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.
Vision & Mission
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
Lucas Chartier
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
Standards Subcommittee Chair
MD, MSc, FRCPC
Academic Interests:
Multi-modal improvement and innovation, medical leadership and operational management, QIPS
Contact:
@Drshawnmondoux
Shawn Dowling
MD FRCP
Quality Improvement Scientist
Associate Professor, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary
Academic Interests:
Resource stewardship, quality improvement, knowledge translation
Contact:
@shawnkdowling
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
Antonia Stang
MD MBA MSc
Section Chief, Pediatric Emergency Medicine Alberta Children’s Hospital
Associate Professor University of Calgary
Academic Interests:
Health service research, quality improvement, patient safety
Sachin Trivedi
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
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
Evelyn Tran
MD
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Ottawa
The Ottawa Hospital
Academic Interests:
Quality improvement and patient safety, pain management, medical education
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
Questions? Contact Shanna Scarrow (sscarrow@caep.ca)