Shelley D Tweedle
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Matthew Turnock
Matthew Turnock
Clinical Instructor
Royal Columbian Hospital
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Dr. Matthew Turnock is a Consultant Anesthesiologist and Trauma Team Leader at the Royal Columbian Hospital and Eagle Ridge Hospital. He is also currently the Anesthesia Residency Site Coordinator. Prior to completing a Fellowship in Prehospital Medicine and Aeromedical Transport, he received his MD and Anesthesia Residency education at the University of Toronto. His graduate studies at McMaster University investigated the use of patient simulators in austere environments for telemedicine support of human space-flight activities. He currently volunteers as an Advanced Medical Provider with North Shore Rescue.
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Space medicine, wilderness medicine.
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Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=it3fumkAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
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Trauma, Regional Anesthesia, Residency Education
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Fraser Health Authority, Anesthesia Assistants Program Medical Lead
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Alan Tung
Alan Tung
Clinical Instructor
Royal Columbian Hospital
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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/
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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
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Use of EEG in anesthesia, TIVA/TCI, and low-cost open-source syringe pump
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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
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Keith Sun
Keith Sun
Clinical Instructor
Royal Columbian Hospital
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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
Travis Schisler
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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
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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.
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UBC Division Head of Thoracic Anesthesia; VGH Site Lead for the Anesthesia Residency Training Program (2016-2018); Royal College Examiner 2021-present.
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Residency training program academic day lectures for thoracic anesthesia. R5 Seminar Series preparations in cardiac and thoracic anesthesia
Taren Roughead
Taren Roughead
Clinical Instructor
Royal Columbian Hospital
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Clinical Simulation
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Meghan P O’Connell
Meghan P O’Connell
Clinical Assistant Professor
Victoria General Hospital
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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
Darren Mullane
Clinical Assistant Professor
Vancouver General Hospital
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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
Lelane Mostert
Clinical Instructor
Royal Inland Hospital – Kamloops
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Clinical Instructor
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Ambulatory, Anesthesia, Pharmacology & Physiology, Difficult Airway Management
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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
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Clinical teaching of Residents & Medical Students in the OR
Dmitry Mebel
Dmitry Mebel
Clinical Assistant Professor
St. Paul’s Hospital
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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