Anton Helman
Founder, Host & CEO
Dr. Anton Helman is an Emergency Physician at North York General in Toronto. He is an Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto, Division of Emergency Medicine and the Education Innovation Lead at the Schwartz-Reisman Emergency Medicine Institute. He is the founder, host and chief editor of Emergency Medicine Cases.
Katie Lin
Deputy Director
Dr. Katie Lin is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of Calgary, a Stroke Attending with the Calgary Stroke Program and a Flight Transport Physician with STARS Air Ambulance in Alberta. She completed her residency training and stroke fellowship in Calgary alongside a parallel Master of Public Health through Harvard. She is a deputy director at EM Cases.
Sara Brade
Deputy Director
Dr. Sara Brade is an Emergency Physician at Michael Garron Hospital and St. Joseph’s Health Centre in Toronto and a PoCUS fellow at Sunnybrook Hospital. She has a strong interest in delivering compassionate care in the ED and integrating POCUS into clinical practice. She is a deputy director at EM Cases
Justin Morgenstern
Contributing Editor
Dr. Justin Morgenstern is an emergency physician and the director of simulation education at Markham Stouffville Hospital. He has a special interest in medical education, mental practice in emergency medicine, and science-based medicine. He is the founder of the #FOAMed blog First10EM and an Associate Editor at EM Cases. He is a writer of the BEEM Cases blog, co-host on The Journal Jam podcast and regular contributor to The EM Quick Hits podcast.
Jesse MacLaren
Contributing Editor
Dr. Jesse McLaren is an emergency physician in Toronto. He has an interest in quality improvement and education, and writes the ECG Cases blog for EM Cases. While his handwriting is as chaotic as polymorphic V-tach, his blog posts aim to make complexes simple.
Hans Rosenberg
Contributing Editor
Dr. Hans Rosenberg is an Emergency Physician at the Ottawa Hospital and Director of the Digital Scholarship and Knowledge Dissemination Program at the University of Ottawa, Department of Emergency Medicine. He is the founder of the EMOttawa Blog and has a special interest in FOAMed, podcasting and dental emergencies. He loves his kids and wife, and (real) football, not necessarily in that order .
Anand Swaminathan
Contributing Editor
Dr. Anand Swaminathan is an assistant clinical professor of Emergency Medicine St. Joseph’s Hospital in Paterson, NJ. His main interests are in resident education, faculty development, resuscitation and knowledge translation. Anand is a deputy editor and conference chair for EM: RAP and the managing editor for EM Abstracts. He is a big believer in and contributor to the Free Open Access Medical Education (FOAM) movement. Anand is an associate editor for REBEL EM and REBELCast and a regular contributor to the EM Cases Quick Hits podcast.
Andrew Petrosoniak
Contributing Editor
Dr. Petrosoniak is a trauma team leader and emergency physician at St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto, Canada. He’s an assistant professor at the University of Toronto and he leads the translational simulation program at St. Michael’s Hospital. His research includes 1) the use of in situ simulation to improve systems and design and 2) optimizing the care of bleeding patients. He’s also the co-founder of Advanced Performance Healthcare Design, a group that uses simulation to enhance high stakes decision making.
Nour Khatib
Contributing Editor
Dr. Nour Khatib is an Emergency Physician at Lakeridge Health and Markham Stouffville Hospital, LH ED Education & Prof. Development Lead, LH ED Lead Preceptor, Assistant Professor at Queens University and Lecturer at University of Toronto. She is the CAEP Global EM Co-Chair and creates rural EM Quick Hits on EM Cases
Elisha Targonsky
Contributing Editor
Dr. Elisha Targonsky is an Emergency Physician at North York General Hospital in Toronto and Trillium Health Partners in Mississauga, Ontario. He is a Lecturer in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Toronto. His academic interests include the role of social media in medical education and the cardiovascular emergencies.
Nick Clarridge
Contributing Editor
Dr. Nick Clarridge is a staff Emergency Physician at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto. He has a special interest in simulation based education and is the founder of the simulation program at Southlake Regional Health Centre in Newmarket. He is the co-director of the EM Cases Summit conference.
Chang Lu
Contributing Editor
Dr. Chang Lu is an Emergency Physician with an interest in medical education. With experiences in computer programming, he embraces new technologies and enjoys using them to improve patient care and medical learning.
Sarah Whynot
Contributing Editor
Dr. Sarah Whynot is an Emergency Physician and Addiction Medicine fellow in Toronto. She has special interests in medical education and improving emergency room care for people who use substances. She contributes to the Quiz Vault at EM Cases.
Rohit Mohindra
Contributing Editor
Dr. Rohit Mohindra is an Emergency Physician and the Research Lead at North York General Hospital’s Emergency Department. He is also a research scientist at the Schwartz/Reisman Emergency Medicine Institute, visiting scientist at the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute and Associate Professor in Biomedical Engineering at Ryerson University.
Matthew McArthur
Contributing Editor
Dr. Matthew McArthur is a CCFP-EM resident at McMaster University. His professional interests include medical education, QI, POCUS, and resuscitation. Outside of medicine, he is an avid long-distance runner and musician.
Ali Tabatabaey
Resident Editor
Dr. Ali Tabatabaey is an Emergency Medicine resident at University of Toronto. He also has a masters degree in Health Informatics from the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation at University of Toronto. His academic interests include transfusion medicine and digital health.
Yajur Iyengar
Resident Editor
Dr. Yajur Iyengar is a Family Medicine Resident at the University of Ottawa. He is passionate about emergency medicine, medical education, and mental health care delivery. He is a resident editor for the EMCases QuickHits Video Series.
