Prof Maria Athina (Tina) Martimianakis
Professor and Director of Medical Education Scholarship, Department of Paediatrics, University of Toronto, Canada
Prof Tina’s academic training in Political Science and the Sociology of Higher Education, combined with over two decades working in clinical contexts and health education leadership positions, has led her to develop a unique interdisciplinary orientation to the study of health professions education. At the heart of her research programme is the exploration of problematic socio-political relationships that impact the mission of health professional organisations to prepare and support clinicians to provide comprehensive and compassionate care to all patients. Theoretically, Prof Tina’s research aims to elaborate on governmentality effects: the ways in which dominant discourses such as collaboration, globalisation and humanism impact professional identity formation. She also studies how discourses contribute to hidden curriculum effects and the overall value system that underpins the articulation and application of professional expertise.
Her educational practice is closely aligned to her research program. As an educator, Prof Tina employs critical and social cultural pedagogies to enable clinician educators to incorporate complex negotiations of the social world in their educational planning and implementation. She supervises clinical and social science students at all levels of training and teaches at the Wilson Centre, the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, the Institute for Health Policy and Evaluation, within the Department of Paediatrics and across the Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto.
Prof Tina’s research can be found in journals such as Social Science and Medicine, Medical Education, Academic Medicine and Higher Education. She has received many awards for her teaching, mentorship, research and educational development and has served as Associate Editor for the Journal of Interprofessional Care, the Canadian Journal for Medical Education and Advances in Health Sciences Education.
