Welcome to RiM 2012• Art Slutsky: VP Research, St Michael’s Hospital• Laurie Morrison: Director, CPRS; Chair, RiM 2012

• Ori Rotstein: Chief, Surgery St Michael’s Hospital; Core Committee Member, CPRSAndrew Baker: Chief, Critical Care, St Michael’s Hospital; Co-Chair, RiM 2012

Photography by Andy Brooks

At the coal face: Organizers Andrea

Meeson and Catherine Chow

The Sharron McLeod Fauxtet: Sharron McLeod, Kevin Baker, Mark Hundevad and George Koller entertain at the RiM reception at Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St Michael’s Hospital on May 2

Launching in style

Elders and newbies: RiM was attended by the more and less experienced.

Clockwise from top: Young Investigator Dr Timothy Chan with graduate students Matthew Common and Jason Buick; Young Investigator Dr Jestin Carlson and Senior Scientist Dr Henry Wang; Investigator Dr Damon Scales, Young Investigator Dr Natalie Wong and Professor Judith Finn

They came from near and far…

Veteran paramedic Eric Barton, who drove 12 hours from Sault St Marie to attend, chats with a group of young grad students from the University of Western Ontario in London

Ruchika Husa, Dorothy Scyoc and Ruth Chappell flew in from University of California San Diego

PhD student Maude St-Onge and Post-Doc Fellow Valeria Rac from the University of Toronto

…and farthest Down Under

Special guest Professor Judith Finn joined us all the way from Perth, Western Australia

…further from the Great White North…

Special guest Dr Peter Brindley flew in from Edmonton, Alberta

and were introduced to something completely different…a PECHA KUCHA

a pecha-what-what????A Pecha Kucha is a presentation format that makes your talk concise, visually interesting and keeps thing moving at a rapid pace.

It draws its name from the Japanese term for the sound of 'chit chat'.It is based on a simple idea: you (the presenter) narrate your idea/topic through 20 images on 20 slides,

which advance automatically every 20 seconds.In keeping with the RiM objective to take our science to new levels, the Pecha Kucha was the required format for all presentations!

Young Investigator Dr Timothy Chan from the University of Toronto Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering makes it look like child’s play

Dr Steve Lin, a graduate student enrolled in the Collaborative Program, introduces the audience to

the art of Pecha Kucha on the fly

The “Pechakuchistas” (scientific term for ‘not your average presenter’)

…and then to the art of What’s My Thing

or “putting the Pecha Kucha in motion” (with Grand Master, Dr Ori Rotstein)…

Dr Ori Rotstein, seen here putting young scientist, Dr Andrew Ramadeen, to the test

…and his trusted apprentices

…. setting the rules for graduate student presenters Aaron Orkin and Pamela Leece from University of Toronto

Dr Damon Scales

… inspiring the crowd from the front of house

Dr Steve Brooks

And soon everyone was doin’ the Pecha Kucha

Janice Tijssen, a young investigator from the Hospital

for Sick Children, Toronto

Dr Barto Nascimento, a young surgical scientist from

Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto

Dr Daniel Davis, Clinician Scientist from University of California, San Diego

So, picture this...

Dr Natalie Wong, a young investigator from St Michael’s Hospital, Toronto

Dr Steve Brooks, Clinician Scientist from Queens University, Kingston

Jason Buick, a Masters candidate and CPRS student from University of

Toronto

Presenting…. in six-minute style

Dr Jestin Carlson, a young investigator from the University of

Pittsburgh, Department of Emergency Medicine

Dr Afrothite Kotsakis, a young investigator from the Hospital

for Sick Children, Toronto

Dr Sheldon “Pecha” Cheskes from the Sunnybrook Centre for Prehospital Medicine, Toronto

Dr Aaron Orkin, a Masters candidate in Public Health and CPRS student from University of Toronto

…and then out came Les Provocateurs

Clockwise from top: Dr Art Slutsky, St Michael’s Hospital; Dr Katie Dainty, Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute; Dr Janet Parsons, St Michael’s Hospital; Dr David Wilson, University of Pittsburgh

et plus provocateurs

Dr Henry Wang, a Clinician Scientist from the University of Alabama, Birmingham

Dr Anne-Marie Guerguerian, a scientist from the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto

Dr Mo Daya, a Clinician Scientist from University of Texas Medical Centre

Ms Chicka Nashiyama, a Japanese PhD student, studying at the University of

Washington

followed by our Distinguished Panelists

From left: Anne-Marie Guerguerian, Peter Brindley, Ahamed Idris, Arthur Slutsky, Greg Hare, David Wilson,

James Menegazzi

The Feynman Panel of Thinkers

From left: Ori Rotstein, Janet Parsons, Paul Dorian, Judith Finn, Peter Brindley, Daniel Davis, Andrew Baker

The Tutu Panel on Collaboration

A networking time was had by all…

….it was a meeting of minds indeed!

Thank You!

•See you again at

•Rim 2014