If you haven’t heard of FOAMed, it’s time you did. Free, online, and social media driven medical education has not only gained popularity in recent years, it’s also started to get the recognition it deserves as a valid source of academic scholarship.

And that is in part due to leaders like Dr. Teresa Chan, one of the founding members of the METRIQ Study group. An emergency medicine physician by night, and a medical education pioneer by day, she has been researching and innovating in the digital medical education space. She is the Chief Strategic Officer for the CanadiEM digital community of practice. She is a Senior Advisor of the international Faculty Incubator program for the Academic Life in Emergency Medicine (ALiEM) group.

For ALiEM, she has also served on their Editorial Board and was a lead of the Medical Education in Cases Series. Dr. Chan is furthermore interested in developing medical education innovations (and evaluating them!). For instance, she has co-developed and is evaluating a serious game about emergency department flow called GridlockED. Follow her on Twitter at @TChanMD