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.
Justin Morgenstern
Contributing Editor
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.
Rob Simard
Contributing Editor
Dr. Rob Simard is an Emergency Physician at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre and North York General Hospital in Toronto. He is an EDE ultrasound instructor and a lecturer at the University of Toronto. He completed a fellowship in ultrasound at NOSM and is now an EDE Master Instructor, instructor with the National EDE 1 ultrasound course, and a lecturer with the National EDE 2 ultrasound course. Rob hopes to impart some clinical pearls in EM Cases POCUS Pearls videos in an engaging and fun way that will help you provide stellar care to your patients.
Tahara Bhate
Contributing Editor
Dr. Tahara Bhate is an Emergency Physician with University Health Network in downtown Toronto. Her academic interests are in quality improvement and patient safety, especially the incorporation of simulation and other unique methodologies into efforts to improve patient care. She aims to share her passion for QI with clinicians everywhere by making QI more accessible and relevant through her ‘QI Corner’ segment.
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
Hans Rosenberg
Contributing Editor
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
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.
Victoria Myers
Contributing Editor
Dr. Vitoria Myers is an Emergency Physician at St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto. She is a Lecturer in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Toronto. Her academic interests include inner city & rural emergency care. She contributes to EM Cases Q&A pearl of the week, EM Quick Hits and the EM Cases Summit.
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
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
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
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.
Sara Brade
Contributing Editor
Sara Brade is an Emergency Physician at Michael Garron Hospital and St. Joseph’s Health Centre in Toronto, ON 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.
Matthew McArther
Contributing Editor
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.
Kate Dillon
Resident Editor
Kate Dillon is an Emergency Medicine resident at University of Toronto. Her academic interests include trauma, resuscitation medicine and medical education. She is a resident editor for the main episode written summaries and EM Quick Hits Podcast.
Ali Tabatabaey
Resident Editor
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.
Jonathan Whittall
Resident Editor
Jonathan Whittall is an emergency medicine resident at the University of Toronto. He has a passion for medical education and his clinical interests include inner city health and addictions medicine. Outside of work and he enjoys mountain biking, cheering on the Ottawa Senators and he is still trying to break 100 in golf.
Yajur Iyengar
Resident Editor
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.
