Elizabeth McLaney

Best Practices in Education Rounds (BPER), Stepping Stones Program

Elizabeth McLaney, MEd, BScOT, OT Reg. (Ont), BA (Honours Psychology)
Director of Interprofessional & Academic Education , Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Associate Director, Workplace Learning at the Centre for Advancing Collaborative Healthcare and Education (CACHE)

Elizabeth McLaney is the Director of Interprofessional & Academic Education at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre and Associate Director, Workplace Learning at the Centre for Advancing Collaborative Healthcare and Education (CACHE). She holds an Honours Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology from Queen’s University, a Bachelor of Science in Occupational Therapy from McMaster University, and a Master of Adult Education & Community Development from University of Toronto (Ontario Institute for Secondary Education). Elizabeth has a status appointment as Lecturer with the Department of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto. At Sunnybrook Elizabeth’s work focuses on strategic and operational elements of health professions and nursing education (student education, continuing education, corporate educational strategy) as well as designing and delivering an innovative interprofessional collaboration strategy. At CACHE emphases include system level leadership, workplace learning, engagement, and innovation at the practice/education interface. Elizabeth publishes and presents on topics such as: interprofessional team collaboration, leveraging intentionality to advance team-based learning, and optimizing the teacher and learner experience. She is passionate about team-based learning as a way to evolve culture, and about championing teams as being broadly inclusive of clinical and support service professions, regulated and unregulated professions, and patients and their families.