Jameela Lencucha is the Occupational Therapy Academic Clinical Educator and Interim Program Education Lead at Toronto Rehabilitation/University Health Network. She has been practicing clinically in acute care for over 15 years and currently is an OT in the Krembil Neurosciences Program at the Toronto Western Hospital. She has been involved in clinical education throughout her career within UHN and in the Occupational Science & Occupational Therapy program at the University of Toronto. She is interested in and committed to lifelong learning and adapting practice to optimize the learner experience.

Clinician Educator Staff Physician - Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Janet Bodley is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, based at the Women's College Site of Sunnybrook and Women's. Janet Bodley completed a two year Fellowship in Advanced Laparoscopy and Urogynecology. She is a Master's of Education candidate and her master's research project is about mentoring Resident's in obstetrics and gynecology.

Jeffrey Kiyoshk Ross is of the marten clan, and a registered member of Walpole Island Unceded First Nation. He is an Ontario Certified Teacher with over 20 years of communications, journalism, and marketing experience working with First Nation communities and organizations in Ontario. He has been fortunate to teach in Pikangikum, Pickle Lake, and Thunder Bay, and develops and delivers curriculum that is informed by Canada’s First Nations, Inuit, and Metis peoples’ diverse histories and cultures. He is also an Indigenous consultant who has taught at the Art Gallery of Ontario facilitating discussion on the TRC and Anishnaabek knowledge, and works with organizations to help them inform their hiring practices, help improve Indigenous community involvement, and facilitate cultural competencies. He has a long history of Indigenous program development, intentional community building, and evaluation of learners (both young people and adults).

Education Scholars Program, Enhancing Teacher Performance  Program, Stepping Stones 

Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto

John is a Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre. He has been involved in faculty development initiatives over many years, including 4 years as a Stepping Stones Journal Club facilitator and presenting various Stepping Stones workshops. John was also the inaugural Director of Faculty Development for the University of Toronto’s Department of Psychiatry.

Teaching and Learning in the Clinical Context

Adjunct Lecturer, Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing, University of Toronto

Director, Faculty Wellness, Temerty Faculty of Medicine
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry
Temerty Faculty of Medicine
Staff Psychiatrist, Unity Health – St. Michael’s Hospital

Dr. Julie Maggi graduated from McMaster Medical School and completed postgraduate training in Psychiatry at the University of Toronto. She completed fellowships in HIV Psychiatry at the University of Toronto, Administrative Psychiatry at Columbia University, and Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry at Mt. Sinai School of Medicine, NYC. She completed her Master of Science in the Institute of Medical Science at the University of Toronto.

Dr. Maggi is currently a staff psychiatrist at Unity Health - St. Michael’s Hospital, providing clinical liaison psychiatry services to the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, and the Department of Surgery in their Acute Care Trauma Service.  She served as the Director of Postgraduate Education at the hospital from 2011-2017 and was the interim Psychiatrist in Chief from July 2016-May 2017.

CFD Program Faculty: Stepping Stones

Professor of Paediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto

Karen Leslie is a Professor of Paediatrics and a staff paediatrician in the Division of Adolescent Medicine at SickKids. Her areas of scholarly focus in health professions education include faculty development, career development and mentoring.

Enhancing Teacher Performance Program, New & Evolving Academic Leaders Program, Education Scholars Program, Stepping Stones Program

Director, Centre for Faculty Development
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto

Latika leads the Centre for Faculty Development (CFD), providing academic and operational leadership across its initiatives to advance faculty development across the health system locally, nationally and internationally. She effectively applies her academic, teaching, and curriculum design expertise to innovative faculty development utilizing adult learning principles, simulation, and digital learning. Latika is building a research program focused on work-based faculty development.

Latika holds an academic appointment as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry in the Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto. She has a PhD from the University of Toronto in Developmental Psychology and Education, and is a graduate of the CFD’s New and Evolving Academic Leaders (NEAL) program. Latika is also a recipient of the 2020 Helen Batty Award for Sustained Excellence in Faculty Development Teaching.

Manager, Education and Training, Foundry BC, Providence Health Care

Adjunct Lecturer, Department of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy, University of Toronto

Laura (She/Her) is the Manager, Education and Training for Foundry BC, a province-wide network of integrated health and wellness services for young people ages 12-24.  Laura has over a decade of experience working in healthcare as a licensed occupational therapist in both clinical and education roles, in rural, remote communities and urban settings in Ontario, Nunavut and British Columbia.  She integrates her knowledge and experience as a clinician and educator into her work. Laura has been the recipient of local teaching awards for clinical preceptorship as well as curriculum design. She is an adjunct lecturer in the MScOT program at the University of Toronto and holds both a Master of Science in Occupational Therapy degree and Master of Education (Health Professions Education) degree.

Laura was formerly the Centre for Faculty Development’s (CFD) Education Development Lead for Clinical Teaching and Operations and the former Program Lead and Curriculum Renewal Lead for the CFD’s Teaching and Learning in the Clinical Context (TLC) program.

Stepping Stones Program, Education Scholars Program, Teaching and Learning in the Clinical Context, New & Evolving Academic Leaders Program, Atelier

Associate Director, Curriculum Integration and Partnerships, Centre for Faculty Development
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto