Who We Are
Immediately below is AIME's core team composed of leadership, administration, researchers, and research project assistants. Further below are AIME's Senior Research Associates and AIME/uOSSC Fellows. In addition to the core team, Senior Research Associates, and Fellows, we have a network of Faculty of Medicine members hailing from a range of departments and divisions serving on our committees and collaborating closely with us.
Core AIME Team
Stanley Hamstra, PhD [expand bio] Stan is currently Acting Assistant Dean of AIME and Research Director of the University of Ottawa Skills and Simulation Centre. He received his graduate degrees from York University in Toronto. Prior to coming to Ottawa, he was with the University of Toronto (1997-2005) and the University of Michigan (2005-2009). His research addresses the issue of fidelity in simulation and the use of simulators as assessment devices. He is Course Director of the AIME/uOSSC Healthcare Education Scholars Program (HESP) and is Editor of the Springer Book Series “Advances in Medical Education”. Stan is also a member of the Education Committee of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, and a founding board member of the Canadian Network for Simulation in Healthcare.
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Susan Humphrey-Murto, MD, MEd, FRCPC [expand bio] In the past year, Susan has continued to hold key leadership positions, including Acting Associate Director, AIME; Director of the AIME/uOSSC Fellowship; and Co-Chair of AIME Day. She maintains an active research portfolio with two peer-reviewed publications as senior author, 4 international oral presentations, and 6 national/regional abstracts in 2011. She continues as a reviewer for several medical education journals including Medical Education, Advances in Health Sciences Education, and Teaching and Learning in Medicine. She has an active clinical practice in Rheumatology and has given 7 invited presentations on osteoporosis to primary care physicians. She is a Department of Medicine Career Medical Education Award recipient and was nominated for the 2011 Distinguished Mentor Award at the University of Ottawa.
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Viren Naik, MD, MEd, FRCPC [expand bio] In July 2009, Viren was recruited from the University of Toronto to establish the University of Ottawa Skills and Simulation Centre (uOSSC) as the inaugural Medical Director. With this move, he transferred his existing research fellowship and consolidated it with other departments for a successful AIME/uOSSC Fellowship in Education/Simulation. He has an active research program with over 60 peer reviewed publications and grants. Viren has also served the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada as Chair of the Written Examination in Anesthesia, where he introduced short answer questions to the process. Viren is now contracted at the Royal College as their first Clinician Educator for Simulation, tasked with advancing simulation for postgraduate education and continuing professional development, nationally and internationally.
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Lara Varpio, PhD [expand bio] How do interprofessional teams function? What do medical trainees learn in these teams? When and how is patient information miscommunicated? How are communication technologies like electronic patient records impacting team functioning and individual learning patterns? These are some of the questions Lara’s program of research investigates. In her collaborations with physician educators, Lara employs her qualitative research skills to investigate a variety of topics. Some of these include: ethical and trainee safety issues in global health settings, simulation to contextualize training for medical error reporting, arts-based innovations for interprofessional education, and the diversity of the medical trainee population. As a bilingual investigator, Lara participates in both Anglophone and Francophone health professions education research communities.
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Elizabeth Lindsay, PhD [expand bio] Elizabeth Lindsay is an associate professor with AIME and the Office of Continuing Medical Education. Trained as a behavioral epidemiologist, she focuses her work on approaches to designing and testing knowledge translation strategies that will impact on health professional clinical behavior. She has worked within the Continuing Medical Education/Continuing Professional Development (CME/CPD) enterprise for over 25 years and has served in leadership roles in a variety of organizations responsible for continuous professional learning for physicians. Her present research agenda is focused on implementation of guidelines through approaches that engage inter-sectoral stakeholders both within and outside the Faculty of Medicine. Behavioral science forms the basis for her applied research approach and evidence from CPD research, Knowledge Translation as well as Implementation science guide her specific intervention approaches.
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Timothy J. Wood, PhD [expand bio] Timothy J. Wood received his PhD in Cognitive Psychology from McMaster University, followed by a one year post-doc with the Program for Educational Research and Development. He spent 12 years with the Medical Council of Canada (MCC), where he collaborated on many MCC development projects, including computer and web-based examinations, a national OSCE, examination result reporting, scoring support to the examinations, and research-related activities. Tim also collaborated with members of the Faculty of Medicine, and resulting publications include research on improving quality assurance measures for assessments, developing tools to assess the impact of educational interventions, and improvements in the assessment of clinical skills. Tim has served on planning committees for AIME, CCME, and the Ottawa Conference. He has been a reviewer for several academic meetings, research grants, and journals. And he is an associate editor for Advances in Health Sciences Education.
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Erin Bidlake, PhD
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Mish Boutet, MA, BEd
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Kathy Day, MA, BEd
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Sophie Grimard
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AIME Senior Research Associates
- Sylvain Boet
- Dylan Bould
- Pierre Cardinal
- Wade Gofton
- Stanley Hamstra
- Susan Humphrey-Murto
- Elizabeth Lindsay
- Viren Naik
- Claire Touchie
- Timothy Wood
- Lara Varpio
AIME/uOSSC Fellows
- Alexis Haligua, Department of Emergency Medicine
- Michael Hartwick, Department of Medicine, Division of Critical Care
- Donna Johnston, Department of Pediatrics
- Anita Lai, Department of Emergency Medicine
- Neeraj Mehra, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
- Sean Moore, Department of Emergency Medicine
- Dan Power, Department of Anesthesiology
- Isabelle Raiche, Department of Surgery
- Gary Viner, Department of Family Medicine
Page updated: May 2, 2012