2025 Faculty Development Day
For all faculty appointed in the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology at the University of Toronto.
Find out what happened at the event and see the photos in AI, Leadership and Cross-Disciplinary Connection Take Centre Stage at LMP’s 2025 Faculty Development Day.
Where & when
Tuesday, November 11, 8:30 am - 2:30 pm
The Arcadian
401 Bay Street, Simpson Tower - 8th floor
Toronto, ON M5H 2Y4
Contact lmp.communications@utoronto.ca
Agenda
- 08:30 am Registration and continental breakfast
- 09:00 am Welcome from Dr. Rita Kandel
- "Large-Language Models and how to use them wisely". Professor Susan McCahan, Associate Vice-President and Vice-Provost, Digital Strategies
- "A primer on leading change in healthcare". Professor Brian Golden, Strategic Management, Sandra Rotman Chair in Health Sector Strategy
- 11am - we will mark a minute of silence for Remembrance Day
- Presentations from winners of LMP Leadership Grant: Hear short presentations from faculty members who received leadership development grants and learn how they applied their new skills.
- Collaboration Café Introduction & 2024 Collaboration Catalyst Grant Winner Presentations
- Group Picture
- Lunch & Collaboration Café
- Collaboration Café Debrief and wrapping up the day for 2:30 pm
See more details on our speakers below.
Collaboration Café & Seed Funding
- Over lunch, you’ll join focused discussions with colleagues to spark new ideas. Projects formed from these sessions will be eligible to apply for seed funding, and last year’s funded teams will share their outcomes. See which projects were funded at this event in 2024 and in 2023.
- Even if you cannot attend, use the registration form to contribute topics and ideas for the Collaboration Café.
Please note there will be a photographer at this event.
Speakers
Susan McCahan
Talk title: Large-Language Models and how to use them wisely
Associate Vice-President and Vice-Provost, Digital Strategies and Vice-Provost, Innovations in Undergraduate Education
The existence of, and easy access to, generative AI systems are having an impact on all areas of work within higher education. Specifically, Large-Language Models, such as ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini, having an impact on assessment methods, work, and learning. In this talk I will start by briefly reviewing how these systems work, their capabilities, and shortcomings. This is intended to create a shared literacy about this technology to provide a foundation for informed conversations about the implications for our work, and for higher education activities more generally. I will also discuss how to select an appropriate model, how to use them, what to be aware of as we all learn to use this technology wisely.
More on Susan McCahan
Professor Susan McCahan is Associate Vice-President and Vice-Provost, Digital Strategies and Vice-Provost, Innovations in Undergraduate Education. She recently served as Provostial Advisor on Artificial Intelligence, chairing the University Task Force on AI which yielded the report: “Toward an AI-Ready University”. She currently is overseeing implementation of the report recommendations.
Brian Golden
Talk title: A primer on leading change in healthcare
Sandra Rotman Chaired Professor of Health Sector Strategy
Professor of Strategic Management
Academic Director, Sandra Rotman Centre for Health Sector Strategy
The Rotman School of Management & Faculty of Public Health
Professor Brian Golden holds the Sandra Rotman Chaired Professor in Health Sector Strategy at the Rotman School of Management, The University of Toronto. He serves as Academic Director of Rotman’s Global Executive MBA for Healthcare and The Life Sciences.
Professor Golden was a member of the advisory committee that led to the creation of Ontario’s Excellent Care for All legislation. In 2013 he co-authored the province’s report on Primary Care Governance, and in 2015 co-authored “Patient Care Groups: A new model of population based primary health care for Ontario” (the “Price Report”) for the Ministry of Health. From 2005 to 2010 Professor Golden was Board Chair of the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES).
As an advisor and director of leadership development programs, Professor Golden has worked with a variety of organizations including Ontario’s Ministry of Health, Britain’s National Health Service, health regions across Canada, and hospitals including The Hospital for Sick Children, The University Health Network, Hamilton Health Sciences, London Health Science Centre, Sunnybrook College Health Sciences Centre, The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, British Columbia Cancer Agency, The King Faisal Specialist Hospital, and Baylor Medical Center. Private sector clients include Tieto (Finland), General Electric, Janssen-Ortho, Philips and Baxter.
His honours include Canada’s Ted Freedman Innovation in Healthcare Education Award and the Canadian Medical Association’s first Eureka Award for Innovation in Physician Education. In 2016 he was made a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences.
The Collaboration Café
The Collaboration Café is an opportunity to meet and discuss issues with colleagues across LMP. These details will be confirmed, but last year, this is what happened.
Seed funding up to $100k could be available.
How it works:
- 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.
- The organizing committee will group these into themes and allocate topics to tables.
- You join a table on a topic that resonates with you and discuss it.
- 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. In 2023 we funded five projects and last year we funded two.
We will list table topics and attendees here.