Dr. Amanda Collier is an Assistant Professor and EM physician in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Queen’s University.
She received her MD from Memorial University of Newfoundland, and completed her Emergency Medicine training at the University of Ottawa. She holds a Diploma in Tropical Medicine from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and is completing an MPH at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. In 2017, she was the inaugural fellow in Global Emergency Medicine at Queen’s University, the only fellowship of its kind in Canada.
Dr. Collier has worked clinically or in a visiting professor role in Tanzania, South Africa, Dominica, Haiti, Bangladesh and Ethiopia. Her main areas of interest include health care in complex humanitarian emergencies and the development of emergency medicine education and training around the world. She is the EM lead for a capacity building and educational collaboration between Queen’s University and Haramaya University in Harar, Ethiopia. She is also interested in advancing global emergency medicine as a subspecialty within Canada through increased collaboration across the country and currently chairs the CAEP Global EM committee.