Dr. Blair Bigham is an award-winning journalist, scientist and physician who trained in emergency and critical care medicine at McMaster and Stanford Universities. He was a Global Journalism Fellow at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Associate Scientist at St Michael’s Hospital. His work has appeared in newspapers, magazines, newscasts, podcasts and medical journals. He is currently an assistant professor at the University of Toronto’s Dalla Lana School of Public Health, where he studies public trust and science communications.

Dr. Sameer Sharif is an Emergency Physician and Intensivist at Hamilton Health Sciences. He is an Assistant Professor, Clinician Educator, and Researcher at McMaster University with a focus on resuscitation and sedation research in the Emergency Department and ICU. He is also the Chair of the Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians Critical Care Committee and is a Methodologist on numerous Critical Care & Emergency Medicine Clinical Practice Guidelines.

Dr. Alix Carter is an emergency physician and researcher, with a focus on health system design and the intersection of paramedicine and the emergency department.  She graduated from Western University medical school in 2001, and completed her emergency medicine residency in Manitoba in 2006, followed by an MPH and EMS Fellowship at Yale.  Since then she has been medical director of research with EHS Nova Scotia, with a recent move to London Health Sciences Centre. The best things in life are her two daughters and getting out in the woods or on the water with family.

Dr. Kirsten Fiest is the Scientific Director of the O’Brien Institute for Public Health and a Professor in the Departments of Critical Care Medicine, Community Health Sciences, and Psychiatry at the University of Calgary. She earned her PhD in Epidemiology from the University of Calgary and completed postdoctoral training in neuro- and psychiatric epidemiology at the University of Manitoba. Her research program is dedicated to advancing the science of patient- and family-centered critical care. Her current work explores how family members can help prevent, detect, and manage delirium in critically ill patients.

Jennifer is an Advanced Care Paramedic and Master’s of Epidemiology candidate. She works in the field as well as at Dalhousie University as a Knowledge Translation specialist.

Dr. Parker is a Professor of Pediatrics, and Associate Member of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact at McMaster University. She is Board Certified in Pediatrics, Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, and Pediatric Emergency Medicine and holds a Master’s of Science in Health Research Methodology. Her clinical and research interests focus on pediatric acute care including resuscitation interventions and algorithms, resuscitation quality improvement, and the ethical conduct of resuscitation research.  Dr. Parker has been supported by career awards from Canadian Blood Services, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the Canadian Child Health Clinician Scientist Program, and Hamilton Health Sciences. She recently completed a CIHR funded multicentre randomized controlled trial evaluating two resuscitation treatment strategies in early septic shock management, including translational and qualitative research collaborations. She is an active member of the Canadian Critical Care Trials Group (CCCTG) and Pediatric Emergency Research Canada (PERC).  In 2022 she was appointed Division Head of the Division of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine at McMaster University.