Faculty
The CCL Program is facilitated by a diverse group of faculty. Several faculty contributed to a chapter in Without Compassion, There is No Healthcare, McGill-Queens University Pres, November 2020.
Sacha Agrawal
Associate Professor / Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
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Sacha Agrawal is Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and a staff psychiatrist and clinician educator at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health. He completed medical school at the University of Toronto, his psychiatry residency training and a Master’s degree in health research methodology at McMaster University, and a fellowship in Public Psychiatry at Yale University. He is passionate about his clinical work supporting the recovery of individuals with severe mental illness as a member and collaborative leader of two flexible assertive community treatment teams at CAMH. Sacha’s academic interests are in the areas of co-produced education and health equity and social justice education. He is an award-winning clinical teacher, education leader and innovator. He coordinates the Severe Mental Illness training for the General Adult Psychiatry residency program at the University of Toronto and is Education Lead for the Division of Schizophrenia at CAMH. He is also the Inclusion and Co-Production Advisor at the Centre for Advancing Collaborative Healthcare and Education (CACHE).
Mandy Lowe
Senior Director of Clinical Education / University Health Network
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Mandy Lowe is the Senior Director of Clinical Education at the University Health Network (UHN) where she leads a diverse portfolio that includes integrated clinical education across healthcare professions, educational development, health science libraries, educational leadership and interprofessional education and care. She is also currently the Strategic Advisor for the Centre for Advancing Collaborative Healthcare & Education (CACHE) at the University of Toronto (UT). She has led/co-led a wide range of professional/faculty development opportunities addressing the intersection of IPE with such topics as simulation, curriculum design, facilitation, online learning, knowledge translation and other areas of clinical/academic faculty and professional development. Mandy holds a status appointment as Assistant Professor in the Department of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy, Faculty of Medicine, UT and is an Associate Graduate Faculty member who has been recognized for excellence in teaching by colleagues and students. She is strongly committed to interprofessional education, collaboration and knowledge translation and has been involved in all phases of IPE including undergraduate, graduate and post-graduate education. Mandy is also an investigator in a range of research projects that address learning from an interprofessional perspective.
Kathryn Parker
Associate Director, Transformative Change / University Health Network
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Kathryn received her PhD in program evaluation from the University of Toronto in 2006. Kathryn has presented her work at various national and international conferences and has applied her program evaluation skills when working with numerous academic/clinical groups to facilitate and direct program evaluation efforts. Her collaborative work moving educational innovations forward within academic health science centres have garnered numerous awards including the Larry Chester Award for Excellence in Strategic Leadership from the University of Toronto in 2013, the Sherman Award of Excellence in Patient Engagement in 2017 and the 2018 Award of Excellence in Organizational Leadership from the Canadian Association of Pediatric Healthcare Centres. She is an Associate Professor with the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Toronto and was also the recipient of the 2013 AMS Phoenix Fellowship. She served as the Senior Director of Academic Affairs at Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital and is currently the Associate Director, Transformative Change with the Centre for Advancing Collaborative Healthcare and Education.
Jill Shaver
Independent Consultant
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Jill Shaver is an independent consultant focusing on strategy development and implementation, organization and system change, and leadership development. Building on over 25 years in healthcare prior to consulting, Jill consults within the public sector, including healthcare organizations, academic institutions and government departments. She guides organizations in creating effective processes for coordinating, integrating and sustaining system-wide change, while enhancing organization and individual change leadership capacity. Jill has an MBA from McMaster University and a Master of Science in Organization Development from Pepperdine University. Jill’s passion is transformational learning and change; and inspiring leaders, groups and organizations to create their highest future potential. In addition to consulting, Jill has taught Leading Change in the Strategic Leadership Advanced Certificate in the School of Continuing Studies at the University of Toronto; and coordinated the design and co-facilitated the IPE Faculty/Staff Developer Program at the Centre for Faculty Development, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto at St. Michael’s Hospital. Jill is Co-Director of the Collaborative Change Leadership Program, a partnership of the Canadian Interprofessional Health Leadership Collaborative and University Health Network; and is adjunct faculty in the MSOD Program at Pepperdine University.
Maria Tassone
Executive Director, Education / University Health Network
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Maria Tassone is currently the Executive Director, Education at the University Health Network (UHN). During the COVID-19 pandemic, Maria was the Provincial Education Task Force Chair and Project Lead for COVIDcarelearning.ca, an online platform that supported over 15,000 health care workers for redeployment to hospital and long-term care settings. From 2009-2021 Maria was the inaugural Director of the Centre for Interprofessional Education (now CACHE) a strategic partnership between the University of Toronto and UHN. Maria was the co-lead of the Canadian Interprofessional Health Leadership Collaborative, one of four international innovation collaboratives awarded by the Institute of Medicine in Washington. Her experiences in collaborative leadership for health system change contributed to the development, implementation and evaluation of the highly successful Collaborative Change Leadership™ program, for which Maria is currently the Co-Director. Over the course of her career, Maria has been recognized as a leader in innovation related to interprofessional education and care, with the 3M Team Innovation Award and the Ontario Hospital Ted Freeman Award for Education Innovation. She is also seen as a mentor for emerging leaders within and beyond her profession, and for this she was awarded the Canadian Physiotherapy Association National Mentorship Award. Maria holds a Bachelor of Science in Physical Therapy from McGill University, a Master of Science from the University of Western Ontario, and she is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physical Therapy, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto. Throughout her career, Maria has held a variety of clinical, education, research and leadership positions across a multitude of professions. She is most passionate about the interface between research, education, and practice and leading change in complex systems.
Belinda Vilhena
Director, Operations & Business Development / University Health Network
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Belinda Vilhena is the Director, Operations and Business Development at the University of Toronto Centre for Advancing Collaborative Healthcare & Education (CACHE) and the University Health Network. Within her role, Belinda leads daily operations and business development, strategic and operational planning, program/conference event planning, partner/client communications, and liaises with education and practice centres across the globe. Belinda is also the Co-Director of the ehpic™ program and Professional Development (PD) Lead and Program Manager for PD programs offered by the Centre. Belinda holds an Honours Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology and Biology and a Master of Education in Counselling Psychology from the University of Toronto. Belinda has over eighteen years of experience working in healthcare in the community and at the University Health Network, in the Emergency Department and in Patient Relations mediating patient and family concerns.
