Alan Tung

Alan Tung

December 18, 2024

Alan Tung

Clinical Assistant Professor
Royal Columbian Hospital

Faculty Bio

UBC Medical School – Graduated 2015 UBC Anesthesiology Residency – Finished 2020 University of Michigan Neuroanesthesiology Fellowship (ICPNT Accredited) – Finished 2021 BC Anesthesiologist’ Society Education Chair – 2023-2024

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Website (or Lab): https://maplequestlabs.com/

Research Interests

Interest in the impact of EEG on anesthetic practices. Developing open source technologies to support the use of EEG in anesthesia

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ORCID: 0000-0002-4907-1278

Clinical Interests

Use of EEG in anesthesia, TIVA/TCI, and low-cost open-source syringe pump

Services

Peer Reviewer for British Journal of Anesthesia, BMJ Open, BMC Anesthesia, Journal of Neurosurgical Anesthesia, Can J Anesthesiology; BC Anesthesiologists’ Society Board Member; BC Anesthesiologists’ Society Education Chair -UBC Medical School Group Mentor

Teaching

Keith Sun

December 18, 2024

Keith Sun

Clinical Instructor
Royal Columbian Hospital

Faculty Bio

Dr. Sadiq Abdulla is an Anesthesiologist at BC Women’s Hospital. He has a clinical fellowship in Obstetric Anesthesia from Mount Sinai Hospital inToronto, Ontario. He has also completed the UBC Sauder Physician Leadership Program and was the inaugural Associate Program Director for theAnesthesia Training Program. His research interests include optimizing uterotonic use, ultrasound use in obstetric anesthesia, and developing anenhanced recovery pathway for cesarean delivery. He is currently a Royal College of Physician and Surgeons of Canada examiner for the Anesthesiology specialty.

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Cardiac anesthesia, Cardiac intensive care, Transesophageal echocardiography

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Travis Schisler

December 18, 2024

Travis Schisler

Clinical Assistant Professor
Vancouver General Hospital

Email: travis.schisler@vch.ca

Faculty Bio

I completed my medical degree and anesthesiology residency training at UBC followed by a cardiothoracic anesthesiology fellowship at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. I have been on staff at Vancouver Acute since 2014 specializing in cardiac and thoracic anesthesia, lung transplant anesthesia and perioperative transesophageal echocardiography. I am the anesthesia lead for lung transplant anesthesia and the Division Head of Thoracic Anesthesia for UBC. My academic interests are in ERAS for cardiac anesthesia and thoracic anesthesia including the perioperative management of patients with pulmonary hypertension. My early career accomplishments include implementing the use of VA ECMO to support lung transplantation at VGH and using regional anesthesia in patients undergoing minimally invasive mitral valve surgery.

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Thoracic anesthesia, Lung transplantation, ERAS for cardiac surgery, pulmonary hypertension.

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ORCID: 0000-0002-6322-4314

PubMed: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=travis%20schisler%5BAuthor%5D&sort=date&ac=yes

The Year in Thoracic Anesthesia: Selected Highlights from 2022

Current trends in anesthesia for esophagectomy

Pulmonary Hypertensive Crisis on Induction of Anesthesia

Clinical Interests

My clinical interests are in cardiac and thoracic anesthesia, lung transplant anesthesia and perioperative transesophageal echocardiography. I am the anesthesia lead for lung transplant anesthesia and the Division Head of Thoracic Anesthesia for UBC. My academic interests are in ERAS for cardiac anesthesia and thoracic anesthesia including the perioperative management of patients with pulmonary hypertension. My early career accomplishments include implementing the use of VA ECMO to support lung transplantation at VGH and using regional anesthesia in patients undergoing minimally invasive mitral valve surgery.

Services

UBC Division Head of Thoracic Anesthesia; VGH Site Lead for the Anesthesia Residency Training Program (2016-2018); Royal College Examiner 2021-present.

Teaching

Residency training program academic day lectures for thoracic anesthesia. R5 Seminar Series preparations in cardiac and thoracic anesthesia

Taren Roughead

December 18, 2024

Taren Roughead

Clinical Assistant Professor
Royal Columbian Hospital

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Clinical Simulation

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Meghan P O’Connell

December 18, 2024

Meghan P O’Connell

Clinical Assistant Professor
Victoria General Hospital

Faculty Bio

Department of Anesthesiology, Island Health Authority Island Medical Program Clinical Education Lead; Victoria General Hospital Clinical Assistant Professor, UBC, Department of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology and Therapeutics

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POCUS in obstetric anesthesia Uterotonic dose optimization Enhanced recovery after cesarean delivery

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Member of the Victoria department of Anesthesia QA/QI committee

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Darren Mullane

December 18, 2024

Darren Mullane

Clinical Assistant Professor
Vancouver General Hospital

Faculty Bio

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Transfusion in Cardiac Surgery, Perioperative Echo, Spinal Cord injury in Aortic Surgery

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ORCID: 0000-0002-6423-9489

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Cardiac Anesthesiology, Cardiac Surgery Intensive Care, Perioperative Echo.

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Lelane Mostert

December 18, 2024

Lelane Mostert

Clinical Instructor
Royal Inland Hospital – Kamloops

Faculty Bio

Clinical Instructor

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Ambulatory, Anesthesia, Pharmacology & Physiology, Difficult Airway Management

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Central oxygen pipeline failure

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Champion for the rollout of the hospital’s paperless EMR system (2020 – 2022); Featured in the recruitment video and commercial of Interior Health and Health Match BC https://youtu.be/9uXhU3p4cno; ERACS committee (Royal Inland Hospital, Kamloops); Development of Nursing Curriculum on assisting of anesthesiologists during airway management in the operating room as part of Capstone project for Harvard University

Teaching

Clinical teaching of Residents & Medical Students in the OR

Dmitry Mebel

December 18, 2024

Dmitry Mebel

Clinical Assistant Professor
St. Paul’s Hospital

Faculty Bio

I am a cardiothoracic anesthesiologist with an interest in perioperative echocardiography and structural heart disease. I have completed both my medical degree and my anesthesiology residency training at the University of British Columbia. I have attained fellowship training in cardiothoracic anesthesiology and perioperative echocardiography at Fiona Stanley Hospital in Perth, Australia. I have completed an additional fellowship in Structural Heart Echocardiography at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts. I am board certified by the National Board of Echocardiography (NBE) and currently hold the Diplomate status in Advanced Perioperative Transesophageal Echocardiography. I currently practice cardiac anesthesia at St Paul’s hospital in Vancouver, Canada with my scope of practice including open-heart surgeries, structural heart interventions, mechanical support devices and heart transplantation. I play an active role in the field of medical education. Currently, I have a clinical assistant professor appointment with the UBC in the Department of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology and Therapeutics. I am involved in training and mentoring anesthesia residents and fellows and teaching medical students as a part of the formal academic curriculum as well as providing informal teaching in the operating room.

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Structural heart disease, Transcatheter valve therapies, Mechanical devices and Heart transplant

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Brodie Lipon

December 18, 2024

Brodie Lipon

Clinical Instructor
Cowichan District Hospital

Faculty Bio

FPA, full time anesthesia at Cowichan District Hospital in Duncan, BC on Vancouver Island. Completed Medical School at University of Alberta, Family Medicine Residency at UBC Prince George, and Anesthesia plus one at Queens. Former Commercial diver before changing directions towards medicine. Completed a diploma in Underwater skills at Seneca College and worked on the East Coast. Enjoying all the outdoor activities Vancouver Island has to offer.

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Full scope rural anesthesia encompassing Adult, Pediatric, OB, and Regional.

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Edmond Li

December 18, 2024

Edmond Li

Clinical Instructor
Royal Columbian Hospital

Email: edmond.li@alumni.ubc.ca

Faculty Bio

Ed joined the anesthesiology department at Royal Columbian Hospital in 2021 after completing anesthesiology residency in Saskatoon and Masters in Health Sciences at UBC under the Clinician Investigator Program. During his masters, he conducted a cost-effectiveness analysis of a data-driven triage platform piloted in Uganda using decision-analytic modelling. The results were submitted to the Ugandan Ministry of Health for scale-up of this platform. He is currently co-lead of the acute pain service and perioperative anesthesiology at RCH. His research and quality improvement interests include: perioperative risk stratification, post-operative monitoring, and regional anesthesia.

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Perioperative risk stratification, post-operative monitoring, perioperative technology integration, regional anesthesia.

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PubMed: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=Li%2C+Edmond+C+K%5BAuthor%5D&sort=

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Perioperative Anesthesia, Perioperative Technology Integration

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