Olle ten Cate, PhD,
Is an emeritus Professor of Medical Education at University Medical Center Utrecht, the Netherlands, and a 2024-25 Visiting Professor at the University of California, San Francisco. After medical school (MSc) and a PhD in social sciences, he served four decades at the Universities of Amsterdam and Utrecht, contributing to curriculum innovation, educational research, and faculty development in health professions education, locally, nationally and internationally. He founded and led the Center for Research and Development of Education at UMC Utrecht (2005-2017), was president of the Netherlands Association for Medical Education (2006-2012), and published (450+) and presented (500+) widely, and mentored 25 PhD students. He received the J.P. Hubbard award of the US NBME, the Ian R. Hart award of the Association for Medical Education in Europe (AMEE), the Netherlands Association for Medical Education’s Han Moll medal, and a Dutch Royal Distinction. He is a Fellow of American Educational Research Association, a Fellow of AMEE and an Honorary Fellow of the UK Academy of Medical Educators. His interests include, among other areas, competency-based education in health professions education. In particular with the use of entrustable professional activities and entrustment decision making.
TAMARA CARVER, PhD
Is the Director of the Office of Ed-TECH (Education Technology and E-learning Collaboration for Health) for the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, located at the Steinberg Centre for Simulation and Interactive Learning https://www.mcgill.ca/medsimcentre/. She is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Health Sciences Education and an Associate Member of the Department of Surgery.
Dr. Carver completed her Master’s degrees at Concordia University in the Department of Exercise Science, specializing in clinical exercise physiology, then earned her PhD from McGill’s Faculty of Education in 2014. During her post-doctoral training (2014-2017) in the Department of Family Medicine, she developed their first blended and online graduate courses, as well as the online Scholarly Activity Program for clinical teachers and residents. This experience, along with her key role in developing the original and highly successful International Blended Education Programs (China, Brazil, Switzerland, France) and Faculty Development Blended Education Program (McGill), led to the creation of Family Medicine Innovations in Learning (FMIL) in the Department of Family Medicine in 2017, where she was Assistant Professor and Education Lead.
Current research interest: medical education, community education, faculty development, education technology, online learning, remote learning, communities of learning.
Heather MacNeill,
MD BSc(PT) MScCH(HPTE) FRCPC, is the Interim Assistant Dean, Faculty Development, for the Toronto Metropolitan University School of Medicine, Canada. She is Associate Professor and co-instructs a masters class in educational technology at University of Toronto in Canada. She is a practicing PM&R physician and Medical Director of Stroke Rehabilitation at Hennick Bridgepoint Hospital in Toronto, Canada. She has been teaching about, creating, and researching the effect of educational technologies in healthcare for over a decade.
Heather.MacNeill@torontomu.ca
www.torontomu.ca/school-of-medicine
Has been a seminal leader in the education of health professionals in British Columbia, Canada and globally. His vision and leadership led to the concept of interprofessional education being developed as a central tenet of collaborative person-centred practice and care. Dr. John Gilbert is founding Principal & Professor Emeritus, College of Health Disciplines, University of British Columbia; a Senior Scholar, WHO Collaborating Centre on Health Workforce Planning and Research, Dalhousie University. He held the DR. TMA Pai Endowment Chair in Interprofessional Education & Practice, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, India, and is an Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Health, University of Technology, Sydney. He is Founding Chair, The Canadian Interprofessional Health Collaborative. He was Co-Chair of the WHO Study Group on
Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Practice. He was elected a Fellow, Canadian Academy of Health Sciences, in 2008; appointed a Member of the Order of Canada in 2011 and awarded the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal in 2011. He received the degree Doctor of Laws, Honoris Causa from Dalhousie University in June 2016. He was the recipient of the Pioneer Award, National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education, USA, 2017.
Is Professor of Radiology, Physics and Biomedical Engineering at the University of British Columbia (UBC), as well as Distinguished Scientist and Provincial Medical Imaging Physicist at BC Cancer. He received his MSc in condensed matter physics and PhD in medical imaging physics at UBC. Following doctoral studies, he was recruited by Johns Hopkins University (JHU), leading the high resolution brain PET imaging physics program and pursuing research at the JHU Departments of Radiology and Electrical Engineering. In 2018, he was recruited back to Vancouver, where he pursues research in molecular imaging & therapy. He has published a book and over 200 journal articles, and delivered more than 120 invited lectures worldwide. He has participated as principal investigator or co-investigator on a range of grants towards quantitative imaging and personalized therapies. Dr. Rahmim was awarded the John S. Laughlin Young Scientist Award by the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) in 2016, the Presidential Distinguished Service Award by SNMMI in 2022 for significant contributions to the field of nuclear medicine & molecular imaging, was Vice President (2017-18) and President (2018-19) of the Physics, Instrumentation and Data Sciences Council (PIDSC) of the Society of Nuclear Medicine & Molecular Imaging (SNMMI), and is Chair of the SNMMI Artificial Intelligence (AI) Task Force (2020-) as well as the SNMMI Dosimetry-AI working group (2022-).
Title: Training Students to Become Trusted Health Professionals
Date: 10 February 2025
Time: 8:00 p.m. – 8:45 p.m.
Venue: Kempinski Hotel
Title: From Tool to Partner: The Future of Generative AI in Health Professions Education
Date: 11 February 2025
Time: 8:30 a.m. – 9:30 a.m.
Venue: Conference Hall, SQU
Title: Screens, Goggles, Simulations: The Tech-Driven Transformation of Learning
Date: 12 February 2025
Title: Interprofessional Education for Collaborative Patient-Centered Practice
Time: 11:00 a.m. – 11:15 a.m.
Title: Insights for Growth, Success and Well-being in Medical Education and Research
Time: 9:30 a.m. – 9:40 a.m.
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