About Us

Vision & Mission

The VISION of the Quality Improvement and Patient Safety (QIPS) Committee is to have an impact on Canadian emergency medicine (EM) through the creation of a QIPS community of practice, the development of the fields of QI and PS, and national QIPS interventions and educational activities.

The MISSION of the QIPS Committee is to provide a forum for Canadian EM providers to share challenges, ideas, and solutions for issues that pertain to the quality and safety of care of patients in the emergency departments (EDs) across the country, and to enable clinical and scholarly collaborations pertaining to QI and PS.

Executive Committee Members

Sachin Trivedi

Sachin Trivedi
Chair

MD MScHQ FRCPC
Assistant Professor, University of Saskatchewan

Academic Interests:
Quality improvement, patient safety, medical education

Contact:
https://medicine.usask.ca/profiles/emergency-medicine/faculty/sachin-trivedi.php
@svt882

Lucas Chartier

Lucas Chartier
Past Chair
MD CM, MPH, FRCPC
Deputy Medical Director, Emergency Department
Medical Director, Quality & Safety University Health Network
Lead for Emergency Medicine, Toronto Central LHIN
Assistant Professor, University of Toronto

Academic Interests:
QIPS capacity building, return visits to ED, resource appropriateness, medical leadership

Contact:
https://facdir.deptmedicine.utoronto.ca/Detail.aspx?id=2527&fromone=1
@chartierlucas

Shawn Mondoux

Shawn Mondoux
Standards Subcommittee Chair
MD, MSc, FRCPC

Academic Interests:
Multi-modal improvement and innovation, medical leadership and operational management, QIPS

Contact:
@Drshawnmondoux

Edmund Kwok

Edmund Kwok
MD MHA MSc FRCPC
Department of Emergency Medicine University of Ottawa

Academic Interests:
Quality improvement, patient safety, administration

Contact:
https://med.uottawa.ca/emergency/people/kwok-edmund
@eddeestyle

J ThullFreedman

Jennifer Thull-Freedman
MD, MSc, DipABP
Medical Director of Quality and Safety, Alberta Children’s Hospital
Physician Lead for Quality, ACH Emergency Department
Clinical Associate Professor, University of Calgary

Academic Interests:
Quality improvement, patient safety, pediatric emergency medicine

Sam Vaillancourt

Samuel Vaillancourt
MD CM, MPH, FRCP

Academic Interest:
Outcome measurement, Research in quality improvement, Automation and machine learning

Contact:
http://stmichaelshospitalresearch.ca/researchers/samuel-vaillancourt/
@VaillancourtSam

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Aimee Kernick
MD
CAEP President

Questions? Contact Julia Beljo (jbeljo@caep.ca)

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