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Ndidi Unaka, MD, MEd, Associate Professor, Pediatric Hospitalist & Associate Pediatric Residency Director at Cincinnati Children's’ Hospital.

Dr. Unaka works on institution-level community health initiatives, which reflects her passion for diversity, inclusion, and health equity.

Will Ross, MD, MPH,
Alumni Endowed Professor of Medicine and Associate Dean for Diversity at the Washington University School of Medicine

Dr. Ross has worked nationally and globally on systems integration and construction of conceptual frameworks to reduce health care disparities.

Nita Mosby Tyler, PhD,
Chief Catalyst and Founder of The Equity Project and former Senior Vice President and Chief Inclusion Officer for Children’s Hospital Colorado

Dr. Mosby Tyler is nationally recognized for her equity work with non-profit, community, government, and corporate organizations.

Technology Panel

The Emergence of Digital CPD: A New Dawn, a New Day

This session will explore the rapidly expanding field of technology-enabled CPD. While a range of technologies have been utilized to provide CPD over the last several decades, the current environment and the pandemic pivot have rapidly accelerated the use and focus on digital CPD. This session will explore the future of digital technologies in shaping the landscape and delivery of CPD. It will examine the evidence for the use of the technology and provide practical tools for personal development to incorporate these technologies into daily practice. Finally, it will consider the opportunity for simultaneously achieving local and global impact through digital solutions that spread and sustain learning during unprecedented times of change to create an inclusive connected community of continuous learning.

Heather MacNeill, MD, BSc(PT), MScCH(HPTE),  FRCPC, Faculty Lead, Educational Technologies, Continuing Professional Development, University of Toronto

Dr. MacNeill’s work includes a drive to build capacity to incorporate effective teaching principles and engagement in online healthcare courses.

Yuri Quintana, PhD, Chief of Division of Clinical Informatics, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Dr. Quintana’s interest includes developing innovative technologies and systems that empower communities of healthcare professionals, patients and families from a global perspective.

Vernon Curran, DipAdEd, Med, PhD, Associate Dean of Educational Development, Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University of Newfoundland 

Dr. Curran’s research interests include digital, social, and mobile learning in medical education and post-secondary education.

John Sandars, MBChB, MSc, MD, MRCP, MRCGP FAcadMEd, CertEd, Professor of Medical Education, Edge Hill University, United Kingdom

Dr. Sandars’ work in digital education spans across the medical education continuum.

Music and Wellness

Engaging with Music in Self-Care, Healthcare, and Medical Education

In this interactive presentation, Dr. Lisa Wong will discuss the role of music in healing the community. She will share some of her own experiences as a musician, physician, and educator, focusing on how the work has pivoted during the COVID pandemic. Participants will be invited to share and reflect on their own healing experiences with music.

Lisa Wong, MD

Dr. Wong is a pediatrician, musician, and author dedicated to the healing arts of music and medicine.

Value Proposition of CME/CPD

This interactive session is designed to help you identify and assess the strengths, niches, and value that CPD provides to your organization. Topics will include how to have meaningful and intentional conversations with leadership; aligning with your organization's ROI, financial goals, and health outcomes; writing your elevator speech; lessons on rapid system collaborations during COVID-19; and building your “superpower” value-added toolkit.

MODERATOR
Annette Mallory Donawa, PhD, Assistant Provost of Continuing Professional Development at the Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University

Morris J. Blachman, PhD, FACEHP, FSACME, Distinguished Clinical Professor Emeritus, University of South Carolina

J. Matthew Orr, PhD, Assistant Dean, Continuing Medical Education, University of South Carolina School of Medicine

Kurt Snyder, JD, MBA, Director of Continuing Medical Education, Stanford University

Katasha N. Charleston, MPH, 
Director, Education, Radiologic Society of North America (RSNA)

Allison Rentfro, PhD, Director, Continuing Medical Education, Yale University School of Medicine; AAMC CPD Section Past Chair

Communities of Coping: 

Using the ECHO Model to Support Health Providers during COVID-19

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on frontline healthcare workers has resulted in psychological distress and the need to support mental health. Continuing professional development can have an important role in supporting individuals’ ability to cope with the distress of the pandemic, and can help sustain and build resiliency. This session will discuss the use of an evidence-based CPD intervention, namely Project ECHO, to support healthcare professionals’ ability to cope with COVID-19 and its mental health sequelae. The experiences of ECHO Ontario Mental Health Coping with COVID-19 will illustrate how CPD can pivot to address emerging mental health needs in frontline workers within a broader system of mental health support during COVID-19. We also consider the importance of team- and community- based resilience.

Sanjeev Sockalingam, MD, MHPE, FRCPC, Vice President, Education and Clinician Scientist; Co-Chair, ECHO Ontario Mental Health Centre for Addiction and Mental Health; Vice-Chair, Education and Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto

Allison Crawford, MD, PhD, FRCPC, Associate Chief, Outreach, Virtual Mental Health and Outreach, and ECHO Co-Chair, ECHO Ontario, Clinician Scientist, CAMH Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto