Membership

Fahad Alam MD MEd
Assistant Professor, Department of Anesthesia

Dr. Alam obtained his Doctor of Medicine degree at McMaster University, completed his residency at the University of Toronto, and has been a staff anesthesiologist at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre since 2014. As a resident he took time away to do a master’s degree in medical education through correspondence. Simultaneously, he also completed a fellowship at the Wilson Centre for Research in Medical Education and was part of the Clinician Investigator Program at the University of Toronto. Through these three avenues he worked with leading medical education researchers from all over the globe.

Dr. Alam is a Scientist at Sunnybrook Research Institute and the Director of Research at the Sunnybrook Simulation Centre. His research interests include medical education, technology enhanced learning, simulation, eLearning, and cognitive learning theories.

Ahmed Al-Awamer, MBBS, MHSc (Bioethics), CCFP(PC), FCFP, FRCPC
Director, UHN Postgraduate Medical Education
Staff Physician, Division of Palliative Care, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
Associate Professor, Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Toronto
Education Investigator 2, The Institute for Education Research (TIER) at UHN

Dr. Al-Awamer is an Associate Professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Toronto. He is a family physician, Royal College certified palliative medicine specialist and award-winning educator at Princess Margaret Cancer Center in Toronto, Canada. After completing his medical degree, Dr. Al-Awamer obtained a Master of Health Science (MHSc) degree in bioethics from the University of Toronto. In his various roles, Dr. Al-Awamer is the Director of Postgraduate Medical Education at University Health Network, overseeing over 1500 medical residents and 850 fellows rotating at UHN annually. He is the previous Co-Director of the Palliative Medicine Clinical Fellowship and previous Education Lead at the Princess Margret Cancer Centre's Palliative Care Division. He led the Curriculum Subcommittee at the Royal College Palliative Medicine Residency Program and DFCM's Palliative Care Enhanced Skills Program 2017-19. Dr. Al-Awamer cofounded many impactful educational programs, including the Transitioning Program for International Fellows, the Bridging Program for Palliative Medicine Fellows, and the Palliative Medicine Clinical Fellowship Program at the University of Toronto. He received multiple awards for his efforts in postgraduate education, including the U of T Faculty of Medicine Excellence in Postgraduate Medical Education, Innovation and Development. In addition to his interest in medical education, Dr. Al-Awamer has active initiatives in research and education in ethics and palliative care, and supporting internationally educated physicians' learning.

Michael Anderson MD, MSc, FRCSC
Faculty, Department of Surgery, University of Toronto
Strategic Lead, Indigenous Health Program, University Health Network

Dr. Michael Anderson is part of the urban Indigenous community in Tkaronto/Toronto. He is Mohawk (Bear Clan) and mixed European with family roots in Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory. He practices surgical oncology and palliative care medicine and is the Strategic Lead for Indigenous Health at the University Health Network. He previously served as an Indigenous Cancer Lead and a Surgical Oncology Lead at Cancer Care Ontario. At the Waakebiness Institute for Indigenous Health in the Dalla Lana School of Public Health (U of T), he is a PhD candidate and senior researcher with interests in Indigenous epistemologies, Indigenous approaches to implementation science, ethical Indigenous community-healthcare research partnerships, and Indigenous conceptualizations of death and dying. Dr. Anderson obtained his medical degree from Queen’s University, and pursued a Master of Science in medical sciences at the University of Toronto. He is certified by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada in both the clinician investigator program and FRCSC, and is an ICHA physician, presently working as part of the Indigenous Health Program team and the UHN Stabilization Centre.

Tavis Apramian MD PhD
Assistant Professor & Clinician-Investigator, Department of Family & Community Medicine
Scientist, Office of Education Scholarship 
Palliative Care Physician, St. Michael's Hospital
Palliative Care Physician & Medical Research Lead, Kensington Hospice

Dr. Apramian is clinician-investigator in medical education, medical humanities, and palliative care. He completed an MA (English) at Carleton, an MSc (Narrative Medicine) at Columbia, an MD/PhD (Health Professional Education) at Western, Family Medicine residency at McMaster, and a fellowship in Palliative Care at the University of Toronto. Tavis is an assistant professor in the Department of Family & Community Medicine (DFCM) and a Scientist in the DFCM’s Office of Education Scholarship. His research interests include primary palliative care education, workplace-based education, and end-of-life care. More specifically, his current program of research explores the role of advance care planning in primary care and support for family medicine residents helping patients navigate medical care at the end of life.

Lindsay Baker MEd BEd
Scientist, Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St. Michael’s Hospital
Lead Educator-Researcher, Centre for Faculty Development, UofT at St. Michael’s Hospital
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry

Lindsay Baker is the Lead Educator-Researcher at the Centre for Faculty Development (CFD). She focuses on purposeful integration of her education and qualitative research expertise, demonstrated through her work developing CFD programs, delivering invited educational workshops, and consulting on and supporting scholarship projects within and beyond the local health professions education community. Lindsay’s teaching focuses on alignment and integration of paradigms in education, ethically important moments in education scholarship, and critical pedagogies. Lindsay’s main research interest is in using a qualitative approach, with a lens of power, to examine the boundaries and relations between disciplines, professions, and knowledge communities. Without critically thinking about issues of power and appreciating the complexity of boundaries and relations between groups of people, all our efforts to merge different communities and concepts together will only continue to perpetuate the status quo. By explicating the boundaries between knowledge communities, Lindsay’s work raises questions about long-held assumptions. These questions are necessary if we are to aim for actual change through movements like IPE, competency-based education, and interdisciplinary research.

Danielle Bentley BSc BPHE MSc PhD 
Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, Div. of Anatomy, Department of Surgery, University of Toronto
Education Investigator, The Institute for Education Research (TIER), University Health Network

Dr. Danielle Bentley is an Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream in the Division of Anatomy at the University of Toronto. She holds a PhD from the University of Toronto and a MSc in Anatomical Sciences from Queen's University. She teaches courses in gross anatomy and embryology to undergraduate, graduate, and medical students across the University of Toronto.

Dr. Bentley leads an active program of research in anatomy education. The overarching objectives of her program are to enhance student learning through 1) evidence-based in-class approaches to teaching, 2) meaningful student assessments, and 3) tailored course curriculum informed by professional relevance.

Suze G. Berkhout MD PhD FRCPC
Clinician-Investigator, UHN Centre for Mental Health and
Toronto General Hospital Research Institute
Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto
Advisory Board Member, Health Arts and Humanities Program, University of Toronto

Dr. Suze Berkhout is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto, and a clinician-investigator and inpatient psychiatrist within the University Health Network. She completed a combined MD/PhD (UBC) in Experimental Medicine, with an area of specialization in feminist philosophy. Her works sits at the intersections of feminist philosophy, feminist science and technology studies, and critical qualitative research methodologies. At a broad level, she is interested in exploring questions of how dimensions of self and social identity are shaped and embodied within medical and psychiatric practices, the implications of this for the production of biomedical knowledge, and how critical and arts-based methodologies may produce other ways of knowing/being. She has three major projects currently, in various stages of development or completion: (1) Feminist Materialist Interjections into Placebo and Nocebo Studies; (2) Psychosis Narratives Project; (3) Frictions of Futurity and Cure in Transplant Medicine. Within these projects, she examines implications of her findings for medical education and is involved in developing novel curriculum tools to enhance the mobilization of arts and humanities ways of knowing within medical training.

Zia Bismilla MD MEd FRCPC
Assistant Professor, Department of Paediatrics

Dr. Bismilla is an Academic General Pediatrician and Hospitalist at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, ON. She completed her pediatric residency and general academic pediatric fellowship training at the University of Toronto. She also completed a fellowship in Medical Education Research at the Wilson Center, University of Toronto and received a Masters in Education from the University of Toronto/Ontario Institute for Studies in Education in 2008. Dr. Bismilla’s academic focus is on postgraduate medical education and assessment. Specific interests include simulation and its role in both teaching and assessment in medicine, resident sleep, workload and quality of life, and the study and implementation of strategies to improve handoffs of patient care. 

Risa Bordman MD CCFP (PC) FRCP
Family Physician North York General Hospital
Faculty Development Program Lead, Office of Education Scholarship
Co-Director Essence Course
Family & Community Medicine
Temerty Faculty of Medicine University of Toronto

Dr. Risa Bordman is an Associate Professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine (DFCM). She joined the Office of Education Scholarship at the DFCM in 2016 as the Faculty Development Lead and continues in that role. She is co-director of the Essence course, a 1 year longitudinal program that helps faculty to create and pursue their own education scholarship project. She is a community-based family physician in suburban Toronto. Her areas of interest are Faculty Development, supporting Undergraduate and Postgraduate learners, using technology in teaching and innovative curriculum delivery methods.

Kathy Boutis, MD FRCPC MSc
Staff Emergency Physician, Division of Emergency Medicine
ImageSim, Academic Director
Vice-Chair, Research Ethics Board,
Senior Associate Scientist, Research Institute, The Hospital for Sick Children
Professor of Pediatrics, University of Toronto

Dr. Kathy Boutis completed her medical school at the University of Toronto and completed her residency in pediatrics and fellowship in pediatric emergency medicine at Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard University. She joined the Department of Pediatrics at the Hospital for Sick Children as an Emergency Physician and Clinician Investigator. Dr. Boutis has become an internationally recognized thought leader in pediatric emergency medicine whose research on musculoskeletal injuries has challenged dogma is transforming practice. She also links her core research area to other key areas in emergency medicine - child abuse, radiation exposure, and medical images. She is also the academic director of ImageSim, an innovative education and research platform that uses deliberate practice and simulation to teach health care providers how to interpret medical images. The research goals of this program are to better understand how visual diagnosis expertise develops to achieve mastery learning. Her work has also been recognized in research awards, most notably the University of Toronto Physician Researcher Award for Scientific Accomplishments and the AFMC John Ruedy Award for Innovation in Medical Education. Importantly, Dr. Boutis’ accomplishments do not stop with publication and much of her research has found its place in clinical and education practice. 

Rodrigo Cavalcanti MD MSc FRCPC
Associate Professor, Department of Medicine
Director, The HoPingKong Centre
Staff Physician, Division of General Internal Medicine, Toronto Western Hospital, UHN

Dr. Rodrigo Cavalcanti is Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Toronto. He completed his MD and MSc at the University of Toronto, and joined the Division of General Internal Medicine at Toronto Western Hospital, UHN in 2002. He’s Director of the HoPingKong Centre, UHN, and previous Director of the General Internal Medicine Training Program, UofT.

Dr. Cavalcanti is a CanMEDS Clinician Educator at the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. Since 2010, he has been a member of the planning board for the International Conference on Residency Education, and track-chair for the conference’s Clinician Educator Working Dinner.

His broad research interests include simulation, clinical reasoning, assessment of trainee competence, and applications of cognitive load theory in medical education. His work has been disseminated through presentations at national and international conferences and publications in top tier medical education journals. His academic contributions have been recognized by the Canadian Association for Medical Education (CAME) through the 2013 Meridith Marks New Educator Award, and the 2012 Critics’ Choice Award from the Association for the Study of Medical Education (ASME). 

Andrea Charise BASc MA PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Health & Society, University of Toronto Scarborough
Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto

In addition to receiving recognition for her teaching and scholarship in literature (including the 2014 John Charles Polanyi Prize for Literature), Dr. Charise has almost twenty years of work experience as a medical researcher (clinical epidemiology, geriatrics). Her award-winning research is published in a wide range of peer-reviewed venues including Advances in Health Science Education, Health Expectations, Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, Academic Medicine, Journal of Medical Humanities, Essays in Romanticism, Victorian Studies, Age, Culture, Humanities: An Interdisciplinary Journal, and English Literary History (ELH).

Her first book, The Aesthetics of Senescence: Aging, Population, and the Nineteenth-Century British Novel was published by SUNY Press in January 2020 (hardcover; paperback by University of Regina Press). Her study investigates of the impact of the 19th-century “invention” of population on broader cultural conceptualizations of older age—not only in the historical context of the nineteenth century, but in our own aging-averse moment as well. She is editor, along with Paul Crawford and Brian Brown, of the Routledge Companion to Health Humanities (450 pages, March 2020). She co-edits the recently established academic monograph series "Studies in Health Humanities" at Lehigh University Press.

She is the Principal Investigator of SCOPE: The Health Humanities Learning Lab, an arts- and humanities-based research and education initiative. SCOPE’s interdisciplinary team and research projects engage the skills traditionally associated with humanities disciplines—including close reading, oral and written communication, visual literacy, and narrative analysis—as a vital complement to conventional disciplinary approaches to health knowledge, research, and learning. She is the founding program supervisor of Canada’s first undergraduate program in Health Humanities; in April 2016 she was named “Professor of the Year” (Arts, Literature, and Language) by the UTSC student journal, The Underground, and in June 2019 she received one of three campus-wide UTSC Teaching Awards at the Assistant Professor level. In Spring 2020 she received the University of Toronto’s Early Career Teaching Award, which recognizes faculty members who demonstrate an exceptional commitment to student learning, pedagogical engagement, and teaching innovation.

Dr. Charise’s scholarship has been supported by the Connaught Foundation, The Jackman Humanities Institute, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR). She is the recipient and principal investigator of a $528,000 grant (2020) to establish a Research Cluster of Scholarly Prominence at the University of Toronto Scarborough, which investigates the intersections of community-engaged arts, health, and social wellness.

Dr. Charise welcomes inquiries from students and colleagues interested in the interdisciplinary conceptualization of health and illness, especially arts- and humanities-based methods, theory, and creative practices (e.g., literature, film, visual arts). She can be found online at www.andreacharise.com or on Twitter as @AndreaCharise.

Tulin Cil MD MEd FRCSC
Associate Professor, Department of Surgery

Dr. Cil graduated from the University of Western Ontario (UWO)’s medical school in 2000 and received her general surgery training at the University of Toronto (U of T) and UWO between 2000 and 2005. She became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada in 2005. After completing her general surgery training, she undertook research studies as a graduate student in medical education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (at U of T) and received a master’s degree in education in 2008. She also completed a clinical fellowship in breast surgical oncology at U of T during this period. Dr. Cil began her general surgery staff appointment at Women’s College Hospital and the University Health Network in 2008.

Her education research activity focus in the areas of surgical skills development, the use of social media in surgical education and gender issues in surgery. As the site lead for post-graduate surgical education at Women's College Hospital, she continues to develop the competency based objectives for an ambulatory care rotation in general surgery.

Allison Crawford MD PhD FRCPC
Associate Chief, Outreach and Telepsychiatry
Professor, Department of Psychiatry Faculty of Medicine

Dr. Allison Crawford is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, and has adjunct appointments in the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, and the Department of English at the University of Toronto. Dr. Crawford’s clinical and administrative work centers around her role as Associate Chief of Outreach and Telemental Health at CAMH, and as co-Chair of both ECHO Ontario, and ECHO Ontario Mental Health, a televideo-based education program. Much of her work also relates to Indigenous health, and she has extensive experience working in Inuit communities in Canada, and internationally through the Arctic Council. Her research is in the areas of: health equity; digital health; and patient- and community-oriented research. She also does research in suicide prevention and early childhood adversity. The primary research methodologies she employs are qualitative methods, including arts-based methods, visual methods, and Indigenous research methods. She is interested in theoretical approaches drawn from postcolonial theory, feminist science and technology studies, and new materialism. Dr. Crawford is involved in teaching medical and health professions students in the use of arts-based methods, including a course at the Art Gallery of Ontario. She is also Editor-in-Chief of the journal Ars Medica: A Journal of Medicine, the Arts and Humanities (www.ars-medica.ca), and co-curator of The Body Electric (https://thebodyelectric-lecorpselectrique.ca), an international digital arts show sponsored by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, cocurated with Dr. Lisa Richardson. 

Laura Dempster BSc D(DH) MSc PhD
Associate Professor, Faculty of Dentistry

Dr. Dempster is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Dentistry, University of Toronto, and the inaugural holder of the Kamienski Professorship in Dental Education Research. She received her PhD from the Institute of Medical Science, University of Toronto; MSc from the Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University; and BSc in Dentistry (Dental Hygiene) from the Faculty of Dentistry, University of Toronto. The Dental Research Institute at the Faculty of Dentistry recently established a new research theme: Education Research in Dental and Related Sciences, whose scope comprises interests on a broad range of topics that cross health disciplines. Laura is responsible for advancing this new theme and is looking forward to collaborating with members of the Wilson Centre and other interested scientists on issues related to health professions education. Her research interests lie in the relationship between patient and clinician variables in dental anxiety, the characterization of those variables in student clinicians, and the diversity between novice and expert clinicians in the diagnosis, management, and treatment of dental anxiety. Her research also focuses on teaching, learning, and assessment of communication and other related non-technical skills.

Zachary Feilchenfeld MD MHPE FRCPC
Staff Physician, Division of General Internal Medicine, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto

Dr. Feilchenfeld completed his medical training in General Internal Medicine at the University of Toronto in 2016. The same year, he finished a Masters in Health Professions Education at Maastricht University in the Netherlands, with local research supervision from Wilson Centre Scientists Drs. Ayelet Kuper and Cynthia Whitehead. His thesis work examined the discursive production of ultrasound as an emergent medical education technology. Dr. Feilchenfeld’s focus is promoting compassion and kindness in medical education. His current research interest in pursuit of this goal is to examine discourses around bedside teaching in modern medical education primarily using qualitative textual analysis. He is also involved in curriculum development, assessment, administration, and teaching in internal medicine at the undergraduate, residency, and fellowship levels.

Milena Forte MD, CCFP, FCFP
Maternity Care Lead, Dept of Family and Community Medicine, U of T
Postgraduate Lead, Office of Education Scholarship, Dept of Family and Community Medicine, U of
Family Physician and Associate Professor, Mount Sinai Hospital, Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Toronto

Dr. Milena Forte is a family physician at Mount Sinai Hospital and an Associate Professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine (DFCM). She earned her medical degree at the University of Western Ontario Medical School and completed her family medicine training at McMaster University. She subsequently completed a Women’s Health Scholar Fellowship at the University of Toronto. Milena is currently the Postgraduate Lead for the Office of Education Scholarship and the Maternity Care Lead for the DFCM.

She is passionate about maternal newborn care and medical education, combining these areas in her work when she can. She has taught hundreds of residents and medical students since joining our faculty in 2002. Her areas of scholarship and research include professional identity formation, entrustment, and maternity care education. She is the creator and lead editor of the recently published anthology entitled: Full Circle, A Collection of Family Medicine Birth Stories.

Risa Freeman MD MEd CCFP FCFP
Vice-Chair, Education and Scholarship, Dept. of Family and Community Medicine
Director, Office of Education Scholarship, Dept. of Family and Community Medicine
Associate Professor, Dept. of Family and Community Medicine

 Dr. Freeman is Vice-Chair Education and Scholarship, and Director of The Office of Education Scholarship at the Department of Family and Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto. She received her MD degree from McMaster University and completed postgraduate training, an academic fellowship in Family Medicine and a Masters of Education at the University of Toronto. Her academic and scholarly work focuses on medical education curricula and innovation, student and faculty learning strategies, evaluation and assessment, and faculty development and leadership. Dr. Freeman’s community-based clinical practice is affiliated with North York General Hospital where she has been a member of the active staff since 1990. She teaches at the undergraduate, graduate, postgraduate and continuing professional and interprofessional development levels in her clinical office and at the University of Toronto.

Meredith Giuliani MBBS MEd PhD FRCPC
Associate Dean, Postgraduate Medical Education (January 1, 2022)
Associate Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Toronto
Director of Education, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre

Dr. Meredith Giuliani is an Associate Professor in the Department of Radiation Oncology at the University of Toronto (UT DRO) and a radiation oncologist and Director of Education at Princess Margaret Cancer Centre at UHN. Dr. Giuliani received her MBBS qualification from the University of London, England and then completed her residency training at the University of Toronto. She received a MEd degree from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto and a PhD from the School of Health Professions Education at Maastricht University.

As Director of Education for Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Dr. Giuliani has led education strategic planning, formed international collaborations and has a reputation for delivering innovative programs. She has also been active on multiple local, provincial, and national associations, including as co-chair of the Education Council of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, chair of the Canadian Association of Radiation Oncology Education Committee and the Annual Scientific Meeting Committee and the education lead for the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC) TNM Project among others. She is a researcher at the Wilson Centre and an investigator at The Institute for Education Research at UHN. She is the author of numerous peer reviewed publications and known for her collaborative approach to education scholarship.

Dr. Giuliani is well known to Postgraduate Medical Education at Temerty Medicine. She is a member of the PGME Internal Review Committee, a past member of the Board of Examiners, and a current member of the Faculty Council Appeals Committee. She is the Associate Program Director and the former Director of Undergraduate Education in UT DRO. Dr. Giuliani is a reviewer for the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada accreditation process. She is well positioned to support PGME learners, program directors and programs.

Susan Glover-Takahashi MA(Ed) PhD
Integrated Senior Scholar – Centre for Faculty Development & PostMD Education Lead, Faculty Development– CBME
Director, Education, Innovation & Research, PostMD Education
Associate Professor, Department of Family and Community Medicine
Associate Professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health

Dr. Glover-Takahashi has both a Masters and a Doctorate degree in Education – with a focus on curriculum planning and performance assessment.

Sue is the Director of Education, Innovation & Research in the Postgraduate Medical Education office at the University of Toronto, providing support and oversight to curriculum development and program accreditation for almost 80 residency programs. She is the Lead for Faculty Development for the implementation of Competency By Design at the University of Toronto and the Integrated Senior Scholar for the Centre for Faculty Development and PostMD Education at the University of Toronto.

Dr. Glover-Takahashi is an Associate Professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine and is also cross-appointed as an Associate Professor in the Dalla Lana School of Public Health and the School of Graduate Studies.

Her areas of research and practice include studying performance, competence and faculty development in health and medical professionals; designing curriculum programs and systems to support competence; competency assessment, enhancing the culture of feedback, online learning, and program evaluation.

Lesley Gotlib Conn MA PhD
Associate Scientist, Evaluative Clinical Sciences, Sunnybrook Research Institute
Adjunct Professor, Department of Anthropology and Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto
Associate Director, Education Research Unit, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre

Lesley is a medical anthropologist and holds an embedded scientist position in the trauma research program at Sunnybrook. Her research uses anthropological research methods to study the hospital clinical and learning environment. Her academic research focuses on understanding the cultural and social contexts for healthcare improvements in the areas of interprofessional collaboration, communication, and teamwork. With expertise in ethnography, she has examined healthcare team communication in several clinical domains: general internal medicine, primary care, pediatrics, surgery and critical care. Her most recent focus is the improvement of inter-specialty team communication in surgery and critical care examining the role that specialty-specific power and knowledge play in negotiating high quality and safe patient care in the ICU. Her recent education research focuses on the learning experiences of surgical trainees related to quality improvement and caring for severely injured older adult patients.

Mark Hanson MD MEd FRCP(C)
Professor, Department of Psychiatry, UofT
Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist at the Hospital for Sick Children
Past MD Admissions and Student Finances Associate Dean/Director at UofT Faculty of Medicine

Medical education, scholarship and administration is the academic focus of Dr. Hanson’s career. In terms of scholarship, his early focus was Child and Adolescent Psychiatry medical student evaluation and recruitment. His focus has transitioned to medical school admissions with specific interest areas being admissions tool development and social responsibility. His medical education research grants and publications relate to these two areas of inquiry. He is a practicing Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist at the Hospital for Sick Children. His clinical focus relates to the psychiatric care of children with chronic medical and surgical conditions. Past Child and Adolescent Psychiatry administrative positions include Director of Education, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Program, Hospital for Sick Children and Director, Undergraduate Medical Education, Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto.

Ann M Heesters BEd BA (hons.) MA PhD
Senior Director of Clinical and Organizational Ethics, UHN
Education Investigator 2, TIER (The Institute for Education Research), UHN
Assistant Professor (Status Only), University of Toronto, Dalla Lana School of Public Health
Research Adjunct Professor, Michener Institute of Education at UHN

Ann Heesters is the Senior Director of Clinical and Organizational Ethics at the University Health Network and co-director of the capstone course for the MHSc at the University of Toronto’s Joint Centre for Bioethics. She has practiced for more than well over twenty years and established the ethics services at Atlantic Health Sciences Corporation (now part of New Brunswick’s Horizon Health Network) and The Ottawa Hospital. Ann has an abiding interest professionalizing the work of health care ethicists and was a founding member of PHEEP (Practicing Healthcare Ethicists Exploring Professionalization) and an early director of CAPHE-ACCESS (the Canadian Association of Practicing Healthcare Ethicists).

Ann is a former Research Ethics Board chair and her current interests include improving ethics processes for the evaluation of research and quality improvement initiatives. Ann’s current research focus is on understanding the implications of professionalization for applied healthcare ethicists including what this means in terms of scope of practice, role clarity and boundary work, and the obligations of ethicists to those they serve (the subject of her book, How Legal Theory Can Save the Life of Healthcare Ethics,https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-14035-8.). Ann is particularly excited by opportunities to collaborate with those with expertise in education and evaluation, and looks to a future where her field will have greater clarity of vision whilst embracing more diverse perspectives.

Lindsay Herzog MD CCFP
Lecturer, Department of Family and Community Medicine
Associate Faculty Lead, Portfolio, MD Program, University of Toronto
Program Co-Director, Education Scholar Enhanced Skills Program, Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Toronto

Dr. Lindsay Herzog is a lecturer in the Department of Family and Community Medicine (DFCM) and a family physician at Mount Sinai Hospital. She completed her family medicine residency at the University of Toronto and subsequently became the first resident to participate in the Education Scholar Enhanced Skills Program at the DFCM. Dr. Herzog is presently the Associate Faculty Lead for Portfolio in the MD Program at the University of Toronto and the Program Co-Director for the Education Scholar Enhanced Skills Program at the DFCM.

Her scholarly areas of interest focus on the transformative paradigm of education, dialogue, and person-centered care. Dr. Herzog is passionate about exploring the ways in which learning environments can encourage critical reflection and foster professional development. Through her roles and scholarship, she aims to equip future physicians with the ability to provide equitable and compassionate care.

Clare Hutchinson MD MHPE
Assistant Professor, Department of Paediatrics

As the Phase 3 lead for the Toronto Metropolitan University School of Medicine, Dr. Hutchinson is responsible for the design and implementation of the fourth year of undergraduate medical education at TMU.  She is the co-lead for Pediatric education at the North York General Hospital, focusing on curriculum and assessment for undergraduate and postgraduate learners.  She has previously held roles as the North York General Hospital physician lead for the University of Toronto Longitudinal Integrated Clerkship, and as the course director for the Transition to Clerkship and Transition to Residency courses.  

Csilla Kalocsai MPhil PhD
ACMS Professor in Education Research, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Scientist, Evaluative Clinical Sciences, Sunnybrook Research Institute
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto

Dr. Csilla Kalocsai is a cultural anthropologist and an education scientist, bringing social and critical theories, and ethnographic, narrative and participatory research methodologies into her work. Csilla’s evolving program of research has two current foci: 1) she explores how anthropological and critical theories can help us better understand service user involvement in health professions and service user/public education and research; and 2) she examines service user, public and health professions education in the era of overdose crisis. She is also interested in exploring the social life of concepts in health care and education, such as ‘therapeutic alliance’ in critical care, ‘co-production’ in mental health and addiction, and most currently, ’treatment resistance’ in psychiatry. Based on the implications of her research findings she collaborates with clinical educators, service users and other stakeholders to develop curriculum for health professional learners as well as for service users and their families.

Amit Kaushal, MD MScCH (HPTE) CCFP FRCPC CHS
Assistant Professor, University of Toronto
Associate Program Director, Nephrology Clinical Fellowships, University of Toronto
Staff Nephrologist, University Health Network

Dr. Kaushal graduated from medical school and Internal Medicine Residency at the University of Manitoba, followed by Nephrology and Hypertension Subspecialty training at the University of Toronto. He was the Eliot Phillipson Clinician Educator Training Program fellow at the University of Toronto from 2015-2017, where he completed a fellowship at the Wilson Centre for Research in Education and M.Sc. in Health Practitioner Teacher Education. He is currently a Clinician Teacher and the Education Site Coordinator for Nephrology at University Health Network, Associate Program Directory for the Nephrology Clinical Fellowship Program at University of Toronto, and Chair of the Canadian Society of Nephrology Education Committee. His educational focus is to develop curricula which prepare learners to adapt and innovate in order to successfully face new and difficult situations.

Anne Kawamura MD MHPE FRCPC
Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, University of Toronto
Clinician-Investigator, Bloorview Research Institute
Developmental Pediatrician, Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital

Dr. Anne Kawamura is an Associate Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Toronto and a clinician-investigator and developmental pediatrician at Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital.  She completed her MD degree at the University of Toronto and Pediatric and Developmental Pediatric residencies at the Hospital for Sick Children/Holland Bloorview, University of Toronto.  Dr. Kawamura is a graduate of the Education Scholars Program through the Centre for Faculty Development, University of Toronto and completed her Master’s of Health Professions Education at the University of Illinois in Chicago.  Her research program focuses on the development of adaptive expertise in communication and exploring how medical trainees learn to navigate difficult conversations with patients and families. 

Arno K. Kumagai MD
Professor and Vice Chair for Education, Department of Medicine
F.M. Hill Chair in Humanism Education, Women’s College Hospital

Dr. Kumagai is a full professor at the University of Toronto and Vice-Chair, Education, in the Department of Medicine. He also holds the F.M. Hill Chair in Humanism Education from Women’s College Hospital and the University of Toronto. Dr. Kumagai received his BA in comparative literature from U.C. Berkeley and his MD from UCLA School of Medicine.He completed a residency in internal medicine and an endocrine fellowship and postdoc at UCLA. Dr. Kumagai came to the University of Toronto from the University of Michigan Medical School where he was on faculty since 1996. An endocrinologist with expertise in the intensive management of type 1 diabetes mellitus, Dr. Kumagai is an internationally recognized educational scholar. After a career in bench research, Dr. Kumagai remarkably shifted his research interests from looking into the molecular mechanisms of diabetic complications to medical education.

Dr. Kumagai’s excellence in integration of humanism in medical education is internationally recognized. He is the recipient of numerous teaching awards, including the AAMC/Pfizer Award for Humanism in Medical Education, the Leonard Towe Award for Humanism in Medicine, the Kaiser Permanente Award for Teaching Excellence, and the University of Michigan’s Provost Innovative Teaching Prize and the University of Michigan’s Distinguished Leaders in Diversity Award.

Sylvia Langlois B.H.Sc (Occupational Therapy) M.Sc. (Epidemiology)
Associate Director, Academics
Centre for Advancing Collaborative Healthcare and Education
University of Toronto at University Health Network
Associate Professor, Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy
Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto

In her role as Associate Director, Academics, Sylvia Langlois is responsible for the development, implementation, and evaluation of the Interprofessional Education (IPE) curriculum for approximately 4500 health and social care profession students from 11 programs. The goal is to provide learning opportunities that develop students’ collaborative competencies for work in future teams. She is interested in exploring new approaches to teaching, including the role of Health, Arts, and Humanities, expanding roles of patient partners in education, and student co-creation and leadership. She has an interest in team competencies required for virtual teams. She also has an interest in realist evaluation approaches that explore mechanisms that enable or hinder acquiring competencies in specific contexts. She is a course instructor in Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy. Additionally, she is an

Education Investigator 2 (Teaching, Learning and Practice) at The Institute for Education Research, University Health Network  and has a cross-appointment with the Institute for Life Course and Aging, Factor Inwentash Faculty of Social Work, University of Toronto. As of 2023, she is the co-editor of the Journal of Research in Interprofessional Practice and Education. She is actively engaged as a member of the Steering Committee of Interprofessional Research.Global.

Marcus Law MD MBA MEd CCFP FCFP
Associate Professor, Family Medicine
Associate Dean, MD Program, Temerty Faculty of Medicine

Dr. Marcus Law is an Associate Professor of Family Medicine and the Associate Dean, MD Program at the Temerty Faculty of Medicine. At Temerty Medicine, he has taken on many roles including Academic Lead in Educational Technology, Director of Preclerkship Renewal, and most recently, Director of Foundations in the MD Program. In this role he has led the successful implementation and ongoing review of a new and innovative pre-clerkship curriculum.

Born and grown up in Hong Kong, Dr. Law immigrated to Canada with his family and settled in Toronto, where he completed an undergraduate Pharmacology degree. Dr. Law stayed in Toronto to complete his medical degree in 2000 and a Family Medicine residency at Michael Garron Hospital, where he went on to become the Director of Medical Education for 13 years. He also served as the Director of Technology-Enabled Learning at the Centre for Faculty Development in Toronto.

Dr. Law holds an MBA degree from the W.P. Carey School of Business and a Master of Education degree from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto.

At the national level, Dr. Law has been actively involved with the Canadian Association for Medical Education as their President-Elect. He was also a chief examiner and deputy registrar for the Medical Council of Canada.

Dr. Law’s academic work and research focus on translating our understanding of how medical students develop expertise into effective educational design and the implementation of theory-informed large-scale curricular redevelopment in medical schools.

Jana Lazor BSc.Phm MSc.Phm EdD FCSHP
Associate Professor, Department of Family & Community Medicine, UofT
Director of Faculty Development, MD Program, Faculty of Medicine, UofT
Associate Professor, Department of Family and Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto

Dr. Lazor is a pharmacist and healthcare educator. She has completed a Bachelors Science of Pharmacy, Masters of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Hospital Pharmacy Residency Program, and Doctor of Education in Higher Education, with a specialization in healthcare education and sub-specialty in patient education.

She is the Director of Faculty Development for the MD Program at the University of Toronto, overseeing the Office of Faculty Development that offers a wide range of faculty development resources and activities that are designed specifically to support faculty members across the St. George and Mississauga Campuses to help them to navigate their undergraduate teaching responsibilities.

Jana is an Associate Professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine and is also cross appointed as an Associate Professor in the Dalla Lana School of Public Health and the School of Graduate Studies.

Dr. Lazor has held different roles relating to Health Professions Educations across the education continuum from Entry to Practice, Advanced Practice, Professional Development and Faculty Development. Her current practice and scholarship focuses on the design and evaluation of learning-centered faculty development programs that support curriculum change, renewal, and innovation.

Ariel Lefkowitz, MD CM MEd
Staff Physician and Education Lead, Division of General Internal Medicine, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto

Ariel Lefkowitz completed medical school at McGill University and postgraduate training at the University of Toronto (U of T), and received his MEd from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) at U of T. He formally joined the Division of General Internal Medicine at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in 2021 as a staff physician and the education lead for the division. He is the founder and serves as the faculty advisor of the Near-Peer Mentorship program for the Internal Medicine residency program in Toronto. Drawing on his undergraduate degree in philosophy and his background in acting and theatre, his academic and scholarly interests include ethics, equity, communication, the application of humanities in medical education, and reimagining the standards of medical professionalism and the inclusion of patients in health professions education. In 2022, he was awarded the Dean A. L. Chute Silver Shovel Award, an award voted on by the graduating medical school class at the Temerty Faculty of Medicine to be given to a teacher exemplifying excellence in clinical teaching in the undergraduate medical program.

Karen Leslie MD MEd FRCP(C)
Professor of Paediatrics

Dr. Leslie is a staff paediatrician in the Division of Adolescent Medicine at the Hospital for Sick Children. She is a Professor of Paediatrics at the University of Toronto. Dr. Leslie received her MD from McMaster University, completed a residency in Paediatrics at Queens' University in Kingston, and then completed a fellowship in Adolescent Medicine at The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto. She obtained an MEd at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) in 2008.  She is past Director of the Centre for Faculty Development, and is currently involved in national and international initiatives in faculty development.  Her scholarly interests in education are in the areas of faculty development, career development and mentoring, and academic identity.

Kristina Lisk PhD
Assistant Director of Wilson Centre Scholars
Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, Division of Anatomy, Department of Surgery, University of Toronto
Education Investigator, The Institute for Education Research (TIER), University Health Network 

Dr. Kristina Lisk is the Assistant Director of Wilson Centre Scholars and an Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream in the Division of Anatomy at the University of Toronto. She holds a PhD in Rehabilitation Sciences from the University of Toronto and a MSc in Clinical Anatomy from Western University. During her PhD training, she completed a fellowship in health professions education at the Wilson Centre under the supervision of Dr. Nikki Woods. 

Dr. Lisk leads an active program of research in anatomy education which focuses on examining strategies to optimize learning of the anatomical sciences during integrated instruction and exploring the impact of innovative teaching tools on student learning.

Gianni R. Lorello  BSc MD MSc FRCPC
Staff Anesthesiologist: Toronto Western Hospital, University Health Network
Associate Professor, Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine
2SLGBTQIA+ Health Theme Lead, MD Program, University of Toronto

Dr. Lorello is a staff anesthesiologist at Toronto Western Hospital and an Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto who completed his residency in Anesthesiology – Clinician Investigator Program at the University of Toronto. He completed his Master’s under Dr. Ryan Brydges’ and Dr. Carol-anne Moulton’s supervision at The Wilson Centre through the Institute of Medical Sciences at the University of Toronto. Dr. Lorello served as the inaugural Director of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion for the Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine at the University of Toronto and the inaugural Chair of the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee at the Canadian Anesthesiologists' Society; he is currently a Clinician-Educator for the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada and the 2SLGBTQIA+ Health Theme Lead for the MD Program at the University of Toronto. Dr. Lorello is currently a Flex-Time PhD student under Dr. Ayelet Kuper's supervision through the Institute of Health Policy, Management, and Evaluation, University of Toronto, where he is studying critical social theory. Through national and international collaborations, Dr. Lorello’s research examines gender, sexuality, racial, and ethnic disparities within anesthesiology, and more broadly, in medicine. Specifically, Dr. Lorello aims at better understanding how a continuum model of gender shifts academic dialogue, avoiding the current polarization via gender binaries that leads to segregation and isolation rather than diversity and inclusion. He is interested in using an intersectional lens to better understand the everyday, local world of sex and gender minority physicians working within the operating room and the knowledges of and experiences with dominant performances of sex and gender with the intent to start illuminating and describing the ruling relations.

Seema Marwaha MD EdM FRCPC
Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine
Editor-in-chief, HealthyDebate.ca
Staff Physician, Division of General Internal Medicine, St. Michael’s Hospital, UHT

Dr. Seema Marwaha is a general internal medicine physician at St. Michael’s Hospital and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Toronto. She completed her Master’s in Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education with a specialization in technology and innovation. She also completed at Fellowship in Global Journalism and Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy.

Seema’s research is focused in two main areas. The first is healthcare storytelling and patient experience education, where she has experimented with using virtual reality to better communicate health experiences to learners. She is also part of the Canadian chapter of DiPEx International. Her second area of interest is in journalism, advocacy, and health communication. Designing media and content optimal for public consumption is a goal and interest of hers. She is the Editor-in-Chief of Healthy Debate (healthydebate.ca). Using it as a platform, she seeks to understand how medical content is created, accessed, and deemed credible to the user.

Seema is also a journalist and medical correspondent. She is a regular contributor to CBC, Chatelaine and has written for Post Media, the Canadian Press and Macleans, among others.

Sanjay Mehta MD MEd FRCPC ABP (PEM)
Staff Physician, Division of Pediatric Emergency Medicine
Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics
Project Director, Research Institute
Member, Centre for Ambulatory Care Education
Faculty, Interprofessional Applied Practical Teaching and Learning in the Health Professions
Academic Educator, Centre for Faculty Development, Hospital for Sick Children
Pediatrician, Kindercare Pediatrics

 Dr. Mehta studied medicine in Calgary, and completed Pediatrics, Emergency Medicine and a Masters of Education in Toronto. As an Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto, he splits time between the SickKids Emergency Department and Kindercare Pediatricskid-E-care. His research interests are in curriculum evaluation, faculty development, headaches and trauma. He has mentored and continues to teach countless trainees, and his interactive teaching style have garnered him numerous nominations and awards and allowed him to collaborate on various academic initiatives. In addition to many published chapters and articles, Sanjay has created various courses and online tools and maintains a dynamic social media presence.

Brenda Mori BScPT MSc PhD
Director of Clinical Education, Department of Physical Therapy, Faculty of Medicine, UofT
Professor, Teaching Stream, Department of Physical Therapy, Faculty of Medicine, UofT
Director, Education Scholars Program, Centre for Faculty Development, UofT at the Li Ka Shing International Healthcare Education Centre, St. Michael's Hospital

Dr. Mori is the Director of Clinical Education and Community Affairs at the Department of Physical Therapy at the University of Toronto and leads the clinical education curriculum for the Entry level MScPT degree program. She is a graduate of the Education Scholars Program (ESP) at the Centre for Faculty Development and is currently the Director of the ESP. Her scholarly interests are in the areas of faculty development, learner assessment as well as teaching and learning in the clinical environment.

Carol-anne Moulton MBBS PhD
Associate Professor & Staff Surgeon
Department of Surgery, University of Toronto
Medical Director for the TGH Operating Rooms

Carol-anne Moulton graduated from The University of Melbourne, Melbourne Australia in 1992 and completed general surgical training earning certification from the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons in 2001. She undertook several Fellowships following this: a Fellowship in Upper Gastrointestinal and Laparoscopic Surgery at St. Vincents Hospital in Melbourne, a Fellowship in Hepato-Pancreatico-Biliary (HPB) Surgery at Toronto General Hospital, and a Medical Education Fellowship at the University of Toronto, earning a Master's of Higher Education in 2006 and a PhD in Education in 2010. She was appointed Associate Professor in the Department of Surgery at the University of Toronto in 2010. She is co-director of the HPB Fellowship Program at University of Toronto. Early 2010, Dr. Moulton became a Scientist at the University of Toronto Donald R. Wilson Centre for Research in Education. Her research interests include the psycho-sociological considerations of surgical judgement and patient safety, as well as culture and cognition across the perioperative journey, demonstrating her commitment to advancing collaborative clinical care

The Moulton Lab Website Moulton Lab – The Wilson Centre (uhnresearch.ca)

Sabine Nabecker MD PhD MStudies PgCert
Staff Anesthesiologist, Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Management, Mount Sinai Hospital, Sinai Health System, Toronto
Assistant Professor, Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Management, University of Toronto

Dr. Nabecker completed medical school at the Medical University of Vienna, Austria and her postgraduate anesthesiology training at the University of Bern, Switzerland. She completed 2020-2021 a fellowship in Simulation and Education in Anesthesia at the University of Toronto, Canada. Additionally, she completed 2022 a PhD in Health Sciences (Medical Education) from the University of Bern, Switzerland. Dr. Nabecker is currently Vice-Chair of the Canadian Anaesthesiologist's Society (CAS) CEPD (Continuing Education and Professional Development) Committee, member of the Instructor Educator Support Science and Education Committee (SEC-IES) of the European Resuscitation Council (ERC), Committee Member of the Education, Implementation and Teams task force of ILCOR (International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation), ​and member of the Anesthesiology Section leadership team of the Society of Simulation in Healthcare (SSH). She is also Associate Fellow of the International Association for Medical Education in Europe (AMEE), and Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA), United Kingdom. Her research interests focus on research in medical education and simulation, cardiopulmonary resuscitation, airway management and apneic oxygenation, as well as patient well-being and patient safety.

Umberin Najeeb MD FCPS (Pak) FRCPC 
Associate Professor, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, UofT 
Faculty Lead Equity & Co-Director Master Teacher Program, Department of Medicine, UofT 
Faculty Lead IMG/IFT Mentorship Program, Core Internal Medicine Program, UofT   
Staff Internist, Division of General Internal Medicine, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto 

Dr. Najeeb is an Associate Professor of Medicine and a staff internist at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre. She is the Equity Lead, for the Department of Medicine and the Co-Director of the Department of Medicine’s Master Teacher program at the University of Toronto. She is the Faculty Lead for a unique research based longitudinal collaborative mentorship program for International Medical Graduate (IMG) physicians. She served as the inaugural Faculty Lead for the R4 Internal Medicine Program (2012-2018) and has led its development into one of the most successful postgraduate programs in the Department of Medicine.  

Her areas of scholarly focus are 1) transition and integration of IMGs (and other Internationally Educated Health Professionals) into their training and working environments and 2) health professions education with specific focus on curriculum design, faculty development and mentorship. Dr. Najeeb has won numerous teaching and mentorship awards at the local, provincial and national level. She teaches around the constructs of equity, diversity, inclusion, and allyship at undergraduate, postgraduate, and faculty development levels.  

Melissa Nutik MD MEd CCFP FCFP
Assistant Professor, Department of Family and Community Medicine
Undergraduate Education Lead, Office of Education Scholarship, Department of Family and Community Medicine

Dr. Melissa Nutik is an academic family physician, clinician educator and Assistant Professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Toronto. She received her MD degree from the University of Toronto and completed postgraduate training, an academic fellowship in medical education and a Masters of Education degree through the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto. She practices comprehensive family medicine at the Mount Sinai Academic Family Health Team. She teaches at the undergraduate, graduate, postgraduate and continuing professional and interprofessional development levels in her clinical office and at the University of Toronto. She is the Undergraduate Education Lead for the Office of Education Scholarship at the Department of Family and Community Medicine. Her academic and scholarly interests include medical education curriculum design and evaluation, in particular related to promoting generalism and advocacy within medical school. Other areas of interest are work-based assessment and developing and studying innovative ways to support people new to education scholarship.

Joyce Nyhof-Young BSc MSc PhD
Education Scientist
Academics Program & Family Practice Unit, Women’s College Hospital 
Office of Education Scholarship, Department of Family & Community Medicine 
Department of Family and Community Medicine, St. Michael’s Hospital
Professor, Department of Family & Community Medicine, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto 

Dr. Joyce Nyhof-Young is a social scientist with a Ph.D. in Curriculum Teaching and Learning from OISE at the University of Toronto. She is a medical educator, senior education scientist, and professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine and DFCM’s Office of Educational Scholarship, the Academics Program at Women’s College Hospital, and the Academics Program and family health teams of Women’s College Hospital and Unity Health at Saint Michael’s Hospital. She has over 30 years of experience with qualitative and mixed research methods and an applied research focus in participatory program development and evaluation, as well as capacity building in education scholarship. Under her mentorship, diverse, interdisciplinary teams of learners, healthcare practitioners and community members have developed or improved many educational programs, curriculums and resources in the MD Program, her home departments, hospital clinics, and local communities.    

Betty Onyura PhD CE
Director, Knowledge Mobilization for the Provincial System Support Program at CAMH
Assistant Professor, Department of Family and Community Medicine
Assistant Professor, Institute of Health Policy, Management, & Evaluation, University of Toronto

Following her PhD in organizational psychology, Betty began her career helping organizations use evaluation to gain the insight needed to optimize or sustain programs and innovations. For the past decade, Betty has worked as an educator, leader, and scholar in diverse roles across the academic health sciences system; and she identifies strongly as a scientist-practitioner (or practitioner-scientist). Presently, she is the Director, Knowledge Mobilization for the Provincial System Support Program at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health.  She leads a SSHRC-funded, program of research that is focused on the science of evaluation. Notably, she is interested in questions about the socio-political dimensions of evaluation practice – as well as about how to advance evaluation methodologies in ways that can influence more equitable, and sustainable innovation.

Morag Paton BA (Hons) MEd PhD
Education Research Coordinator, Continuing Professional Development, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto

Dr. Paton has over 20 years of experience working in administrative roles within the University of Toronto, first working as a student counsellor in the Division of Engineering Science in the Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering and then primarily with faculty in the Faculty of Medicine across a number of roles. After completing an MEd at OISE in Health Professions Education (HPE) in 2013, she pursued roles focused on research and scholarship in HPE. She completed her PhD in 2023 where her focus was on administrative staff and faculty power relations in HPE using Foucauldian discourse analysis and using an equity lens. Her research problematizes assumptions and practices in HPE, using both theoretical and operational/administrative expertise.

Robert Paul BScH MBA PhD
Assistant Professor, Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation

Dr. Robert Paul studies the ideological construction underpinning leadership in academic medicine as it relates to funding mechanisms and practices – its history, its present and its effects. To do this work, Robert draws upon Michel Foucault’s concepts of Critical Discourse Analysis and spatiality to explore the management of academic medical institutions and how academic medicine functions in society. His areas of research include philanthropy, commerciality, globalization, and institutional identity formation in academic medicine. He has also done extensive consulting on a variety of issues for academic organizations throughout the Toronto Academic Health Science Network (TAHSN).

Dominique Piquette MD MSc MEd PhD FRCP(C)
Staff Physician, Department of Critical Care Medicine, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Associate Professor, Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care Medicine, University of Toronto

Dr. Piquette completed her medical training in internal medicine and critical care at the University of Montreal in 2005. She undertook an additional clinical critical care fellowship at the Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto, followed by a research fellowship at The Wilson Centre and a Master in Education at the Ontario Institute of Sciences in Education (University of Toronto). She joined the Department of Critical Care Medicine of Sunnybrook as an intensivist in July 2007. In July 2014, she completed a PhD in medical education at the University of Toronto. Her PhD thesis addressed the multifaceted relationships between clinical supervision and learning in acute care environments. Dr. Piquette's current research interests are primarily focused on better understanding how physicians learn in acute care contexts at the postgraduate and post-certification levels in a competency-based medical education model. In order to achieve this goal, she uses a range of research methodologies, including quantitative and qualitative approaches, and conducts research both in real and simulated clinical environments. Dr. Piquette is also actively engaged in critical care curriculum development and evaluation, as well as in teaching at the undergraduate, postgraduate, and post-certification levels.

Paula Ravitz MD FRCPC 
Professor of Psychiatry, University of Toronto
Senior Clinician Scientist, Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Sinai Health System

Dr. Paula Ravitz is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at University of Toronto whose research, clinical work, scholarship, and knowledge translation/exchange activities focus on improving access, therapeutic alliances, and outcomes of mental health care using evidence-supported psychotherapies including Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT), Behavioral Activation, and Mentalizing. She co-edited Psychotherapy Essentials to Go, a 6-book/video series for skills-teaching of evidence-supported psychotherapy principles (WW Norton; www.psychotherapy.net) which has been used and culturally adapted for numerous capacity-building projects locally and internationally. She has taught IPT in Canada, China, Ethiopia, France, Israel, the U.K., and the U.S.  Currently she is working on several virtual education projects with the creation of online curricula: (i) with the Canadian Psychotherapy Practice Research Network (PPRNet) - to improve therapeutic alliances and cultural sensitivity in mental health care; and (ii) for interprofessional post-graduate and continuing education - to scale access to IPT training (www.learnIPT.com). She is also the Toronto clinical lead in a large multi-site RCT testing Behavioral Activation for perinatal depression delivered virtually v. in-person by mental health specialist v. trained non-specialist providers (https://thesummittrial.com/).   

Lisa Richardson MD MA FRCPC
Associate Professor, Department of Medicine
Associate Dean, Inclusion & Diversity, Temerty Faculty of Medicine

In 2016, Dr. Richardson joined the Wilson Centre as a Centre Researcher and was the inaugural recipient of the Wilson Centre Investigator Award in Indigenous Medical Education at University Health Network. Her academic interest lies in the integration of postcolonial, indigenous and feminist perspectives into medical education. She is the Faculty Co-lead in Indigenous Medical Education for the University of Toronto's MD Program. She was a 2014-2016 AMS Phoenix Fellow for her work related to the creation and integration of cultural safety teaching into the medical school curriculum. She continues to be an active member of the Indigenous Physicians’ Association of Canada and a member of the planning committee for the annual Indigenous Health Conference. She is also a member of the University of Toronto’s TRC Steering Committee whose role is to advise the University about how to implement the Calls to Action from Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

Aviv Shachak PhD MSc
Associate Professor and Graduate Coordinator
Institute of Health Policy, Management & Evaluation (Dalla Lana School of Public Health)
Associate Professor (cross-appointed), Faculty of Information University of Toronto
Section Editor, JMIR Medical Education (http://mededu.jmir.org/)

Aviv Shachak received his Bachelor of Science degree in Life Sciences from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel; MSc in Agriculture from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and PhD in Information Science from Bar-Ilan University, Israel. He moved into Health Informatics in his post-doc at the Technion- Israel Institute of Technology. Currently, Aviv is an Associate Professor at the University of Toronto’s Institute of Health Policy, Management & Evaluation (Dalla Lana School of Public Health) and the Faculty of Information. He is also a cross-appointed researcher at the Wilson Centre for Research in Education (University Health Network and University of Toronto) and an Adjunct Associate Professor at the School of Health Information Science, University of Victoria. He was elected Fellow of the International Academy of Health Sciences Informatics in 2021.

Aviv’s work at the intersection of Health Informatics and Health Professions Education seeks to improve usage and help realize the potential benefits of health information systems and minimize negative unintended consequences. It explores various approaches to educate future and practicing clinicians on the non-technical issues of using information and communication technology in health including exploratory, computer-based simulation, and video tutorials. Dr. Shachak’s work has been published in various Medical, Information Science, Professional Communication, and Biomedical Informatics journals. He is the lead editor of a book titled “Health Professionals’ Education in the Age of Clinical Information Systems, Mobile Computing and Social Networks”.

Naomi Steenhof RPh BScPhm MSc PhD 
Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream | Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy 
Education Investigator, The Institute for Education Research (TIER) at UHN 
Pharmacotherapy Specialist, University Health Network 

Naomi is a pharmacist, an assistant professor in the teaching stream at the Faculty of Pharmacy at UofT, and a centre researcher at the Wilson Centre. Naomi holds an MSc from Maastricht University, and a PhD from the University of Toronto. During her Master’s training, she completed a fellowship in health professions education research at the Wilson Centre under the supervision of Dr. Nikki Woods and Dr. Maria Mylopoulos. 

Naomi’s area of clinical expertise is in chronic pain and geriatrics and she practices as a Pharmacotherapy Specialist at the University Health Network in the Comprehensive Integrated Pain Program. Naomi is actively engaged in interprofessional education, curriculum development, as well as teaching at the undergraduate, resident, and post-graduate level. 

Naomi’s research in education explores the crucial role of struggle in learning and understanding how conceptual knowledge development supports novice pharmacy students in clinical problem-solving. 

Lynfa Stroud MD Med FRCPC
Associate Professor, Department of Medicine

Dr. Stroud completed medical school (2000) and postgraduate training in Internal Medicine (2004) at the University of Toronto. She subsequently received her MEd from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (University of Toronto) in 2007. In 2009 she joined the Division of General Internal Medicine at Sunnybrook HSC as a clinician educator; where after 3 years as site director for medicine clerkship, she assumed the role of postgraduate site director for internal medicine in July 2013. At the Department of Medicine she is the Director of the Core Internal Medicine OSCE, taken annually by approximately 200 residents, and of the PGY1 Entry Assessment Exam. Dr. Stroud’s education scholarship focuses on postgraduate assessment. Through her innovations in directing the Internal Medicine OSCE she has effectively developed a working educational lab that has facilitated research in her area of interest, the feedback process, and inherent biases within this. She is also interested in the impact of the clinical environment on assessment of resident performance and in the perceptions of providers and recipients of multi-source feedback. Her work has been supported by the Royal College of Physicians & Surgeons of Canada and the Medical Council of Canada. In 2018, Dr. Stroud won the UofT Faculty of Medicine Award for Excellence in Postgraduate Medical Education - Development and Innovation. This award recognizes outstanding contributions of faculty members in program development, administration and innovation in postgraduate medical education.

Sanjeev Sockalingam MD MHPE FRCPC
Professor, Department of Psychiatry
Vice President, Education at Centre for Addiction and Mental Health

Dr. Sanjeev Sockalingam is a Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto and became the Vice President, Education at CAMH in July 2018. He completed his medical school at the University of Manitoba and his psychiatry residency at the University of Toronto. He is currently the co-lead for the Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes (ECHO) Ontario Mental Health at the Centre for Addiction and Mental and Health and the University of Toronto, which is a provincial hub-and-spoke knowledge-sharing network model building mental health and addiction capacity in rural Ontario. He is the Director of Curriculum Renewal for the Medical Psychiatry Alliance, systems and education initiative building capacity in integrated physical and mental health care.

Dr. Sockalingam has >125 peer-reviewed publications and is a lead investigator on several peer-reviewed clinical and medical education grants. His clinical research interests are focused on C-L Psychiatry, specifically obesity and mental health. His education research is focused on training for managing complexity, alignment of quality improvement and continuing professional development, and understanding factors influencing lifelong learning in practice. He has been the recipient of several national and international education awards including the 2018 Academy of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry (ACLP) Alan Stoudemire Award for Innovation and Excellence in C-L Psychiatry Education and the Association of Chairs of Psychiatry of Canada Award for Excellence in Education.

Glendon Tait MD MSc FRCP FCPA
Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry
Director, Student Assessment, MD Program, University of Toronto

Dr. Glendon Tait is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto. He is Director of Student Assessment in the MD Program where he has led the implementation of programmatic assessment as part of the program’s new Foundations curriculum, now being extended to competency based clerkship education. Clinically, Dr. Tait practices consultation-liaison psychiatry with Sinai Health System.

Dr. Tait completed a B.A. (Hons) from the University of New Brunswick, an M.Sc. from the University of Alberta, and M.D. from the University of Calgary. He subsequently completed his residency in psychiatry at the University of Toronto and a Fellowship in Health Professions Education Research at the Wilson Centre for Research in Education at the University of Toronto.

Dr. Tait’s current academic foci are in two main areas: programmatic assessment as an approach for assessing and guiding learning of medical students, including the roles of policy, technology, coaching, and holistic academic decision making; and understanding patient, team, and health system complexity using qualitative and complex adaptive system lenses.

Having served in several national leadership capacities, he is currently the President of the Canadian Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine and is a Fellow of the Canadian Psychiatric Association.

Adrienne Tan MD FRCPC FACLP FCPA
Staff Psychiatrist and Medical Lead, Medical Psychiatry, UHN Centre for Mental Health
UHN Director of Postgraduate Medical Education

Dr. Adrienne Tan is a staff psychiatrist and medical lead of the Medical Psychiatry Division at the University Health Network. As a Clinician Educator and Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto, Dr. Tan is the Director of Postgraduate Medical Education at the University Health Network. She completed her undergraduate medical degree at the University of British Columbia and psychiatry training at the University of Toronto. She is a board-certified consultation-liaison (C-L) psychiatrist, having completed a clinical fellowship in C-L psychiatry at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, MA. She is also a graduate of the Education Scholars Program. Her clinical interests include psychiatric care of the complex medically ill and psychotherapy, having completed psychoanalytic training at the Toronto Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis. She is also currently leading a national initiative to have C-L psychiatry recognized as an Area of Focused Competence by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, an effort that is being supported by the Medical Psychiatry Alliance. 

Rory Windrim MD MSc
Perinatologist and Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Dr. Windrim is a staff perinatologist at Mount Sinai Hospital and Head of Academic Affairs in the MSH Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology and Head of Continuing Education in the University of Toronto Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology

Dr. Windrim completed medical school training in Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland before moving to Canada. After working as a rural physician in Newfoundland he completed Obstetrics and Gynaecology residency training in Memorial University Newfoundland. He completed a Masters in Clinical Epidemiology while on staff in Memorial University as an Obstetrician Gynaecologist. Having completed a Fellowship in Maternal Fetal Medicine at the University of Toronto he became a staff perinatologist at Mount Sinai Hospital and is a professor of Obstetrics at the University of Toronto.

His research program encompasses fetal medicine, obstetric anaesthesia, placental pathology and preterm birth. The Mount Sinai Fetal Medicine Unit is the largest in Canada and one of the busiest in the world. They provide consultation services for pregnancies complicated by fetal anomalies and a broad range of fetal procedures including intra-uterine transfusion, chest and abdomen shunting, cord ligation and placental anastomoses laser ablation. As a co-founder of MSH’s Placenta Clinic, he provides care and leads research into complications of normal placental development, including intrauterine growth restriction, pre-eclampsia and placenta percreta, among other conditions.

Dr. Windrim ‘s focus is fetal medicine and interventions, obstetric anaesthesia, placental pathology and preterm birth.

Rene Wong MD MMedEd PhD FRCP(C)
Staff physician, Division of Endocrinology, University Health Network
Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto

Rene Wong is currently a practicing endocrinologist and clinician-educator at University Health Network and the University of Toronto. His experiences as a clinician-educator led him to question the extent to which medical education initiatives impact the working relationships between family physicians and specialists. This led him to pursue graduate studies at the University Toronto during which he used a Foucauldian theoretical lens to examine the impact of diabetes clinical practice guidelines and knowledge translation initiatives on the construction of patients, intraprofessional collaboration between family physicians and specialists, and patient-centered care. His current research interest uses social science and qualitative research approaches to explore the positions of patients, family physicians and specialists as sources of unique expertise and knowledge that could be leveraged in the design of health professions education and the care of people with chronic illness.