2026 Faculty Development Day
For all faculty appointed in the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology at the University of Toronto.
Where & when
Wednesday, November 11, 2026, 8:30 am - 2:30 pm
The Arcadian
401 Bay Street, Simpson Tower - 8th floor
Toronto, ON M5H 2Y4
Contact lmp.communications@utoronto.ca
Find out what happened at Faculty Development Day 2025 and see the photos in AI, Leadership and Cross-Disciplinary Connection Take Centre Stage at LMP’s 2025 Faculty Development Day.
Agenda
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Time |
Topic and speaker |
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8:30 – 9:00 am |
Registration and continental breakfast |
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9:00 – 9:05 am |
Welcome from Dr. Rita Kandel |
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9:05 – 10:05 am |
AI in Teaching for Clinicians and Researchers Dr. Laura Rosella, Dalla Lana School of Public Health |
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10:05 – 10:15 am |
Break |
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10:15 – 11:10 am |
Breakout Room #1: How I use AI in clinical practice: Tips, Tricks, and Tools Dr. Carlo Hojilla, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology Breakout Room #2: Introduction to AI-Based Protein Structure Prediction, Analysis, and Design Dr. Matthew McCallum, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology We will hold a minute of silence at 11:00 am for Remembrance Day |
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11:20 – 11:30 am |
Leadership Development Showcase Hear short presentations from faculty members who received LMP leadership development awards about what they learnt and how they have applied it. Maybe you can apply this coming year. |
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11:30 – 11:55 am |
Collaboration Catalyst Event: introduction and presentations from 2025 awardees
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11:55 am – 12:05 pm |
Group photo |
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12:05 – 2:10 pm |
Lunch & Collaboration Catalyst Event Discussion, followed by debrief |
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2:10 – 2:15 pm |
Closing remarks |
Keynote speaker: Dr. Laura Rosella, PhD, MHSc
Talk title: AI in Teaching for Clinicians and Researchers
Education Lead, The Temerty Centre for Artificial Intelligence Research and Education in Medicine (T-CAIREM), Professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health and LMP
Dr. Laura C. Rosella is a Full Professor and Division Head of Epidemiology at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, where she holds a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Population Health Analytics. She is an internationally recognized leader in population health data science, known for developing and applying advanced analytic methods, predictive models, and linked data approaches to improve population health, health system planning, and chronic disease prevention.
She founded the Population Health Analytics Lab and has authored more than 330 publications spanning data science, AI, predictive modelling, population health management, and health system planning.
Dr. Rosella is also Chief Scientist at the Institute for Better Health, Trillium Health Partners, and serves on the Executive team for the Trillium AI for Better Health Strategy, where she helps lead the responsible development and scaling of AI capability in the hospital setting.
She has received numerous honours, including Canada’s Top 40 Under 40, election to the Royal Society of Canada, the CIHR-IPPH Mid-Career Trailblazer Award, and election in 2025 as a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences.