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Rob Stenstrom, MD PHD CCFP-EM

Robert Stenstrom is an emergency physician and senior researcher at St Paul’s Hospital in Vancouver. He completed medical school at McMaster University in Hamilton and a PhD in Epidemiology and Biostatistics at McGill University. He completed his EM training at the University of Ottawa and is a clinical professor of medicine at the University of British Columbia. Dr. Stenstrom is Innovation Program Lead, Sepsis and infections for the BC Emergency Medicine Network and is a Scientist for the Centre for Health Evaluation and Outcome Sciences (CHÉOS).

Dr. Stenstrom’s primary research interests are in sepsis and septic shock, resistant bacteria in the ED, point of care testing for HIV, and Hepatitis C screening in the ED. He was involved in research on the initial SARS outbreak in 2003 and is a member of the British Columbia Covid Therapeutics advisory group.

Dr. Stenstrom has a strong interest in developing world health, and has participated in volunteer medical missions to Nicaragua, Peru, Nepal, and Zambia. He is on the board of a charity organization that organizes and funds some of these medical missions.

Katie Lin, MD MPH FRCPC Dr. Katie Lin is an emergency physician at the Foothills Medical Centre in Calgary, stroke physician with the Calgary Stroke Program, flight transport physician with STARS Air Ambulance, and clinical assistant professor with the University of Calgary. She completed her FR Emergency Medicine residency training in Calgary, a Masters of Public Health at Harvard, and is the first CSC-stroke certified emergency physician in Canada. Her clinical and research interests include acute stroke care, thrombosis, knowledge translation, and medical education. Outside the hospital, Dr. Lin enjoys hiking, mountain biking, painting, and podcasting.