Leading and Influencing Change in CPD

Dr. Campbell is the Director for Continuing Professional Development at The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada and is a specialist in Internal Medicine and an Associate Professor of Medicine in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Ottawa. Dr. Campbell leads the national Maintenance of Certification (MOC) Program, serves as Registrar for the Royal College, and has oversight for the development of the competency-based CPD development project within the Royal College’s Competence by Design strategic initiative. Dr. Campbell’s research interests include self-directed learning, practice based assessment and the role of ePortfolios in supporting learning in practice. He is a recipient of the Dave Davis Research in Continuing Medical Education Award, recognizing an individual or group of individuals who have made outstanding contributions to research in continuing medical education. Dr. Campbell is a Fellow of the Society for Academic Continuing Medical Education.

Dr. Janice Harvey is a Physician Advisor in Continuing Professional Development at the College of Family Physicians of Canada as well as an Assistant Clinical Professor for the Department of Family Medicine at McMaster University.
Dr. Harvey is also the Assistant Director of the Standardized Patient Program at the McMaster University Centre for Simulation Based Learning and a primary care physician with a special interest in sport and exercise medicine. She. In the past, Dr. Harvey has been the Chair of the Ontario College of Family Physicians’ CME/CPD Committee and the President of the Canadian Academy of Sport and Exercise Medicine.

Brian D. Hodges, MD, PhD, FRCPC is Professor in the Faculty of Medicine and at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto; the Richard and Elizabeth Currie Chair in Health Professions Education Research at the Wilson Centre and Executive-Vice President Education at the University Health Network (Toronto General, Toronto Western, Princess Margaret, Toronto Rehab Hospitals and the Michener Institute). He is a practicing psychiatrist and teacher. His research focuses on assessment, competence, compassion and the future of the health profession. His work has been recognized with the Association of American Medical Colleges Flexner Award (2015) and the Karolinska Institutet Prize for Research in Medical Education (2016).

I am a veterinarian and graduated from Cornell University with a DVM in 1992. I practiced mixed animal medicine and then companion animal medicine for 10 years. (I describe companion animal medicine to my human health care provider colleagues as a mixture of the complexity of geriatric medicine in a pediatric non-speaking patient.) I received my MHSc in Family and Community Medicine from the University of Toronto in 2005- with a focus on continuing medical education. In May, 2008 I passed the National Commission’s international exam and became a Certified Continuing Medical Education Professional (CCMEP). I now work in both veterinary curriculum design and continuing professional development for physicians. I am a Medical Education Consultant for the Office of Continuing Professional Development at the Faculty of Medicine at U of T and a consultant to the Dean of the Western College of Veterinary Medicine. I speak and publish internationally on One Health topics.

Sasha Litwin is a staff physician in the Emergency Department at the Hospital for Sick Children. She is currently in the Master of Design for Health program at OCAD University. Her goal is to bring design thinking methodology into the hospitals by facilitating design workshops for healthcare professionals and collaborating on interdisciplinary, user-centered healthcare design projects.

Elizabeth McLaney is the Director of Interprofessional Education (IPE) at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, and an Associate Director at the University of Toronto’s Centre for Interprofessional Education (CIPE). Elizabeth’s work at Sunnybrook focuses on corporate IPE strategic planning, bringing collaborative learning into continuing education and faculty development, working with academic partners and internal leaders to support student education, and advancing education related infrastructure. Elizabeth’s work at the CIPE focuses on system level leadership and engagement. Elizabeth holds a status appointment as Lecturer with the Department of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto. Elizabeth has published and presented on topics such as: creating organizational core competencies for interprofessional team collaboration, leveraging intentionality to advance IPE, game-based learning and IPE, and implementing cross-organization interprofessional learning opportunities for students.

Dr. Jamie Meuser is a family physician with a practice in home palliative care in Toronto. He was the Executive Director of Professional Development and Practice Support for the College of Family Physicians of Canada from 2011 to 2017. Prior to assuming this role, Dr. Meuser was Director of Professional Development at the University of Toronto Department of Family and Community Medicine, and Medical Advisor to the Toronto Central Community Care Access Centre. From 1995 to 2003, he was Chief of the Department of Family Practice at Toronto East General Hospital, and practiced comprehensive family medicine in east Toronto for over two decades. Dr. Meuser holds the academic rank of Associate Professor at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto.

Navaz Mistry is the Director of Advancement Communications at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto. She is responsible for the department’s marketing strategy, including designing the customer journey through digital and print communications. She has a Master of Education from the University of Toronto and has worked with numerous organizations on creating customized training programs. Areas of focus include design thinking, innovation, problem-solving, strategy and leadership. She also facilitates sessions on design thinking and communications.

Amy Outschoorn is the Director, Continuing Professional Development at The College of Family Physicians of Canada (CFPC). She is responsible for providing strategic direction and oversight to the CFPC’s MAINPRO+® program, including the certification of CPD programs for Canadian family physicians. Amy manages the National Committee on Continuing Professional Development (NCCPD) and is the co-chair of the annual National Accreditation Conference, co-hosted by the CFPC and the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada.

Amy sits on the Board of Directors at the Canadian Premature Babies Foundation and at Food Allergy Canada. She is a member of the International Academy for CPD Accreditation and the Canadian Society for Association Executives. Amy earned her Master’s degree in Education from York University, Bachelor of Applied Science degree from the University of Guelph and holds her Certified Training and Development Professional designation from the Institute for Performance and Learning.

Paula Rowland, PhD, is a Scientist with the Wilson Centre for Research in Education, as part of the Post MD program at the University of Toronto. Following a clinical career in the rehabilitation sciences, Dr. Rowland pursued graduate studies in the field of organizational development, completing two Master’s degrees (2007, 2011) and earning a PhD in Organizational Studies in 2013. Paula explores major organizational change initiatives as a way to understand workplace learning in context. To that end, she has two streams of research: (1) organizational change for patient safety and (2) patient engagement for quality improvement. Her work has been supported by the Social Science and Humanities Research Council, the AMS Phoenix Project, the Gold Foundation, and University of Toronto’s Education Development Fund. She has published in leading education and health journals, including Academic Medicine, Medical Education, Advances in Health Sciences Education, the Journal of Interprofessional Care, and Health. In addition to her Scientist role, Dr. Rowland is the Associate Director Research at the Centre for Interprofessional Education and is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy (Faculty of Medicine), both at University of Toronto.

Dr. Salvatore (Sal) Spadafora is the Vice Dean, Post MD Education [Postgraduate Medical Education (PGME) & Continuing Professional Development (CPD)] at the University of Toronto, a Professor in the Department of Anesthesia at the University of Toronto and an anesthesiologist at Mt. Sinai Hospital, in Toronto. He previously served as Vice Dean PGME at the University of Toronto and Associate Dean, PGME at the Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry at the University of Western Ontario.

Dr. Spadafora received his MD from the University of Toronto, and also completed his Masters in Health Professions Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Dr. Spadafora has advocated effectively and tirelessly for medical education to benefit Canadian patient populations with respect to fiscal and human resources, education methodology and technology, and the social mission of medical education including developing strategies to integrate education in urban and small community sites. He has developed models of inter-professional education and assessment and integration of international medical graduates provincially.

Dr. Schneeweiss is an Associate Professor of Paediatrics at the University of Toronto and Associate Dean for Continuing Professional Development (CPD) in the Faculty of Medicine. She is a faculty member and Director of Education for the Division of Paediatric Emergency Medicine at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto. Dr. Schneeweiss has dedicated her career to advancing CPD and worked as the Academic Director for University of Toronto CPD (2013-2015) and Director for Continuing Education for the Department of Paediatrics at SickKids (2004- 2013). She served as a CPD educator for the Royal College of Physician and Surgeons of Canada for 6 years where she worked to support the maintenance of certification program and lifelong learning, completing her term in 2016. She has been extensively involved in educational development and scholarship throughout her career and has acquired a broad range of experience in program development leading a variety of innovative local, national and international courses and conferences.

Dr. Ivan Silver joined the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) in December 2011 as its’ first Vice President of Education. Prior to this he was the inaugural director of the Centre for Faculty Development (2002-2009) and the Vice-Dean of CEPD (2005-2011) in the Faculty of Medicine. Dr. Silver is a full Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto, and a practicing psychiatrist at CAMH where his focus is geriatric psychiatry.

Dr. Silver has built a national reputation as a medical educator. Among his many awards and honors is the 3M Teaching Fellowship, a national award that recognizes outstanding contributions to university teaching across all faculties. In 2014, he was recognized by both the Royal College Physicians and Surgeons of Canada and the Canadian Association of Medical Education for his long standing contributions to medical education and related scholarship nationally.

As the Vice-President of Education at CAMH, Dr. Silver is responsible for creating a learning environment that will draw students and trainees to the hospital, and is dedicated to inter-professional collaboration, work-based learning including simulation and e-learning, linking education to clinical care outcomes, and enhancing education scholarship and innovation. He is continuing his education research and scholarship in the areas of feedback, professionalism, and continuing professional and faculty development.

Maria Tassone is the Senior Director, Collaborative and Transformative Learning at the University Health Network (UHN), and 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 highly successful Collaborative Change Leadership™ program, for which Maria is currently the Co-Director. Over the course of her career, Maria has been recognized as a leader in innovation related to 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, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto. Throughout her career, Maria has held a variety of clinical, education, research and leadership positions, both within physiotherapy and across a multitude of professions. She is most passionate about the interface between research, education, and practice and leading change in complex systems.

Dr. Walter Tavares is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine and an Education Scientist at the Wilson Centre and Post-MD Education. Dr. Tavares’ research examines ways of optimizing performance based assessments in work and simulation settings broadly. This includes studying the role and/or cognitive behaviours of the observer in the assessment process and how both work and simulation efforts may be optimized and/or integrated for formative, programmatic and/or summative assessment efforts. He is also interested in studying validity and critically examining assessment shifts from a theoretical and applied perspective. His area of focus in Continuing Professional Development (CPD) involves exploring factors affecting the success of intended educational strategies

Jane Tipping is an adult education specialist with an expertise in continuing professional development. She has a background in faculty development, continuing professional education, instructional design, coaching and program evaluation. Currently Jane works as a freelance educational consultant, mostly in Canada. She recently moved to the Netherlands, ‘telecommutes” with Canada and is in the process of establishing new contacts within Europe.Jane has worked with several Canadian national associations including the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons, the College of Family Physicians of Canada, the Canadian Rheumatology Association, and the Canadian Anesthesiology Association. She has presented at many national and international educational meetings and is well known for her skills in educational design and facilitation.

Dr. David Wiljer is a member of the community providing groundbreaking perspectives and inspiring contributions to digital health policy, management, education and evaluation. He is the Executive Director of Education, Technology & Innovation at the University Health Network, and former Senior Director of Transformational Education and Academic Advancement at CAMH. David is also an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine and the Institute of Health Policy Management and Evaluation at the University of Toronto. He is a former President of the American Association of Cancer Education, and was the founding Chair of a national working group, the Canadian Committee for Patient Accessible Electronic Health Records (CCPAEHR), dedicated to involving patients in their EH. He was also an inaugural Associate Director of the Centre for Health, Wellness and Cancer Survivorship at the Princess Margaret Cancer Program at the University Health Network.

His work focuses on patient and health professions education, specifically patient involvement, digitally enabled education and life-long learning. He has explored the development of large programs, infrastructure, communities, and research initiatives that involve health professionals, patients and families in new approaches to education and care delivery, including patient portals for providing patients with access to their health records and social networking approaches to promote self-management and self-care.

Dr. Wong is an Associate Professor and Director of Continuing Education and Quality Improvement in the Department of Medicine at the University of Toronto, and Associate Director for the Centre for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety (C-QuIPS) at the University of Toronto. Clinically, he is a staff general internist at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre. His scholarly activities connect at the intersection between medical education, quality improvement and patient safety. He chaired the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada CanMEDS 2015 Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Expert Working Group and authored a report that informed the eventual integration of patient safety and quality improvement competencies into the CanMEDS 2015 physician competency framework; as a result, PSQI are now a required training standard for all subspecialty training programs in Canada. He also directs the Royal College ASPIRE train-the-trainer faculty development program, and spearheaded efforts to establish Patient Safety and Quality Improvement as an official Diploma Discipline in Canada.​

For nearly 40 years, Dr. Davis was a family physician in Ontario, Canada. During that time, he was active in “CME” as: chairman of an all-staff inter-professional CE program at a community hospital; director and subsequently chair of continuing education at McMaster University’s innovative Faculty of Health Sciences; associate dean, continuing education, and founding director of the Knowledge Translation Program in the Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto; and chairman of Ontario’s Guidelines Advisory Committee.

Dr. Davis also developed a comprehensive provincial competency assessment program, and helped launch a center for faculty development at the University of Toronto. In 2007, Dr Davis was named Vice President (subsequently renamed as Senior Director), Continuing Education and Performance Improvement at the Association of American Medical Colleges, Washington, DC. In 2015, Dr. Davis was appointed Professor and Senior Director, Center for Outcomes and Research in Education (CORE), Mohammed Bin Rashid University of Medicine and Health Sciences, Dubai, UAE.

His current work in Dubai focuses on the creation of the Center for Outcomes and Research in Education (CORE), pulling together themes of quality improvement, system and patient outcomes and effective education.

Dr. Ginsburg is a Professor in the Department of Medicine and a Scientist at the Wilson Centre for Research in Education. She is also Academic Director, CPD. She completed medical school at McGill, followed by postgraduate training in Internal Medicine (at U of T), Respirology and Critical Care (at McMaster) and a Master of Education at OISE. She completed a PhD in Health Professions Education at Maastricht University.

Her program of research involves two inter-related areas. The first explores how clinical supervisors conceptualize, assess and communicate about the performance and competence of their learners, with a focus on the language used in workplace-based assessment. The second area explores the construct of professionalism in medical education, from the perspective of learners, faculty and practicing physicians. Dr. Ginsburg also collaborates widely with colleagues from U of T and nationally/internationally on projects related to cross-cultural professionalism, the effect of the environment on performance assessments, gender issues in teacher assessments, how successful people handle failure, and issues central to the field of medical education research and scholarship in general, including academic publishing and dissemination.

She serves as Deputy Editor at the journal Medical Education and is on the Editorial Board of Academic Medicine. Dr. Ginsburg is the Director of the Eliot Phillipson Clinician-Educator Training Program and Director of Education Research and Scholarship, both in the Department of Medicine.

Dr. Lieff is a Geriatric Psychiatrist, Professor and the past Vice-Chair of Education of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto (UT) from 2010- 2017. She is currently the founding Director of the New and Evolving Academic Leaders Program (NEAL) at the Centre for Faculty Development, Faculty of Medicine and St Michael’s Hospital, an international program that supports the development of leaders in the academic health sciences. She completed her Masters of Education in higher education of health professionals at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education/UT in 2002 and her International Masters in Health Leadership at McGill University in 2008. Dr. Lieff’s scholarship focuses on studying the practices, networks and perspectives of academic leaders in the health sciences as well as the design and evaluation of academic leadership development programs in the health sciences.

She has been recognized for her excellence in teaching and educational innovation by the University of Toronto, UT Faculty of Medicine, the Association of Faculties of Medicine of Canada, the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, the Canadian Association of Medical Education, the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry, the Association of Academic Psychiatry and the American and Canadian Psychiatric Associations.

Emily is the Education Manager in Learning Institute for the Simulation and Resuscitation Education Programs. Emily joined the Learning Institute in 2008 as a Simulation Educator and has continually contributed to the growth of the Simulation Program by expanding the use of simulation beyond education to support quality improvement, patient safety, process improvement, evaluation and commissioning. Emily led the program’s renewal for accreditation with the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons resulting in a successful 5 year accreditation. Emily has also been involved in two Leading Practices awarded by Accreditation Canada for the QI project “The Use of In-situ Simulation as a Needs Assessment to Detect Human and System Errors” and the Health Standards Organization for “Onsite Workplace Simulation Framework to Assist Return to Work”. Emily is currently enrolled in the MALead program at the University of Guelph.

Dr. MacNeill is currently Medical Director of Stroke Rehabilitation for the Sinai Health System. She is also Staff Physiatrist at Bridgepoint Active Healthcare. At the same time, she also co-instructs Educational Technologies for Health Career Professionals, https://www.healthedutech.com/.

Previously, she acted as Director of Medical Education at Bridgepoint and as Director of COIL – Collaborative Online Interprofessional Learning/Research. She has been invited lecturer at Edutech, Centre for Faculty Development, Master’s Teacher, and INTAPT (Interprofessional Applied Practical Teaching and Learning in the Health Professions). In 2012, Dr. Macneill received the Fred Fallis Award for Distance Education (U of T) & Fox award-best research presentation (SACME, collaborative vs. individual online learning).

Dr. Pirie is a staff physician in the Division of Pediatric Emergency Medicine and Associate Professor, University of Toronto. He is the Director of Simulation for Pediatric Emergency Medicine and the Simulation Fellowship program. His simulation interests include development of core curricula for postgraduate training programs, in-situ team training, and competency based simulation for trainees and faculty. He also is a technology enthusiast, promoting the use of technology to improve clinical practice through the use of online and mobile applications.

In 2016, Dr. Pirie received the Colin Woolf Award, U of T Faculty of Medicine, for demonstrating a sustained commitment to education. He also received the Harry Bain Award (2011) for excellence in teaching – pediatric residents, Department of Pediatrics. His clinical interests include the resuscitation of acutely ill children and the management of febrile children at risk for serious bacterial infection. Other educational interests include residents in difficulty and the role of remediation in postgraduate trainees.

Dr. Schneeweiss is an Associate Professor of Paediatrics at the University of Toronto and Associate Dean for Continuing Professional Development (CPD) in the Faculty of Medicine. She is a faculty member and Director of Education for the Division of Paediatric Emergency Medicine at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto. Dr. Schneeweiss has dedicated her career to advancing CPD and worked as the Academic Director for University of Toronto CPD (2013-2015) and Director for Continuing Education for the Department of Paediatrics at SickKids (2004- 2013). She served as a CPD educator for the Royal College of Physician and Surgeons of Canada for 6 years where she worked to support the maintenance of certification program and lifelong learning, completing her term in 2016. She has been extensively involved in educational development and scholarship throughout her career and has acquired a broad range of experience in program development leading a variety of innovative local, national and international courses and conferences.

Dr. Sockalingam is Vice President of Education at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) where he co-leads the Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes (ECHO). He is also Associate Professor of Psychiatry at University of Toronto and Director of Curriculum Renewal for the Medical Psychiatry Alliance.

He earned his medical degree from the University of Manitoba and his psychiatry residency at the University of Toronto. Dr. Sockalingam received a Masters of Health Professions Education from University of Illinois at Chicago. Dr. Sockalingam has also served as Deputy, Psychiatrist-in-Chief at the University Health Network (UHN), and Director of Continuing Professional and Practice Development for Psychiatry at the University of Toronto.
Dr. Sockalingam is a lead investigator on several peer-reviewed clinical and medical education grants. His education research is focused on training for managing complexity in healthcare, 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 related to education scholarship, teaching and leadership.

Jane Tipping is an adult education specialist with an expertise in continuing professional development. She has a background in faculty development, continuing professional education, instructional design and program evaluation. Currently Jane works as an educational consultant with the Office of Continuing Education and Professional Development, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Canada as well as the Canadian Anesthesiologist Society.

Jane has worked with several Canadian associations including the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons, the College of Family Physicians of Canada, the Canadian Rheumatology Association, and the Canadian Anesthesiology Association. She presents at many national and international educational meetings and is well known for her skills in educational design and facilitation. She has won several awards including an outstanding collaboration award between industry and academia (Alliance for Continuing Medical Education), Best Article Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions. Jane is currently co-chair of the Special Interest Group in CPD and the CPD committee for the Association of Medical Educators of Europe.

Jane is very passionate about CPD and the need to continually “push the bar”. It is also her intention to contribute to raising the awareness of the importance of CPD within the medical education continuum.

Dr. David Wiljer is a member of the community providing groundbreaking perspectives and inspiring contributions to digital health policy, management, education and evaluation. He is the Executive Director of Education, Technology & Innovation at the University Health Network, and former Senior Director of Transformational Education and Academic Advancement at CAMH. David is also an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine and the Institute of Health Policy Management and Evaluation at the University of Toronto. He is a former President of the American Association of Cancer Education, and was the founding Chair of a national working group, the Canadian Committee for Patient Accessible Electronic Health Records (CCPAEHR), dedicated to involving patients in their EH. He was also an inaugural Associate Director of the Centre for Health, Wellness and Cancer Survivorship at the Princess Margaret Cancer Program at the University Health Network.

His work focuses on patient and health professions education, specifically patient involvement, digitally enabled education and life-long learning. He has explored the development of large programs, infrastructure, communities, and research initiatives that involve health professionals, patients and families in new approaches to education and care delivery, including patient portals for providing patients with access to their health records and social networking approaches to promote self-management and self-care.