EqHS Team
Creating a Community That Makes an Impact

Patient & Community Partners
Jerry M. Maniate, MD, M.Ed, FRCPC, FACP, CCPE
Founding Director & Investigator
Health Professions Education | Health Systems | Leadership | Interprofessional Collaboration | EDI
Lynn Ashdown, MD, M.MEd
Investigator
Patient Partnership | Medical Education | Social Accountability | Disability Advocacy
Jamiu O. Busari, MBChB, MD, MHPW, PhD, CCPE
Investigator
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion | Clinical Leadership (Development) | Medical Education
Joni Ettinger, RN, BScN, MN
Investigator
Leadership | Quality Improvement | Evidence-Based Practice | Music and Health
Kordan Harvey, MSc. MB BCh BAO
Investigator
Medical Education | Leadership | Curriculum Development
Shirley Lee, MD, MHSc, CCFP(EM), FCFP
Investigator
EDI | Medical Education | Curriculum Development | Digital Learning Technology
Greg Manning, BSc, MD, FRCPC
Investigator
Equity, Diversity, Inclusion | Healthcare Leadership | Virtual Care | Health Systems | Healthcare Access
Aliza Moledina, MD, FRCPC
Investigator
Health Equity | Global Health | Advance Care Planning | Diversity & Inclusion
Elena Pastukhova, Hons.B.Sc
Investigator
Social Medicine | Health Equity | Medical Education | Curriculum Development | Poverty and Homelessness | Cultural Competence in the Medical Systems | Digital Learning in Medicine
Kerri Ritchie
Ph.D, C.Psych.
Investigator
Organizational Health & Wellness | Education & Training | Human Rights & Social Justice
Jared Rubenstein
MD
Investigator
Palliative Care | Medical Education | Communication | Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
Graydon Simmons
MD, FRCPC
Investigator
Addictions Medicine | Viral Hepatitis | Vulnerable Urban Populations
Emily Tippins
BA, M.Sc
Investigator
Social Identity | Mental Health | Social Determinants of Health
Suzanne Wong
MD, DABOG, FRCSC, CCFP
Investigator
Faculty Development | EDI | Leadership | Medical Education
Yusra Ahmad, MD, FRCPC
Investigator
Structural Inequities | Gender-Based Violence | Poverty & Homelessness | War Trauma | Refugee Mental Health | Muslim Mental Health | Global Mental Health |Faith-Based Approaches to Healing | Mindfulness | Psychotherapy | SPMI Populations | Trauma-Informed Care
Ming-Ka Chan, BSc(Psychology), MD, MHPE, FRCPC
Investigator
Healthcare Leadership Education | Social Justice | Health Professions Education | Equity, Diversity & Inclusivity | Decolonization
Jennifer Dale-Tam, RN, MSN, CNCC(c), CCSNE
Investigator
Simulation | Nursing Education | Health Professions Education | Quality Improvement
Mamta Gautam, MD, MBA, FRCPC, CCPE, CPE
Investigator
Physician Wellbeing | Physician Leadership Development | Advancing Women Leaders in Medicine | Equity, Diversity and Inclusivity
Amy-Lynn Howson, RN BNSc CCNC MAL
Investigator
Nursing | Education | Music Care | Pediatrics | Congenital Heart Disease
Stéphanie Lalande, MA, PhD(c)
Investigator
Mental Health at Work | Supervision Relationships | Mental Health-Related Misdiagnosis
Matthew Lipinski, MD, MHA, FRCPC
Investigator
Emergency Medicine | Health Policy | Culture and Learning Environment
Peter Munene, B.Com, MD, FRCPC, MSc
Investigator
Serious Illness Communication | Diversity & Inclusion
Ian Pereira, MD, BASc (Engineering)
Investigator
Health for All | Learning Health Systems | Trauma-Informed Cultures | Servant-Leadership
Cristian Rangel, PhD (Sociology)
Investigator
Sociology | Culture | Biomedicine | Social Determinants of Health
Carolyn Roberts
RN
Investigator
Patient Experience | Advocacy | Indigenous Patients & Families
Omar Selim
MD, MSc [Med Ed], FRCSC, RPVI
Investigator
Vascular Surgery | Procedural Skills | Assessment
Lyn Kathryn Sonnenberg
HonBSc, MSc, MD, MEd, FRCPC (Peds, Dev Peds)
Investigator
Technology | Assessment | Professional Identity Formation | Leadership | Equity, Diversity, Inclusion & Accessibility | Interprofessional Collaboration | Medical Education
Carol Wiebe
MD, CCFP(COE), GEMBA-HLS
Investigator
Intersectoral Collaboration | Patient Experience | Vulnerable Populations including the Elderly, Arts and Health
Yan Xu, MD, FRCPC
Investigator
Ethnoracial Equity | Diversity and Inclusion in Research | Thrombosis Medicine
Eusang Ahn, MD, MSc (Med Ed), BSc (Mktg)
Investigator
Medical Education | Cultural Competency | Emergency Medicine
Omolayo Anjorin, MD, M.Sc Global Health and M.Sc Global Mental Health
Investigator
Mental Health | Well-being | Equity | Diversity
Aimée Bouka, MD, MSc, CCFP
Investigator
Medical Education | Primary Care | Anti-Racism | Anti-Oppression
Claudia Hampel, RN, BN
Investigator & Patient / Community Engagement Advisor
Mental Health Nursing | Patient-Oriented Research | Patient Engagement
Medina Jones, BSc(in progress)
Investigator
Anti-oppression | Anti-racism | Disability Access | Health Outcomes of Marginalized Peoples | Learner Experience | Community Care Practices
Constance LeBlanc, CCFP(EM), MAEd, CCPE, MBA
Investigator
EDIA | Medical Education | Physician Leadership
Sumiya Lodhi, MSc
Investigator
Medical Education | Curriculum Development | Research | Student Wellness
Jason McVicar, MD, FRCPC
Investigator
Anesthesia | Medical Education | Access to Health Resources
Kannin Osei-Tutu, MD, MSc, CCFP
Investigator
Anti-Racism | Artificial Intelligence | Equity | Inclusive Compassion | Sense of Belonging | Structural Wellness
Raj Rasasingham
MD, FRCPC, DAPN
Investigator
Continuing Professional Development | Equity, Diversity and Inclusion | Social Determinants of Health | Leadership |
Educational Research
Aaron Rosenfeld
B.Sc
Investigator
Medical Education | Health Equity | Social Determinants of Health | Resiliency
Parisa Sepehri, MA. PhD Student (Clinical Psychology)
Investigator
Emotional Health & Well-Being | Mental-Health | Cultural stigma
Andria Tatem
MD, M.Ed
Investigator
Justice, Equity, Diversity & Inclusion | Graduate Medical Education | Anti-Racism | Upstanders
David Wiljer PhD, CPD(HC)
Investigator
Digital Compassion | Continuing Professsional Development | Life Long Learning | Youth Mental Health
Alan Zhou
MD, FRCPC
Investigator
Rheumatology | Diversity & Inclusion | Curriculum Development | Patient Engagement