Workshop Facilitator
Negotiating Power and Knowledge in the Classroom as a Practice of Epistemic Care
Wednesday, March 27, 2024 9:00am – 10:30am EDT

Ahmed Allahwala is Professor (Teaching Stream) in City Studies at the University of Toronto Scarborough (UTSC). Dr. Allahwala holds an M.A. from Freie University Berlin, an M.Ed. from the University of Toronto and a PhD in Political Science from York University in Toronto. As an urbanist and critical policy analyst, Dr. Allahwala’s work focuses on urban social policy and planning in North America and Western Europe. He has taught a wide variety of courses in Germany and Canada on topics including welfare state analysis, immigration and settlement, community-based research, and urban planning. His pedagogical innovations in experiential learning and community-university partnerships have been recognized both nationally and internationally.

Roundtable Speaker
Student-led Environments
Tuesday, March 26, 2024 1:00pm – 2:30pm EDT

Alifa Khan is a second-generation bi-racial cis-gendered Muslim woman who identifies with the pronouns she/her/hers. She worked within healthcare for 22 years in patient and non-patient-facing settings. Khan is the mother of three children, two who are neurodiverse and one with a congenital heart defect. She passionately partners in the health and educational systems at the micro, meso, and macro levels to deepen capacity and foster ripples of transformation, training the next generation of change agents in healthcare. Presently, her most notable roles include being the Vice Chair of Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital (HBKRH) – Research Family Engagement Committee (RFEC), a member of Family as Faculty (FaF) at HBKRH, an Acceptance Commitment Training Facilitator for Caregivers of People with Disabilities, a Patient Surveyor at Accreditation Canada, a Peer Reviewer at Health Standards Organization (HSO), a member of her local Ontario Health Team (OHT), and a member of the Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility (IDEA) Task Force at HBKRH. Through genuine and meaningful collaborations, Alifa has successfully partnered and led initiatives that drive high-quality, safe care and transformational education for clients, families, students, clinicians, and health care providers. She won the 2020 Canadian Patient Safety Week Safety Story for “Understanding Virtual Care: A Resource for Clients and Families” and in 2019, she was the recipient of both an Ontario Volunteer Service Award and The Beryl Institute – Team Innovation Award. In 2023, as part of a collaboratively led Student-Led Environment for Virtual Autism Supports during wait Times (SLED-VAST), her team won the Ministry of Colleges and Universities’ 2021/22 Minister’s Award of Excellence in the category of Future-Proofing Ontario’s students.

Roundtable Speaker
Student-led Environments
Tuesday, March 26, 2024 1:00pm – 2:30pm EDT

Amanda Binns, PhD is a clinician, researcher, and educator in the field of Speech-Language Pathology. She is an Assistant Professor at University of Toronto, and clinical manager of a Student-Led Environment at Holland Bloorview. Her program of research extends from years of experience providing interprofessional supports for neurodivergent children and their families.
https://www.slpmaps.ca/

Invited Talk
Beyond the Universal: Nurturing Pedagogies of Collective Access
Wednesday, March 27, 2024 10:45am – 11:45am EDT

Anne McGuire is an Associate Professor in critical disability studies and director of the program for Critical Studies in Equity and Solidarity at the University of Toronto. Drawing on interpretive perspectives in critical disability studies, queer/crip theory, cultural studies, child studies, theories of anti-racism and de/anticolonial thought, Prof. McGuire’s research and teaching holds disability as a culturally meaningful category that provides the grounds for critical cultural analysis, and transformative social critique. She is author of War on Autism: On the Cultural Logic of Normative Violence (University of Michigan Press, 2016), which was awarded the 2016 Tobin Siebers prize for Disability Studies in the Humanities. Along with Prof. Fritsch, she is co-author of the award-winning children’s book, We Move Together (AK Press, 2021), which engages themes of ableism, accessibility, and disability culture. She was the recipient of the June Larkin Award for Pedagogical Development (2016) and U of T’s Early Career Teaching Award (2018) for her work on collective access and accessibility in post-secondary classrooms.

Introduction
Love from Near and Far
Monday, March 25, 2024 10:15am – 12:15pm EDT

Arno K. Kumagai is Professor and Vice Chair for Education, Department of Medicine at the University of Toronto. He also holds the F.M. Hill Chair in Humanism Education at Women’s College Hospital, University of Toronto, where he has a clinical practice focused on working with individuals with type 1 diabetes mellitus. Arno received his BA in Comparative Literature from U.C. Berkeley, and his MD from UCLA. He finished his Internal Medicine Residency, Endocrine Fellowship and postdoctoral training in the UCLA system and was on faculty at the University of Michigan Medical School from 1996 to 2016. He joined the University of Toronto’s Department of Medicine in 2016. Arno has an international reputation in medical education scholarship with a focus on health humanities, humanism, and teaching for social justice in medicine. He is also Assistant Editor for the journal Academic Medicine.

Moderator 
Short talks – Submitted abstracts
Tuesday, March 26, 2024 10:45am – 12:15pm EDT

Beck previously worked at St. Mike’s in both Leadership & Organizational Development and the Education Portfolio, with a focus in education and advocacy on topics of inclusion, collaborative leadership, and interprofessional collaboration for staff, students and patients. As a trans man, he gender transitioned professionally while in the Education portfolio, finding both personal support and also very interesting critical lenses on how discourses of “disadvantage”, power, equity, and allyship can play out in the health care system and health professions education. Since he left Unity Health, he served as Director of Organizational Development at The 519 Church Street Community (2SLGBTQ+) Centre, and as the lead for the City of Toronto’s Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) learning program for staff. He has planned and led several educational events for Faculty Development Day and CFD programming, and graduated from the 2016-18 ESP cohort. He has a passion for engaging people in discussions of systemic injustice, and is dedicated to working towards impactful learning at all levels that invites people to see the structures that marginalize people and a to find and authentic path towards confronting those structures discomfort.

Invited Talk
From “Already” to “Action”: A Critical Appraisal of Health Equity Agents within Collaborative Medical Professionalism
Tuesday, March 26, 2024 2:45pm – 3:45pm EDT

Carmen Black, MD is a proud Black American woman descended from persons enslaved within the US, assistant professor of psychiatry at Yale School of Medicine, and Director of the Social Justice and Health Equity curriculum for Yale Psychiatry. Dr. Black’s educational and publication expertise emphasizes how provider’s own racial prejudice and bias against persons living with mental illness can harm patients during real-time clinical practice. She is also a national advocate for removing police and security involvement from hospital medicine in both academic and popular media spaces. In these capacities, she has been featured in The Lancet Americas, USA Today, The LA Times, The Washington Post, Newsweek, National Public Radio, and more.

Roundtable Speaker
Student-led Environments
Tuesday, March 26, 2024 1:00pm – 2:30pm EDT

Cooper DuPré MSW, RSW is a Social Worker in Holland Bloorview’s Bridging to Adulthood and Child Development Programs. Within his work, Cooper is also the clinical lead of the OnTrack Transitions Navigation Student Led Environment (SLE). This SLE uses student leadership to support pediatric aged youth with disabilities to make a holistic transition to adulthood. As a former teacher, Cooper integrates educational pedagogy and social theories to enhance the experiences of interprofessional healthcare students (MSW, OT, Nursing and Recreational Therapy) on their practicums. Cooper uses a social constructivist approach in his work with the students and is passionate about supporting future healthcare clinicians to learn and execute a trauma-informed and ecological model approach when navigating client and family centred cared for people with disabilities. His passion for evolving experiences in healthcare practicums has brought him to speak at conferences across Canada including and not limited to The International Congress on Academic Medicine (ICAM), Building Communities through Inclusive Health and the Interprofessional Collaboration Showcase.

Roundtable Speaker
Student-led Environments
Tuesday, March 26, 2024 1:00pm – 2:30pm EDT

Emma Laishram is a MHSc graduate student of the Speech Language Pathology program at the University of Toronto. She is passionate about the art and science of voice, communication, and the intersection of identity and culture within these realms. Her work in the field of speech-language pathology is informed by an extensive background in the arts. She received a BA Honours with Distinction in Theatre from Dalhousie University, and is a graduate of the acting conservatory at the National Theatre School of Canada in Montreal. With 10+years of professional experience in voice and performance, Emma has collaborated on contemporary artistic projects nationally and internationally, to mobilize systemic change. She strives to merge the empathy and humanistic investigative nature of her artistic work with her passion for speech-language pathology, to make a meaningful difference in the lives of others.

Academically, Emma has worked as a research assistant at the Voice and Resonance Lab at the University of Toronto under the supervision of Dr. Tim Bressman, and is a proud contributor to the development of a screening tool to reduce wait-times for Autism diagnosis, while participating in the SLED-VAST program (Student Led Environments to Deliver Virtual Autism Supports). Emma’s current leadership roles include: Governor of the Canadian Region, Board of Directors for the Pan American Vocolgy Associaton (PAVA), Co-president of the 2024 graduating class of UofT-SLP cohort, Theory to Therapy 2024 (student conference) Event Coordinator, and will be a grateful recipient of the University of Toronto Student Leadership Award this April, 2024. In her spare time, she wistfully browses dog adoption sites while eating discount chocolate cake and fantasizes about the day she will bring home a fluff ball of love to call her own.

Roundtable Speaker
Student-led Environments
Tuesday, March 26, 2024 1:00pm – 2:30pm EDT

Farah Friesen, MI, is currently Manager, Research & Knowledge Mobilization, Centre for Advancing Collaborative Healthcare & Education (CACHE). She joined CACHE in a Research & Strategy Associate role beginning September 13, 2021, on the heels of a whirlwind (pandemic-focused) year as the Coordinator, Office of the CEO, Women’s College Hospital and a prior 6.5-year tenure at the Centre for Faculty Development (CFD). At the CFD, Farah played a number of pivotal roles including as a knowledge broker, research coordinator, and program coordinator. Trained as a librarian (Master of Information), Farah has a passion for facilitating collaboration and informed decision-making through access to information and knowledge mobilization.

Farah’s main research interest is in critically examining traditional academic performance indicators, encouraging alternative perspectives on metrics, and working towards a broader (re)definition of research and educational impact. She is interested in exploring ways to work together and recognize diverse forms of contributions, despite structures that might ‘pit’ individuals against one another (resistance through collaboration – not competition) and focusing on valuing process (not only products).

In her spare time, Farah enjoys strength training; thinking about mind-body dualism; following philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience work on free will/determinism; developing pragmatic, compassionate ways of having nuanced conversations by applying Moral Foundations Theory and Scott Atran’s work on sacred values; and attempting to watch all the movies from Roger Ebert’s Great Movies List (there are close to 500 films and so far she has watched about 300 of them).

Moderator 
Short talks – Submitted abstracts
Tuesday, March 26, 2024 10:45am – 12:15pm EDT

Jeffrey Kiyoshk Ross is of the marten clan, and a registered member of Walpole Island Unceded First Nation. He is an Ontario Certified Teacher with over 20 years of communications, journalism, and marketing experience working with First Nation communities and organizations in Ontario. He has been fortunate to teach in Pikangikum, Pickle Lake, and Thunder Bay, and develops and delivers curriculum that is informed by Canada’s First Nations, Inuit, and Metis peoples’ diverse histories and cultures. He is also an Indigenous consultant who has taught at the Art Gallery of Ontario facilitating discussion on the TRC and Anishnaabek knowledge, and works with organizations to help them inform their hiring practices, help improve Indigenous community involvement, and facilitate cultural competencies. He has a long history of Indigenous program development, intentional community building, and evaluation of learners (both young people and adults).

Workshop Facilitator
Negotiating Power and Knowledge in the Classroom as a Practice of Epistemic Care
Wednesday, March 27, 2024 9:00am – 10:30pm EDT

Dr. Jennifer Esmail (she/her) has worked across a range of academic and community spaces and now bridges these spheres as Director of the Centre for Community Partnerships (CCP) at the University of Toronto. Before joining the CCP, she was Assistant Professor in the Department of English and Film Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University, where she taught courses in disability studies, animal studies, and in literature and social change, including as part of the Walls to Bridges prison co-learning program. Jennifer has published in areas including community-university engagement, disability studies, and nineteenth-century literature, including her prize-winning monograph, Reading Victorian Deafness. She has been involved with a number of community organizations in Ontario, including sitting on the Board of Directors of The Children’s Book Bank and the Advisory Board of the Enabling Nonprofits project of the Ontario Nonprofit Network. Jennifer’s identity and lived experience as a disabled woman of color, a settler and uninvited guest on this land, and a first generation post-secondary student inform her commitment to anti-oppressive and anti-colonial approaches to teaching and learning.

Roundtable Speaker
Student-led Environments
Tuesday, March 26, 2024 1:00pm – 2:30pm EDT

Hello! I’m a speech-language pathologist working with preschoolers (0-5 years old) at Grandview Kids in Durham Region.

Moderator
Educating for Equity within Teams
Tuesday, March 26, 2024 9:00am – 10:30am EDT

Dr. Maniate is a clinician-educator at The Ottawa Hospital, an Associate Professor at the University of Ottawa, a researcher at the Bruyère Research Institute, and has served as a senior leader in several health and educational organizations. In September 2021, Dr. Maniate founded the Equity in Health Systems Lab (www.eqhslab.com), an international transdisciplinary team of researchers, health care professionals, educators, policymakers, learners, and patients who are seeking to make an impact on our community and health system with the work they are engaged with through a unique approach. His academic work and that of the EqHS Lab has been focused on understanding and addressing health equity, accessibility and social justice challenges in our health systems through a collaborative approach that uses the lens of social determinants of health and social accountability.

Roundtable Speaker
Interprofessional Education and Transformative Education
Monday, March 25, 2024 1:00pm – 2:30pm 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.

Keynote Speaker
Love from Near and Far
Monday, March 25, 2024 10:15am – 12:15pm EDT

Hello! My name is Katie (she/her/hers) and I am an Associate Professor of Teaching in the Department of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy at the University of British Columbia. My social identities include being a white, abled, upper middle class, cis-woman of mostly Irish and some French settler ancestry. While my research background has been within occupational science and occupational therapy, I truly love being an educator, and more recently have shifted my research focus to health professions education. I am just beginning my PhD with the School of Health Professions Education, Maastricht University, with supervisors Dr. Anja Krumeich and Dr. Laura Nimmon. My dissertation aims to explore love (conceptually, theoretically, and pragmatically) as an educational approach in health professions education. My most important and transformative work is in being a mom to my two kids. They call on me everyday to show up and be better. I’m very grateful to be welcomed to this conference.

Moderator
Welcome
Monday, March 25, 2024 9:00am – 10:00am EDT
Closing Remarks – Conference+
Wednesday, March 27, 2024 2:30pm – 2:45pm 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.

Workshop Facilitator
Why a Pluralistic Approach to Education Affords Collaboration and Transformation
Wednesday, March 27, 2024 1:00pm – 2:30pm EDT

Dr. Maria Mylopoulos holds her PhD in human development and education. She is currently Scientist and Associate Director of the Wilson Centre for Research in Education, Professor in the Department of Paediatrics and Curriculum Scientist for Medical Education at the University of Toronto Temerty Faculty of Medicine. Over the last 17 years she has successfully led a program of research aimed at understanding the development and performance of adaptive expertise in medicine, with a particular focus on identifying the ways in which expert clinicians move beyond application of their past knowledge when appropriate to address the needs of patients as well as the limits and opportunities of their own contexts. In her work, Maria uses a range of methodologies and theoretical frameworks from cognitive psychology, clinical reasoning, and the learning sciences to evolve understanding of the knowledge, capabilities and learning experiences that underpin adaptive expertise. The ultimate goal of her research is to translate this understanding to educational design that cultivates the development of expert clinicians who are able to handle the complexities and challenges of the healthcare workplace.

Roundtable Speaker
Interprofessional Education and Transformative Education
Monday, March 25, 2024 1:00pm – 2:30pm EDT

Maria Tassone is the Executive Director, Education & Professional Development at the University Health Network (UHN). Her work focuses on the interface between education and practice, with particular attention to professional development, leadership development and team-based learning and care across health care roles. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Maria was the Provincial Chair and Project Lead for COVIDcarelearning.ca, an online platform that supported over 17,000 health care workers for redeployment. From 2009- 2021 Maria was the inaugural Director of the Centre for Interprofessional Education, a strategic partnership between the University of Toronto and UHN. Maria was the co-lead of the Canadian Interprofessional Health Leadership Collaborative, one of four international innovation collaboratives awarded by the Institute of Medicine in Washington. Her experiences in collaborative leadership for health system change contributed to the development, implementation and evaluation of the Collaborative Change Leadership™ program, for which Maria is currently Co-Director. Over the course of her career, Maria has been recognized as a leader in innovation related to health care innovation and interprofessional education and care, with the 3M Team Innovation Award and the Ontario Hospital Ted Freeman Award for Education Innovation. She is also seen as a mentor for emerging leaders within and beyond her profession, and for this she was awarded the Canadian Physiotherapy Association National Mentorship Award. Maria holds a Bachelor of Science in Physical Therapy from McGill University, a Master of Science from the University of Western Ontario, and she is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physical Therapy, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto. Throughout her career, Maria has held a variety of clinical, education, research and leadership positions across a multitude of professions. She is most passionate about the interface between research, education, and practice and leading change in complex systems.

Invited Talk
Informing curriculum from an Indigenous perspective
Monday, March 25, 2024 2:45pm – 3:45pm EDT

Nadia is Anishnaabe Kwe (Bear Clan), whose family story is rooted in Heron Bay Pic River, Biitigong, First Nations, located on the North Shore of Lake Superior. She grew up in small towns across Northwestern Ontario and calls Sioux Lookout home. She is a Drawing and Painting graduate of the Ontario College of Art and Design University and brings to her work, deep knowledge and experience in the areas of Indigenous community wellness, pedagogy, professional development, community engagement and relationship building. She is a published author, international public speaker, educator, award-winning artist, director and storyteller and has more than 20 years’ experience working in Indigenous community wellness and educational contexts. She is the creator (writer/director/producer) of an award-winning, feature documentary she made in honour of her grandmother, Theresa McCraw entitled, “Muffins for Granny,” (Mongrel Media 2007) which involved extensive research with Indigenous Elders and Indian Residential School Survivors. “Muffins for Granny,” was the recipient of a prestigious Aboriginal Healing Foundation grant, is used as a mandatory resource for Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation and was later added to the Criterion Collection in 2012. Nadia continues to create, write, direct and collaborate on projects that celebrate and nurture Indigenous success, innovation, wellness and stories. Along with her two children, Nadia currently lives in Toronto and works with an exceptional team of Indigenous healthcare leaders at Ganawishkadawe, the Centre for Wise Practices, Women’s College Hospital serving as Manager, Indigenous Health Education, dividing her time also with Temerty Faculty of Medicine at U of T.

Roundtable Speaker
Interprofessional Education and Transformative Education
Monday, March 25, 2024 1:00pm – 2:30pm EDT

Paula Rowland, PhD, is a Wilson Centre Scientist, MD Education at the Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto. She is also a Scientist at The Institute for Education Research at University Health Network (TIER@UHN) and an Assistant Professor (status) in the Department of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy and in the Institute of Health Policy, Management, and Evaluation, both at University of Toronto. Having completed a PhD in Organizational Systems, Paula draws upon social science theories of professions, expertise, and organizations to explore how healthcare work is changing. She is particularly interested in how major organizational change efforts shape knowledge, power, and identity dynamics of healthcare workers and patients. Her previous research has focused on patient safety and quality improvement initiatives and patient engagement programs. More recently, she has been exploring the implications of digital technologies for the organization of healthcare work and knowledge. Paula’s research connects to health professions education through explorations of workplace learning and the clinical learning environment, particularly during change initiatives.

Roundtable Speaker
Educating for Equity within Teams
Tuesday, March 26, 2024 9:00am – 10:30am EDT

Dr. Rachelle Ashcroft is an Associate Professor with the Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work, and cross-appointed to the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Toronto. Dr. Ashcroft holds a BSW and MSW from the University of Manitoba, a PhD from Wilfrid Laurier University, and she completed postdoctoral training at the Centre for Addictions and Mental Health (CAMH) in Toronto, Ontario. She has over 14 years of clinical social work experience in community health and tertiary care settings. Dr. Ashcroft is a core-funded investigator of Ontario’s INSPIRE-PHC network, and a mentor in the TUTOR-PHC program, a pan-Canadian primary care research capacity-building program.

Roundtable Speaker
Educating for Equity within Teams
Tuesday, March 26, 2024 9:00am – 10:30am EDT

Ritika Goel is a family physician in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at University of Toronto working with the St. Michael’s Hospital Academic Family Health Team and doing shelter-based work with Inner City Health Associates. She is the Faculty Lead for Social Accountability at the Department of Family and Community Medicine, and Chair of the Social Accountability Working Group at the College of Family Physicians of Canada. Ritika has been engaged in health-related activism, public speaking and writing on issues at the intersection of health and social justice throughout her career. She is a board member of Canadian Doctors for Medicare, and part of the organizing committee for OHIP for All. Ritika is passionate about bringing lenses of anti-oppression and social justice into medicine, including medical education, continuing professional development and institutional change.

Workshop Facilitator
Why a Pluralistic Approach to Education Affords Collaboration and Transformation
Wednesday, March 27, 2024 1:00pm – 2:30pm EDT

Sacha Agrawal is Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and a staff psychiatrist and clinician educator at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health. He is passionate about his clinical work supporting the recovery of individuals with severe mental illness as a member and collaborative leader of two flexible assertive community treatment teams at CAMH. Sacha’s academic interests are in the areas of co-produced education and health equity and social justice education. He is an award-winning clinical teacher, education leader and innovator. He coordinates the Severe Mental Illness training for the General Adult Psychiatry residency program at the University of Toronto and is Education Lead for the Division of Schizophrenia at CAMH. He is also the Inclusion and Co-Production Advisor at the Centre for Advancing Collaborative Healthcare and Education (CACHE).

Roundtable Speaker
Educating for Equity within Teams
Tuesday, March 26, 2024 9:00am – 10:30am EDT

Sarah Gregor is a passionate clinician, teacher, and researcher. She received both her Master of Science in Physical Therapy, and Doctorate degree in Rehabilitation Sciences with a collaborative specialization in Neuroscience at the University of Toronto. She was also the inaugural person to complete a Health Professions Education – Practice Based Fellowship at the University of Toronto where she collaborated on interprofessional education project that was completed in partnership with the Chinese University of Hong Kong and the University of Toronto. Currently Sarah works clinically in a private physiotherapy practice, where she works with clients with neurological diagnoses achieve their movement related goals. She also holds an Assistant Clinical Professor (Adjunct) appointment in the School of Rehabilitation Sciences at McMaster University, where she primarily teaches within the Master of Science Physiotherapy program. The rest of her time she spends working as an IPE Scholar with Center for Advancing Collaborative Healthcare and Education on the Team Primary Care project. Throughout all her roles, Sarah is passionate to help improve the access and quality of care received in the Canadian healthcare system.

Moderator 
Short talks – Submitted abstracts
Tuesday, March 26, 2024 10:45am – 12:15pm EDT

Dr. Sarah Wright’s research program explores the (un)intended consequences of educational action that occurs in the intersections between assessment theory and practice. Her work is inspired and informed by a decade of experience as a psychometrician at Newcastle University Medical School (UK). This practical experience has given her insight into how assessment frameworks can limit or support educational goals such as fostering compassionate practitioners or striving for social change. For example, she has combined psychometric and critical approaches to investigate the ways in which admissions policies often work to favour culturally and socially privileged medical students, thereby limiting attempts to improve student diversity. Through improved understanding of how emerging education goals transpire within existing education structures, her research seeks to improve education practice.

Moderator
Welcome
Monday, March 25, 2024 9:00am – 10:00am EDT
Closing Remarks – Conference+
Wednesday, March 27, 2024 2:30pm – 2:45pm 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.

Rountable Speaker
Educating for Equity within Teams
Tuesday, March 26, 2024 9:00am – 10:30am EDT

Tavis is a clinician-investigator in the Department of Family & Community Medicine (DFCM); scientist in the DFCM’s Office of Education Scholarship; physician and medical research lead at Kensington Hospice; palliative care physician at Saint Michael’s Hospital; and an IPE scholar at the Centre for Advancing Collaborative Healthcare and Education (CACHE). His research interests include equity, interprofessionalism, and admissions in medical education; workplace-based learning and assessment; palliative care in family medicine; and end of life care.

Keynote Speaker
Love from Near and Far
Monday, March 26, 2024 10:15am – 12:15pm EDT

Associate Professor and Clinical Psychologist, Department of Behavioural Medicine, School of Nursing and Public Health, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban South Africa

Honorary Senior Visiting Fellow to the Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

Thirusha is associate professor at the University of KwaZulu-Natal and a clinical psychologist practising in the public health context in South Africa.  She is a descendant of indentured slaves displaced in the service of colonialism. A woman of colour, Thirusha grew up and was trained as a professional psychologist in apartheid era South Africa.  Her research approach references critical and theoretical perspectives on health and health professions education through decolonial and feminist theories. Inspired to give voice and make space for women of colour in research and health she uses research poetry as a method for deep reflexivity to document, present and illustrate experiences and research findings. Her clinical work focuses on psychotherapy for severe mental disorders and the mental health of healthcare workers. Thirusha’s research focus areas include Mental Health Medical Education and Global Health in the context of mental health and infectious diseases (HIV and MDR-TB, FGS etc).