DoAPM Faculty Development Day 2026
November 11, 2026
The Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine (DoAPM) at Temerty Medicine is pleased to present a comprehensive, in-person Faculty Development Day designed for all faculty members, fellows, and senior residents. This annual event is dedicated to equipping participants with the knowledge, skills, and resources needed to excel as clinician teachers and to successfully navigate transitions into academic practice and promotion within DoAPM at Temerty Medicine.
The one-day, in-person conference will take place on Wednesday, November 11, 2026, from 7:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. at the Chelsea Hotel Toronto —a fully accessible, newly renovated venue centrally located in downtown Toronto.
The program begins with a 60-minute keynote address by Dr. Alika Lafontaine. Named Maclean’s top Health Care Innovator of 2023, Dr. Alika Lafontaine is an anesthesiologist and transformative leader. He made history as the first Indigenous and youngest physician to serve as President of the Canadian Medical Association (CMA). We aim to have his bold, visionary leadership shape how attendees think about healthcare, equity, and the future of our public systems. Following the keynote, attendees will participate in two hours of self-directed learning through interactive workshops and small group sessions. These sessions will focus on vital topics such as the use of AI in education and the workplace, EDIIA, leadership development, academic promotion and transition to retirement, effective clinical supervision and small group teaching strategies.
After lunch, the afternoon features two hours devoted to both departmental and personal/professional strategic planning. Attendees can select from one of three specialized tracks:
1. Launch: The DoAPM Leadership Development Program (For Faculty)
2. Licensure & Royal College Exam Preparation (For Fellows, IMG, New Faculty, Residents)
3. Introduction to AI (For Faculty, Fellows, Residents)
Faculty Development Day 2026 is designed to offer a rich environment for learning, professional growth, and networking, empowering academic anesthesiologists at every stage of their careers.
Poetry in Practice: Reflection, Communication, and Creative Expression
November 12-26, 2026
This two part online workshop will explore day to day clinical work - including moments of transition, vulnerability, and connection - through narrative medicine. Drawing upon a growing body of poetic works on healthcare themes, this workshop explores poetry as an accessible vehicle for cultivating close attention, reflective skills, and creative self-expression, and offers new modes for appreciating the human dimensions of care.
This highly interactive workshop explores the intersection of poetry and medicine through hands on activities. Structured around close reading of sample poems, guided writing exercises, and group discussion, participants will learn how to engage with language in ways that deepen their understanding of both patient care and their own healthcare experiences.
You Are Not Alone: Child Trauma & Attachment Conference 2026
November 13-16, 2026
You Are Not Alone: Child Trauma and Attachment Conference is a two‑day hybrid interdisciplinary conference, followed by a separate two‑day post‑conference training program designed for clinicians wishing to further deepen their clinical practice.
The two‑day conference focuses on childhood trauma, attachment, and developmental neurobiology, exploring how early adversity shapes brain development, emotional and physiological regulation, relational capacity, assessment findings, and intergenerational patterns of distress. Through keynote presentations, panel discussions, and moderated dialogue, participants engage with contemporary, evidence‑informed perspectives relevant across clinical, community, and systems contexts.
The post‑conference training program consists of two additional days of integrated clinical training. Across both days, clinicians may select sessions that deepen knowledge of trauma and attachment, child development, and clinical assessment, as well as sessions that build applied skills in four evidence‑informed therapeutic models commonly used in trauma‑ and attachment‑focused practice. Programming is designed to allow participants to tailor their learning based on role, experience, and practice interests, rather than follow a prescribed sequence.
Both the conference and post‑conference training are delivered through an interactive hybrid format, incorporating didactic teaching, case‑based learning, clinical examples, and facilitated discussion for in‑person and virtual participants.
Paediatric Dermatology Update
November 14, 2026
Advance paediatric dermatology—partner with us through sponsorship and help further the knowledge in care for children and adolescents. Attendees will learn about the latest clinical developments to better diagnose and treat common and rare childhood skin conditions in your community-based practice at this synthesized, one-day conference.
Covering the breadth of paediatric dermatology, expert speakers will share new guidelines and therapies for skin disorders of childhood and adolescence. Topics will include common skin conditions such as acne and atopic dermatitis; under-serviced populations in dermatology; novel therapeutics and more.
Attendees will learn how to assess and treat skin conditions encountered in clinic and determine when to refer patients for follow-up treatment.
Physicians Financial Wellness Conference 2026
November 14, 2026
The Canadian Physicians’ Financial Wellness Conference is a national, annual virtual continuing professional development program designed to address financial literacy needs across the medical professional lifecycle. The program provides practical, evidence-informed financial education for medical trainees and physicians through a combination of keynote teaching, concurrent topic-specific sessions, interactive discussion, and expert panel discussion. Content is organized across beginner, intermediate, and advanced learning streams, allowing participants to select education appropriate to their existing knowledge, career stage, and financial learning needs. Topics are informed by participant needs assessments, previous conference evaluations, and the financial literacy literature, with emphasis on areas such as retirement and decumulation, practice management, early-career financial planning, estate planning, contract negotiation, taxation, investing, and other financial decisions relevant to physicians. The virtual format supports national participation and flexible access, including subsequent access to recordings. The program is designed to provide education that is practical, independent of product promotion, and directly relevant to financial decision-making throughout a physician's career.
The program has used a keynote, concurrent discussion-based breakout sessions, a live panel and research presentation, while content is informed by literature and iterative attendee feedback. The conference also has a governance policy requiring conflict-of-interest disclosure, prohibiting product promotion and maintaining separation between partnerships and educational speakers.
Partners in Care: 2026-2027 Webinar Series
Nov. 19, 2026 - Feb. 25, 2027
This two-part, 60-minute webinar series delivers practical, evidence-based updates on two women's and children's health topics relevant to local primary care providers: paediatric respiratory illness, with a focus on RSV prevention, and nausea and vomiting in pregnancy. Developed in response to participant feedback from the 2026 Partners in Care event requesting more frequent content and free-to-access programming, the series complements the full-day Partners in Care: Women's and Children's Primary Care Education Day (May 2027) by offering smaller, targeted sessions that sustain engagement between annual events.
Each session follows a structured format covering primary care management strategies, referral criteria and timing, referral processes and access points, and the expected patient journey before and after referral, with attention to integration with THP's hospital-based programs and services. Interactive elements allow real-time discussion and clarification of referral processes, while post-session handouts and care pathways support implementation in practice.
The online format ensures accessibility for busy practitioners, and each session is designed to deliver actionable knowledge for immediate clinical use. By fostering ongoing dialogue between primary care providers and THP's Women's and Children's program, this series strengthens the continuum of care between primary and specialized services.
2026 BPAO Women’s Health CPD – Women’s Health Reimagined: Centering Advocacy, Lived Experience, and Multidisciplinary Care.
November 21, 2026
This program will strengthen participants’ ability to deliver equitable, culturally safe, evidence-informed, and patient-centred care for women and gender-diverse people across the life course. Through a fireside chat, a lived-experience panel, and interactive case-based sessions, participants will deepen their clinical knowledge and practical skills in six priority areas: advocacy, identity, lived experience, and the systems and expectations that shape women’s health; disability-affirming care and advocacy; mental health during the menopause transition, including mood, anxiety, and cognitive symptoms; preeclampsia and lifelong cardiovascular risk; endometriosis diagnosis, management, and long-term care; and prevention and management of radiation-related skin changes in breast-cancer care.
Designed for family physicians, specialists, and other health-care professionals, the program will support participants to recognize inequities and barriers to care; apply accessible, trauma-informed, and disability-affirming communication; use evidence-informed assessment and management approaches; coordinate care across transitions and specialties; and advocate for practice, organizational, and policy changes that advance equitable women’s health outcomes.
Urology Update 2026
November 27-28, 2026
Join us in Toronto for Urology Update 2026. Expert faculty will highlight a program focused on important clinical problems. Take advantage of this opportunity to interact with your colleagues, visitors, and thought leaders from all over North America as you learn the latest evidence-based approaches.
Psychopharmacology Conference 2026
November 28, 2026
A full day conference with speakers presenting on the latest research and modalities in psychopharmacology.
Food as Medicine 2026
November 30, 2026
The Food as Medicine 2026 Update is a full day symposium for primary care providers and other medical professionals to learn about key nutrition topics to manage and prevent noncommunicable diseases in children and adults. The aim is to address the knowledge-gap in continuing medical education related to the role of nutrition in patient care. The event includes 10 presentations and opportunity for participants to interact withs speakers through audience polling and live panel discussions. This year's event is hybrid. Individuals online will be able to ask questions and participate in polling using an online polling software (e.g. Slido).
65th Annual Walter Wright Symposium
December 4-5, 2026
The Wright Symposium is the flagship annual CME event for the Department of Ophthalmology and Vision Sciences at the University of Toronto. This year the meeting will take place at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre, North Building on December 4-5, 2026 in Toronto.
This year’s theme is Essentials of Cornea, Anterior Segment & Refractive Surgery. The program will cover a variety of topics for comprehensive community ophthalmologists, optometrists, as well as academic sub-specialists.
Canadian Movement Disorders Society (CMDS) Congress
December 4-5, 2026
This national meeting brings clinicians, scientists, allied health professionals, and trainees together to engage with the latest clinical advances and research changing the landscape of movement disorders care and treatment in Canada. Programming will highlight emergent therapies and clinical trials, updates in imaging protocols, new technologies, strategies for improving access to care, and much more.
Medical Record-Keeping Program
December 9-11, 2026
Medical records tell the complete story of a patient’s healthcare journey. They play a crucial role in providing high-quality patient care. From clinical notes and electronic records, to consultation requests and discharge summaries, learn how to improve your medical records in practice.
Medical Record-Keeping is an interactive program (offered both in-person and online) that addresses the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario (CPSO) Medical Record-Keeping Policies. Using case-based exercises, peer assessments, and training on practice tools, this program provides participants with skills needed to keep good medical records for their patients and their practice.
Multidisciplinary Gynecologic Oncology Annual Lecture Series 2026
December 11, 2026
Presentations this year will revolve around “Personalizing the Path: Tailored Care in Gynecologic Oncology” Hear updates spanning new treatment strategies and systemic therapy advances in cervical cancer, platinum-resistant ovarian cancer, and endometrial cancer.
Project ECHO Care of the Elderly: GeriMedRisk
Jan. 12 - Feb. 16, 2027
Extension of Community Healthcare Outcomes (ECHO) is a model for enhanced telehealth education which features a collaborative learning environment and facilitates a community of practice by linking primary care providers with specialists to discuss actual cases with their colleagues in real-time. Specialists provide expertise and serve as mentors, and primary care providers acquire knowledge and skills in a given specialty.
Baycrest, in partnership with North East Specialized Geriatric Centre and GeriMedRisk (GMR), will deliver a 6-session series titled Project ECHO COE: GeriMedRisk to support older adults living with physical and mental health conditions in Ontario by equipping primary care practitioners, pharmacists and specialist physicians to optimize their medications, physical and mental health outcomes. The program will utilize tele-education services to facilitate geriatrics training for prescribers across Ontario, particularly in remote and underserved areas. Each session is 90 minutes in length, bringing the total series length to 9-hours.
KT Canada Seminar Series 2027
Jan. 14 - Dec. 9, 2027
As part of KT Canada’s mandate, we have developed and hosted the first, expert-led seminar series dedicated to current and emerging topics in knowledge translation (KT). Reception to the series has been impressive, as we continue to establish links to researchers, health care professionals, policy makers and trainees.
Foundational Certificate in Narrative-Based Medicine (Winter 2027)
January 19 - April 13, 2027
Narrative-based medicine is premised on the understanding that, knowingly and unknowingly, practitioners and patients together construct narratives over the course of their encounters; that these stories – with their multiple characters, conflicts and desires, subtleties and miscommunications – affect the nature and meaning of health events in all our lives; and that getting better at working with stories of all kinds has a powerful impact on both patient care and clinician fulfillment.
Jointly led by an expert in narrative-based medicine and an accomplished writer, both of whom have extensive experience working with health professionals, this intensive program is taught in two parts: NBM Principles and Practices focuses on the theory and practice of narrative-based medicine while Writing and Narrative Craft seeks to improve learners’ creative and reflective skills as writers and readers.
The program is Canada’s only virtual intensive certificate program in narrative-based clinical practice. Domestic and international learners across all disciplines are welcome.
Coaching Essentials for Healthcare Professionals 2027
January 19 - May 18, 2027
The Coaching Essentials for Healthcare Professionals digital certificate program introduces fundamental coaching knowledge and skills that will enable you to partner with healthcare colleagues in creating a more humanistic and healthy work environment. Through interactive online sessions, skills training activities, and reflection exercises, you will learn how to foster a coaching culture at work and develop strategies to thrive in healthcare and beyond.
Discover how changing the conversation by using a coaching mindset and approach can foster personal growth, optimize interpersonal dynamics, increase leadership effectiveness, and help restore our sense of purpose as professionals in healthcare.
From Menopause to Menarche and Beyond: Advances in Nutrition and Women’s Health
January 29, 2027
Advancing Nutrition and Women’s Health Across the Life Course
Women experience unique nutritional and health needs across the life course, yet important gaps remain in research, clinical practice, and equitable access to evidence-informed care. Emerging evidence continues to demonstrate the critical role of nutrition in supporting reproductive health, menopause, cardiometabolic health, cancer survivorship, musculoskeletal health, and age-related chronic disease risk.
At the same time, growing recognition of sex- and gender-specific influences on nutrition research and clinical practice has highlighted the need for more inclusive research, improved knowledge translation and tailored approaches to nutrition care.
Exploring Current and Emerging Evidence
From Menarche to Menopause and Beyond: Advances in Nutrition and Women's Health is an engaging, interdisciplinary and evidence-informed conference designed to advance understanding of the role of nutrition in women’s health from adolescence through older adulthood.
Bringing together leading researchers and clinicians, this conference will explore current evidence related to reproductive health conditions such as polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome (PMOS), infertility and endometriosis; the physiological and metabolic changes associated with perimenopause and menopause; nutrition strategies to support cardiovascular, musculoskeletal, and mental health; and the emerging developments in personalized nutrition, gene–diet interactions, and nutritional supplementation in women’s care.
Translating Evidence Into Practice
A central focus of the conference is the translation of research evidence into practical applications. Sessions will examine sex- and gender-specific considerations in nutrition research, GLP-1–based therapies and cardiometabolic health, and the importance of equity, cultural responsiveness, and inclusive research approaches to care.
Through expert presentations, panel discussions, and interactive dialogue, attendees will gain practical knowledge and evidence-informed strategies to support women’s health across diverse populations and clinical settings.
The 6th Annual Canadian Health and Wellbeing in Developmental Disabilities Conference
February 3-4, 2027
The Health and Wellbeing Conference is an interprofessional conference where health care providers and community partners connect to share education and informative updates and practical, innovative, promising and effective practices that improve the health and wellbeing of people with developmental disabilities across the lifespan.
21st Annual CPEG Scientific Meeting
February 4-6, 2027
This annual meeting is the opportunity for all Canadian pediatric endocrinologists to meet around a highly scientific program that covers novel aspects of pediatric endocrinology and diabetes. Scientific sessions include basic and clinical talks, presentations by junior CPEG members, poster presentations and debates around important questions in pediatric endocrinology and diabetes.
39th Annual Update in Emergency Medicine
February 21-24, 2027
This conference offers a great learning experience for health professionals involved in Emergency Medicine through the presentation of cases, reviews, and updates on some of the more critical topics in Emergency Medicine.
Foundational Certificate in Narrative-Based Medicine (Spring 2027)
March 4 - June 10, 2027
Narrative-based medicine is premised on the understanding that, knowingly and unknowingly, practitioners and patients together construct narratives over the course of their encounters; that these stories – with their multiple characters, conflicts and desires, subtleties and miscommunications – affect the nature and meaning of health events in all our lives; and that getting better at working with stories of all kinds has a powerful impact on both patient care and clinician fulfillment.
Jointly led by an expert in narrative-based medicine and an accomplished writer, both of whom have extensive experience working with health professionals, this intensive program is taught in two parts: NBM Principles and Practices focuses on the theory and practice of narrative-based medicine while Writing and Narrative Craft seeks to improve learners’ creative and reflective skills as writers and readers.
The program is Canada’s only virtual intensive certificate program in narrative-based clinical practice. Domestic and international learners across all disciplines are welcome.
BBDC Advances in Diabetes Care 2027
March 5, 2027
The central theme of this conference revolves around groundbreaking strides in diabetes care. We aim to delve into the latest advancements in drug development for the treatment of diabetes; explore the integration of cutting-edge evidence for diabetes management; discuss opportunities arising from newer information technology and artificial intelligence to improve diabetes care; and spotlight pioneering innovations in limb preservation in individuals with diabetes. Speakers will include both local and international experts.
Canadian Breast Cancer Symposium 2027
May 5-7, 2027
Learn about the latest research innovations and clinical updates that are changing the trajectory of care at the Canadian Breast Cancer Symposium. Taking a truly multidisciplinary approach, we bring together leading voices from across the country to integrate emerging standards of care across surgery, medical and radiation oncology, pathology, and community-based medicine. Renowned experts present innovative therapies and evidence-based approaches to help you make more informed decisions across the continuum of care.
A leading academic forum in breast cancer, we showcase practice-changing research with previous presentations published as conference proceedings in leading journals, extending the international impact of ground-breaking work taking place across Canada.
The patient perspective is actively integrated throughout programming. The voices of patient partners and advocates shape important discussions on survivorship, quality of life, and health care delivery.
Canadian Breast Cancer Symposium
May 5-7, 2027
10th International Congress on Bone Conduction Hearing and Related Technologies (OSSEO)
October 13-16, 2027
10th anniversary as we explore advances in osseointegration, bone conduction, and emergent technologies that have the potential to improve the lives of patients with hearing loss around the world. OSSEO draws a uniquely interdisciplinary and globally diverse audience of over 400 professionals.
10th International Congress on Bone Conduction Hearing and Related Technologies
October 13-16, 2027
Clinical and research experts from around the world will share advances in osseointegration, bone conduction, and emergent technologies that have the potential to improve the lives of patients with hearing loss.
We welcome participation from audiologists, otolaryngologists, hearing scientists, biomedical engineers, and industry partners who are interested in learning about new research outcomes and the development of new medical devices. Join us for 4 days of cutting-edge insights transforming the field of bone conduction hearing at this milestone meeting.
International Epilepsy Surgery Society (IESS) Congress 2027
October 21-23, 2027
The 3rd International Epilepsy Surgery Society (IESS) Congress is where the global epilepsy surgery community comes together to advance one of the most specialized and rapidly evolving areas of neurosurgical care.
Bringing together leading epilepsy surgeons, clinicians, and researchers from around the world, programming will showcase emerging surgical techniques and practice-changing research that are redefining standards of care. Sessions will cover a range of procedures and innovations, including temporal lobe resections, lesionectomies, neuromodulation, and deep brain stimulation, alongside advancements in minimally invasive surgery and integrated technologies.
As the first IESS Congress hosted in Canada, the meeting will also highlight the country’s longstanding contributions to epilepsy surgery, while welcoming a global audience to connect, share knowledge, and build partnerships across borders to shape the future of the field and improve outcomes for patients globally