Advanced Life Support Educator Program

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Contact us

Sandhya D'Souza,
ALS Program Manager
Email:
sandhya.dsouza
@sunnybrook.ca
Phone: 416-480-4943
Fax: 416-480-5325

ALS Program Office

Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
H-wing, 2nd floor
Room H-265
2075 Bayview Avenue
Toronto, Ontario
M4N 3M5

Established more than 30 years ago, Sunnybrook’s Advanced Life Support Educator program is one of the largest and most active programs of its kind in Canada.

We are proud to have hosted healthcare workers from across Canada, and also from more than 30 countries, including Australia, New Zealand, China, and the Caribbean.

We have been recognized by the Heart & Stroke Foundation as a model for other centres to follow and we take pride in our leadership role.

Why choose Sunnybrook?

Outstanding faculty with numerous awards for teaching excellence.

We are very proud of our interdisciplinary approach to team training and provision of cardiac arrest care that we started a decade ago.
Our leaders continually attend courses to ensure the quality of our instructor faculty and update them in teaching methods, delivery and the evolving use of simulators.

High-tech simulators and the latest equipment.

We continually update our equipment to ensure we are using the most up-to-date simulators and technologies.

1:6 instructor to participant ratio.

Instructor to participant ratio capped at 1:6, and is often lower (policy of the Heart & Stroke Foundation, and the American Heart Association).

Our programs

Learn about our affiliation with the University of Toronto »

Sunnybrook is fully affiliated with the University of Toronto.

We are proud of our ongoing ACLS, PALS, ATLS and Ultrasound Programs and strongly believe we provide the very best in continuing medical education.

All of the Sunnybrook ACLS courses taught by the Sunnybrook faculty receive the standard financial supports as provided by the University of Toronto Medical Education Dept. for its postgraduate trainees.

Our administrative staff »

Dr. Jordan Chenkin MD MEd FRCPC, Director, Advanced Life Support Educator Program
Sandhya D'Souza, Manager, ALS Educator Program
ACLS Educators Committee: Dr. Jordan Chenkin, Sandra Goldsworthy RN Educator, Rory O’Neill, Dr. Francis Sem, Dr. Rob Simard
Dr. Jordan Chenkin, ACLS Lead
Dr. Jay Dahman and Mark Cameron, Paramedic III (F) B.HSc., Associate Director, Clinical Simulation, PALS Lead
Dr. Lorraine Tremblay, MD PhD FRCSC FACS, ATLS Lead
Dr. Rob Simard, u.STAR Lead