New & Evolving Academic Leaders Program

Program Lead, New & Evolving Academic Leaders Program, Centre for Faculty Development
Partner, The Potential Group Consulting Firm

Cate is the Program Lead of the New and Evolving Academic Leaders program (NEAL) and is a Partner in the Potential Group consulting firm, which focuses on strategic change in academic healthcare and education. Cate is an educator, certified coach, and experienced strategy lead.  Their focus has been on coaching, design, facilitation, capacity building and constructing effective conversations and processes that support systemic change and social innovation. They have supported more than 250 strategic change initiatives in higher education and academic and community healthcare across Canada in the past decade, and have been involved in intersectional feminist, gender and queer advocacy since the 1980s. Cate has a PhD in Human and Organizational Systems and holds an adjunct appointment in the Department of Psychiatry, at the University of Toronto.

New & Evolving Academic Leaders Program

Co-manager, Leading Social Justice Collective, In Nova Consulting Inc.

At In Nova, Daniel co-manages the Leading Social Justice Collective (LSJC) and co-leads the education practice. As co-manager of LSJC, Daniel contributes to the overall strategy of the program, and is tasked with his co-workers to bring the program to life through creating recruitment materials, identifying and securing speakers and arranging other program supports, among other contributions. Daniel also helps manage the Build from Within Alliance, a national network of community development organizations supporting local entrepreneurship in neighborhoods across the United States.

Before joining In Nova, Daniel spent four years advancing equity, diversity and inclusion both within organizations and in a broader systemic way at CenterState CEO. As the Deputy Director of Economic Inclusion for the largest regional chamber of commerce in New York, he designed and implemented initiatives that helped the organization’s business membership identify and act on opportunities and barriers to creating a more diverse and inclusive culture. In this role he launched and directed a business development program supporting intergenerational wealth generation in low-income neighbourhoods.

New & Evolving Academic Leaders Program

Theme Lead, New & Evolving Academic Leaders Program, Centre for Faculty Development
Assistant Professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto
Canada Research Chair in Sexual and Gender Minority Health

Dr. Daniel Grace is an Associate Professor at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health (DLSPH), University of Toronto, and the Canada Research Chair in Sexual and Gender Minority Health. Daniel is also the 2SLGBTQ+ Health Lead and Director of the Centre for Sexual and Gender Minority Health Research, which he established at the DLSPH. He leads a national 2SLGBTQ+ training and mentorship platform, working collaboratively with community and academic stakeholders across Canada. He is an internationally recognized medical sociologist whose mixed methods program of community-engaged research works to advance the social, mental, physical, and sexual health of 2SLGBTQ+ communities.

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Scientist, Wilson Centre, University Health Network
Director, Program Evaluation, Medical Education, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto
Assistant Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto

Dr. Rojas is a Scientist at the Wilson Centre, University Health Network; the Director of Program Evaluation in the MD Program, and an Assistant professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto. Academically, Dr. Rojas is an engineer with a Master’s in Computer Science and a Ph.D. in Medical Sciences. His program of research focuses on program evaluation practices in Health Professions Education, particularly around how to use theory to help evaluate complex educational systems in hospitals and academic institutions. Dr. Rojas is interested in studying how to capture and interpret unintended consequences when evaluating educational environments, the use of big data in program evaluation, the evaluation of accreditation practices and international academic collaborations, and simulation effectiveness.

Dr. Rojas is one of the leaders of the multi-institutional collaboration between UofT, NOSM, and the AFMC to study the impact of accreditation and its recent changes on Canadian medical programs. Furthermore, at the Temerty Faculty of Medicine, Dr. Rojas has co-led the design, development, implementation, and evaluation of the new tool to assess Clinical Teacher performance. He is an invited consultant for the AFMC to evaluate the impact of changes to the CARMS process nationally. Dr. Rojas has a strong publication record that is helping advance theory-driven evaluations practices in the Health Professions Education field.

Assistant Professor – Teaching Stream, Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Toronto

Debbie is Assistant Professor – Teaching Stream at the Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy. She is involved with preceptor development and experiential education in the Doctor of Pharmacy program. Debbie practices at the Toronto Rehabilitation Institute, University Health Network. She developed and co-coordinated the first primary care pharmacy residency program in Canada. Debbie is a member of the Canadian Pharmacy Residency Board and a graduate of the CFD’s Education Scholars Program.

New & Evolving Academic Leaders Program

Adjunct Professor and Executive-in-Residence, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto

Delaine Hampton is an Adjunct Professor and Executive in Residence at the Rotman School of Management.

Delaine has taught Market Research in the MBA program and coaches interns as part of the Flexible Internship Program. She has been the instructor for several open enrollment or custom executive programmes including: NEAL and Public Sector Institute of Leadership. She is also a member of the Business Design Initiative Board. Delaine contributed a chapter to the 2012 book, FLUX What Marketing Managers Need to Navigate the New Environment, which is a collaboration among 15 members of Rotman’s Marketing Faculty.

Delaine has 2 recent journal publications based on her collaboration with academic research partners in psychology and political science. The first paper is: Child care policy and child care burden: Policy feedback effects and distributive implications of regulatory decisions published in the Journal of Behavioral Public Administration.

She is a former Director, Consumer and Market Knowledge, Procter & Gamble Global. Her career with Procter & Gamble spanned 35 years and roles of increasing responsibility in Product Development, Marketing, Market Research, and Corporate Innovation for Consumer and Market Knowledge. As Director of Market Research Innovation, she led contributions to P&G's growth through creation and adoption of new business practices. These included models and decision support tools for managing product initiatives, developing category-level strategy and predicting future market directions. In 2006, Delaine was inducted as an inaugural member of the North Star Fellowship, P&G’s lifetime mastery community for Consumer and Market Knowledge innovators.

New & Evolving Academic Leaders Program

Vice President, Medicine, Quality & Safety, IWK Health Centre

Dr. Sinclair graduated from UofT medicine in 1980 and completed residency training in Family Medicine and Emergency Medicine. He spent 25 years in Atlantic Canada and is an adopted Maritimer. During his time “down east”, he had a number of leadership positions including VP Medicine, Chief of Emergency Medicine at both the tertiary adult ED and pediatric ED in Halifax, and the Associate Dean of Continuing Professional Development. He was the founding Chief of the University Department of Emergency Medicine – the second in Canada, and responsible for the development of three residency programs in Emergency Medicine at Dalhousie. In 2010, he moved to St. Michaels Hospital in Toronto as the Executive Vice President and Chief Medical Officer. In this position he had a large operations portfolio, was the corporate lead for quality and was responsible for medical affairs, discipline and department chief recruitment. He is a full professor at UofT. He moved back to NS in December 2018 to semi-retire, but this was not successful… He is now the VP Medicine/Quality/Safety at the IWK Health Centre in Halifax, but still has time for cycling, kayaking and playing the trombone.

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. 

New & Evolving Academic Leaders Program

Colorectal Surgeon, Sinai Health System 
Professor, Department of Surgery and  Institute of Health Policy, Management & Evaluation at the University of Toronto

Dr. Erin Kennedy is a colorectal surgeon at Sinai Health System, and a Professor of Surgery at the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation at the University of Toronto.  She completed her general surgery residency and colorectal fellowship at the University of Toronto and during this time she earned her PhD as part of the Surgical Scientist Training Program.  She is currently the Head, Division of General Surgery at Sinai Health System and the Ontario GI Cancers Lead at Ontario Health-Cancer Care Ontario.  Her primary research interests are quality of care and management of rectal cancer.