Arno Kumagai

Professor and Vice Chair for Education, Department of Medicine
F.M. Hill Chair in Humanism Education, Women’s College Hospital

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.

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