Senior Editors of the EM:POWER Report
Dr. Chochinov is Chair of CAEP’s EM:POWER Task Force and Senior Editors Group. He is Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of Manitoba and an emergency physician at St Boniface Hospital in Winnipeg. He has previously been CAEP President, Department Head & Specialty Lead for Emergency Medicine in Manitoba, and Chair of the CMA Council on Education and Workforce. Dr Chochinov’s research and policy interests are in hypothermia, drowning, ED operations and health systems. In 2017 he co-authored the ED Wait Times Task Force Report for the Province of Manitoba.
Dr. Ivy Cheng
Dr. Ivy Cheng has been affiliated with Sunnybrook Health Sciences Center since 1999 and is currently a staff emergency physician, clinician investigator, patient flow lead and the emergency department director of research and scholarly activities. She is an Associate Professor at University of Toronto, Associate Scientist at Sunnybrook Research Institute, Affiliate at Monash (Australia) and Örebro University (Sweden). Her current research, leadership and clinical roles focus on improving ED patient care by addressing ED crowding, high frequency ED users, vulnerable populations, such as older persons, and the pandemic’s impact.
Dr. Grant Innes
Dr. Grant Innes completed his emergency residency in Denver and has worked as an emergency physician in Vancouver and Calgary for 39 years. He was Chair of the Vancouver Emergency Services Council (2002-2008), and EM Department Head for the Calgary Region and University of Calgary (2008-2013). He served on the CAEP Board for 8 years and was founding editor and editor-in-chief of the Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine (CJEM) from 1998-2007. He has many publications and presentations, and has led access, flow, and quality initiatives in two provinces. He now works as a rural emergency physician in Oliver BC.
Dr. Daniel Kollek
Dr. Daniel Kollek is an award-winning emergency physician, an Associate Clinical Professor at McMaster University, Honorary Senior Lecturer at Queen Mary’s University of London, Chair of the CAEP Disaster Committee and Director of the Centre for Excellence in Emergency Preparedness. He also has served as Emergency Department Chief and Program Director in both Hamilton and Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario. His research papers and presentations have spanned many disaster-related topics. Prior to his career in medicine, he was a combat officer in the Israeli Defence Forces, and he now dabbles in improvisational theatre.
Dr. Sara Kreindler
Sara Kreindler is Assistant Professor and Manitoba Research Chair in Health System Innovation at the University of Manitoba, Department of Community Health Sciences. Having earned a doctorate in social psychology from Oxford University on a Rhodes Scholarship, she continues to apply social identity theory to healthcare. Sara has also conducted extensive research on patient access and flow and is the architect of the population-capacity-process model. In addition, they are known as the writer/composer of the satirical musical micro-series Larry Saves the Canadian Healthcare System.
Dr. David A Petrie
Dr. David A Petrie is an emergency physician from Halifax and Professor of Emergency Medicine at Dalhousie University. He has been Medical Director of the Halifax regional ground EMS system, the provincial LifeFlight program, the Academic Head/Clinical District Chief of the Department of Emergency Medicine Dalhousie/Central Zone, and most recently, the senior medical director of the provincial Emergency Program of Care, Nova Scotia Health. His academic interests have ranged from prehospital care and trauma systems research, to studying the impact of critical thinking and complexity science on leadership decision-making and health system redesign.
Special thanks also to Drs. Tania Principi, Elyse Berger-Pelletier and Shelley McLeod for their contributions.
Dr. Elyse Berger-Pelletier
Communications
Dr. Tania Principi
Drafting
Dr. Shelley McLeod
Methodology
Lynn Garrow
Executive Director, CAEP
Christina Bova
Director, Member Engagement and Advocacy
CAEP
The authors would like to thank Lynn Garrow and Christina Bova, our tireless Project Manager, for their unwavering support of this project.