Joel originally hails from sunny Medicine Hat, Alberta.  After completing medical school at University of Calgary, he underwent FRCPC emergency medicine training at University of Toronto, including a six month secondment as a retrieval registrar in Sydney Australia with the Ambulance Service of New South Wales.  Following his training he completed a six month rotation in the United Kingdom with London’s Air Ambulance.  Since 2015 he has worked as an emergency physician and trauma team leader at St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto, Ontario, and as a Transport Medicine Physician with Ornge.

 

 

Wayde Diamond: Critical Care Flight Paramedic

Wayde Diamond is a Critical Care Flight Paramedic and Field Educator with Ornge and a Fellowship Paramedic Lead based in the Toronto HEMS/land operations base. He has been involved in EMS since 1992 when he began his initial studies at Humber College in Etobicoke. After some time in the field he upgraded his paramedic credentials at the Center for Emergency Medicine in Pittsburgh  and then through the Sunnybrook Base Hospital program where he achieved certification as a CCP(F). Over the years Wayde has worked in land based 911, fixed-wing, HEMS, ground critical care transport and Emergency Department in many parts of Ontario as well as the Middle East.
Wayde is pursing his degree in Psychology at the University of Waterloo. His particular areas of interest are in high performance team dynamics and cognitive task management in high-stakes operations. 

Tara Williams 

Brad Baumber is a Critical Care Paramedic with Ornge, Ontario Canada’s Air Ambulance and Critical Care Program. For 15 years he’s projected himself on a commitment towards lifelong learning which actively encourages him on a pathway consisting of constant challenges. In 2007 he entered the private sector, combining his passion for the outdoors, with patient care and safety management systems. During his career, he has developed himself into an integral part of the safety management systems associated with complex, large scale multisport endurance events on a global level. Brad will be sharing with us his experience in the austere environment, and some of nuisance of remote access patient retrieval in some of the most diverse environments on the planet.