Mission and Team

MISSION STATEMENT

To provide a state-of-the art, evidence-based online education system that promotes effective and efficient skill development in the diagnosis of medical images.

GOALS

Blending clinical, academic and philanthropic values, ImageSim aims to:

1. Emphasize course content that addresses known knowledge gaps for practicing health care professionals.
2. Increase health care professionals’ accuracy in the interpretation of visually diagnosed tests with the goals of reducing medical error and improving health outcomes.
3. Support global access to this education system for health care professional learners, with subsidized access to the developing world.

THE EDUCATION EXPERIENCE

ImageSim simulates the presentation of medical images just like you would get them in clinical practice. It also emphasizes deliberate practice such that the learning system provides hundreds of case examples and as you practice interpreting images you get immediate feedback after each case. While acquiring mastery for these images would take years to acquire via clinical practice alone, this learning system can potentially help achieve this in just a few hours.

ImageSim has been uniquely designed for people with busy schedules – access 24 hours/day, 7 days a week.

Lead Development Team

 Kathy Boutis, MD MSc         
Pediatric Emergency Physician, Hospital for Sick Children                                                            Professor of Pediatrics, University of Toronto

Martin Pusic, MD PhD
Education Scientist, Pediatric Emergency Physician
Associate Professor, Harvard University

Martin Pecaric, PhD
Lead IT and Analytics Consultant
Contrail Consulting Services

Collaborator Content Experts

PEDIATRIC RADIOGRAPHS

Jennifer Stimec, MD
Paediatric Radiologist, Hospital for Sick Children
Assistant Professor, University of Toronto

Manuela Perez, MD
Radiology Resident,
University of Toronto

PEDIATRIC EMERGENCY POINT-OF-CARE ULTRASOUND

Charisse Kwan, MD
Paediatric Emergency Physician, London Health Sciences Center
Associate Professor, Western University

Kirstin Weerdenburg, MD
Pediatric Emergency Physician, IWK Health Centre
Associate Professor, Dalhousie University

ELECTROCARDIOGRAMS

Yousef Etoom, MD
Paediatric Emergency Physician, Hospital for Sick Children
Paediatric Cardiologist, St. Joseph’s Hospital
Assistant Professor, University of Toronto

Shilpa Patel, MD MPH
Paediatric Emergency Physician, Children’s National Health System
Assistant Professor, The George Washington University School of Medicine

Elizabeth Stephenson, MD MSc
Paediatric Cardiology (Electrophysiology), Hospital for Sick Children
Professor, University of Toronto

CHILD ABUSE

Michelle Shouldice, MD MSc
Suspected Child Abuse and Neglect Physician, Hospital for Sick Children
Professor, University of Toronto

Adrienne Davis, MD MSc
Paediatric Emergency Physician, Hospital for Sick Children
Assistant Professor, University of Toronto

Tanya Smith, RN ACNP
Director Suspected Child Abuse and Neglect Program, Hospital for Sick Children
Lecturer, University of Toronto

Melissa Lorenzo, MD
Pediatric Emergency Medicine Fellow, Hospital for Sick Children

Susanne Perschbacher

DERMATOLOGY

Miriam Weinstein, BSc BScN MD
Pediatric Dermatologist, Hospital for Sick Children
Associate Professor, University of Toronto

Cathryn Sibbald, BScPhm MD MSc
Pediatric Dermatologist, Hospital for Sick Children
Assistant Professor, University of Toronto

Joel Gupta, MD
Pediatric Emergency Medicine Fellow, Hospital for Sick Children

FAMILY MEDICINE

Carol Geller, MD
Family Physician, Centretown Community Health Centre
Director of Academic Support and Remediation
Department of Family Medicine, University of Ottawa