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Gousia Dhhar MD, FRCPC completed her Internal Medicine residency, General Internal Medicine and Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology fellowships from the University of Toronto. She has completed a higher education teaching course from Harvard University and a certificate course from Center of Quality Improvement and Patient Safety.

She is a fellow at the Wilson Center in the Masters program and is currently obtaining a Masters in Health Professions Education from Maastricht University. Her research interests lie in exploring and optimizing assessment and feedback systems in Competency Based Medical Education.

Supervisor: Dr. Walter Tavares

Jacquelin Forsey is a PhD student at the Rehabilitation Sciences Institute at the University of Toronto under the supervision of Dr. Stella Ng and Dr. Nikki Woods. Before coming to health professions education, she completed an undergraduate degree in English Literature from McGill University.  Her research interests are focused on patient-provider communication and the way we prepare medical learners to practice as adaptive communication experts. Jacquelin’s doctoral work seeks to identify the conceptual knowledge underpinning patient-provider communication and explore the intersection of this knowledge with current educational approaches in HPE. 

Supervisors:  Stella Ng and Nikki Woods

Joanna Krongold is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Wilson Centre investigating antisemitism in health professions education. She is jointly appointed at the University of Toronto’s Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish Studies and the Temerty Faculty of Medicine’s Office of Inclusion and Diversity. Joanna obtained her PhD from the University of Toronto's Department of English in 2020, focusing on Holocaust literature written for children and young adults. Her current work explores the intersections between antisemitism and the COVID-19 pandemic, EDI and social justice-oriented education, experiential learning, and Holocaust memory, literature, and pedagogy. She has taught at many levels in both university- and community-based settings, and her scholarly monograph is forthcoming in 2024 from Lexington Books. 

Supervisors: Ayelet Kuper, Lisa Richardson

Justin Lam is a Research Fellow at the Wilson Centre, and a PhD student in Health Professions Education Research offered by the Institute of Health Policy, Management, and Evaluation (IHPME) in collaboration with the Wilson Centre at the University of Toronto. He is also an academic general paediatrics fellow at the Hospital for Sick Children and part of the University of Toronto Clinician Investigator Program. He is interested in using critical theory to study how professional identity formation is impacted by shifting governmentality through socialization and hidden curriculum effects, with an interest in structural equity issues in the learning environment. His aim is to make the learning environment more equitable and safe for teachers and learners, with the ultimate goal of contributing to better patient care. Prior to this, he completed an undergraduate degree in Art History at Stanford University and went on to complete his medical degree and paediatrics residency at the University of Toronto, where he served as one of the Chief Residents. His clinical interest is in caring for hospitalized children with complex care needs and children from marginalized populations. 

Supervisor: Tina Martimianakis 

Hillary Lia is an MD/PhD student at the University of Toronto. After completing pre-clerkship of the MD program, she is now a PhD student at the Institute of Medical Science. Prior to joining the University of Toronto, she completed an Honours Bachelor of Computing at Queen’s University. Hillary’s research interest lies at the intersection of computer science and medical education where she explores how computational methods can enhance training and assessment of surgical skills. Her PhD thesis will examine team communication in the operating room and the use of artificial intelligence to assess communication skills in this context. 

Supervisor: Dr. Carol-anne Moulton 

Andrea Pozo-Barruel is a Research Fellow at the Wilson Centre, and a PhD student in the Health Professions Education Research (HPER) doctoral concentration offered by the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation (IHPME), Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, in collaboration with the faculty of the Wilson Centre, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto at University Health Network. She completed a Master of Education at the University of Toronto and a Bachelor of Science in Special Education at the Universidad de las Americas in Mexico City. Her doctoral research explores how numeracy skills shape communication and shared decision-making in healthcare. She is interested in how mathematics communication strategies can be used to improve patient experience and reduce health inequalities. Andrea is also the recipient of the Kimel-Schatzky Scholarship at the Wilson Centre for 2022-2025.

Supervisors: Paula Rowland and Janet Papadakos

Elisabeth-Abigail Ramdawar is a Research Fellow at the Wilson Centre, and a PhD student in the Health Professions Education Research (HPER) doctoral concentration offered by the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation (IHPME), Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, in collaboration with the faculty of the Wilson Centre, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto. She completed a Master of Health Sciences, and an Honours Bachelor of Science both at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology. Elisabeth’s current research interests include exploring socio-political relationships and institutional practices that impact healthcare professional’s wellness. 

Supervisor: Tina Martimianakis 

Leslie St. Jacques is a Research Fellow at the Wilson Centre, and a PhD student in the Health Professions Education Research (HPER) doctoral concentration offered by the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation (IHPME), Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, in collaboration with the faculty of the Wilson Centre, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto. Leslie is a Canadian certified physician assistant (CC-PA) and a graduate of the inaugural class of the PA Education Program at McMaster University (2010). Her experience as a PA includes cardiovascular surgery ICU and peri-operative neurosurgery. Leslie was the PA discipline Co-Lead and PA Education Lead at the University Health Network from 2019-2022. She served as the first female president of the Board of Directors of the Canadian Association of Physician Assistants (CAPA) (2019-2021) and is currently their Past President. Prior to becoming a PA, Leslie earned both a Master’s in Environmental Studies (Planning) from York University (1998) and a Master’s in Social Work from Wilfrid Laurier University (2004). She has worked as a psychotherapist in adult and children’s mental health in-patient and ambulatory care settings. Her experiences as social worker, a PA, and in leadership roles fuel her scholarly interests. Under the supervision of Dr. Tina Martimianakis, Leslie’s research explores interpersonal aspects of healthcare education and work, professional identity formation and compassion in healthcare provision.

Supervisor: Tina Martimianakis

Conrad Tsang is a Research Fellow at the Wilson Centre and a PhD student in the Health Professions Education Research concentration at the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation (IHPME), Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto. His scholarly interests are in how medical school and residency admissions shape equity, diversity, inclusion, and accessibility in the physician workforce. Conrad is the recipient of the Currie Fellowship at the Wilson Centre from 2022-2026.

Clinically, Conrad is a subspecialty resident in Occupational Medicine at the University of Toronto. He is also a staff physician in Public Health & Preventive Medicine and in Family Medicine, having done his previous residencies at UBC. He has been the Chief Resident for all three programs. Conrad completed his BHSc at McMaster University, MD at the University of Alberta, MPH (Quantitative Methods) at Harvard University as a Frank Knox Memorial Fellow, and MSEd (Medical Education) at the University of Pennsylvania as the Lougheed Fellow. His clinical interests are in caring for marginalized workers and health care workers, as well as changing policy to promote their health, safety, and wellness.

Supervisor: Kulamakan (Mahan) Kulasegaram

Lucy Vorobej is a post-doctoral fellow at the Wilson Centre under the supervision of Dr. Cynthia Whitehead. She completed her BAH and B.Ed. at Queen’s University before joining the University of Waterloo to complete graduate work is history. As a historian of health care interested in the intersections of discourse and power, her PhD thesis assessed the ways in which settler-colonialism and racism impacted First Nations health care access in Canada from the 1940s to the 1960s. Her current work examines the history of hospital volunteers as a case study to critically consider the ways in which the labour of care has been positioned within or excluded from frameworks of compensation.

Supervisor: Cynthia Whitehead

Wendy Ye is a Research Fellow at the Wilson Center and a Master of Health Professional Education student at Maastricht University in the Netherlands. She is one of two Chief Medical Residents in the Adult Nephrology training program at the University of Toronto. Her scholarly interests include curriculum development and remediation of non-medical knowledge skills including professionalism, leadership, and communication. She completed her HBSc in physiology and biochemistry at the University of Toronto, followed by her MD, MSc, and Internal Medicine training at McMaster University. Her clinical interests are in home peritoneal and hemodialysis.

Supervisors: Shiphra Ginsburg and  Maria Mylopoulos