Current Fellows:
Anita Slominska, PhD
2023 - present
Anita Slominska is a qualitative health researcher with a PhD in Health Information Science from the University of Western Ontario (2022). Her dissertation explored waitlist death in liver transplantation, interweaving a personal narrative with exposition in the history of liver transplantation and scholarly inquiry on narrative and biomedicine and sociocultural constructions of illness and identity. Her current project investigates graft loss from the perspective of kidney transplant recipients to better comprehend and address strengths and limitations in current practices of care. She is interested in how narrative-based inquiry and analysis deepens insight into patients鈥� lived experience and enriches critical reflection and dialogue about best practices to support patients. At the IHSE, she is co-supervised by Dr. Anne Kinsella and Dr. Shaifali Sandal in the Department of Medicine.
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Louis-Pierre Auger, PhD
2023 - Present
Louis听Pierre Auger is an occupational therapist (Universit茅 de Sherbrooke, 2013) and has worked听as a clinician for more than five years in intensive functional rehabilitation with clients with听neurological health conditions, especially individuals with stroke. He completed a master's听degree (2019) and a doctorate (2023) in rehabilitation sciences at the Universit茅 de Montr茅al on听the subjects of sexuality, neurology, knowledge translation and improvement of clinical听practices. Mr. Auger is doing a postdoctoral fellowship in the laboratory of Dr. Aliki Thomas at the听Institute of Health Sciences Education and is interested in the sciences of education and the听sciences of implementation in a university context, with the objective of improving Canadian听university occupational therapy programs in relation to training about sexuality. Louis-Pierre is being supervised by Institute of Health Sciences Education Associate Member, Professor Aliki Thomas.
Allison Odger, PhD
2022 - Present
Allison Odger received her PhD in Social Anthropology from York University in 2022. She is a medical anthropologist and her dissertation focused on entanglements of care, surveillance, and metrics in the sexual health landscape of Toronto. She has a background in the anthropology of the clinic, feminist anthropology, and ethnographic research methods. Dr. Odger鈥檚 current research interest include researcher reflexivity and the culture of health sciences education. She is being supervised by Institute of Health Sciences Education faculty member, Professor Yvonne Steinert.
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Past Fellows:
2021-2023
Catherine Giroux, PhD
Supervisor: Aliki Thomas, PhD
Project title:听Social media as a dissemination and knowledge translation strategy among health professions educators.
2019-2021
Dr. Sara Mortaz Hejri, MD, PhD
Supervisor: Yvonne Steinert, PhD
Project titles:
National Culture in International Faculty Development Programs: Influences and Consequences
Feasibility, acceptability and effectiveness potential of a novel faculty mentorship program
Faculty Developers鈥� Teaching Perspectives and Competencies: A Mixed-Methods Study
2018
David Lemay, PhD
Supervisors: Yvonne Steinert, PhD & Aliki Thomas, PhD
Project title:听Understanding Teaching Approaches in Clinical Supervision in Health Professions Education
2016
Lerona Dana Lewis, PhD
Supervisor: Yvonne Steinert, PhD
Project title:听Faculty Development and Culture
2014
Mandip Basi, PhD
Supervisor: Yvonne Steinert, PhD
Project title: How Physicians Learn to Teach in Clinical Settings.
2013
Claire Trottier, PhD
2008
Kevin Chin, PhD
Project title: A Faculty Development Workshop on Narrative Medicine: Assessing the Impact on Teaching.
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