Professor Ivy Oandasan is a Full Professor with the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Toronto. An active family physician, she has been involved in teaching and research since 1997. Prof essor Oandasan’s main scholarship has been in curriculum development, evaluation and research related to interprofessional education, competency based family medicine education. 

Professor Oandasan was the inaugural Director of the Office of Interprofessional Education at the University of Toronto (U of T) (1996). She led the development of the requisite IPE curriculum for all of U of T’s health professional students,which has been replicated internationally. She was the Co-Chair for HealthForceOntario’s Interprofessional Blueprint for Action that advanced a systems approach to implement IPE and IPC across Ontario and led the national research team funded by Health Canada that developed a theoretical framework used worldwide on Interprofessionality: the field of study exploring interprofessional practice and interprofessional education. Now, as The Director of Education at the College of Family Physicians of Canada (CFPC), the national certifying and accrediting body for family medicine, she is charged with enhancing undergraduate and postgraduate family medicine education supporting the development of family physicians who can meet societal needs. In November 2022, she received $45million of federal funding to advance training for team-based comprehensive family practice across disciplines. 

Professor Oandasan’s burning platform remains to foster a generation of competent and caring healthcare professionals who believe in the practice of interprofessional patient-centred care. She grounds her knowledge and practice through her work as a clinician, educator, researcher, administrator, and healthcare leader.

 

Prof Ivy Oandasan's Session:

• Education Symposium

  Date: 23 Sep 2023, Saturday| Time: 1300 - 1500 | Venue: PSL 2, Academia