PARTNERS
Paula Rowland
Paula Rowland's research examines change in healthcare professionals' work, how professions are responding to these changes, and implications for health professions education. She is particularly interested in meanings of professionalism and politics of expertise within contexts of changing clinical workplaces. Historically, she has studied change efforts related to patient safety, quality improvement, and patient engagement. Currently, she focuses on digitalization of healthcare work and associated implications for healthcare workers' identities, forms of knowledge, dynamics of power, and possibilities for collaboration. She primarily uses qualitative methodologies, drawing from and contributing to critically oriented social science theories on professions, expertise, and work.
Paula's primary appointment is Assistant Professor in the Department of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy in the Temerty Faculty of Medicine at University of Toronto. She holds several affiliated academic and research roles:
Adjunct Scientist at The Institute for Education Research (TIER), University Health Network
Strategic Advisor for the Centre for Advancing Collaborative Healthcare and Education (CACHE), University of Toronto and University Health Network
Faculty Affiliate with the Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society
Senior Fellow with AMS Healthcare
In addition to these academic and advisory positions, she is the founding member of ETCHwork, a collaborative focused on exploring the intersections of ethics, technology, and change in healthcare work.
Paula is interested in working with students and colleagues using social science theories to understand healthcare reform, care work, and changing carer identities, particularly in the context of digitalization and datafication of healthcare work.
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Amanda Binns
Research Focus:
Amanda's current research interests include 1) examining parent-implemented interventions for pre-school children with autism, with the aim of identifying underlying treatment mechanisms, 2) developing a framework for SLPs to use to guide clinical thinking about the reciprocal relationship between stress, self-regulation and communication development and, 3) collaborating with community partners (families, clinicians and policy makers) to generate research questions, interventions and treatment outcomes that are feasible within the service delivery models and family context, and meaningful to the participants, families and clinicians.
Affiliations:
- Education Development Lead for Clinical Teaching and Program lead for the CFDs Teaching and Learning in the Clinical Context (TLC) and Stepping Stones programs
- Assistant Professor at University of Toronto
- Clinical manager of a Student-Led Environment at Holland Bloorview
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Tracey Edelist
Research focus:
Having worked as a speech-language pathologist and subsequently obtaining a PhD in Social Justice Education from OISE/UofT, Tracey's research bridges critical disability studies, speech-language pathology and audiology practices, and language policy. Tracey works within disability studies to examine societal and professional norms and assumptions about speech, language, and hearing, and the lived consequences of those assumptions. She aims to bring intersectional critical perspectives of disability and normalcy to health professions education.
Affiliations:
- Affiliate Scholar, CACHE, University of Toronto
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Sarah Wright
Research Focus:
Taking a critical lens to admissions and assessment policies and practices to strive for equity and inclusivity in health professions education.
Affiliations:
- Scholar, The Wilson Centre
- Adjunct Lecturer and Consultant at Large, Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Toronto - Office of Education Scholarship
- Assistant Professor, Institute of Health Policy, Management & Education, University of Toronto
Links:
Wilson Centre | University of Toronto | Google Scholar | ResearchGate | LinkedIn
Lindsay Herzog
Research Focus
Implementing transformative and critical approaches in medical education and seeking to equip trainees with the capacity and motivation to provide care that is equitable and person-centered.
Affiliations:
- Family physician at Mount Sinai Hospital
- Lecturer within the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Toronto
- Associate Faculty Lead for Portfolio in the Temerty Faculty of Medicine MD Program at the University of Toronto
- Co-Program Director for the Education Scholar Enhanced Skills Program at the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Toronto