IHSE MEETING
IHSE Thursday Morning Meeting
Visiting Scholars
Dr. Ayelet Kuper and Dr. Sophie Soklaridis
Wilson Centre, University of Toronto
Presentation Title: to come
Dr Ayelet Kuper is a Scientist and Associate Director at the Wilson Centre and an Associate Professor in the University of Toronto Department of Medicine with cross-appointments to the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation (IHPME), the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE), and the Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish Studies (Faculty of Arts and Sciences). She practices medicine within the Division of General Internal Medicine at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre. She is interested in the kinds of knowledge we see as legitimate within medical education and medicine more broadly, and in the ideas, individuals, and groups that are included or excluded based on their knowledge claims. She has published over 90 peer-reviewed papers, many of which relate to power, equity, inclusion, and social justice, and is frequently invited to speak about those topics internationally. She is also interested in critical social theory, interpretative methodologies, reflexive axiologies, and the interplay between all of these in conducting rigorous, meaningful research.
Dr. Sophie Soklaridis is a Scientist and Section Head of Education at the Wilson Centre and a Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Family & Community Medicine, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto.聽Dr. Soklaridis鈥� research program uses critical social science and qualitative research approaches to explore the inclusion of clients/families in the life of the hospital as advisors, educators and experts. Her approach to research moves beyond current biomedical research priorities to understand the client as a person; to emphasize the importance of considering relational dimensions in health professions educational initiatives and research and; to develop strategies that reflect how the concepts of diversity and social justice can inform both education scholarship and influence the client/family experience of mental health service provisions.
The issues of power, privilege, equity, identity and relationship-centred care are the threads that weave across her research program in mental health and addictions education scholarship and care. She is the Canadian Lead and a core faculty member for the Master of Health Sciences Education in Ethiopia through the Toronto Addis Ababa Academic Collaboration (TAAAC) and contributes to the enhancement of research, innovation and scholarship in education within the Department of Psychiatry.