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Associate Professor Lorelei Lingard
Lorelei Lingard is Associate Professor and Scientist at the University of Toronto, in the Wilson Centre for Research in Education and the Department
of Pediatrics. She received her PhD in Rhetoric from Simon Fraser University in 1998. Dr. Lingard's research program uses predominantly qualitative methods to investigate the nature of communication on healthcare teams in clinical settings ranging from surgery, medicine, paediatrics, primary care and rehabilitation medicine. Her work focuses particularly on how team communication patterns influence novice socialization and patient safety. Lorelei has been the recipient of numerous awards for her research, including a Canadian Institutes of Health Research New Investigator award (2003-2008). She is the inaugural holder of the BMO Financial Group Professorship in Health Professions Education Research at the University Health Network.
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Associate Dean Maxine Papadakis
Maxine Papadakis, MD is the Associate Dean for Student Affairs and Professor of Clinical Medicine at UCSF. She is a native Californian and grew up in the San Francisco Peninsula. After finishing her medicine residency at Johns Hopkins Hospital, she came back to the San Francisco Bay Area in 1980 for a Kaiser fellowship at UCSF, and has been there ever since. Much of her early research has been in clinical outcome studies, including the role of growth hormone in aging. In 1988, she became the medicine clerkship director and stayed in that position for 10 years. Research during that time included a study delineating the risk of blood-born occupational exposures to medical students.
Dr. Papadakis is a past president of Clerkship Directors of Internal Medicine (CDIM). In 1998, she joined the Dean's office in the position she now holds. Her current research is on the assessment of professionalism in medical students. Her sentinel work has opened a new field which linked unprofessional behavior in medical school with subsequent disciplinary action by practicing physicians.
Dr. Papadakis is a co-editor of the annually published textbooks Current Medical Diagnosis and Treatment and Current Consult: Medicine . Dr. Papadakis is the recipient of many teaching awards, including the coveted UCSF Academic Senate Distinction in Teaching Award. |
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Professor Paul Hager
Paul Hager is Professor of Education, University of Technology, Sydney.
His main scholarly interest is the emerging field of philosophy of adult and vocational education. His work centres on topics such as informal workplace learning, professional practice and the role of generic skills in work. He has led a range of research projects in these areas. His most recent books are P. Hager and J. Halliday (2006) Recovering Informal Learning: Wisdom, Judgement and Community and P. Hager and S. Holland (eds.) (2006) Graduate Attributes, Learning and Employability, both published by Springer.
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Michael Greco
Michael Greco is Director of Client-Focused Evaluations Program (CFEP) which has offices in Australia and the UK, and is involved primarily in the provision of patient and colleague feedback to clinicians and healthcare organisations. He shares his commitments between both countries, and recently received British citizenship after spending seven years there as the Director of Patient Experience for the National NHS Primary Care Team. In the UK, CFEP is a lead provider of patient surveys in the British GP contract, and is working closely with the General Medical Council on its revalidation instruments and the Health Foundation in the training of clinicians in patient self-care skills. In Australia, CFEP works closely with Regional Training Providers of GP Registrars, the RACGP Quality Assurance and Continuing Professional Development Program, and the peak body in the accreditation of Australian general practices.
He holds honorary professor and senior research fellow posts at the School of Medicine, Griffith University and the Peninsula Medical School, UK. His academic background focused on healthcare, evaluation and clinical pastoral education, and includes a PhD in medical education and a Bachelor of Theology. |
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Professor Ronald M. Epstein
Ronald M. Epstein MD is Professor of Family Medicine, Psychiatry and Oncology at the University of Rochester . He serves as Associate Dean for Educational Evaluation and Research, Director of Research in the Department of Family Medicine, and Director of the Rochester Center to Improve Communication in Health Care. He is Director of the Deans' Teaching Fellows Program, and is also a practicing family physician. His teaching and research focus on communication in clinical settings and the patient-physician relationship, with special interest in caring for stigmatized populations, management of ambiguity, patient requests, and physician self-awareness. In medical education, he has published and developed programs relating to mindful practice, teaching and assessing communication skills and using peer assessments. Taking a holistic view of professional competence, his work includes the integration of knowledge, clinical judgment, interpersonal behavior, self-awareness and professionalism. His influential papers on Mindful Practice and on Defining and Assessing Professional Competence have drawn attention to the importance of the habits of mind of master clinicians.
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Dr Tamara Mackean
Dr Mackean is a descendent of the Waljen clan of the Wongai Peoples of the Goldfields region in Western Australia. She graduated from University of NSW in 1999 with Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery and was joint winner with Dr Kelvin Kong of the Alumni Award for Achievement.
Following varied clinical experience in obstetrics, psychiatry, ophthalmology and general practice Dr Mackean became involved in medical education and worked as a Senior Lecturer at Flinders University SA for some five years. During her tenure she was awarded a Staff Award for Outstanding Contribution to the University as well as being recognised nationally and receiving the inaugural LIMElight Award for Leading Innovation in Cultural and Organisational Change in 2007
Dr Mackean is currently a Senior Research Fellow with the Centre for Aboriginal Medical and Dental Health at the University of WA. She is presently a trainee with the Australasian Faculty of Public Health Medicine of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians. Dr Mackean is also the current President for the Australian Indigenous Doctors' Association and works with governments, organisation, communities and individuals to bring about positive change for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. • Click here for more information |
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