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Welcome to the Poison and Drug Information Service (PADIS) conference!
This conference is offered in-person OR through access to recordings ONLY post-course.
Course Overview
This intensive, one-day clinical toxicology course will be of interest to anyone who provides care to poisoned patients. Physicians, nurses, pharmacists and paramedics whose practice includes emergency medicine, critical care medicine or internal medicine will find this course useful.
Learning Objectives
At the end of this course, learners will be equipped to:
- Describe the diagnosis and management of common toxicological conditions
- Illustrate the evidence used to guide treatment of the poisoned patient
- Examine current controversies in the use of antidotes in patient care
Speaker Bios
Learn more about the speakers presenting at this conference.
Jon Cole, MD, FACEP, FACMT, FAACT – Medical Director, Minnesota Poison Control System; Faculty Emergency Physician & Medical Toxicologist, Hennepin Healthcare; Professor of Emergency Medicine, University of Minnesota Medical School
Jon Cole is medical director of the Minnesota Poison Control System, an emergency physician and medical toxicologist at Hennepin Healthcare, and a professor of emergency medicine at the University of Minnesota Medical School in Minneapolis, Minnesota. His research focuses on the treatment of cardiotoxic shock with an emphasis on optimizing the use of high-dose insulin for beta-blocker and calcium channel blocker poisoning. He has over 100 peer-reviewed scientific publications and has lectured internationally on the treatment of cardiotoxic shock.
Scott Lucyk, MD, FRCPC- Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Calgary; Medical Toxicologist, Poison and Drug Information Service (PADIS)
Scott Lucyk is the Associate Medical Director at PADIS. He is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine. He completed his Medical Toxicology fellowship at the New York City Poison Control Centre and his interests include medical education and resident teaching.
Mark Yarema, MD, FRCPC – Section Chief for Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology and the Medical Director of the Poison and Drug Information Service (PADIS)
Mark Yarema is the Section Chief for Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology and the Medical Director of the Poison and Drug Information Service (PADIS). He is a Clinical Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine and a member of the O’Brien Institute of Public Health at the University of Calgary. His research interests include acetaminophen poisoning, pharmacogenomics, drugs of abuse, and toxic alcohols.
Morgan Riggan, MD, FRCPC – Assistant Professor, Western University; Emergency Medicine Physician, London Health Sciences Centre, Ontario
Morgan Riggan graduated from the University of British Columbia with her BSc in Microbiology and Immunology in 2007. Dr. Riggan then graduated from McMaster medical school in 2010. Dr. Riggan did her residency in emergency medicine at Western University and graduated in 2015. She then moved to New York City to pursue medical toxicology through NYU and the New York City Poison Control Center. She returned to Canada in 2017 and began working for PADIS. She is also a consultant medical toxicologist for the Ontario Poison Centre.
Alexandra Hamelin, MD, FRCPC – Emergency Medicine, Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology Fellow, University of Calgary
Alexandra Hamelin completed her Emergency Medicine training at the University of Ottawa in 2023. She is currently pursuing a Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology fellowship at the University of Calgary, and currently works as an emergency physician in Calgary. Her research interests include drug-drug interactions in high-risk elderly populations and quality improvement.
Eric McGillis, MD, FRCPC – Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Calgary; Medical Toxicologist, Emergentologist, Program Director for Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology; Alberta Health Services; (PADIS) Poison and Drug Information System.
Eric McGillis is the Program Director of the Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology subspecialty and is an Emergency Physician at Alberta Health Services in the Calgary Zone. He is a Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the Cumming School of Medicine. Eric completed his Medical Toxicology Fellowship at Health Partners Institute in St. Paul Minnesota and at the Minnesota Poison Information System, Minneapolis MN. His interests are mitochondrial toxins, bupropion, and drug safety.
Jason Elzinga, MD – PGY-5 Emergency Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Calgary; Clinical Pharmacology & Toxicology; Alberta Health Services
Jason Elzinga is a first year Clinical Pharmacology & Toxicology fellow, and fifth year Emergency Medicine resident at the University of Calgary with an interest in the care of acutely poisoned patients.
Riley James Hartmann, MD, FRCPC – Emergency Physician, Medical Toxicologist, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan; Clinical Pharmacologist Consult, University of Calgary; Alberta Health Services; University of Saskatchewan; Saskatchewan Health Authority
Riley Hartmann is an Emergency Physician in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, and the Provincial Lead for toxicology for Saskatchewan. Riley completed his Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology Fellowship at the University of Calgary and continues to provide consultation services for both PADIS and the Clinical Pharmacology Consult service at the University of Calgary. His research interests include quality improvement and patient safety, and medical education.
Tyson Savage, MD, FRCPC – Clinical Lecturer, University of Calgary; Emergency Physician
Tyson Savage is an Emergency Physician practicing in Calgary, Alberta with interest in the use of Simulation for Medical Education and Quality improvement.
Ryan Wilkie, MD, FRCPC – Clinical Lecturer, University of Calgary; Emergency Medicine
Ryan Wilkie KidSIM Pediatric Simulation Program Fellowship and current Undergraduate Medical Education ED Sim Lead.
Jacqui Hiob, MD, FRCPC, BSc Pharm – Clinical Lecturer, University of Calgary; Emergency Physician
Jacqui Hiob is a PGY7 fellow in the Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology Program at the University of Calgary. She completed her emergency medicine specialty training at Dalhousie University.
Nick Sajko, MD – Emergency Medicine FRCPC PGY‐5, University of Alberta; Clinical Pharmacology & Toxicology Fellow, University of Calgary
Nick Sajko is currently a PGY‐5 resident in Emergency Medicine (FRCPC) through the University of Alberta. He began his fellowship in Clinical Pharmacology & Toxicology in July 2023 through the University of Calgary. His interests include acute and intensive medical toxicology clinical care.
Caroline Bain, MD, CCFP – Vice-President, Canadian Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Association (CUHMA)
Caroline Bain is Vice-President, Canadian Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Association (CUHMA). Dr. Bain is currently the medical director of the hyperbaric facility at Foothills hospital. She has been working at the hyperbaric chamber in Calgary since 1999 as well as performing recreational and commercial dive medicals as part of her practice.
Dr Bain graduated from medical school in Kingston, Ontario, Canada in 1992 and completed a family medicine residency in Edmonton, Alberta. She has a thriving medical practice in Calgary Alberta with 5 other physicians. Her love of the oceans, water and travelling began as a child snorkeling in the Caribbean. She obtained her open water diver certification in 1985 and continued training, eventually becoming certified as a Master Scuba Diver Trainer, full cave diver and advanced trimix diver. To combine her work and passion, she completed training in diving and hyperbaric medicine first at the NOAA/UHMS course in Seattle, WA. Numerous courses followed in various locations around the world.
Samantha Henley, MD
Samantha Henley is originally from the UK but raised between Ontario, the North of England, and Northern Scotland. Dr. Henley trained in Scotland in Remote and Rural Medicine then completed her Family Medicine Residency in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. It was in Moose Jaw that Dr. Henley got involved in running the only Hyperbaric Oxygen Chamber in Saskatchewan. Due staffing complications, the chamber has been on hold since Feb 2021. As she tries to wangle funding to run the chamber as its own unit, She works full-time as an SMA Rural Relief Locum, covering rural Saskatchewan and as the Physician for Sask Selects Football. Dr. Henley traveling work was the inspiration behind Mobile MD, a series on CityTV Saskatchewan that aired for 3 seasons.
Given that her active Hyperbaric practice is currently limited to focusing on the PATH Certificate, she is here more for the beer and the experience. Except that she doesn’t drink beer, so take it easy on her.
Felix Soibelman, MD, FRCPC – Associate Professor, Emergency Medicine, University of Alberta, Faculty of Medicine; Facility Chief, Emergency Medicine and Hyperbaric Oxygen Unit Misericordia Hospital.
Felix Soibelman is an alumnus of the University of Alberta, where he completed his BSc in pharmacology and his MD degrees. He is a fellow and examiner with the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada in Emergency Medicine and completed his residency at Queens University in 2006. Dr. Soibelman is currently facility chief of Emergency Medicine and is the director of the hyperbaric oxygen unit at the Misericordia Community Hospital in Edmonton, Alberta. He is an associate professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Alberta and serves on the board of directors for the Canadian Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine Society.