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Resident Physician
University of Calgary
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Cody is completing his FRCP Emergency Medicine residency at the University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Concurrently, he is a MSc (Epidemiology) student within the Department of Community Health Sciences, and a Clinician-Investigator Fellowship Trainee. Early in his research career, Cody maintains a broad scope of research interests and continues to seek out opportunties to hone new skills. His primary focus so far has been researching special topics in the pre-hospital/basic life support resuscitation literature, including drowning, and foreign body airway obstruction interventions. He has experience working with primary data as well as systematic reviews, with a highlight being his recent involvement on the International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation (ILCOR) drowning working group. As part of this team, he helped produce updated Consensus on Science with Treatment Recommendations (CoSTRs) for the management of drowning-related cardiac arrests.
The abstract being presented at SAEM2022 represents his first adventure in the quality improvement and resource optimization fields. However, he already recognizes the important impact research in this area can have on the healthcare system and patients. He believes the data from his team's systematic review will serve as foundational information for emergency departments planning QI projects to improve their own CT usage, and will generate further hypotheses about why certain interventions are most impactful.