As the dean, school of medicine and vice-president, medical affairs, Teresa will provide strategic, academic and operational leadership and management necessary to lead and deliver the vision, mission, design and implementation of the school of medicine. She will advocate and champion, both inter...
As the dean, school of medicine and vice-president, medical affairs, Teresa will provide strategic, academic and operational leadership and management necessary to lead and deliver the vision, mission, design and implementation of the school of medicine. She will advocate and champion, both internally and externally, the school of medicine’s mission and mandate to offer a new approach to medical education in Ontario, fostering academic excellence, commitment to equity and community inclusion, and innovation to address the changing needs for health-care delivery and practice.
In her capacity as dean, she will lead the approval and accreditation processes for the undergraduate and postgraduate medical education programs. In her role as vice-president, medical affairs she will provide advice and counsel to the president and the university’s senior executive group on the development and implementation of academic and administrative policies and procedures.
Teresa holds a bachelor of science from the University of Toronto, a bachelor of education from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, a doctor of medicine from the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, Western University and a Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada Emergency Medicine Residency, McMaster University. She also holds a master of health professionals education from the University of Illinois at Chicago and is currently pursuing a master of business administration from the University of the People in California.
Members of the search committee for the dean, school of medicine and vice-president, medical affairs are listed below and I want to thank each of them for their great contributions to this successful search: