Accredited Webinars

After completion of this webinar, participants will be able to:

1. Appreciate the patient experience related to ED presentations for sickle cell disease (Professional)
2. Develop an up-to-date method for managing fever and pain crises (Medical/Family Medicine Expert)
3. Identify and treat acute chest syndrome (Medical/Family Medicine Expert)
4. Gain awareness and understanding of life-threatening sickle cell disease complications (Scholar) 
5. Create a multidisciplinary approach between hematology/medicine/allied health/emergency departments to admit or release a patient (Collaborator)

This webinar is an Accredited Group Learning Activity (Section 1) as defined by the Maintenance of Certification program of The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada and approved by Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians.  You may claim a maximum of 1 hour.  Earn up to one (1) MOC Section 1 hour per webinar (credits are automatically calculated).

This Group Learning program has been certified by the College of Family Physicians of Canada and the Ontario Chapter for up to 1.00  Mainpro+ credits.

Jennifer Bryan MD MA MSPH FRCPC

Dr. Bryan is an emergency physician at the University Health Network in Toronto. She is the Director of Operations of the Toronto Addis Ababa Academic Collaboration in Emergency Medicine (TAAAC-EM) and an Assistant Professor in the Division of Emergency Medicine at the University of Toronto. She is the Assistant Director of the clinical epidemiology program of the University of Toronto Royal College emergency medicine residency training program. She is a founding member of the University Health Network emergency department sickle cell working group and the founding Chair of the CAEP Antiracism and Anticolonialism Committee.

Dominick Shelton MD CCFP(EM) FCFP

Dr. Dominick Shelton is an emergency physician at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto.  He is an Associate Professor in the Department of Family & Community Medicine, University of Toronto.  He is the Medical Director of Quality & Safety for Sunnybrook’s Emergency Department.

Dr. Shelton co-founded Camp Jumoke, a camp for children with sickle cell anemia and was the camp’s former Medical Director.  He was a member of the sickle cell expert panel that developed the Ontario Ministry of Health Clinical Handbook for Sickle Cell Disease Vaso-occlusive Crisis.

Ziad Solh MD MSc FRCPC DRCPSC

Dr. Ziad Solh is a hematologist and transfusion medicine specialist at London Health Sciences Centre (LHSC), and an Associate Professor at Western University. He received his Doctorate in Medicine from the University of Ottawa and his hematology residency training at McMaster University. He then completed the Clinician Investigator Program and a Master of Science degree in Health Research Methodology at McMaster followed by a Transfusion Medicine fellowship with Canadian Blood Services. He currently directs the Adult Hemoglobinopathy Program at LHSC where he sees patients with sickle cell disease and thalassemia, and he is the head of the Transfusion Medicine Division in the laboratory.