Allan Shefrin Md, FRCPC

Biography

Dr. Allan Shefrin joined the pediatric Emergency Department at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO) after completing his general pediatrics residency at the Alberta Children's Hospital in 2007 and his pediatric emergency medicine fellowship at British Columbia Children's Hospital in 2010. He was cross-appointed to the uOttawa Faculty of Medicine’s Department of Emergency Medicine in 2011. He is currently the division lead for point-of-care ultrasound and is actively involved in high-fidelity simulation teaching of fellows, residents and medical students. His clinical and research interests are the incorporation of point-of-care ultrasound into pediatric emergency care and teaching high-stakes procedures and clinical encounters using simulation.