Joel Turner

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• 2020, present, McGill Faculty of Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine, Associate Chair (Clinical Practice)
• 2019, present, McGill University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine, Assistant Professor
• 2023, present, Jewish General Hospital, McGill Emergency Medicine and Point of Care Ultrasound, Fellowship Director
• 2013, present, Jewish General Hospital, McGill Emergency Ultrasound, Fellowship Director
• 2002, 2019, McGill University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Family Medicine, Faculty Lecturer

• 2023, POCUS in infectious diseases. Created ½-day session at the McGill Sim Centre, teaching fellows and faculty from the McGill division of ID about the role of POCUS in infectious diseases
• 2022, present, Creation and development of a 2-year postgraduate fellowship in General Emergency Medicine and Point of care ultrasound. Focused primarily of international trainees who have as primary goals to further their training in Emergency Medicine and Point of Care ultrasound
• 2019, 2021, Faculty lead of Mtl-Sono conference, Montreal, Quebec. A 2-day multi-university conference for medical students to learn core and advanced applications of point of care ultrasound. The first annual conference attracted over 60 medical students from 7 faculties in Quebec and Ontario. The second, online conference (due to pandemic) attracted over 300 students from 15 countries (North America, Europe, Africa). The third conference will take place in person.
• 2019, ePOCUS Essentials Nerve Block Procedures Course (Nov. 2019) Course Director. Created a 1-day didactic and hands-on procedures course for participants to learn how to perform the major regional nerve blocks used in the ED.
• 2019, Named 2019 Educator of the Year from the Canadian Point of Care Ultrasound Society, in recognition of the work on teaching Medical Students, Residents, and faculty POCUS, including the creation of certification courses, POCUS fellowship curriculum, and contribution at academic rounds.
• 2016, present, ePOCUS Essentials Boot Camp (2016-present) Founder and Course Director. Created an intensive 3-day boot camp allowing learners (students, residents, physicians) to obtain all requirements to complete their CPoCUS certification for core Independent Practitioners.
• 2014, present, ePOCUS Essentials (2014-present) Founder and Course Director. Created a 1-day point of care ultrasound course for Emergency Medicine, Family Medicine, and ICU residents, teaching the core applications including cardiac echo, lung, trauma, aorta and pelvic POCUS. Course is recognized by the Canadian Point of Care Ultrasound Society (CPoCUS).
• 2013, present, Creation and development of 13-period curriculum for Point of Care ultrasound Fellowship, covering both core and advanced applications, with a strong focus on cardiac, musculoskeletal, and nerve block ultrasound
• 2009, 2013, Residency Program Director, Royal College Program, McGill Emergency Medicine, Montreal, QC. Program Director of the 4th largest Specialty program in Emergency Medicine in Canada. Significantly enhanced the point of care ultrasound use and training. Improvements in resident research, simulation training, and resident well-being
• 2008, 2009, Assistant Program Director. Royal College Program, McGill Emergency Medicine, Montreal, QC
• 2007, present, EDE-2 Course Instructor/Author. Nationally recognized 2-day course in advanced point of care ultrasound. Lecturing and providing bedside teaching on cardiac, thoracic, biliary, vascular, MSK, procedures, renal ultrasound. This course is provided annually across the country for EM physicians and Family physicians
• 2012, 2019, EDE-3 Course instructor. Annual 3-day international POCUS course (British Columbia, Ontario, Quebec, Turks and Caicos, Hawaii), providing cutting edge instruction in advanced point of care ultrasound. Lecturing and providing bedside teaching on advanced Point of care ultrasound (valvulopathy, diastology, airway, GI, Nerve Blocks).
• 2017, 2019, General Internal Medicine core POCUS. 1-day course providing lectures and bedside instruction of core POCUS applications (Cardiac, Lung, IVC, DVT) to General Internal Medicine Faculty at the McGill Simulation Centre.
• 2013, 2019, Apple Distinguished Educator (ADE). Recognized by Apple for my work using iTunesU to create program-specific courses and material accessible on iOS mobile devices for the EM program and ultrasound fellowship

• Post-graduate trainee, 2023, present, Yael Abramov, Salim Saadia. EM POCUS fellow. Inaugural fellows in the new two-year Emergency Medicine/Point of care ultrasound fellowship. Research topics to finalize
• Post-graduate trainee, 2022, 2023, Ramzi Nakhle, EM POCUS Fellow, Examining the role of point of care ultrasound in patients presenting to the emergency department with renal colic (study ongoing)
• Post-graduate trainee, 2021, 2022, Krongkarn Sutham, EM POCUS Fellow, Examining the role of point of care ultrasound in dyspneic elderly patients (study ongoing)
• Graduate trainee, 2020, Mostafa Al-Habboubi. FRCP emergency medicine resident. Examining the attitudes of General Surgery Staff and Residents towards point of care ultrasound (Manuscript published in peer-reviewed journal)
• Graduate trainee, 2019, Dr. Gregory Marton. FRCP emergency medicine resident. Examining the role of biliary and renal POCUS in flow and health care resource utilization. (Manuscript in preparation)
• Graduate trainee, 2018, Dr. Khalifa Alqaydi. FRCP emergency medicine resident. Examining the role of age adjusted D-dimer and POCUS to rule out acute DVT in the emergency department. (Poster Presentation at 2018 CAEP Annual meeting, Calgary, Alberta)
• Graduate trainee, 2014, Dr. Catherine Patocka. FRCP emergency medicine resident. Examining the use of a sepsis triage screening tool in patients with suspected sepsis. (Published in peer-reviewed journal)
• Graduate trainee, 2013, Dr. Catherine Patocka. FRCP emergency medicine resident. Creating a Delphi score to determine which ECG diagnoses do EM residents need to know.(Published in peer-reviewed journal)
• Undergraduate trainee, 2023, Omar Idrissi. Small group session with MUSIG students on 'An Approach to Cardiac Tamponade'. Using innovative 3D printed modelling and ballistic gel phantoms to simulate pericardial effusion and to train pericardiocentesis.
• Undergraduate trainee, 2018, Claudele Brault. Small group Session of MUSIG students, assessing the impact of a peer-led teaching and simulation workshop on pelvic POCUS. (Poster presentation at 2018 World Congress of ultrasound in medical education. Salem, NC)
• Undergraduate trainee, 2018, Pouya Bandegi. Small group sessions and study protocol assessing the efficacy and knowledge retention of a new teaching workshop in ocular POCUS (Poster presentation at 2018 World Congress of ultrasound in medical education. Salem, NC)
• Undergraduate trainee, 2017, Felix Couture. Small group sessions and study protocol assessing the utility of a new teaching workshop in renal, bladder, and scrotal POCUS for undergraduate students (Poster presentation at 2017 World Congress of ultrasound in medical education. Montreal, Qc)

• Nov 2019, Mtl-Sono Conference, Montreal, Qc, Lung ultrasound and your patient with Dyspnea
• Emergency Medicine Rounds, Nov 2009: Advanced Cardiac EDE, Feb 2011: Thoracic Ultrasound and Dyspnea, Sept 2013: Twitter and Social Media in Emergency Medicine Education, Feb 2014: EM POCUS Literature Review: The best of 2013, July, 2014: MSK POCUS Fractures, Feb 2015: MSK POCUS - Joint Effusions, Apr 2015: MSK POCUS - Shoulder POCUS, Dec 2016: Small Bowel Obstruction POCUS, Mar 2017: LV Function POCUS, Apr 2017: Diastology POCUS, July 2017: Twitter and Social Media in Emergency Medicine Education, Nov 2017: Renal/bladder POCUS, Feb 2018: Pelvic POCUS, Mar 2018: DVT POCUS, Apr 2018: Lung POCUS, Oct 2018: SBO POCUS, Nov 2018: Cardiac Valvulopathy, Feb 2019: B-lines and Lung POCUS, May 2019: Right Ventricle and pulmonary hypertension, Aug 2019: POCUS and your patient with Dyspnea, July 2020: POCUS in the COVID patient, Sept, 202: Ultrasound guided Erector Spinae Block, Aug 2021: LV and RV Basics, Nov 2022: Thoracic Ultrasound, Sept 2023: Shoulder POCUS
• June 2019, American Society of Echocardiography Annual meeting, Portland, Oregon, Lung Point of Care Ultrasound for the Cardiologist
• October 2013, Emergency Medicine Grand Rounds, Doha, Qatar, The use of Twitter and Social Media in Emergency Medicine Education
• June 2011, CAEP 2011 Annual Conference, St. Johns, NFLD, Harnessing the Power of the internet for bedside teaching
• May 2011, 2011 Society for Academic Emergency Medicine Conference, Phoenix, AZ, Harnessing the Power of the internet for bedside teaching
• June 2010, CAEP 2010 Annual Conference, Montreal, Qc, The use of bedside ultrasound to diagnose DVT in the Emergency Department

• 2019-present, jghedprotocols website
• 2018-present, Emergency Department, Jewish General Hospital: ED Point of care Ultrasound Q/A director: 50 hrs/year. I review the quality of image acquisition and clinical interpretation of faculty performing core and advanced POCUS. I provide feedback to individuals regarding their accuracy of interpretation. I am also involved in reviewing all M+M cases that may involve POCUS
• 2017-Present, Emergency Department, Jewish General Hospital: ED lead in the Physician Order Sets (POS) deployment: 50 hrs/year. Helped develop POS based on best practices (and Choosing Wisely principles) to harmonize delivery of emergency care in the ED. These included management of at least 20 common ED diagnoses. Also helped create decision trees to use clinical decision rules to assist in the ordering of advanced imaging.
• 2015-Present, Emergency Department, Jewish General Hospital: Monthly housestaff scheduling: 50 hrs/year. Responsible for creating and reviewing the monthly shift schedules of students, residents, and fellows rotating in the ED

• 2018- Present, JGH ED GesPhar implementation
• 2019, JGH Emergency Department Electronic Requisitions Committee: Physician lead in ED
• 2016-2018, Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians: CAEP Emergency Ultrasound Committee. Working Group committee member
• 2018-2019, American Society of Echo (ASE) Task Force creating White paper on 'Guidance for Echocardiography Laboratories Participating in Cardiac POCUS and Critical Care Echocardiography Training' (2018-2019)
• 2016-2017, Jewish General Hospital IT Steering Committee. ED Committee member
• 2014-2016, Canadian Point of Care Ultrasound Society (CPoCUS) Advanced Applications (AdApps) Committee member

• Canadian Point of Care Ultrasound Society
• Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians
• Association des médecins d'urgence du Quebec

• Attitudes of Canadian general surgery staff and residents towards point-of-care ultrasound, Alhabboubi M, Chugtai T, Liberman S, Wong E, Turner J, Journal of Emergency Medicine, Trauma, and Acute Care, 2023, 4, 1-8
• Derivation and validation of a clinical decision rule to risk-stratify COVID-19 patients discharged from the emergency department: The CCEDRRN COVID discharge score, Brooks S, et al… Turner J, Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians Open, 2022, 3, 6, 1-11
• Diagnostic yield of screening for SARS-CoV-2 among patients admitted to hospital for alternate diagnoses: an observational cohort study, Davis P, et al… Turner J, BMJ Open, 2022, 12, e057852
• Development of the Canadian COVID-19 Emergency Department Rapid Response Network population-based registry: a methodology study, Hohl C, et al… Turner J, CMAJ Open, 2021, 9, 1, E261-E270
• Recommendations for Echocardiography Laboratories Participating in Cardiac Point of Care Cardiac Ultrasound (POCUS) and Critical Care Echocardiography Training: Report from the American Society of Echocardiography, Kirkpatrick, et al… Turner J, Journal of the Am Soc Echo, 2020, 33, 4, 409-422
• The Use of the Erector Spinae Plane Block to Decrease Pain and Opioid Consumption in the Emergency Department: A Literature Review, Abdelhamid K, El Hawary H, Turner J, Journal of Emerg Med, 2020, 58, 4, 603-609
• Recommendations for the use of point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) by emergency physicians in Canada, Lewis, D., Rang, L., Kim, D., Robichaud, L., Kwan, C., Pham, C., Turner J, . . . Olszynski, P., CJEM, 2019, 21, 6, 721-726
• Evaluation of an emergency department triage screening tool for suspected severe sepsis and septic shock, Patocka C, Turner J, Xue X, Segal E, J Health Care Qual, 2014, 36, 1, 52-61
• What ECG Diagnoses and/or Findings do residents in Emergency Medicine need to know?, Patocka C, Turner J, Wiseman J, CJEM, 2013, 14, (Supplement 1)
• Thoracic Ultrasound, Turner J, Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America, Thoracic Emergencies, 2012
• Delayed intrathyroidal hematoma causing respiratory distress after a seemingly benign fall: a case report, Chartier L, Turner J, International Journal of Emergency Medicine, 2010, 3, 4, 431-433
• Should survivors of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest be treated with hypothermia?, Lee CQT, Turner J, Lang, E, Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine - Journal Club, 2002, 4, 5, 344-347
• Homologous upregulation of sst2 somatostatin receptor expression in the rat arcuate nucleus in vivo, Tannenbaum GS, Turner J, Guo F, Videau C, Epelbaum J, Beaudet A, Neuroendocrinology, 2001, 74, 1, 33-42
• Subdivision of the Mitotic Cycle into Eleven Stages, on the Basis of the Chromosomal Changes Observed in Mouse Duodenal Crypt Cells Stained by the DNA-Specific Feulgin Reaction, El-Alfy M, Turner JP, Nadler NJ, Liu DF, Leblond CP, The Anatomical Record, 1994, 238, 289-296