Please join us at Michael Garron Hospital for a Behind the Scenes event on Wednesday, November 26. You and a guest will meet team members from our Stavro Emergency Department (ED) – one of the busiest in the city! You’ll hear how they’re addressing current challenges to serve more than 100,000 patients a year in a department that was only built for 50,000.
Here’s a look at our event program:
- Department Chief and Medical Director, Dr. Kyle Vojdani on the unprecedented pressures our ED team is facing, how they are working to support our patients and the role our ED plays in the broader healthcare system.
- Dr. Jefferson Hayre will walk you through our ED, where you will learn how Michael Garron Hospital is supporting seniors and patients experiencing mental health and addiction crises.
- Dr. Nadia Primiani and Dr. Ruchi Mohindra will lead a simulation of a typical case in our Child & Youth Emergency Zone.
- Dr. David Rosenstein will discuss digital innovations, including artificial intelligence.
- Please RSVP today as space is limited.
Dr. Jefferson Hayre has been a full-time emergency physician in the Stavro Emergency Department (ED) at Michael Garron Hospital since 2020. He completed medical school at Dalhousie University, and both his Family Medicine Residency and Emergency Medicine Fellowship at McGill University, where he was the Chief Resident of both programs.
Dr. Hayre’s interests include emergency medicine operations and processes. He is Co-Chair of the scheduling committee and lead an innovative community-based paediatric cough-and-cold clinic during a previous flu season. Currently, he is heavily involved in work to expand the ED. He is an engaging and a dynamic speaker, who strives to include our donor community in the work of our hospital.
He is a lecturer at the University of Toronto and teaches all levels of learners during regular shifts. He received the Michael Garron Hospital Stavro Emergency Department Emerging Teacher of the Year award, as determined by learner reviews in 2022.
Originally from the east coast, Dr. Ruchi Mohindra completed medical training at Memorial University of Newfoundland. She completed residency and fellowship training in Emergency Medicine at Queen’s University. Currently, she is the Associate Chief, Quality of the Stavro Emergency Department (ED) at Michael Garron Hospital.
Dr. Mohindra is our hospital’s Physician Champion for Kids Health Alliance: a collaboration of community and academic institutions aimed at enhancing paediatric care. She played a pivotal role in the establishment of our ED’s Child and Youth Emergency Zone.
Dr. Mohindra is an Assistant Professor at University of Toronto, Department of Family and Community Medicine, Division of Emergency Medicine (DFCM-EM) and recently completed her master’s degree in Medical Education at the University of Toronto. In addition to her clinical roles, she is our hospital’s Associate Director for Faculty Development. Actively involved in education with peers, residents, medical students, she currently co-leads the ED’s interdisciplinary in-situ simulation program. She has received several awards including most recently the DFCM-EM Award for Excellence in Quality Improvement as well as the Toronto Women in Emergency Medicine Award for Mentorship.
Dr. Nadia Primiani is an emergency physician at Michael Garron Hospital and Sinai Health. She completed her medical degree at McGill University and her residency program at the University of British Columbia.
Dr. Primiani is involved in medical education and is certified with the College of Family Physicians – Emergency Medicine. She is the associate program director for the Mount Sinai Emergency Medicine Fellowship and past chair of the 2SLGBTQIA+ committee for the Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians. She is interested in learning through simulation and is developing complex cases for the curriculum. She co-developed an in-situ simulation program at Sinai Health working with multidisciplinary teams running cases such as perimortem hysterotomies, code whites and massive upper gastrointestinal bleeds. She is developing a similar program for the Stavro Emergency Department.
An advocate for marginalized patients, Dr. Primiani is interested in increasing awareness of their health needs, while promoting non-violent communication between physicians and patients. She has been an invited speaker nationally and internationally to advocate for trans and non-binary patients.
Dr. David Rosenstein has been a staff emergency physician for over 20 years at Michael Garron Hospital. A Department of Family Medicine lecturer at the University of Toronto, he also teaches first-year medical students the core clinical skills course, as well as students on rotation in the Stavro Emergency Department (ED).
Dr. Rosenstein was the hospital’s Chief Medical Information Officer for 12 years during its digital transformation to computerized physician order entry and electronic documentation, and currently is the ED’s information technology lead. He has helped spearhead several innovations including a comprehensive ED virtual care program during the COVID-19 pandemic as well as the ED’s wait time clock. He is now leading the implementation of a scribe tool that uses artificial intelligence to give physicians more time and attention for patient care.
Dr. Kyle Vojdani hails from the east coast where he completed his medical training at Memorial University of Newfoundland and residency and fellowship training in Emergency Medicine at Dalhousie University.
Dr. Vojdani is the Chief and Medical Director of the Stavro Emergency Department (ED) and is an Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto (UofT). He has overseen significant growth and innovation in the ED in response to community care gaps and has helped guide the team through the challenges of multiple critical periods. Under his leadership, the ED introduced several provincial and national leading innovations and has improved in key quality, staff/physician engagement and performance metrics, moving the ED into Ontario’s top-five ranking by performance metrics in 2023.
Over two decades, Dr. Vojdani has held multiple leadership roles both at our hospital and in the private sector. He has received multiple teaching awards, most recently the 2021 Excellence in New Leadership award through the Department of Family and Community Medicine at UofT. He is a proud board member with East Toronto Family Practice Network, helping bring together the large and vibrant primary care network in East Toronto.