Education
Scholars Program

Dr. Euson Yeung is the program lead for the Education Scholars Program. Euson is a Physical Therapist and Assistant Professor in the Department of Physical Therapy at the University of Toronto with a keen interest in curriculum design and learner assessment. Since completing a Master’s of Education and PhD in education, Euson has been actively involved in curriculum and program development in the MScPT program at the University of Toronto, the Canadian Physiotherapy Association (Orthopaedic Division), and more recently with the International Federation of Orthopaedic Manual Physical Therapists. Informed by over 20 years of teaching experience, Euson’s education research and practice uses primarily a cognitivist and constructivist lens to explore how the different ways we view education can influence our approaches to designing curricula and learner assessments. Euson spearheaded the curriculum renewal process for the ESP, working collaboratively with ESP faculty to build on the success of this program.

Mariangela coordinates the Education Scholars Program (ESP) and the Teaching & Learning in the Clinical Context Program (TLC). Her role involves supporting the incorporation of technology into these programs and ensuring a seamless journey for participants throughout their blended-learning experience. Mariangela holds a Bachelor in Science and a Master’s degree in Food Safety and Nutritional Quality.

Lindsay Baker is the Associate Director, Curriculum Integration and Partnerships at the Centre for Faculty Development. Her work focuses on the purposeful integration of her curriculum development, teaching and qualitative research expertise to develop ethical, competent, and compassionate faculty. At an overarching level, her research uses constructivist and critical approaches to examine the boundaries and relations between disciplines, professions, and knowledge communities. Similarly, she integrates constructivist, transformative, and critical pedagogical approaches to education in my faculty development practice. She recognizes the importance of valuing multiple forms of knowledge and ways of knowing and understanding and try to weave this philosophy through her work.

Dr. Maria Athina (Tina) Martimianakis is Professor and Director of Medical Education Scholarship at the Department of Paediatrics, and Scientist and Associate Director Collaborations and Partnerships at the Wilson Centre, University of Toronto. Tina studies the material effects of discourse and the socio-politics of education with a particular focus on how we influence learning and the construction of health professional identities through structure, culture and discourse.   Her work has explored the effects of discourses such as globalization, collaboration and compassion in health professional education. Her educational practice is closely aligned to her research program. As an educator, Tina employs critical and social cultural pedagogies to develop programming to address hidden curriculum effects, improve the learning environment and to enable health professionals to incorporate complex negotiations of the social world in their educational planning and implementation.

Dr. Latika Nirula, CFD Director, is the Leadership theme lead in the program.  Latika has held a number of senior leadership roles across the academic health system, which have spanned the areas of Education, including faculty development, simulation, digital learning, education evaluation, and curriculum development.  She has a deep interest in how brief solution-focused coaching can enhance conversations in the workplace, and has completed a program in Brief Coaching at OISE/UT. Additionally, Latika holds a PhD in Developmental Psychology and Education

Beck is a graduate of the Gestalt Coaching Program based out of Toronto/Istanbul, and has worked in health professions education, leadership development, and coaching for 10 years.  He previously served at St. Michael’s Hospital in Leadership & Organizational Development, then served as Project Manager for the Unity Health Education portfolio under Dr. Patricia Houston and Bev Bulmer.  He left for a few years to serve 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, regularly teaching with the CFD in areas of power, privilege and EDI.  He is now back at Unity Health, serving as the Educational Development Lead, Access and Inclusion, at the Centre for Faculty Development

Dr. Ivan Silver has had a career long interest in faculty development particularly the development of our next generation of health professional teachers and supervisors. He is an award winning teacher and medical educator, a Geriatric Psychiatrist at CAMH and a full Professor in the Department of Psychiatry. Ivan was the inaugural director of the Centre for Faculty Development (2002-2009), the Vice-Dean of CPD at the University of Toronto (2005-2011) and the VP of Education at CAMH (2012-2018).He is continuing his scholarship in the areas of feedback, life-long learning and more recently late-career transitioning.

Dr. John Teshima is a Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, working on an adolescent inpatient unit at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre.  He is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto and is a Clinician-Educator.  He completed his medical school, Psychiatry residency, and a fellowship in medical education at the University of Toronto.  He also completed his Master’s of Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto. John enjoys teaching at all levels of education, from medical students through to practicing professionals.  He has a strong commitment to faculty development, having been the inaugural Director of Faculty Development for the University of Toronto’s Department of Psychiatry.  He was also the first Canadian to be President of the Association for Academic Psychiatry, the leading international organization that focuses on teaching and faculty development in Psychiatry.

Dr. Laura Dempster is a Professor at the Faculty of Dentistry, University of Toronto. As an academic, she directs courses in Communication Skills and Behavioural Science in the undergraduate dental curriculum and co-directs courses in Research Methods and Dissemination and Oral Health Seminars to graduate specialty and biomedical students. Laura leads the Education Research theme at Dentistry and held the inaugural Kamienski Professorship in Education Research.  She also contributes as a Wilson Centre Scholar at the Wilson Centre for Research in Education.  Her program of research focuses on teaching and learning, dental anxiety, and dynamics of the clinician/patient relationship, including communication, trust, and patients’ experience. Laura is also committed to faculty development and chairs Dentistry’s FD Committee and co-chairs the Faculty Development Leads Committee at CFD with Latika Nirula. For many years Laura has played an active role in both the Association of Canadian Faculties of Dentistry (ACFD) and its American counterpart, the American Dental Education Association (ADEA), with a longstanding involvement in the International Association of Dental Research (IADR) Education Research Group. She is a Past President of the Ontario Dental Hygienists Association (ODHA), the ACFD, and the IADR Education Research Group. She continues to contribute to dental education, research and scholarship in these and other groups locally, nationally and internationally.