2024 Faculty Development Day

For all faculty appointed in the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology at the University of Toronto.

Registration is now closed.

Contact lmp.communications@utoronto.ca if you need to update your attendance for this event.

Where & when

Tuesday, November 12, 8:30 am - 4:00 pm

Malaparte
350 King St. West. 
Toronto

Contact lmp.communications@utoronto.ca

Agenda

8:30 - 9:00 am - Registration and continental breakfast

9:00 - 9:05 am - Welcome from Dr. Rita Kandel

9:05 – 11:25 am - Difficult Conversations Workshop - Linda Hills, PCC, Director of Centre for Learning, Leadership & Culture.

11:25 -11:45 am - Presentations from winners of LMP Leadership Grant

11:45 am - 12:00 pm - Group photo

12:00 - 1:00 pm - Lunch

1:00 - 3:30 pm - Collaboration Café 

3:30 - 4:00 pm - Close and networking

Please note there will be a photographer at this event. 


Speakers

Linda Hills

Linda Hills, PCC

Director of Centre for Learning, Leadership & Culture.

Talk: Generative Conversations Workshop 

Whether we are trying to deal with a challenging colleague, or delivering uncomfortable feedback to a student, we all attempt to avoid having these “difficult” conversations as much as possible. However, they do not have to be as uncomfortable as they are often thought to be.

Using the approach from the book, “Difficult Conversations: How to discuss what matters most" by Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton, and Sheila Heen (from the Harvard Project on Negotiation), the Generative Conversations session provides a model for having the toughest conversations with less stress and more success.  

At this session, you will:

  • learn about a model that will enable you to have the toughest conversations with less stress and more success.
  • be introduced to the ‘three conversations’ approach of analyzing the underlying structure of the conversation, what feelings it evokes, and what’s at stake for both parties. 
  • review the advantages of shifting the framing to ‘generative conversations’ instead of ‘difficult conversations’ to enable workplace conversations to create a better future together.

The Collaboration Café

An infographic showing the steps listed

The Collaboration Café is an opportunity to meet and discuss issues with colleagues across LMP.

Update: the seed funding pot has been increased to $100k this year!

How it works:

  1. You suggest topics in the registration form (whether you are attending or not). These can be related to any scholarly activity such as teaching, research etc.
  2. The organizing committee will group these into themes and allocate topics to tables.
  3. You join a table on a topic that resonates with you and discuss it. There will be two iterations.
  4. If your discussions sound promising and you'd like to take it forward, you can apply for funding through a short application form after the event and you could be awarded some seed funding from the $100k allocated.

We will award a maximum of $25k to a single project. Last year we funded five projects.

The table topics are currently:

  1. Applying digital and computational pathology 
  2. Broadening LMP’s community impact outside the GTA 
  3. Enhancing education and its delivery 
  4. Creating positive and productive work environments 
  5. Assuring sustainability in laboratories – from talent pipelines to pipettes 
  6. Changing the way we work - scholarly work in the digital age  
  7. Exploring biobanking and biomarkers 
  8. Exploring novel models of disease and emerging technology

Attendees

Who would you like to network with? Here are the registered attendees so far to facilitate networking on the day. We will update this list regularly.

Lina Abdul Karim, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre

Vanessa Allen, Sinai Health / University Health Network 

Saranya Arnoldo, Unity Health Toronto

Isabelle Aubert, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre

Carmen Avila-Casado, University Health Network 

Jane Bayani, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research

Dan Beriault, Unity Health Toronto

Tom Braukmann, Public Health Ontario 

Dianne Chadwick, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research

Michael Chen, Sinai Health

Yan Chen, Unity Health Toronto

David Chitayat, Sinai Health

Antoine Corbeil, Public Health Ontario 

Myron Cybulsky, University Health Network 

Sarah Delaney, Unity Health Toronto

Ashley Di Meo, Unity Health Toronto

David Dodington, University Health Network 

Susan Done, University Health Network 

Venkata Duvvuri, Public Health Ontario 

Maryam Faiz, U of T campus: Medical Sciences Building (MSB)

Victor Ferreira, University Health Network 

Sara Hafezi Bakhtiari, Lakeridge Health Network

Elan Hahn, Sinai Health

Paul Hamel, U of T campus: Medical Sciences Building (MSB)

Pauline Henry, Toronto East General

Carlo Hojilla, Sinai Health

Roger Hsu, University Health Network

Weei-Yuarn Huang, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre

Golnaz Karoubi, University Health Network 

Jeffrey Kiernan, University Health Network 

Linda Kocovski, Ontario Forensic Pathology Service

Ana Konvalinka, University Health Network

Julianne Kus, Public Health Ontario 

Lianna Kyriakopoulou, SickKids

Anthea Lafreniere, SickKids

Felix Leung, Sinai Health

Adrian Levine, SickKids

Nancy Liu, Sinai Health

Fang-I Lu, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre

Sonya MacParland, University Health Network

Svetlana Madjunkova, CReATe Fertilty Centre

Edyta Marcon, U of T campus: Translational Research Program

Nicole Mideo, University of Toronto Campus

Anita Nagy, SickKids

Bo-Yee Ngan, SickKids

Sharon Nofech-Mozes, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre

Shinichiro Ogawa, University Health Network 

Jacob Pendergrast, University Health Network 

Anna Plotkin, Lakeridge Health

Michael Pollanen, Ontario Forensic Pathology Service

Aaron Pollett, Sinai Health

Susan Poutanen, Sinai Health / University Health Network

Ioannis Prassas, University Health Network 

Janice Robertson, Krembil Institute

Ali Sakhdari, University Health Network 

Sima Salahshor, Shiruy Inc.

Wilder Scott, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre

Rajeevan Selvaratnam, University Health Network 

Lusia Sepiashvili, SickKids

Iram Siddiqui, SickKids

Karun Singh, University Health Network

Gilbert Sharpe, Translational Research Program

Gino Somers, SickKids

Melanie Spears, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research

Jim Stavropoulos, SickKids

Hoon-Ki Sung, SickKids

Kelsie Thu, Unity Health Toronto

Vanessa Tran, Public Health Ontario 

Rosemarie Tremblay-LeMay, University Health Network 

Will Tsui, Sinai Health

Andrea Vaags, Trillium Health Partners 

Naomi Visanji, University Health Network 

Valerie Wallace, University Health Network 

Steven White, Ontario Forensic Pathology Service

Andrew Williams, Ontario Forensic Pathology Service

Amy Wong, SickKids

Ellen Yang, Sinai Health

Ju-Yoon Yoon, Unity Health Toronto

George Yousef, University Health Network 

Libin Yuan, SickKids

Scott Yuzwa, U of T campus: Medical Sciences Building (MSB)

Eldad Zacksenhaus, University Health Network

Sasan Zandi, Unity Health Toronto

Lingxin Zhang, Sinai Health

Judit Zubovits, Scarborough Health Network