Speaker: Dr. Jan Trojanowski
February 10, 2021
Search and Rescue Medicine: Lessons Learned Practicing Medicine With a Helmet On
Speaker: Dr. Alec Ritchie, UBC Department of Emergency Medicine
January 13, 2021
Is Choosing Wisely for Medical Imaging in BC Emergency Departments a Wise Choice? Lessons learned in imaging appropriateness and opportunities for provincial collaboration
Speakers: Dr. Bruce B. Forster, Professor & Head, UBC Radiology; Dr. Colin O'Neill, Leader, Health System Improvement
- December 9, 2020
- COVID at 9 Months of the Pandemic Response: Where are we going and when will we get there?
Hosts: Dr. Kendall Ho (on behalf of Dr. E. Grafstein), UBC Department of Emergency Medicine
Speakers: Dr. Reka Gustafson, UBC School of Population & Public Health; Dr. Marc Romney, UBC Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine; Dr. David Sweet, UBC Department of Emergency Medicine 
- October 14, 2020
- Evaluating the C-Spine in the Pediatric Trauma Patient
Hosts: Dr. Genevive Ernst, Trauma Medical Director @ BC Children's Hospital
- September 9, 2020
- Cultural Safety and Anti-Racism in Healthcare: How can Emergency Medicine Contribute?
Hosts: Dr. Kendall Ho, Professor, UBC Emergency Department of Medicine, and Dr. Dan Kalla, Clinical Associate Professor, UBC Emergency Department of Medicine
Speakers: Leslie Bonshor, Executive Director, Aboriginal Health at Vancouver Coastal Health; Lindsay Farrell, Director of Indigenous Wellness Reconciliation and Partnership, Providence Health Care; Dr. David Tu, Clinical Assistant Professor, UBC Department of Family Practice; and Dr. Michael Dumont, Clinical Instructor, UBC Department of Family Practice.
- June 10, 2020
- Real-Time Virtual Care in BC: From COVID to Sustainability
Host: Dr. Jim Christenson, Head, UBC Emergency Department of Medicine
Speakers: Dr. Kendall Ho, Real-Time Virtual Support Lead, BC Emergency Medicine Network, & Professor, UBC Department of Emergency Dr. John Pawlovich, Telehealth Lead, Rural Coordination Centre of BC (RCCbc) Dr. Stefan Du Toit, Telehealth Lead, Rural Coordination Centre of BC (RCCbc), & Clinical Professor, UBC Department of Family Practice.
- May 13, 2020
- COVID-19: Pathophysiology, Clinical Management, Therapeutic Evidence and Ongoing Trials
Host: Dr. Jim Christenson, Head, UBC Emergency Department of Medicine
Speakers: Dr. Adam Thomas, UBC Critical Care Fellow, & Dr. David Sweet, UBC Department of Emergency Medicine.
- December 11, 2019
- Understanding & Supporting EM Care in Remote Indigenous Communities
Presented by: Dr. Jim Christenson, Head, UBC Emergency Department of Medicine and Julia Atleo, Health Services Manager, Ahousaht First Nation
- November 13, 2019
- CAEP 2018 Atrial Fibrillation Guidelines Obsolete: Here's Why
Presented by: Dr. Frank Scheuermeyer, Cardiovascular Emergencies Lead, BC Emergency Medicine Network and Clinical Associate Professor, UBC Department of Emergency Medicine
- September 11, 2019
- Back from the Future - Experiences and Perspectives from Teaching Emergency Medicine in Nepal
Presented by: Dr. Corinne Hohl, Associate Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, UBC
- June 12, 2019
- London’s Air Ambulance and Implications for BC
Presented by: Dr. Jan Trojanowski, Clinical Assistant Professor, UBC Department of Emergency Medicine
- May 8, 2019
- Pediatric Blunt Abdominal Trauma and Hemostatic Resuscitation – An Iconoclastic Review of the Literature
Presented by: Dr. Garth Meckler, Associate Professor Pediatrics & Emergency Medicine; Division Head, Pediatric Emergency Medicine, UBC
- February 13, 2019
- Sepsis: A clinical update and future quality data available for your Emergency Department
Presented by: Dr. David Sweet, Clinical Associate Professor, UBC Department of Emergency Medicine
- January 9, 2019
- Emergency Practice: Surviving a Compassion Crash & Burn With Your Empathy Airbag
Presented by: Dr. Simon Pulfrey, Clinical Associate Professor, UBC Department of Emergency Medicine
- December 12, 2018
- An insight into the pathophysiology of hypoxic ischemic brain injury after cardiac arrest - This will blow your mind
Presented by: Dr. Mypinder Sekhon, Clinical Assistant Professor, UBC Division of Critical Care Medicine
- November 14, 2018
- Legalization of Cannabis: Cannapocalypse or Meh?
Presented by: Dr. Chris DeWitt, Clinical Associate Professor, UBC Department of Emergency Medicine, and Dr. Ian Mitchell, Clinical Assistant Professor, UBC
- October 10, 2018
- Human Trafficking in our Backyard: Caring for the Trafficked Person in the ED
Presented by: Dr. Mélanie Ryper, Clinical Instructor, UBC Department of Emergency Medicine
- September 12, 2018
- Putting Your Money Where Your Mouse Is – Maintaining ED Efficiency With a Full Electronic Health Record Go-Live
Presented by: Dr. Eric Grafstein, Clinical Professor, UBC Department of Emergency Medicine
- June 13, 2018
- Debriefing Real & Simulated Crises Safely and Effectively
Presented by: Dr. Afshin Khazei, Clinical Associate Professor, UBC Department of Emergency Medicine
- May 9, 2018
- Advances in Brain Injury Management - This will blow your mind
Presented by: Dr. Mypinder Sekhon, Clinical Instructor, UBC Division of Critical Care Medicine
- March 14, 2018
- New Standards for Cardiovascular Emergencies
Presented by: Dr. Frank Scheuermeyer, Assistant Professor, UBC Department of Emergency Medicine
- February 14, 2018
- BC EHS: Changes, Challenges and Future Directions
Presented by: Dr. John Tallon, Clinical Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, UBC; Dr. Sandra Jenneson, Clinical Assistant Professor, Faculty of Medicine, UBC; Dr. Joe Acker, Director, Clinical Practice, BC EHS and Adjunct Professor, UBC.
- January 10, 2018
- 4 Essential Digital Trends Shaping Emergency Medicine
Presented by: Dr. Kendall Ho, Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, UBC
Presented by: Dr. Corinne Hohl, Associate Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, UBC
Presented by: Dr. David Harrison, Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, UBC
Presented by: Dr. Riyad Abu-Laban, Associate Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, UBC