In Pursuit of Equity: Transforming Physician Training

Join André Picard, health columnist with The Globe and Mail, and leading U of T clinicians, researchers and educators as they explore the future of discovery, collaboration and equity in the Temerty Faculty of Medicine.

The final installment in this three-part virtual series will be a conversation on continuing inequities in health care, with a focus on how new approaches to career-spanning medical education are helping physicians develop as advocates for change that will benefit their patients and their communities.

	Dr. Ariel Lefkowitz (PGME ’18, M.Ed ’20) Lecturer, Department of Medicine Dr. Lefkowitz is an internal medicine physician practicing as a clinical associate at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre and Mount Sinai Hospital. His research interests include ethics, equity, narrative medicine, and the involvement of patients in medical education. Most recently, Dr. Lefkowitz led the development and delivery of a new MD Program lecture entitled Physicians, Human Rights, and Civil Liberties: Lessons from the Holocaust.
	Dr. Chase Everett McMurren (Water Song Medicine Keeper) (PGME ’13) Assistant Professor, Department of Family and Community Medicine Dr. McMurren is a queer, Indigenous, harp-playing, home-visiting physician for long-living elders, and a psychotherapist for artists. He is the Theme Lead for Indigenous Health in U of T’s MD Program. He is a member of the Turtle Clan, and is training as a nâtawihôwêw* [not-a-way-who-ee-oo], or Medicine Man (*in Michif).
	Dr. Onye Nnorom (M.P.H ’11) Assistant Professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health Dr. Nnorom is a family doctor and public health and preventive medicine specialist, and is the Black Health Theme Lead for U of T’s MD Program and Postgraduate Medical Education. She helps develop educational content to teach medical students about Black Canadian health and inequities due to systemic racism. She is also a clinical consultant at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health and President of the Black Physicians’ Association of Ontario.
	Dr. Stephanie Zhou (MD ’18, MSc ’18, PGME ’20) Lecturer, MD Program Dr. Zhou practices addictions medicine at Sunnybrook Hospital and is a lecturer on financial literacy in the Temerty Faculty of Medicine. She is the author of an article titled “Underprivilege as Privilege” in the Journal of the American Medical Association, which describes her childhood growing up in subsidized housing and homeless shelters.
	Dr. Patricia Houston (MD ’78, PGME ’83, M.Ed. ’00) Vice Dean of Medical Education Dr. Houston is a Professor in U of T’s Department of Anesthesia and Pain Medicine. As the university’s Vice Dean of Medical Education, she oversees the MD Program, as well as Postgraduate Medical Education and Continuing Professional Development.

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