Faculty Development Webinar December 2025

Faculty Development Webinar

The Great Debate on the Intersection of CPD and Faculty Development:
Exploring Opportunities for Collaboration

December 5, 2025

11:30 AM - 12:30 PM Eastern Time

Free registration for SACME Members / $30 for Non-Members

Event Overview

CPD and Faculty Development (FD) are both integral to sustaining excellence in healthcare. CPD ensures that health professionals remain clinically competent, while FD ensures that those involved in education are well-equipped to teach, lead and conduct education scholarship. Although CPD and FD serve different purposes, they often intersect—particularly for healthcare professionals who assume dual roles as clinicians and educators. Professional development topics like professionalism, leadership, inter-professionalism and coaching may be provided by both programs but rarely in collaboration. In many medical schools, CPD and FD are housed in separate offices.

Join us for the “The Great Debate” on the merits of the separation or integration of Faculty Development and Continuing Professional Development and for discussion of the opportunities for collaboration. This session will be of special interest to Office Directors for FD and CPD and to Medical Directors/Assistant/Associate Deans of these programs.

Speakers

Ivan Silver, MD, MEd, FRCPC, FSACMEIvan Silver has enjoyed a career in medical education focusing on continuing professional and faculty development. He held several leadership roles including the inaugural Director of the Centre for Faculty Development, the Vice-Dean of Continuing Professional Development and the inaugural Vice-President of Education at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, at the Temerty Faculty of Medicine in Toronto.  He retired from clinical practice as a geriatric psychiatrist in 2023. He enjoys his family, swimming, gardening, and the arts.

Teresa M. Chan, HBSc, BEd, MD, FRCPC, MHPE, DRCPSC (Clin. Ed.), MBA
Teresa M. Chan is the Founding Dean of the Toronto Metropolitan University School of Medicine as well as TMU’s Vice-President, Medical Affairs. She joins TMU via McMaster University, where she was Associate Dean, Continuing Professional Development and an Associate Professor, Division of Emergency Medicine, Department of Medicine in the Faculty of Health Sciences; she was also a Clinician Scientist with McMaster Education, Research, Innovation and Theory (MERIT). In addition, Dr. Chan has been a practicing emergency physician with Hamilton Health Sciences since 2013.  She has led more than 50 unique research teams while authoring over 200 peer-reviewed publications.

Lori Deitte, MD
Lori Deitte is a Professor of Radiology, Vice Chair of Education, and Vice President for Continuous Professional Development at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. She has mentored and coached over 130 physicians and other individuals in leadership development and performance. She has authored more than 80 peer-reviewed publications and given more than 160 invited presentations, including multiple faculty development workshops. Dr. Deitte is Vice President of SACME and a member of the Board and Executive Committee.