Tina Martimianakis

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 Wilson Centre for Research in Medical Education. Tina studies 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 research explores 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 and improve the learning environment and to enable health professionals to incorporate complex negotiations of the social world in their educational planning and implementation.