The Atlantic Emergency Research Organization connects Emergency Medicine faculty and researchers from Memorial University and Dalhousie University as they strive to use research to improve the health and well-being of patients in Atlantic Canada.
The Committee Chair will have a 2-year term. The Chair will rotate from Province to province every two years. It will start with Newfoundland and Labrador, then New Brunswick, PEI, and Nova Scotia.
All Committee Members are responsible for contributing to the committee work.
A. Virtual meetings will be called quarterly at the discretion of the Chair of the Committee.
B. Members may invite research colleagues to attend and present at AERO Meetings where their involvement in a project is pertinent.
Members will attend a minimum of 50% of the meetings per year. We will aim to meet 4-6 times for 1-hour per calendar year.
Dr. Gillian Sheppard is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at Memorial University of Newfoundland and an Emergency Physician in St. John’s, NL. She is cross appointed to the Discipline of Pediatrics. Her research interests include point of care ultrasound, medical education, pediatric emergency medicine and equity, diversity and inclusion with a special interest in gender. More information about Dr. Sheppard can be found at this link.
Dr. Jason Emsley is the Research Director for the IWK Emergency Department. He is a Trauma Team Leader and Medical Director of Trauma at the IWK Children’s Health Centre. He serves as a Staff Emergency Physician at the IWK and Halifax Infirmary and is the Program Medical Director for Pediatric Ground Transport (Nova Scotia EHS). His clinical research focuses primarily on pediatric trauma epidemiology and pre-hospital mortality, as well as the effects of trauma team activations on departmental flow. He is currently the IWK site PI for the multinational PRoMPT BOLUS trial on resuscitation fluids in pediatric sepsis. Jason also serves as the PERC site PI for the Public Health Agency of Canada COVID surveillance program. Recent studies arising from the surveillance program have focused on long COVID in children, changing symptomatology of COVID variants, and racial and socioeconomic factors influencing pediatric COVID care. More information about Dr. Emsley can be found at this link.
Hannah Boone is currently a third year resident at the University of Calgary where she is completing her CCFP-EM enhanced skills in Emergency Medicine fellowship year. Her research interests include rural and remote trauma training, police presence in the emergency department and patient safety. She is currently a resident researcher on the AERO project; Healthcare providers’ experiences with police in Atlantic Canadian emergency departments.
Margo Wilson is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at Memorial University and works clinically as a family and emergency medicine doctor. After finishing medical school at the University of Ottawa, she completed her residency training in family and emergency medicine at Memorial University. Following residency, she moved to Happy Valley-Goose Bay Labrador, where she had a comprehensive practice. Currently her practice is primarily emergency medicine in St John’s, NL . She is the current research lead for the Society of Rural Physicians of Canada and her research interests include simulation education, rural to urban communication, and patient transfer issues.More information about Dr. Wilson can be found at this link.
Kayla Furlong is an emergency medicine physician in St. John's, NL. She completed the majority of her medical training at Memorial University, including her emergency medicine training. She has a MSc from the University of Toronto in epidemiology. She is a Clinical Assistant Professor and has a part-time faculty position in the Discipline of Emergency Medicine in the Faculty of Medicine at Memorial University. Her research area of interest is geriatric emergency medicine. She is involved in provincial geriatric emergency medicine initiatives in Newfoundland and Labrador. She is also the Chair-Elect of the Canadian Emergency Association of Physicians (CAEP) Geriatric Emergency Medicine Committee.
Dr. Samuel G Campbell is an experienced emergency physician with multiple qualifications and a broad range of expertise. He is a Professor of Emergency Medicine at Dalhousie University, Halifax NS, and the Research Director at the Charles V Keating Emergency and Trauma Centre. Dr. Campbell also serves as the Chair of the Choosing Wisely Committee for the Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians. More information about Dr. Campbell can be found at this link.
Dr. Kavish Chandra is an assistant professor of Emergency Medicine at Dalhousie University and an emergency physician in Saint John, New Brunswick. He is a Director of Research for Emergency Medicine Saint John, Chair of the Trauma NB Subcommittee on Research and current Chair for AERO (2024-2025). His research interests include Trauma, Resuscitation and Point of Care Ultrasound.More information about Dr. Chandra can be found at this link.
Dr. Paul Atkinson is a professor of Emergency Medicine and Assistant Dean Research at Dalhousie Medicine New Brunswick and former clinical academic head at Horizon Health Network in Saint John. He also serves as WorkSafeNB’s chief medical consultant, and deputy editor of the Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine. He has international training at Queen’s University Belfast and postgraduate programs in internal medicine and emergency medicine in Belfast, Cambridge (UK), and a fellowship at Royal North Shore Hospital in Sydney (Australia). Dr. Atkinson has authored over 160 peer-reviewed publications and led three textbooks. His publications and interests can be found here at this link.
Dr. Sibley is the Research Director for the Division of Paramedicine at the University of Prince Edward Island and the Prince Edward Island Emergency Medicine Research Group (PEIEMRG). He completed medical school at Dalhousie University and subsequently received specialty training in Emergency Medicine at the University of Alberta. Further, he completed sub-specialty training in Emergency Medicine Services. Dr. Sibley is currently a staff physician at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Charlottetown and a Clinical Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at Dalhousie University. Dr. Sibley teaches paramedicine students evidence-based practice in pre-hospital medicine. Dr. Sibley’s current research interests include the use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in Disaster and Prehospital medicine as well as paramedic interventions in critical care transports. He is a reviewer to the Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine and the Dalhousie Department of Emergency Medicine Cureus Channel. He teaches paramedicine students evidence-based practice in pre-hospital medicine. Dr. Sibley’s current research interests include the use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in Disaster and Prehospital medicine as well as paramedic interventions in critical care transports. More information about Dr. Sibley can be found at this link.
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