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Briseida Mema

Staff Physician, PICU
Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids)
Country: Canada

Dr. Briseida Mema, MD, FRCPSC, MHPE, is a staff physician in the Department of Critical Care Medicine at SickKids Hospital and a Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Toronto. Dr. Mema is the Program Director for the Pediatric Critical Care Medicine Training Program at the University of Toronto and the Associate Chief of Education for Peri-Operative Services at Sick Kids. She has received several awards for teaching excellence as a trainee and faculty. She is a clinician educator, and her interests include teaching skills through simulation, transfer of learning from simulation to clinical context, and assessment. She is the Chair of a national Simulation event for all Pediatric Critical Care trainees TACTICS (Training and Assessment of Clinicians in Teams in Intensive Care through Simulation). She was the recipient of the University of Toronto Medical Humanities Education Grant in 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2023, and she leads a Medical Humanities curriculum for trainees and faculty in Intensive Care to support the lifelong journey of Professional Identity Transformation. She has facilitated close to 100 workshops on faculty development internationally, nationally and locally in topics od simulation, assessment and medical humanities.