Annual Member Event: Education Showcase & Faculty Development Lecture
Join us for our Annual Member Event to celebrate our community, highlight ongoing educational work, and inspire new thinking in faculty development.
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Join us for our Annual Member Event to celebrate our community, highlight ongoing educational work, and inspire new thinking in faculty development.
1:00-2:00 PM — Education Showcase
Kick off the afternoon by exploring the exciting initiatives happening across the Centre for Faculty Development and Unity Health Education. This showcase is a great opportunity to connect with colleagues, learn about current programs, and spark new ideas for collaboration.
2:00–3:30 PM — Dr. Jana Lazor Memorial Faculty Development Lecture: Planetary Health & Compassionate Care
Guest speakers: Angela Mashford-Pringle, Ross Upshur
As climate change reshapes the landscape of health and care delivery, compassionate care must extend beyond individual patients to encompass communities, ecosystems, and future generations. This keynote explores how planetary health can be integrated into education, training, and professional development as a core dimension of ethical, responsive practice. Focusing on the needs of practicing professionals and health delivery organizations, we will examine key planetary health content and concepts, and consider how these can be delivered through flexible, practice-oriented learning approaches. These include case-based learning, interprofessional collaboration, and land-and place-based learning, which deepen understanding of the connections between health, environment, and stewardship.
Speakers:
Ross Upshur
Ross Upshur BA (Hons.), MA, MD, MSc, MCFP, FRCPC, FCAHS is currently the Dalla Lana Chair in Clinical Public Health and Head of the Division of Clinical Public Health at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health. At the University of Toronto, he is a Professor in the Dalla Lana School of Public Health and the Department of Family and Community Medicine, Associate Director of the Collaborative Centre for Climate, Health and Sustainable Care, Affiliate Member of the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, Member of the Joint Centre for Bioethics. He serves as Co-chair of the WHO Ethics and Governance Working Group, chairs the Canadian College of Family Physicians Ethics Committee and is Special Advisor to the Ethics Review Board of Doctors Without Borders. Research interests span multiple domains at the intersection of ethics, epistemology, clinical medicine and public health with applications to climate change, pandemics and artificial intelligence. He is an elected Fellow of the Hastings Center and the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences.
Angela Mashford-Pringle
Dr. Angela Mashford-Pringle is an Algonquin (Timiskaming First Nation member) Associate Professor, Social and Behavioural Health Sciences, Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto. Dr. Mashford-Pringle worked for over a decade at the federal government in Indigenous initiatives. Angela was the Indigenous Health Lead for Dalla Lana School of Public Health, and is the Editor-in-Chief of the Turtle Island Journal on Indigenous Health (TIJIH). She works with Indigenous communities related to Indigenous health including culture and cultural safety, language, land-based learning, climate action, and policy analysis and development. Dr. Mashford-Pringle is a scientific mentor of the Smithsonian Institute for Education's Network for Emergent Socio-Scientific Thinking (NESST) program working with Teacher and Student Ambassadors. She has received teaching and mentorship awards from the University of Toronto in 2021, 2022, and 2024. Currently, Angela is developing research projects on 'Other Ways of Knowing as Meta-Research", "Critical Innovative Pedagogies for University Students", "Anishinaabe Youth Culture and Language Land-based Activities for Wholistic Wellbeing"
**You must be a CFD Member to attend this event. CFD Membership is FREE for Unity Health Toronto staff, physicians, learners and patient/family partners and Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto staff, faculty (incl. status only) and learners. If you are purchasing Membership for this event, you will also get next year's Membership free to you if you email cfd@unityhealth.to. To become a member, visit centreforfacdev.ca/membership or contact us: cfd@unityhealth.to
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