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

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

Kulamakan (Mahan to friends, colleagues, and everyone else) Kulasegaram is a Scientist at the Wilson Centre and the University of Toronto MD program. His is an Assistant Professor in the Office of Education Scholarship in the Department of Family and Community Medicine. His research focuses on how the experience of assessment can be aligned with cognitive processes that promote transfer of learning and clinical reasoning by students. His work examines educational assessment from both a measurement and learning perspective. His major area of research is use of educational data to create analytics to improve program improvement, identifying patterns of learning in students, and the validation of education tools and processes. His methodological expertise is experimental and epidemiological design as well as biostatistical/psychometric analysis.

Director of University of Toronto’s Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Office since 2006. From 1999 until 2006, Rafael was at the Ontario Ministry of Government Services Access and Privacy Office, which is responsible for FIPPA and MFIPPA. From 1991 to 1999, he was an appeals officer, mediator and acting adjudicator at the Information and Privacy Commissioner, Ontario.