Day 1 Session 3
Education Design for Systems Transformation
Monday, March 9, 2026 3:00pm – 4:00pm EDT

Aman Sium is the Lead, Strategic Initiatives at the Institute for Education Research, University Health Network (UHN). For more than a decade, he has held senior leadership roles across the health system, driving improvements in system planning and performance, quality and safety, and the integration of essential non-clinical supports into models of care.

Aman’s work focuses on bringing community voices into health system design through participatory and justice-centered approaches. He has led various health equity and community-based co-design initiatives in pediatric settings. His leadership is rooted in a commitment to building a more responsive, equitable, and people-centered health system.

Day 3 Session 1
Transformative Evaluation
Wednesday, March 11, 2026 9:00am – 10:30am EDT

Kathryn received her PhD in program evaluation from the University of Toronto in 2006. She has presented her work at various national and international conferences and has applied her program evaluation skills when working with numerous academic/clinical groups to facilitate and direct program evaluation efforts. She is an Associate Professor with the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Toronto and was also the recipient of the 2013 AMS Phoenix Fellowship. She served as the Senior Director of Academic Affairs at Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital for 12 years and currently sits on the Board of the Canadian Interprofessional Health Collaborative and the Baycrest Academy. She has recently joined the Centre for Advancing Collaborative Healthcare and Education (CACHE) as an Associate Director with a focus on supporting transformative change in healthcare education. She also serves as faculty in both the Centre’s Collaborative Change Leadership program and the Ehpic© program.

Welcome
Monday, March 9, 2026 10:00am – 10:30am EDT

Lindsay is Associate Director, Curriculum Integration and Partnership at the Centre for Faculty Development. She has over a decade of experience in health professions education research in the context of faculty development. Lindsay brings this researcher-practitioner lens to her role as program director (Stepping Stones, Best Practices in Education Rounds, Online Supplements for Education) and program developer (Summer Education Institute) and plays an integral role bridging education and research across all of CFD’s programs.

Through her work at CFD, Lindsay has established a reputation as an innovative qualitative methodologist and an award-winning educator. Her research uses constructivist and critical approaches to examine the boundaries and relations between disciplines, professions, and knowledge communities. Lindsay also integrates constructivist, transformative, and critical pedagogical approaches to education in her faculty development practice.

Day 1 Session 1
Trust
Monday, March 9, 2026 10:30am – 12:00pm EDT

Maya J. Goldenberg is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Guelph, with cross-appointment in the Bachelor of Arts and Science program, and a member of Graduate Faculty at the Institute for History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Toronto. Her research centers on the philosophy of science and medicine, with particular focus on evidence-based medicine, vaccine hesitancy, bioethics, and feminist philosophy of science. She is the author of Vaccine Hesitancy: Public Trust, Expertise, and the War on Science (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021), which won the 2022 Philosophy of Science Association Women’s Caucus Prize in Feminist Philosophy of Science Award. In this work, Goldenberg reframes vaccine hesitancy as a crisis of public trust in scientific institutions rather than a problem of public misunderstanding of science. Her scholarship explores how medical knowledge is constructed, interpreted, and applied by clinicians, policymakers, and patients, with particular attention to women’s health and the connections between science and values.

Day 1 Session 3
Education Design for Systems Transformation
Monday, March 9, 2026 3:00pm – 4:00pm EDT

Nicole (Nikki) Woods, PhD is the Richard and Elizabeth Currie Chair for Research in Health Professions Education. She is also Director of The Institute for Education Research (TIER) at University Health Network and Senior Scientist at The Wilson Centre, University of Toronto. Dr. Woods leads an internationally recognized research program that uses methods and principles from cognitive psychology to advance medical education theory and practice. Her research has significant implications for education across the developmental continuum and various health disciplines. A Fellow of the Karolinska Institute Prize for Medical Education Research since 2019, Dr. Woods is currently a Professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Toronto. In 2021, Dr. Woods was recognized as one of Canada’s Top 100 Most Powerful Women by WXN.

Day 3 Session 3
Civil Discourse
Wednesday, March 11, 2026 1:00pm – 2:30pm EDT

Randy Boyagoda is a novelist and Professor of English at the University of Toronto, where he also serves as the university’s advisor on civil discourse, the first such position in Canada. He was named one of Toronto’s fifty most influential people by Toronto Life magazine because of his work in civil discourse. He is the author of seven books, including four novels that have been nominated for the Giller Prize, the IMPAC Dublin Literary Prize, and named New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice selections and Globe and Mail Best Books of the year. A frequent contributor to CBC Radio, including as a national columnist on civil discourse, and former President of PEN Canada, he writes opinions, essays and reviews for publications including the Atlantic, the New York Times, the Financial Times of London, the Globe and Mail, and The Walrus. He also podcasts for the Toronto Public Library and lives in the east end of Toronto with his wife and their four daughters.

Day 1 Session 1
Trust
Monday, March 9, 2026 10:30am – 12:00pm EDT

Dr. Sabrina Deutsch Salamon is an Associate Professor at York University, where she studies the dynamics of trust in organizations. Drawing on an interdisciplinary background in organizational behaviour and economics, her research explores how trust is developed, maintained, and experienced at work. Her work has been published in leading international journals, including the Journal of Applied Psychology, the Journal of Organizational Behavior, and the Journal of Business Ethics.

Her research on trust has been supported by Canada’s Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and Mitacs, and it has been featured in international media and on CBC National Radio. She has shared her insights on trust in organizations with audiences ranging from the United States Army to health institutions, boards of education, and corporations, helping them better understand how trust is built and how it shapes organizational life.

Welcome
Monday, March 9, 2026 10:00am – 10:30am EDT

Stella is passionate about the transformative potential of health professions education, particularly critical pedagogies to enhance the collaborative, compassionate, and ethical aspects of health care practice. This passion was sparked by challenges experienced as a pediatric audiologist in the public-school system, which motivated her to study how people respond to value-conflicted, uncertain zones of interprofessional and collaborative practice. Her tri-council-, ministry-, and foundation-funded research thus explores theories of reflective practice and optimizes educational approaches that foster critical reflection, which she mobilizes into her education and leadership work.

Day 3 Session 1
Transformative Evaluation
Wednesday, March 11, 2026 9:00am – 10:30am EDT