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Interna onal Advisory Board
The IAB acts in an advisory capacity to the Director of SREMI to:
• Generally engage interdisciplinary thinking, stimulate dialogue, provide advice on shaping the research agenda and catalyse research, education, consulting, advocacy and public policy initiatives;
• Provide strategic advice on the activities and direction of the SREMI with the goal of making the SREMI the international leader in emergency medicine research and related teaching.
Service as an IAB member is voluntary. The Board re ects a diversity of interdisciplinary thinking and expertise in emergency medicine and related elds across the international health research community and society at large.
Dr. Jim Christenson
is an emergency physician at St. Paul’s Hospital in Vancouver. He is a Professor and Head of the Academic Department of Emergency Medicine in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of British Columbia. He currently is a Co-Principal Investigator for the Canadian Resuscitation Outcomes Consortium, which aims to improve care through early interventions in cardiac arrest and trauma. He is also the Principal Investigator of a neuro-protective intervention given by paramedics to patients with severe stroke and Co- Principal Investigator for a multicenter trial evaluating a lower cut-point for hsTrononin in women. Dr. Christenson leads a team that organizes the BC Emergency Medicine Network to facilitate knowledge sharing and clinical support for all emergency practitioners in British Columbia. It is currently expanding to include nurses and is exploring how it can improve emergency care in remote indigenous communities.
Dr. Matthew Cooke
is UK Chief Clinical Of cer for Capgemini, an international company focussing on digital business solutions. He recently retired as clinical advisor in emergency care to NHS Improvement SE region. He is a Professor of Clinical Systems Design at Warwick Medical School. He was previously an adviser to the World Health Organisation, was the National Clinical director for Emergency Care in England, and was the Director of Strategy/Deputy Medical Director at Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust. Dr. Cooke specialises in improving quality, safety and ow in urgent and emergency systems by innovation, systems redesign and by addressing attitudes, behaviours and culture. Dr. Cooke, now retired from emergency medicine, was in the Health Service Journal top 100 most in uential clinical leaders in the NHS in 2013 and 2014 and has previously been in the Times top 100 UK doctors.
Dr. Eva Grunfeld
is a physician scientist and Director of the Knowledge Translation Research Network, Health Services Research Program at the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research. She is the Giblon Professor and Vice Chair (Research and Advocacy) in the Department of Family and Community Medicine and Professor at the Institute for Health Policy, Management and Evaluation at the University of Toronto. Dr. Grunfeld’s research focuses on evaluation and knowledge translation of cancer health services, covering the entire spectrum of cancer control activities. She is internationally recognized for research on cancer survivorship. Recently, Dr. Grunfeld was appointed Chair of the Institute Advisory Board, Institute for Cancer Research, Canadian Institute for Health Research.
Dr. Suzanne Mason
qualified in medicine from London University in 1990. She pursued her training initially in surgery and then specialised in Emergency Medicine. Suzanne spent a year as a Royal College of Surgeons of England Research Fellow and joined Shef eld University as a Senior Clinical Lecturer in 2001 and was promoted to Reader in 2007 and Personal Chair in 2010. She divides her time between the university and as a consultant at the Barnsley Hospital Trust emergency department. Her main research interests include evaluating complex interventions in emergency and urgent care. She is particularly interested in the use of routine patient data to evaluate and model the Emergency and Urgent care System, identifying better ways to manege demand and improve outcomes in urgent and emergency care.
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