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Our mission is to deliver educational programs which address the needs of critical care physicians and other health care professionals from around the world. The conference promotes excellence and addresses the challenge of providing appropriate care in the most effective and efficient manner to the critically ill patient.

This conference is accredited for 26.5 MOC Section 1 study credits with the Royal College through University of British Columbia. It is also accredited by AACME and the JFICM.

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Whistler

You’ll fly into Vancouver International Airport. From there you’ll have a number of options for transfer to Whistler. Whistler is just 136km from the airport about 1.5 hours by car. You can rent a car or travel by shuttle bus or private charter. We have discount pricing for your bus ride from Vancouver.

We will have discount pricing at the Fairmont for you too!

What makes our conference

different?

It’s casual & fun and we like to talk about things that you won’t hear at other conferences.

We always feature a former patient who speaks about their experiences in the healthcare system. We also talk about things that make some people uncomfortable but need to be discussed. Registration is limited so that you will have the chance to interact with world renowned International faculty in an informal setting.

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Speakers

Our World Class Speakers

Alex Webb

CEO

Alex Webb is the CEO of F12.net, a Canadian IT services business he founded in 1996. Alex pushed F12 to become, in turn, one of Canada’s first providers of managed hardware-as-a-service, private cloud, and Microsoft Cloud solutions. F12 ranks among North America’s Elite 150 MSPs.

Allison Muniak

M.A.Sc, BSc

Executive Director, Quality & Patient Safety and Infection Control, Vancouver Coastal Health

Allison Muniak is the Executive Director of Quality & Patient Safety and Infection Control at Vancouver Coastal Health. She is a Human Factors Engineering Specialist by training with strong experience applying engineering and psychology principles on a variety of large and small projects relating to healthcare across Canada and internationally. She was seconded from 2013-2015 to the BC Patient Safety and Quality Council as a lead for Culture, Teamwork and Communication.

Brittany Watson

Master of Science in Nursing

Brittany is the Director of Professional Practice for Vancouver Acute at Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH). Prior to joining VCH in 2017, Brittany worked at Providence Health Care in a variety of clinical and consulting roles, as well as clinical faculty at the UBC School of Nursing where she remains as adjunct faculty today.

Calvin Engen

As Chief Technology Officer. for F12.net, Calvin oversees internal security, compliance, application development, and data center systems. Calvin also owns F12’s client-facing solutions design division, and the research and development of technologies selected for F12’s programs.

Claire Snyman

Author, speaker, blogger and advocate for patient and healthcare collaboration

Claire Snyman is an author, speaker, blogger and advocate for patient and healthcare collaboration. She is passionate about inspiring people to put their health in their own hands. Since being diagnosed in 2010 with a non-malignant brain tumor and brain surgery in 2012, she realized the importance of partnering with her health care team and becoming her body’s own advocate. In her quest for collaboration between patients and health care teams, she co-authored a collaborative study between patients and neurosurgeons at Johns Hopkins University.

Dr. Deepak Kaura

1QBit’s Chief Medical Officer and the Chair of the Board of Joule

Deepak Kaura, MD, FRCPC, MBA – Deepak is 1QBit’s Chief Medical Officer and the Chair of the Board of Joule, a Canadian Medical Association subsidiary. Prior to these appointments, Deepak spent 5 years in Qatar with the Sidra Medical and Research Center, most recently as the Executive Chairman of the Foundational Clinical Services Management Group, where he helped to set new standards in patient care for women and children and led ground-breaking work in the application of machine learning to healthcare.

Dr. Don Griesdale

MD, MPH, FRCPC

Dr. Donald Griesdale is an intensive care physician and anesthesiologist at Vancouver General Hospital and Assistant Professor in the Department of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology & Therapeutics at the University of British Columbia.

Dr. Erik N. Vu

Consultant in Emergency and Critical Care Medicine for Vancouver Coastal Health

Dr. Erik N. Vu is a consultant in Emergency and Critical Care Medicine for Vancouver Coastal and the Provincial Health Service’s Authorities, and is also a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of British Columbia, where he completed sub-specialty training in Prehospital Emergency Care and Aviation Medicine.

Dr. Erin Rayner-Hartley

Dr. Erin Rayner-Hartley is a Cardiologist and is currently in her last year of Critical Care Medicine Fellowship at Cleveland Clinic. She completed her medical degree at Université de Montréal followed by Internal Medicine and Cardiology training at the University of British Columbia.

Dr. Gord Finlayson

Cardiothoracic Anesthetist and Intensivist at Vancouver General Hospital

Gord Finlayson is cardiothoracic anesthetist and intensivist practicing at Vancouver General Hospital for the past 10 years. His residency and fellowship training occurred at UBC and Stanford. His clinical interests include resuscitative echocardiography, high risk pulmonary emboli, lung transplantation and ECMO.

Dr. Gurmeet Singh

MD MSc FRCSC

Gurmeet Singh, MD MSc FRCSC is currently an Associate Clinical Professor of Critical Care Medicine and Cardiac Surgery at the Mazankowski Alberta Heart Institute, University of Alberta, and Medical Director of the Adult ECMO Program.

His clinical interests include critical care of the cardiac surgical patient, mechanical circulatory support for heart failure, and extracorporeal life support for respiratory failure.

Dr. H. Thomas Stelfox

Professor and Department Head of Critical Care Medicine

Dr. Tom Stelfox is Professor and Department Head of Critical Care Medicine at the University of Calgary and Alberta Health Services- Calgary Zone.

Dr. Hailey Hobbs

Assistant Professor, Critical Care Medicine

Hailey is an intensivist at Queen’s University in Kingston. She completed a 1 year critical care ultrasound and echocardiography fellowship at Western University and is fluent in all domains of critical care ultrasonography. A recent testament in Advanced Critical Care Echocardiography from the National Board of Echocardiography, she is pioneering a new, interdisciplinary critical care ultrasound program at Queen’s.

Dr. Jarrod Mosier

Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine and Medicine at the University of Arizona

Dr. Jarrod Mosier is a tenured Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine and Medicine at the University of Arizona, a full-time intensivist, and the medical director of the adult ECMO service. Dr. Mosier also serves as the national course director for The Difficult Airway Course: Critical Care.

Dr. Lior Bibas

MD MSc

Dr. Lior Bibas is a Cardiologist and Critical Care physician from Montreal. He completed his medical studies and his Internal Medicine residency at the Université de Montréal. He then pursued a Fellowship in Cardiology at McGill University followed by a Fellowship in Critical Care Medicine at the University of Toronto. He also completed a Certificate in Medical Education from the University of Dundee.

Dr. Marietjie (MJ) Slabbert

Dr Marietjie (MJ) Slabbert is a specialist in Anesthesiology, Critical Care Medicine and also trained in the UK in Prehospital Emergency Medicine. Her medical journey started in South Africa where she went to medical school. After completing medical school in 2001, MJ worked in Cape Town for a few years. During this time she also s got involved in prehospital and helicopter medicine. She moved to the UK in 2004 where she dual specialized in Anesthesiology and Critical Care and completed three six month fellowships in helicopter EMS in addition to her in-hospital training.

Dr. Matt Morgan

Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine

Dr. Matt Morgan is a Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine at the University Hospital of Wales, and an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at Cardiff University. He is passionate about public engagement, has contributed to multiple high impact scientific articles and has spoken at medical conferences and public events. His first book “Critical – science and stories from the brink of life” was published in 2019. It takes readers on a tour around the intensive care unit, explaining the science behind critical illness. He lives in Cardiff with his family and enjoys ice cream.

Dr. Peter Brindley

Peter is a full-time Critical Care Physician at the University of Alberta Hospital in General Systems and also Neurosciences Intensive Care. Peter is a Full Professor in Critical Care Medicine, Anaesthesiology, and Medical Ethics.

Dr. Rob Arntfield

MD, FRCPC

Rob is medical director of the Critical Care Trauma Centre in London, Ontario where he has also been director of their pioneering critical care ultrasound program for 8 years. He is an author of the seminal textbook in the field of point-of-care ultrasound, the president of the Canadian Critical Care Ultrasound Consortium and a founding member of the National Board of Echocardiography’s committee on Advanced Critical Care Echocardiography. Rob has particular interest in the application of transesophageal echocardiography in critical illness and is known for his educational and research efforts to move TEE out of its traditional silo and democratize its availability and use to all intensive care providers.

Dr. Saifee Rashiq

Staff Anesthesiologist at the University of Alberta

Dr. Saifee Rashiq was born in the UK and obtained his medical degree from University of Nottingham. Prior to coming to Canada, he was a House Officer in Medicine, Surgery, Emergency Medicine and Anesthesia in the UK and was a medical officer on a mountaineering expedition in southern Chile.

Dr. Sara Gray

Critical Care & Emergency Medicine at St. Michael’s Hospital (Toronto)

Dr. Sara Gray works in Toronto, at St. Michael’s Hospital. She divides her work between Critical Care, Emergency Medicine, wellness programs, public speaking and professional coaching. But her real life revolves around her family, soccer, books, puzzles, sports, travel, friends, cocktails and food. Probably in that order.

Dr. Scott Millington

Scott is an intensivist at The Ottawa Hospital and an Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Ottawa. He leads to POCUS program in Ottawa, teaches ultrasound around the world, and has published extensively on ultrasound-related topics with a focus on knowledge translation.

Dr. Vandegriend

MD MSc

Dr. Vandegriend is a cardiologist, cardiac intensivist and heart failure specialist at Royal Columbian Hospital in New Westminster, BC. He received his M.D. at the University of Alberta before moving to Vancouver to complete his internal medicine residency and cardiology fellowship at the University of British Columbia.

Dr. Vincent Chauvette

PhD in biomedical sciences at the University of Montreal

Dr Chauvette is a third-year resident in cardiac surgery at the University of Montreal. After completing a bachelor’s degree in Biochemistry in South Carolina, Dr Chauvette came back to Canada and obtained his MD from Laval University. He is currently pursuing a PhD in biomedical sciences at the University of Montreal and is the co-editor of the Trainee Section for the Canadian Journal of Cardiology.

Dr. Yoan Lamarche

MD, MSc, FRCSC

Cardiac Surgeon/Intensivist
Director, Cardiac Surgical Intensive Care Unit – Montreal Heart Institute
Hôpital du Sacré-Cœur de Montréal
Associate Professor of Surgery, Université de Montréal

Lara Gurney, RN

Nurse Clinician -Emergency Department -Vancouver General Hospital

Lara Gurney is the Nurse Clinician (NC) for the Emergency Department (ED) at Vancouver General Hospital (VGH). After graduating with her Bachelors of Science in Nursing from the British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT), she went on to complete the emergency and critical care nursing specialties certification.

Matthew Douma

Matt is a clinician scientist in the field of resuscitation. He works as a clinical nurse educator at the Royal Alexandra hospital emergency department in Edmonton and holds specialty certification in emergency, critical care and cardiovascular are nursing. Matt is also a guideline author with the international liaison committee on resuscitation, editor in chief of he Canadian journal of emergency nursing and doctoral student developing quality indicators for cardiac arrest care. He’s a mediocre skier, a poor home renovator and he is the tired father to three kids under five

Sailen Naidu

Associate Professor of Radiology

Sailen Naidu is an interventional radiologist practicing at Mayo Clinic Arizona in Phoenix, Arizona. He is an Associate Professor of Radiology and Program Director of the Interventional Radiology Residency. His clinical interests include interventional oncology, vascular interventions, vascular imaging and venous thromboembolic disease. He obtained his medical degree from the Medical College of Wisconsin and completed residency and fellowship at Washington University in St. Louis.

Simmie Kalan, RN

Simmie Kalan is a Clinical Nurse Educator for the Intensive Care Unit, at Vancouver General Hospital in British Columbia. She is a licensed Registered Nurse and has her Canadian Nurses of Critical Care Nurses certification.

Schedule

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Day 1

10 Feb 2020

07:30 — 10:00 AM

Frontenac Ballroom

Quality Care and the Patient Experience

Moderator: Don Griesdale
7:30-8:00 AM Dr Tom Stelfox – Dealing With Physicians – Getting From No to Maybe
8:00-8:30 AM Dr Matthew Morgan Patient Stories: How Extreme Follow-up Allows Us to Better Listen
8:30-9:30 AM Experience Across the Continuum Allison Muniak / Brittany Watson/ Claire Snyman
9:30-10:00 AM Dr Tom Stelfox- Pt Centered Outcomes. Family Centered Care

Frontenac Ballroom

3:00 — 3:30 PM

Coffee in the Exhibit Area

3:30 — 6:00 PM

Frontenac Ballroom

Critical Care : Getting the Message Out

Moderator: Peter Brindley
3:30-4:00 PM Dr MJ Slabbert – “Should I Stay or Should I Go Now?”
4:00-4:30 PM Dr Erik Vu – Orange is the New Black: Disaster Response Implications for Critical Care Resources to Active Shooter Events
4:30-5:00 PM Dr Matthew Douma – Resuscitation: There’s An App For That
5:00-5:30 PM Dr Peter Brindley – Culture Change: A 12 Step Program
5:30-6:00 PM Dr Don Griesdale/Dr Adam Thomas – Year in Review 2019
6:00-6:30 PM Dr Jarrod Mosier – Evidence Shopping & Alternative Facts in Critical Care

Frontenac Ballroom

6:30 — 8:00 PM

Frontenac Ballroom

Welcome Reception

Frontenac Ballroom

Day 2

11 Feb 2020

7:30—10:30 AM

Frontenac Ballroom

Micro to Macro

Moderator: Dr Peter Brindley
7:30-8:00 AM Dr Matthew Morgan – How to Kiss a Frog
8:00-8:30 AM Calvin Engen – Cyber Security: What You Don’t Know Might Hurt You
8:30-9:10 AM Dr Deepak Kaura – Advanced computing in health care (40 mins)
9:10-9:40 AM Dr Matthew Douma – Cardiac Arrest and Performance/What Can We Learn From All the Video Footage
9:40-10:10AM Dr Alex Webb – Brave New Electronic World: This IT Just Got Real.

Frontenac Ballroom

10:15 — 11:30 AM

Frontenac Ballroom

Abstract Presentations

Frontenac Ballroom

12:00 Noon — 1:00 PM

LUNCH AND LEARN - Dr Sara Belga

MDR infections in the ICU: What’s new in prevention, incidence and associated outcomes

3:00 — 3:30 PM

Coffee in the Exhibit Area

3:30 — 6:00 PM

Frontenac Ballroom

ICU: Tell Me Where It Hurts: Pain, Addiction and Recovery in Patients and Healthcare Providers

Moderator: Dr Bhavesh Patel
3:30-4:00 PM Dr Marietjie Slabbert Sleep deprivation
4:00-4:30 PM Dr Saifee Rashiq -Chronic Pain
4:30-5:00 PM Dr Sara Gray –Killing Us Slowly: Moral Distress and Compassion Fatigue
5:00-5:30 PM Dr Saifee Rashiq -It’s only a (neurobiological) model: What to do if your spidey-senses tell you that someone in your call group is drinking too much
5:30-6:00 PM Dr Sara Gray Recovering after your worst day ever/ Addiction in Healthcare
6:00-6:30 PM Dr Saifee Rashiq – Good enough for Mohandas Karamchand: How mentorship can make you happier, more productive and better looking

Frontenac Ballroom

Day 3

12 Feb 2020

7:00 — 7:30 AM

Breakfast in the Exhibit Area

7:30 — 10:30 AM

Frontenac Ballroom

Respiratory Sessions

Moderator: Dr Bhavesh Patel
7:30-8:00 AM Dr Gord Finlayson – PE management and systems of care / PE response teams
8:00-8:30 AM Dr Sal Naidu – Acute Interventions / Novel Interventions for Submassive and Massive PE
8:30-9:00 AM Gord Finlayson – Lung Transplantation / ECLS Bridge to Transplant
9:00-9:30 AM Dr Jarrod Mosier – The physiological Airway
9:30-10:00 AM Dr Jarrod Mosier – Mechanical Power of the Lung and How that Relates to Invasive/Non-invasive Ventilation
10:00-10:30 AM Dr Rob Arnfield – Bringing a gun to a gun fight: TEE as an everyday tool in the ICU

Frontenac Ballroom

10:30 — 12:00 Noon

Virtual Patient Challenge

Teams of interprofessionals will be using Body Interact, an interactive, digital simulator to treat patients using a Gaming Experience. Enter your own team of 4-5 people or join a team.

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12:30 — 3:30 PM

Critical Care Transesophageal Echo: TEE for the General Intensivist

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3:00 — 3:30 PM

Coffee in the Exhibit Area

3:30 — 6:00 PM

Frontenac Ballroom

ICU Getting to the Heart of the Matter - Team-Based Approach to Management of Cardiogenic Shock

Moderators: Dr Gurmeet Singh and Dr Yoan Lamarche
3:30-4:00 PM Dr Richard Vandegriend – Cardiogenic Shock Year in Review
4:00-4:30 PM Dr Lior Bibas – Medical Management, Identification and Physiology of Cardiogenic Shock
4:30-5:00 PM Dr Yoan Lamarche – Temporary Mechanical Circulatory Support of Cardiogenic Shock
5:00-5:30 PM Dr Vincent Chauvette – Potential Complications of Extra-Corporeal Membrane Support
5:30-6:00 PM Dr Gurmeet Singh – Temporary VADs Are Superior to ECMO for Acute Cardiogenic Shock

Frontenac Ballroom

6:00 — 8:00 PM

Breakout Room

A Deeper Dive Small Group Sessions

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WINE AND CHEESE to follow

Breakout Room

Day 4

13 Feb 2020

9:00 AM — 12:00 Noon

Frontenac Ballroom

Nursing Workshop

*MUST PRE REGISTER*

Frontenac Ballroom

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critical care transesophageal echocardiography

Two Exciting Workshops Added!

We have added 2 exciting workshops but space is limited. One workshop will be Feb 12th at noon-15:00 and the other Feb 13th. 09:00-12:00 Critical Care Transesophageal Echo: TEE for the general intensivist

Once regarded as a tool only for the CV ICU, the reliability, image clarity and ease of imaging of TEE is now being put to use increasingly in the general ICU. As critical care echo becomes the dominant means through which intensivists diagnose and manage shock states, TEE offers many advantages over TTE and is an evolving tool in the intensivist’s tool kit. In this unique hands-on workshop, using high-fidelity simulators, image interpretation sessions using actual cases and lectures from leaders in this nascent field, participants will be able to participate in the cognitive and procedural aspects of critical care TEE for the generally ICU patient.

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Lift Tickets, Equipment Rentals and Snow School Programs!

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Whistler Blackcomb is pleased to offer you great savings on Lift Tickets, Rentals and Snow School Programs. We make it easy for you to pre-register and pre-purchase the products that you need through our dedicated Reservation Call Centre and Custom Rental Link. Download the offer NOW!

Nursing Workshop

Last year’s nursing workshop was such a success that we are offering another innovative workshop specifically designed for nurses. It will focus on essential topics from the conference. There will be interactive discussions in small groups and also simulated cases. This one of a kind nursing workshop will address the challenges of providing appropriate care in the most effective and efficient manner to a critically ill patient, in addition key considerations during intra hospital transfers. This workshop is limited to ensure everyone has hands on experience.

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The Fairmont Chateau Whistler is offering our group an amazing rate of $339 night. This rate is only available for reservations made before January 7th 2020 and will definitely sell out. BOOK NOW to avoid disappointment.

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Fairmont Chateau Whistler
4599 Chateau Blvd, Whistler, BC, V8E 0Z5

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I wanted to say a truly heartfelt, formal thank you to you and your team (Zena et al) for accommodating both Lily and I in Whistler for the CCCC. We are so grateful and humbled by the opportunity you afforded us and have now taken it upon ourselves to annoy everyone in existence by not shutting up about the conference and Whistler. As you warned us, we both completely fell for Canada

My 8th time to CCCC, and I have some consistent reflections:

Firstly, you are an incredible host, and although your dance card must be full, you make us feel welcome, and a part of the place, every year.

Secondly, your program is engaging. From a personal perspective it is the professional aspect, the difficult or interesting topics , that I love.

Finally, we are forgiven for skiing. This is a unique aspect of your conference, and I don’t know if it is explicit. In a world of competing demands, it is wonderful to be able to ski, and get lost in the moment.

Tremendous organization, great meeting, excellent blend of science and society. I’d love to come back.

My favourite week on the professional calendar.

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SPEAKERS

Whistler

What makes our conference

different?

It’s casual & fun and we like to talk about things that you won’t hear at other conferences.

Our World Class Speakers

Alex Webb

Allison Muniak

Brittany Watson

Calvin Engen

Claire Snyman

Dr. Deepak Kaura

Dr. Don Griesdale

Dr. Erik N. Vu

Dr. Erin Rayner-Hartley

Dr. Gord Finlayson

Dr. Gurmeet Singh

Dr. H. Thomas Stelfox

Dr. Hailey Hobbs

Dr. Jarrod Mosier

Dr. Lior Bibas

Dr. Marietjie (MJ) Slabbert

Dr. Matt Morgan

Dr. Peter Brindley

Dr. Rob Arntfield

Dr. Saifee Rashiq

Dr. Sara Gray

Dr. Scott Millington

Dr. Vandegriend

Dr. Vincent Chauvette

Dr. Yoan Lamarche

Lara Gurney, RN

Matthew Douma

Sailen Naidu

Simmie Kalan, RN

Organizers

Conference Schedule

Latest News

Two Exciting Workshops Added!

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Nursing Workshop

Venue & Contacts

Address & Contact

Zena LindConference Coordinator

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