Faculty hero: Dr. Stacey Poznanski

As part of a series on Faculty Heroes, I wanted to highlight Dr. Stacey Poznanski (Director of EM Undergraduate Education and Assistant Professor of EM at Wright State University), who has done amazing things in EM. Most recently I had the pleasure of co-presenting at the 2013 International EM Teaching Course with Stacey at our Powerpoint Resuscitation workshop. The following are some of her thoughtful words of wisdom for those interested in EM, education, and academics.

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By Michelle Lin, MD|2019-01-28T21:52:00-08:00Nov 20, 2013|Medical Education|

Hero spotlight: Dr.Todd Raine

There are incredible people doing incredibly inspiring work in Emergency Medicine. I wanted to restart the hero series, which had fallen off the radar a few years ago, featuring amazing people in our specialty. Today’s hero spotlight is on Dr. Todd Raine (@RaineDoc). He is a Staff Physician and IT Coordinator at the Providence Healthcare Department of EM and Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia’s Department of EM. Despite these notable accomplishments, he is famous in the social media world for his innovative creation of a Google-based EM search engine GoogleFOAM.com, which many of us use to perform social media site searches online in the field of EM. His search engine is a “unified search of all FOAM sources on the Web.”

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By Michelle Lin, MD|2017-03-05T14:18:36-08:00Aug 15, 2013|Medical Education, Social Media & Tech|

Top 10 tips to building a productive academic team

I have been meaning to share this list of great tips about building a productive academic team. Major projects often require an interdisciplinary team of experts who are equally motivated towards a shared goal. I was recently at the 2012 Society of Academic Emergency Medicine where Dr. William McGaghie gave an inspiring CDEM keynote speech. He has been on a myriad of successful academic teams and he shared with us his top 10 list of pearls for team-building.

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By Michelle Lin, MD|2019-01-28T22:21:18-08:00Jun 18, 2012|Medical Education|

Remembering Dr. Robert Buckman

For those who trained in Canada (especially Toronto), the name of Dr. Robert Buckman always brought a chuckle. He filled his lectures with his signature British wit and humour. Yet, the message was always loud and clear. Being an oncologist, he had great insight in communication with patients.

He was the first to teach us medical students about communication and professionalism: Kindness, empathy, delivering bad news, what to say when you don’t know what to say. A decade later, out of the countless hours of lectures, his stood out.

Truly a big loss to the medical educators community.

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By Stella Yiu, MD|2016-11-11T18:51:56-08:00Oct 13, 2011|Medical Education|

Faculty hero: Dr. Jim Adams (part 2)

Continuing from the Part 1 (Aug 2, 2011 post), here is the rest of my conversation with Dr. Jim Adams:

What cool things are you working on right now?

The big projects that I am working on include:

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By Michelle Lin, MD|2016-11-11T18:52:29-08:00Aug 4, 2011|Medical Education|

Faculty hero: Dr. Jim Adams (part 1)

There are many leaders in Emergency Medicine but there are few who are true visionaries. Dr. Jim Adams (Chair at Northwestern’s Department of EM) is one such visionary. He’s given numerous lectures, providing sage advice to faculty, residents, and students. I’ve always thought it a shame these aren’t more available to people. So I contacted Jim to learn more about him, his career path, and advice for young emergency physicians.

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By Michelle Lin, MD|2016-11-11T18:52:29-08:00Aug 2, 2011|Medical Education|

Faculty hero: Ernest Wang (part 2)

Clinical Assistant Professor, NorthShore University HealthSystem
Academic Director, Center for Simulation Technology & Academic Research (CSTAR)
Associate Program Director, University of Chicago EM Residency

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By Michelle Lin, MD|2019-09-10T14:05:09-07:00Dec 8, 2009|Life|