COURSE DIRECTOR (Niagara-on-the-Lake, Tuscany)

Jane Tipping, is an adult education specialist with an expertise in continuing professional development. She has a background in faculty development, continuing health education, instructional design and educational problem solving. Currently Jane works as an educational consultant with the Office of Continuing Education and Professional Development, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto In addition to this Jane develops programs and workshops dealing with communication, relationship and life purpose. Learning ” A Fine Balance”  is something she is in the process of learning herself.

FACULTY

Susan Abbey, MD, FRCPC, is a psychiatrist with particular interests in the emotional aspects of physical illness, and the physical and emotional impact of stress. She is interested in mindfulness based stress reduction as an intervention in the clinical context and as an important tool for professionals in managing their own stress.  She has taught mindfulness-based stress reduction at Toronto General Hospital since 1998 and has been teaching professionals about mindfulness since 2005. She is the Medical Director of the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Program at Toronto General Hospital, the Head of the Program in Medical Psychiatry and the Director of Psychosocial Services for the Multi-Organ Transplant Program at University Health Network. She is an Associate Professor in Psychiatry at the University of Toronto.

Susan Lieff, MD, MEd, FRCPC, is a Professor and the Vice-Chair, Education in the Dept of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto (UT). She is the Director of Academic Leadership Development for the Centre for Faculty Development, Faculty of Medicine at St Michael’s Hospital and the Acting Director of the Research, Innovation and Scholarship in Education (RISE) program of the Department of Psychiatry. Dr. Lieff has been practicing geriatric psychiatry at Baycrest since 1985. She completed her Masters of Education in higher education of health professionals at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education / UT in 2002 and her International Masters in Health Leadership at McGill University in 2008.  Dr. Lieff’s scholarship focuses on the design and evaluation of leadership development programs for health professional educators, academics and practitioners.

Kerry Knickle, LL.M. (ADR) is an academic educator with Centre for Faculty Development and The Standardized Patient Program, University of Toronto. Kerry has over sixteen years’ experience in standardized patient and experiential learning methodologies, specializing in facilitation, communication and conflict resolution skills teaching for faculty educators and health care professionals across all levels of learning and disciplines. Her focus continues in the area of collegial tensions and dispute with a special interest in how negative assumptions, judgments and poor communication impede personal and professional interactions. Kerry holds a Master of Laws degree, with a specialty in Alternate Dispute Resolution (ADR) from Osgoode Hall Law School.

Nancy McNaughton, is an Associate Director of the Standardized Patient Program at U of T and a professionally trained actor and dancer.  She has designed and run experiential workshops and courses for health care professionals over the last 20 years specializing in communication, facilitation and the effect of emotion and affect in health professional interactions. Nancy is currently completing her PhD in Higher Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) at University of Toronto. Her area of research is in the role of emotion in the health professions and the evolving role of SPs as non clinician teachers.

Michele Chaban, is Director of the Inter-professional Applied Mindfulness Meditation Certificate at University of Toronto’s Factor-Inwentash School of Social Work. The certificate has three streams of application. Those are : Mindfulness Meditation and psychotherapy, Mindfulness Meditation and enabling learning and Mindfulness Meditation in Leadership and Business. Michele teaches Family Theory in the Department of Family and Community Medicine. She is also Director of the Contemplative End of Life Care Program at The Institute of Traditional Medicine in Toronto and Vancouver. This program is training Canada’s first thanadoulas, a family and community centered model of care at the end of life. Michele is a published author, has an expertise in end of life care and her life work has been to explore suffering, healing and the limits of our humanity.

Planning Committee: (Niagara-on-the-Lake and Tuscany)

Maria Bystrin, MBA, Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Toronto.

Susan Rock, MEd, CMP, Office of CEPD, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto.

Anna Naccarato, Office of CEPD, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto

All Faculty as above.