Posts by GHEM
AfCEM2024 Update from TAAAC-EM Travel Award Recipient Dr. Nahom Mesfin Mekonen
Dr. Nahom Mesfin Mekonen was a recipient of the TAAAC-EM Travel Award, which allowed him to travel to Botswana for AfCEM 2024. Below is his recap of the experience. —…
Read MoreDr. Tigist Tesfaye at ICEM 2024
Congratulations to Dr. Tigist Tesfaye who recently delivered a keynote plenary talk on the development of emergency care services in Ethiopia as well as two other track talks at the…
Read MoreGHEM Fellowship Q&A Session
The Global Health Emergency Medicine (GHEM) Fellowship program helps emergency medicine clinicians develop the appropriate skills, knowledge and experiences, to become leaders in the Global Health arena. Through this process,…
Read MoreNew publication > Sustainable Purchasing Practices: A Comparison of Single-use and Reusable Pulse Oximeters in the Emergency Department
Emergency Medicine resident Juliana Duffy worked with GHEM Board Member Megan Landes on her resident project, which compared single-use versus reusable pulse oximeters in the emergency department. For more details…
Read MorePost CAEP 2023 Recap
CAEP 2023 in Toronto, Canada was a great success! It was an amazing opportunity to showcase GHEM’s ongoing work and make new collaborations. If anyone is interested in getting involved…
Read MoreNew Interview > Changing the Culture of Emergency Departments
GHEM Executive Member and TAAAC-EM Strategic Director Dr. James Maskalyk was interviewed for CPSO Dialogue to discuss the need to change the culture of emergency departments. “In January, he was…
Read MoreTAAAC-EM Call for Faculty Delegates > 2023/2024 Teaching Trips
The Toronto Addis Ababa Academic Collaboration in Emergency Medicine (TAAAC-EM) is an educational partnership between the University of Toronto (U of T) and Addis Ababa University (AAU). Established in 2010, it’s intention…
Read MoreNEW PODCAST > Global EM 3: So you want to be a humanitarian doctor?
Check out a new episode of the Global EM podcast! Link: https://emergencymedicinecases.com/humanitarian-doctor/
Read MoreGHEM Members in the News > Meeting patients where they are
GHEM Executive Member Dr. Hasan Sheikh, who is Medical Lead for UHN’s Substance Use Services, was featured in a UHN news post about the Substance Use Intervention Team (SUIT). Read…
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