CAST (in no particular order)

Dr. Jon-Émile Kenny, MD, is a internist/intensivist who, after training at UBC and UofToronto, went south of the border to NYU Langone and Stanford for residency and critical care training. He has the soul of one of a Masters of Physiology of days past. A major contributor to the #FOAMed movement thru Pulmccm.com and his own heart-lung.org, he has been synthesizing new physiological perspectives and is particularily adept at explaining clinical syndromes’ particular physiology.You can find him on the twitterverse under @heart_lung. (ed.)

Jon-Émile(standing before the tree of knowledge)

Hussein

Dr. Hussein Fadlallah, MD, MSc., FRCPC is an interventional cardiologist who trained at the University of Montreal after almost heading out to outer space with McGill’s aerospace engineering program. He is now an assistant professor at UofM as well as the head and unquestionable pillar of Santa Cabrini Hospital’s cardiology service. (ed.)

Dr William Beaubien-Souligny, MD, FRCPC, is a graduate of University of Montreal Medical school. He was trained in internal medicine and nephrology at the University of Montreal. Dr Beaubien-Souligny is currently completing the clinician-investigator program while pursuing a PhD in biomedical sciences. His research activities are currently based at the Montreal Heart Institute and his main research area is acute kidney injury in the setting of cardiac surgery. His interests also include fluid balance management and the use of point-of-care ultrasound to guide decision making. His multiple publications are providing the backbone for a new approach to venous congestion. Dr Beaubien-Souligny will be continuing his training in clinical research until July 2019 when he will return to the Centre-Hospitalier du l’Université de Montréal (CHUM) as a staff nephrologist and an independent clinician-researcher. William

Lissa

Dr. Lissa Ajjamada, MD, FRCPC, is a Brazil-born Montrealer, completed her medical school at Queens’ University, her IM residency at the University of Ottawa, and returned home for a Hematology-Oncology fellowship at McGill. She is currently a Hematologist-Oncologist at the Jewish General Hospital and at the CIUSSS of East Montreal, and an active member of the American Society of Hematology and American Society of Clinical Oncology.

Dr. Josh Farkas - I’m an assistant professor of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at the University of Vermont.   My training consists of  medical school at Cornell University followed by IM residency at Dartmouth University and a Pulmonary and Critical Care fellowship at Albany Medical Center.   Although trained and board certified in both Pulmonology and Critical Care, I work exclusively as a clinician educator in the combined medical, cardiac, and neurological ICU.   Interests include point-of-care ultrasonography, coffee, FOAMed, and all things related to the ICU. On twitter I'm @PulmCrit.   My e-mail is farkasmd@gmail.com.

Josh’s articles challenge medical dogma like few others while also offering novel clinical approaches to his avid readers. If you don’t follow his blog, you should. (ed.)Josh

Davide

Dr. Davide Maggio, MD, FRCPC - a gastro-enterologist from McGill University with a fellowship in advanced therapeutic endoscopy, and the GI Chief at Santa Cabrini Hospital, part of the CIUSSS Montreal East. He is cuurently in the process of starting a cutting-edge program as one of the few interventionists performing balloon enteroscopy of the small bowel. When he isn’t stopping GI bleeds or performing advanced diagnostics, he is in full hunting or fishing gear in order to stock his larder for his next culinary extravaganza. (ed.)

Dr. Michael Palumbo, MD-PhD, FRCPC - certainly the fiercest hemato-oncologist of the western hemisphere, Mike takes on all challengers in no-holds-barred matches, from free-flowing leukemic cells to the sturdiest of solid tumors, as well as any humans brave enough to challenge him. A mixed martial artist and Montrealer who went thru McGill Medicine, he now fixes blood and fights neoplastic processes at the CIUSSS of East Montreal as well as the Jewish General Hospital. (ed.)

Michael

Philippe

Dr. Philippe St-Arnaud, MD, CCFP-EM - a Montrealer wise enough to try both the city’s educational institutions - McGill and U of Montréal - is an integral part of the Scientific Committee for H&R2018, can sometimes be found working in the Santa Cabrini ICU or the Sacré-Coeur ER, when he isn’t teaching POCUS or planning the next greatest event in acute care meducation. And if he isn’t doing any of the above, he is likely harnessing the wind and sea in yet another sailing expedition. (ed.)

Marc

Dr. Marc Laroche, MD, FRCPC - is a McGill-trained microbiologist that has been relentlessly repelling infection for almost two decades at Santa Cabrini Hospital in Montreal, as well as at the Montreal Heart Institute, and currently the Chief of Infection Control at the CIUSSS Montreal East. He is well-known for a clear, cerebral and incisive approach tailored to each patient.

Kylie

Dr. Kylie Baker, MD - is an ER doc, part of the rare breed of MDs with enough gumption to work in an under-served and -resourced rural hospital in QUeensland, Australia. Out of local necessity she became a POCUSologist and, naturally, a POCUS instructor with the Australian Institute of Ultrasound. She shares and educates regularly on the twitterverse under @kyliebaker888.

André

Dr. André Denault, MD, Ph.D., FRCPC, ABIM-CCM, FASE, FCCS - an internist-anaesthetist-intensivist, is today’s true driving force behind the evolution in POCUS. Though largely unknown in the #FOAMed world, he has been pushing the limits of POCUS both in surface and TEE assessment. He has authored countless publications and several textbooks, has established TEE as a sine qua non of modern cardiac surgery. His research, thankfully, is providing the much-needed scientific evidence for many POCUSologists’ practice today and that will guide their practice tomorrow. His current pioneering in the realm of venous congestion assessment and its clinical consequences will likely alter the way we all practice medicine, once we get thru the knowledge translation delay. Even just standing next to him has been reported to result in accelerated learning.

Peter

Dr. Peter Barriga, MD, FRCP - in addition to being a high level judoka and musician, Peter is a microbiologist (via McGill) with a masters (from Queens’ U) in epidemiology and a passion for teaching both. He has been instrumental in re-shaping the understanding of litterature and statistics of those lucky enough to have trained under or shared discussions with him. He is in the process of writing his treatise on how to appraise a medical study. This will undoubtedly become a cornerstone of medical statistics’ study.

Audrey

Audrey Seguin, B.Pharm, MA Pharm - graduated in 2013 from her B.Pharm at Laval University. She then practiced in community pharmacies for 2 years before heading back to university in order to complete her masters degree, which she finished a year ago. She has been working as a hospital pharmacist at Santa Cabrini hospital ever since. She was chosen to spearhead and present a team effort by the Santa Cabrini Hospital pharmacy team. (ed.)

Rory

Dr. Rory Spiegel, MD - is board certified ED-intensivist who trained at Baltimore Shock-Trauma, currently a clinical instructor and attending physician in the ED at the University of Maryland, and concurrently doing a second IM-CC fellowship “just for fun.” He blogs with incredible insight at EMCrit under the handle of @EMnerd and his articles have achieved a huge following and respect for his ability to cut thru the medical literature and shed light into clinical controversies like few others have. He is one of the reasons anyone in acute care should be on #FOAMed (ed.)

Bobby

Dan

Dr. Daniel Kaud, MD, FRCPC, a local from McGill, is an internist equally comfortable running arrests in the ICU as he is running a rheumatology clinic. He stands out as one of the few internists who has integrated POCUS into his daily rounds on the wards. His enthusiasm and passion for teaching are outstanding. He currently works in the ICU at Santa Cabrini as well as the internal medicine wards of the CIUSSS Montreal East.

Dr. Bobby Jain, MD, FRCPC, is a clinical cardiologist, a joint product of the University of Calgary and McGill, who is a way-out-of-the-box-thinking clinician-innovator. He is the CMO of Sig-Num, whose groundbreaking technology is about to be released, and of Spera Genomics, who is among the health companies bridging present to future.

Dr. Olusegun Olusanya is a Clinical Fellow in North Hampshire Hospital, Basingstoke. He completed his medical school training in the University of Southampton, gaining a Bachelor of Medicine Degree in 2004. He is a Member of the Royal College of Physicians, and a Fellow of the Royal College of Anaesthetists. He is a stalwart of the #FOAMed movement, as a digital editor for the Journal of the Intensive Care Society, an editor for Life in the Fast Lane (www.lifeinthefastlane.com), an editor for The Bottom Line (www.thebottomline.org) and a founding member of the UK group “Tea and Empathy” which supports doctors in distress. His interests include point-of-care ultrasound, burnout, and social media as an adjunct to medical education. Outside medicine he runs a bakery alongside his wife, and enjoys martial arts, good books, movies and video games. You can find his tweets under the handle of @iceman_ex.

Segun

Lawrence

Dr. Lawrence Lynn, DO, FCCP is a pulmonary and critical care physician and successful inventor, president of Lyntek, a medical intellectual property that has been instrumental in developing some of the technology we widely use in the ICU and ED. Because of the forward-looking work of his research group in the field of AI and sepsis, his team was asked to present to the White House during the Ebola crisis. His team is poised to radically change the landscape of sepsis classification and research. A storm is coming. This keynote talk is not to be missed.

Dr. Philippe Rola, MD, FRCPC - is an internist working in the trenches of a community hospital ICU, who stumbled onto POCUS at the turn of the century, and who happened to meet somre really smart people along the way. A big believer in tailoring therapy to the patient, and that there is no reason to not provide the best possible care to your patients; as such, fights knowledge translation time as best he can, by putting together awesome people and have them teach their awesome stuff. You can find his rants at thinkingcriticalcare.com and tweets from @ThinkingCC.

Philippe