Tina Martimianakis

Atelier, Education Scholars Program

Fellow, AMS Phoenix Project
Director of Scholarship & Education Researcher
Professor, Department of Paediatrics
Scientist and Strategic Lead International, Wilson Centre for Research in Education
Academic Educator, Centre for Faculty Development, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto

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.