Dr. Alun Ackery

Alun is currently the Deputy Chief of the Emergency Medicine and the Co-Medical Director of Information and Technology at St. Michael’s Hospital, Unity Health Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Alun has developed an interest in protecting front line health care workers with knowledge translation technology initiatives and has an interest in pre-hospital medicine, working as a transport physician at Ornge, Ontario’s Air Ambulance service. He completed his MD and MSc at the University of Toronto and continues as an Assistant Professor for the Department of Medicine, Division of Emergency Medicine. Alun has done extensive research on a variety topics including injury prevention, trauma, and pre-hospital care. Alun hopes to make a global impact using innovative technologies to better protect front-line workers from the many infectious epidemics that may end up coming to our emergency department front doors.