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Professor Emeritus, Dept of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, University of Toronto, University Health Network; Past President, Society for Airway Management

Toronto
Joined October 2008
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Yahoo Tracey! @ladyteemd
We are very excited to announce that Dr. Tracey Straker, our department's Vice Chair of Clinical Operations, has been named Chairwoman of the White House National Committee on Foreign Medical Education and Accreditation. @ladyteemd @MontefioreNYC @EinsteinMed #MontefioreProud
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Apparently this picture I made that was part of a post 4 months ago recently went viral. Here's a new & improved version that includes the explanation in the image. Feel free to use/share it!
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Saving a mother and her baby- how Toronto doctors teamed up to devise a world first treatment for #pulmonaryhypertension in #pregnancy ⁦@CTVNews⁩ ⁦@AlexandraMaeJ⁩ @liztv ⁦@UHN⁩ #ECMO ctvnews.ca/health/canadian-d…
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Want optimism going into the weekend? Read @jameshamblin in @TheAtlantic I spoke to James, made a simple point: For those of us in the US Summer of 2021 will feel more like summer of 2019 than it will summer of 2020 A Quite Possibly Wonderful Summer theatlantic.com/health/archi…
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These odds are the same as winning the lottery while getting struck by lightning
Update of anaphylaxis from mRNA vaccines: 66 cases out of ~18 million vaccinations (=0.00000003%). All but 1 within 11 minutes. No deaths. @JAMA_current jamanetwork.com/journals/jam…
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PUMA aims to take guidelines from across specialties & find commonalities. Taking into account airways are managed by non anaesthetists & need to consider context / geography #GAMC2021 universalairway.org
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Take our quiz on access to/use of videolaryngoscopes. We want to hear from both airway operators & assistants. @NicholasChrimes will discuss the responses with @doctimcook & George Kovacs during @AirwavesLive on Tues 12th Jan 20:00 AEDT. universalairway.typeform.com…
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Every department library should have a copy - and anyone with an interest in airway management! #airwaymanagement
I know you youngins like to read everything on the internet, but there’s really no substitute for having an awesome airway book to hold in your hands (No COI)
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NAC 2020 will be a virtual meeting. Over 3000 registrations. A scientific feast over 2 days.A unique networking lounge, exhibition area, stalls, a gala evening for you to remember and many prizes to be won. Don’t miss this unique virtual meeting of AIDAA ! in.eregnow.com/ticketing/reg…
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NAC 2020 : the national airway conference of the AIDAA will be held virtually this year Registration Link: in.eregnow.com/ticketing/reg… See you soon.@doctimcook @CarinHagberg @elboghdadly @SorbelloMax @altgm @dr_imranahmad @NicholasChrimes @PaulBakerORSIM @ProfEllenO @gaspasser
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University of Toronto has developed educational resources relating to COVID-19 that several people of asked for including videos. Please feel free to share with attribution. anesthesia.utoronto.ca/educa…
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But there are things everyone can do to help with this! Share this your friends: Wash your hands often. Cough into your elbow. And instead of hanging out, talk on the phone for now. We’ll get through this together, Michael.
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A 68 second snapshot of how the Trump presidency will be remembered.
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Not to be missed !! Come to WAMM in Amsterdam to hear preview of PUMA ... !
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This fills me with so much sadness for our country.
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New Expert Session Added on November 15th! Lessons learned from building and analyzing large datasets from 3 Countries will give audiences an understanding of the various dataset types that have contributed to the understanding of airway management today. #wamm2019 #wammsterdam
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See you there John !! WAMMsterdam 2019 will be even better than WAMM Dublin (2015) Watch out for registration which is opening very shortly!!
Replying to @JohnCSakles
OMG, there is! I’m definitely going. Anyone else?
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