Meet our Instructors:
Dr. Avery Nathens
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Dr. Avery Nathens is currently the Chief of Surgery and the Trauma Medical Director at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Canada’s largest Level 1 trauma centre and Professor of Surgery at the University of Toronto. He is a general surgeon with a focus on trauma care, performance improvement, and health system design. He is Medical Director of Trauma Quality Programs of the American College of Surgeons. His research interests include trauma system effectiveness and quality of trauma care. He holds the DeSouza Chair in Trauma Research and has published over 400 peer-reviewed manuscripts including many landmark works on trauma care in Lancet, NEJM and JAMA. He has been the recipient of several million dollars of research funding from the NIH, Canadian Institutes of Health Research and many other agencies.
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Dr. Barbara Haas
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Dr. Barbara Haas is trauma surgeon and ICU physician at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre. In addition, she holds positions as Assistant Professor in the Department of Surgery at the University of Toronto, as a Scientist at the Sunnybrook Research Institute, and as an Adjunct Scientist at the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES). Dr. Haas is the Trauma Education Lead at Sunnybrook.
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Dr. Bourke Tillmann
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Dr. Bourke Tillmann is a Clinical Associate in Critical Care Medicine and a Trauma Team Leader at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre. He is currently studying health care resource utilization at the Institute of Health Policy, Management, and Evaluation with a focus on trauma systems. His clinical interests include intensive care, trauma, and cardiac arrest.
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Corey Freedman
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Corey Freedman is the Manager of Trauma Services at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre. In his role, Corey leads teams and initiatives related to performance improvement and patient safety, data capture and analysis, the Centre for Injury Prevention, and more. Corey is a trained paramedic and holds a Masters in Health Informatics.
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Dee Naidu
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Dee completed her Physician Assistant education and training at McMaster University in the fourth graduating class of 2013. Since joining the Sunnybrook team in the Division of General Surgery, she has helped to pave the path for the PA profession through her leadership role as Professional Lead of the Physician Assistant group. Dee's clinical work has inspired her to pursue a Masters Degree in Public Health to connect the gap between patients and their communities. As part of her degree, Dee is concurrently fulfilling a practicum placement with Sunnybrook's Centre for Injury Prevention, working closely with the P.A.R.T.Y. Program and STOP THE BLEED®.
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Dr. Luis da Luz
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Dr Luis da Luz is a Staff Physician and Head Trauma Team Leader at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Center and Assistant Professor of Surgery at the U of T. His clinical and research interest are trauma resuscitation, trauma induced coagulopathy and trauma team performance.
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Will Thomas-Boaz
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Will Thomas-Boaz is the Advanced Practice Nurse for the Emergency Department (ED) and Trauma Program at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre. He has been a Registered Nurse since graduating from McMaster University in 2005. He started his career in California working in a non-profit community hospital and moved back to Ontario to work at Sunnybrook in 2008. Will has spent his entire nursing career in the ED setting and was a mentor to new staff, triage nurse, and charge nurse at Sunnybrook before moving into the role of the Advanced Practice Nurse. Will has a Master’s of Nursing degree with a teaching focus and enjoys his current work in quality improvement, professional practice, and education.
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