Fellowship Directory

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Emergency Medicine

Ornge Pre-hospital and Retrieval Medicine Fellowship

Fellowship Title:	Ornge Pre-hospital and Retrieval Medicine Fellowship
Division:	Emergency Medicine
Fellowship Type:	Clinical
Supervisor:	Dr. Joel Lockwood
Duration:	1 year
Application Open and Close Date:	September 1st
Anticipated Start Date(s):	July 1st
Number of position(s) per year:	1
Description:	Ornge, a not-for-profit organization, is Ontario’s provider of air ambulance and related services. Established in 2006, Ornge is responsible for approximately 21,000 patient-related transports each year, serving a population of more than 13 million people across 1 million square kilometres. With a fleet that includes airplanes, helicopters and land ambulances operating from 12 bases across the province, Ornge crews perform emergent and urgent inter-facility transports and emergent on-scene responses while supporting healthcare in remote communities across Ontario. The Ornge team consists of paramedics, pilots, aircraft maintenance engineers, communications officers, physicians, educators and support staff. The Fellowship will provide a unique experience specifically focused on air medical and land critical care transport. The Fellowship will include an immersive clinical experience in critical care transport in both an urban helicopter emergency medical services environment and fixed-wing opportunities in resource-challenged settings in rural and remote locations throughout northern Ontario. The hospital-based experiences may also include trauma team leader experience at Canada’s busiest trauma centres in Toronto. The successful applicant will be a member of a physician-paramedic team caring for some of the most severely ill and injured patients in Ontario. The clinical care will take place in the transport environment and resource-limited settings, with challenges not typically present in the traditional hospital setting. The Fellowship program will also provide the successful candidate with training and experience to work in Ornge’s Operations Control Centre as a member of the Ornge Transport Medicine Physician Team. Successful candidates will have completed training in Emergency Medicine, Anesthesia or Critical Care Medicine in a program accredited by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada or international equivalent, or Emergency Medicine in a program accredited by the College of Family Physicians of Canada. International applicants with relevant training and experience are also strongly encouraged to apply. The successful candidate must be legally entitled to work in Canada, and hold an educational license with the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario to practice medicine in Ontario
Contact Name:	Dr. Joel Lockwood
Role:	Fellowship Director
E-mail:	jlockwood@ornge.ca

Endocrinology & Metabolism

Advanced Technologies in Management of Type 1 Diabetes

Diabetes and Endocrinology in Pregnancy

Endocrine Oncology

Metabolic Bone Diseases and Osteoporosis

Fellowship Title:	Metabolic Bone Diseases and Osteoporosis
Division:	Endocrinology & Metabolism
Fellowship Type:	Clinical
Supervisor:	Dr. Angela Cheung
Duration:	2 years
Application Open Date:	September 1
Application Close Date:	December 31
Anticipated Start Date(s):	July 1
Number of position(s) per year:	1
Description:	The fellowship is for the fellow: To obtain valuable clinical experience in the diagnosis and treatment of primary and secondary osteoporosis, and other metabolic or genetic bone diseases by attending ambulatory outpatient clinics at University Health Network, and thereby become a certified expert in the management of these medical problems. To gain experience in the strategies used to manage patients with various types of fractures by attending ambulatory outpatient clinics and consulting on inpatients, analyzing database information, learning the basic science regarding fracture healing, and by attending / participating at Osteoporosis Program related rounds. To gain experience and technical skills in bone density reporting and in he interpretation of advanced bone imaging data, such as trabecular bone score (TBS), bone structure information from high resolution peripheral quantitative computed tomography, peripheral quantitative computed tomography, CT, MRI etc. To obtain knowledge in clinical epidemiology by attending the Master’s program in Clinical epidemiology at the University of Toronto Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation and by attending the Clinical Epidemiology rounds at Toronto General Hospital and the University Health Network Osteoporosis Program Research Rounds; and to perform a research project as a thesis project in metabolic bone diseases. To present findings of her research and interesting patient cases at local rounds and at specialty meetings, and to prepare drafts of manuscripts for potential future publication. To become familiar with the risks and benefits of relevant commonly prescribed diagnostic tests, medications and the need for patients’ informed consent.
Contact Name:	Angela Cheung
Role:	Primary Supervisor
Telephone:	416-978-3806
E-mail:	Endo.admin@utoronto.ca
Mailing Address:	Endocrinology Program Admin R. Fraser Elliott Building, 3-805 190 Elizabeth Street, Toronto, ON M5G 2C4

Reproductive Endocrinology

Thyroidology and Thyroid cancer

Gastroenterology & Hepatology

Advanced Clinical Hepatology

Fellowship Title:	Advanced Clinical Hepatology
Division:	Gastroenterology & Hepatology
Fellowship Type:	Clinical
Supervisor:	Dr. Cunningham and other UHN Hepatologists
Duration:	1 Year
Application Open and Close Date:	Applications accepted throughout the year, but must be received 12 months prior to start date.
Anticipated Start Date(s):	July
Number of position(s) per year:	2-6 positions per year
Description:	Training future leaders in Hepatology is a focus of our unit. Over the years, many national and international fellows with diverse interests have trained with us. Our unique position as the largest liver unit in Ontario, together with proximity to Sick Kids, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre and complex medical services provided at Toronto General Hospital, mean that we care for patients with a breadth of liver pathology that is truly unrivalled. Our rich learning environment and high patient volumes allows for the simultaneous training of up to 8 clinical and research fellows. Our Advanced Clinical Fellowship in Hepatology is comprised of 75% clinical time, the majority of which is spent seeing ambulatory patients including general hepatology, viral hepatitis and autoimmune liver disease. Fellows expected to supervise senior Gastroenterology trainees and Internal Medicine trainees providing inpatient Hepatology consultative services. Inpatient services will expose fellows to advanced, complex and end-stage liver disease and also provide opportunities for procedures including liver biopsies and endoscopy, should there be an interest. Clinical fellows will be active in scholarly activities including teaching, rounds presentations, research projects and quality improvement.
Contact Name:	Melissa Lancaster
Role:	Fellowship Coordinator
Telephone:	416-340-3569
E-mail:	Melissa.Lancaster@uhn.ca
Mailing Address:	200 Elizabeth St, 9EN Liver Clinic, Toronto, ON M5G 2C4
Contact Name:	Dr. Morven Cunningham
Role:	Hepatologist
Telephone:	416 340 4800 x3929
E-mail:	morven.cunningham@uhn.ca
Mailing Address:	200 Elizabeth St, 9EN Liver Clinic, Toronto, ON M5G 2C4

Advanced Endoscopy

Fellowship Title:	Geriatric Emergency Medicine
Division:	Emergency Medicine
Fellowship Type:	Clinical
Supervisor:	Dr. Don Melady
Duration:	1 year
Application Open and Close Date:	September 1
Anticipated Start Date(s):	July 1
Description:	The clinical focus of this fellowship is Geriatric Emergency Medicine. It is intended to allow the fellow to develop focussed expertise in care of older patients in the Emergency Department in multiple domains -- clinical practice; education; research; quality improvement, and programme development. The enhanced training will take place both in the ED and in multiple other settings over the course of the year -- in-patient geriatric medicine and psychiatry, palliative care, community-based care, long-term care and complex and continuing care.
Contact Name:	Ramona Zacharias
Role:	Division Executive Assistant
Telephone:	416-978-1612
E-mail:	division.em@utoronto.ca

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