Speaker – 2020 Canadian Critical Care Conference

01/202020

Dr. Vincent Chauvette

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.

01/142020

Dr. Hailey Hobbs

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.

01/062020

Alex Webb

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.

01/032020

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.

01/032020

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.

01/032020

Dr. Rob Arntfield

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.

12/312019

Brittany Watson

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.

12/092019

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.

11/122019

Dr. Vandegriend

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.

11/052019

Dr. Lior Bibas

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.