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.

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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.

Education Scholars Program

Professor, Faculty of Dentistry, University of Toronto

Dr. Laura Dempster is a Professor at the Faculty of Dentistry, University of Toronto. As an academic, she directs courses in Communication Skills and Behavioural Science in the undergraduate dental curriculum and co-directs courses in Research Methods and Dissemination and Oral Health Seminars to graduate specialty and biomedical students. Laura leads the Education Research theme at Dentistry and held the inaugural Kamienski Professorship in Education Research.  She also contributes as a Wilson Centre Scholar at the Wilson Centre for Research in Education.  Her program of research focuses on teaching and learning, dental anxiety, and dynamics of the clinician/patient relationship, including communication, trust, and patients’ experience. Laura is also committed to faculty development and chairs Dentistry’s FD Committee and co-chairs the Faculty Development Leads Committee at CFD with Latika Nirula. For many years Laura has played an active role in both the Association of Canadian Faculties of Dentistry (ACFD) and its American counterpart, the American Dental Education Association (ADEA), with a longstanding involvement in the International Association of Dental Research (IADR) Education Research Group. She is a Past President of the Ontario Dental Hygienists Association (ODHA), the ACFD, and the IADR Education Research Group. She continues to contribute to dental education, research and scholarship in these and other groups locally, nationally and internationally.

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

Lynda is a pharmacist and Clinical Teaching and Learning Development Educator with the University Health Network (UHN). She completed a Master of Education in Higher Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto. She is passionate about teaching and enhancing the experiences of learners in academic and clinical settings. Her current work involves partnering with learners at UHN, building their learning opportunities, and expanding their possibilities as future healthcare leaders.