Advancing Equity through Teaching and Learning with Visiting Professor Dr. Jerry Maniate – April 9, 2024

Advancing Equity through Teaching and Learning with Visiting Professor Dr. Jerry Maniate – April 9, 2024

Sponsored by the Office of Innovation and Scholarship in Medical Education, and the Office of Equity, Access, and Participation

The WHO states that “health equity is achieved when everyone can attain their full potential for health and well-being”. What role does the health professions education system play in exploring and addressing this in our communities? Can we leverage our training programs to enable and empower individuals to address inequities that they identify in the health system? Through this session we will explore practical steps that we will need to implement at the individual and organizational level to support the advancement of equity.

Learning Objectives:

At the end of the workshop, participants will be able to:

1. Describe the benefits of diversity in the health system.
2. Create inclusive and accountable spaces for learning.
3. Train learners to understand and address inequities that they identify in the health system.

Guest Speaker: Jerry M. Maniate, MD, M.Ed, EMBA, FRCPC, FACP, CCPE, CPC(HC)
Associate Professor and Vice Chair of Member Support, uOttawa Department of Medicine
Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa
EDIA Advisor and Affiliated Researcher, Bruyère Research Institute
Executive Director & Primary Investigator, Equity in Health Systems Lab

Dr. Jerry Maniate is a clinician-educator at The Ottawa Hospital, an Associate Professor and inaugural Vice Chair of Member Support in the Department of Medicine at the University of Ottawa and is EDIA Advisor and a researcher at the Bruyère Research Institute. He is the Executive Director and Primary Investigator of the Equity in Health Systems Lab (www.eqhslab.com) which he founded in September 2021. The Lab is an international community of transdisciplinary researchers, health care professionals, educators, policymakers, learners, and patients who are seeking to make an impact on our community and health system with the work they are engaged with through a unique approach. His academic work and that of the EqHS Lab has been focused on understanding and addressing inequities, accessibility challenges, and social accountability in our health systems through collaborative partnerships using a scholarly lens.

This session will be hybrid with in-person and Zoom options to join.
Room location: 050 Apotex Building