Speaker

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.

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.

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. 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. 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. 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.

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.

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. 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.