Sheila Turris, Nurse Practitioner

Sheila Turris is a Nurse Practitioner with a passion for emergency medicine and event medicine. In the last few years Sheila has had many opportunities to participate in the planning, execution, and evaluation of health-related services for special events (aka mass gatherings) both as a volunteer and as part of the medical direction team for Odyssey Medical, a national event services company. In terms of scholarship, Sheila is an adjunct professor within the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of British Columbia (UBC) and she is the co-lead of the Mass Gathering Medicine Interest Group at UBC. Sheila is privileged to participate in policy initiatives, to publish research that grows our knowledge base with regard to best practices for event medicine, and to support the next generation of health care professionals drawn from a wide variety of practice backgrounds.