Featured Speakers
Dr. Rahat Hossain
MD
About the Speaker:
Rahat Hossain is a resident physician at the University of Toronto. A trainer and facilitator at the Institute for Change Leaders, he founded HEART (“Health and Equity through Advocacy, Research, and Transformation”), a program which transforms stories gathered from people experiencing marginalization into participatory, research-based theatre as a platform for policymaking.
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Seminar Date: November 2nd, 2021 @18:00 EST
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Objectives
Focus: Improving quality of care and safety for socially disadvantaged patients through patient partners
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Understanding barriers to providing safe and high quality care of socially disadvantaged patients
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Appreciating the use of patient partners to optimize care delivery to socially disadvantaged patients
Dr. Jennifer Bryan
MD FRCPC
About the Speaker:
Dr. Jennifer Bryan is an emergency physician at the University Health Network in Toronto. She is the Director of Operations of the Toronto Addis Ababa Academic Collaboration in Emergency Medicine (TAAAC-EM) and an Assistant Professor in the Division of Emergency Medicine at the University of Toronto.
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Seminar Date: February 8th, 2022 @18:00 EST
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Objectives
Focus: Anti-Black racism and sickle cell disease: Creating a UHN-community collaboration and co-designing a QI initiative
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Recognize opportunities for applying QI principles in addressing barriers due to stigma and racism
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Describe the benefits of community collaboration in QI work
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Take the first steps in establishing community partnerships in QI initiatives
Dr. Carys Massarella
MD FRCPC
About the Speaker:
Dr. Carys Massarella is ranked as one of the 50 Canadians advancing big ideas. She is the lead physician in a transgender care clinic and a world-renowned expert on providing health care to trans patients.
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Seminar Date: May 3rd, 2022 @18:00 EST
Objectives
Focus: Transgender Health and Quality Improvement
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Learn unique challenges to provision of high quality care for transgender patients
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Learn opportunities for improvement for transgender patient care
Dr. Lisa Richardson
MD MA FRCPC
About the Speaker:
Dr. Richardson is a clinician-educator in the University of Toronto's Division of General Internal Medicine and practices at the University Health Network. She is a Centre Researcher at the Wilson Centre with a scholarly focus on integrating critical, Indigenous and other perspectives from the social sciences and humanities into medical education.
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Seminar Date: TBA
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Objectives
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Conceptualization of cultural safety as a quality indicator
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Understanding barriers to providing safe and high quality care to indigenous patients