Leadership Team

Dr. Chris Bennett Heyd is a emergency physician in Victoria, BC. He is an Assistant Clinical Professor at UBC and simulation director for the Royal College Emergency Medicine Residency Program on Vancouver Island. He is interested in trauma and mass casualty medicine and how simulation can be used to prepare individuals and teams for rare and unusual events. He completed medical school in Victoria (UBC) and residency in Hamilton (McMaster). He also holds a certificate in Disaster Management from Toronto Met University.

Dr. Kyla Caners is an emergency physician in Kingston, Ontario. She is an Associate Professor at Queen’s University and also serves as the Simulation Lead for the Department of Emergency Medicine. She completed both her Bachelor of Science and her Medical Degree at the University of Manitoba. Dr. Caners then completed both her Royal College Emergency Medicine training and her fellowship in simulation and medical education at McMaster University. In the process, she developed and implemented the simulation curriculum for the FRCP residents at McMaster. She hopes that this blog will help save other programs from the need to “start from scratch.” She is particularly excited about bringing the FOAMed concept (already pervasive within the EM community) to the simulation world. Dr. Caners now focuses her time on bringing simulation to the clinical environment and is a strong believer that we can make healthcare better using in situ simulation as a tool to enhance collaboration.