The Creators of AIME

  • ​Dr. George Kovacs is a full-time professor of Emergency Medicine and is cross-appointed in the Department of Anaesthesia, Department of Medical Neuroscience and Division of Medical Education at Dalhousie University. He works clinically as an Emergency Physician and Trauma Team Leader at the Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre in Halifax. He is Medical Director of Lifeflight, the Provincial critical care transport program. He holds a Masters of Health Professions Education from the University of Illinois where he developed his interest in procedural skill learning and is the Director of the Clinical Cadaver Program at Dalhousie. He is an award-winning educator who co-developed the internationally recognized airway education program (Airway Interventions & Management in Emergencies- AIME). He has four children and in addition to his passion for airway management education he loves being at his cottage on the Medway river spending time with his two loves of his life, his family and his Massey Ferguson tractor.

  • Dr. Adam Law is Professor of Anesthesia at the QEII Health Sciences Centre in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. He started medical practice with 6 years as a rural general practitioner. This was followed by a residency in Anesthesia and subspecialty training in neuroanesthesia at Western University in London, Ontario, Canada. He has worked in Halifax as an attending anesthesiologist ever since. Adam is co-director of both the Canadian AIME airway courses and the US-based Difficult Airway Course and teaches in both courses on a regular basis. He also chairs the Canadian Airway Focus Group, which published  Canadian airway management guidelines in 2013 that are currently being updated. He is a member and contributor of the Project for Universal Management of Airways (PUMA). He has authored numerous airway related puplications and book chapters. He is Co-Editor of the Infinity Edition Airway Management in Emergencies open access text. When not at work, he enjoys spending time with his family, hiking, running, skiing and playing tennis.

  • Rob Sandeski trained and practiced as a funeral director before joining Dalhousie’s Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology in 2002 as an anatomy technician working alongside others as part of Dal’s Human Body Donation program. He was a respected teacher and innovator as he co-developed a first of its kind, Clinical Cadaver  Program for which he assumed a leadership role as Program Manager.  He completed his Diploma of Health Services Management in 2018. His work  as been recognized in nominations, awards and numerous publications as he brought something very human to learners at all levels of their training, changing their experience with the human body as a teacher after death. Rob’s work has compassionately touched thousands of individuals and family members at the intersection of life providing a unique after life that has saved many. Rob was a co-recipient of Dalhousie’s 2025 Academic Innovation award. An annual Rob Sandeski Clinical Cadaver Educational Innovation Grant will honour his legacy.​

AIME TEAM

  • Annie Thomas

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  • Chris Carrier

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  • JAMES HUFFMAN

    MD FRCPC

    Emergency Medicine Physician

    STARS Transport Physician and Medical Director - External Education

    Clinical Associate Professor, University of Calgary

    Calgary, Alberta, Canada

  • DAVID PARÉ

    MD, FRCPC

    Emergency Physician, Quebec Heart and Lung Institute

  • JAN TROJANOWSKI

    MD FRCPC, DRCPSC

    Emergency Medicine; Critical Care Medicine; Prehospital and Transport Medicine

    Clinical Associate Professor, University of British Columbia

  • PETER M. REARDON

    MD FRCPC ABEM ABIM (CCM)

    Emergency and Critical Care Medicine

    Intensivist

    Department of Critical Care Medicine

    Scarborough Health Network

    Assistant Professor

    Department of Medicine

    University of Toronto

  • KATHRYN A. SPARROW

    MD, FRCPC, MScHQ

    Associate Professor, Discipline of Anesthesia

    Memorial University of Newfoundland 

  • LORRI BEATTY

    MD, FRCPC, DRCPSC (Clin Ed)

    Associate Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, Dalhousie University

    Consultant Physician, Atlantic Canada Poison Centre

    Medical Control Physician, EHS LifeFlight and EHS Ground

  • ADAM PARKS

    MD FRCPC

    Assistant Professor

    Dalhousie University, Department of Emergency Medicine

  • ADAM MACPHERSON

    BSc, MD, CCFP(EM), FCFP, DRCPSC

    Emergency, EMS & Trauma Physician | Clinical Professor

    Department of Emergency Medicine | University of British Columbia | Victoria BC

    Executive Medical Director/Provincial Online Physician | BC Ambulance Service

    Vice Chair | International Red Cross/Red Crescent Medical Advisory Committee

    Medical Director  | Canadian Red Cross & Canadian Coast Guard

    Ski Patrol Physician | Whistler/Blackcomb Ski Patrol

  • GAVIN GREENFIELD

    MD, CCFP(EM) CCFP(FPA) FCFP

    Emergency Physician, Alberta Health Services, Calgary Zone

    Emergency Physician, Mineral Springs Hospital, Banff

    Anesthesia, Alberta Health Services, Sturgeon Community Hospital, Canmore General Hospital

    STARS Transport Physician

    STARS Medical Director of Education - Internal Education

    Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, Cumming School of Medicine University of Calgary

    Clinical Lecturer, Department of Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine, Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry University of Alberta

  • PHILIP DAVIS

    MD, MSc, FRCPC

    Major, Canadian Armed Forces

    Emergency Physician and Trauma Team Leader

    Professor, Emergency Medicine

    Associate Member, Community Health and Epidemiology, University of Saskatchewan

  • TANIA SULLIVAN

    CCFP(EM) (She/her)

    Emergency Physician

    Nova Scotia Health Zone Co-Lead Emergency Medicine, 

    Assistant Professor, Dalhousie Dept of Emergency Medicine

    Faculty/ Program Simulation Lead, Dalhousie Dept of Family Medicine

    Medical Director NSH Simulation Learning & QE2 Sim

    BLS, ACLS, PALS, ATLS, TRIK and AIME Instructor

  • SAMANTHA JANG-STEWART

    FRCPC, Dipl Sport Med

    Clinical Assistant Professor, UBC Emergency Medicine
    Emergency Physician, Royal Columbian & Eagle Ridge Hospitals

    Sport medicine, Progression Bouldering Clinic

  • HEATHER FLEMMING

    MD, FRCPC

    Emergency Physician, Vancouver General Hospital, University of British Columbia