Dr. Alanna Baillod is a Geriatric Psychiatrist with the department of Psychiatry in Saskatoon. She completed medical school and Psychiatry residency at the University of Saskatchewan. She completed her Geriatric Psychiatry subspecialty training at the University of Ottawa. Dr. Baillod is currently the Clerkship Director for Psychiatry, the CBD lead for Psychiatry, the Competence Committee Chair for Psychiatry, and the Assistance Program Director for Psychiatry. She is also part of the RCPSC Geriatric Psychiatry Examination Committee. Dr. Baillod graduated from the CEd program in 2024.
Dr Sharon Card joined the College of Medicine at the University of Saskatchewan in 1996 where she has practiced General Internal Medicine since then. Since 1996 she has been extensively involved in medical education both Undergraduate and Postgraduate. Undergraduate roles include teaching in multiple capacity and leading the Professional Skills course. Her main medical education focus has been in the postgraduate realm and in particular developing consistent, robust training for those entering practice in General Internal Medicine. During her career in Saskatoon she has been both GIM Program Director and GIM Division Head. She has also been involved with the Internal Medicine Program as Assistant Program Director. Over the past 20 years she has been extensively involved with both the Canadian Society of Internal Medicine (GIM Program Director’s Committee, Education Committee, Council) and the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada (Chair GIM Working Group; current Chair GIM Specialty Committee; Accreditation Committee; Internal Medicine Specialty Committee; Internal Medicine Examiner). Her main medical education focus until 2017 was developing General Internal Medicine (GIM) into an acknowledged discipline at the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. As the Chair of the RCPSC Chair of the Specialty Committee in GIM she led the development of the Competence by Design project for GIM. After transitioning from the GIM Specialty Committee lead role she has been appointed CBD Lead for PGME at the University of Saskatchewan. This role involves facilitated the readiness to implement and the fidelity of implementation of Competence by Design within the Royal College disciplines at the U of S. This role has many medical education components.
Rob Carey was born and raised in Saskatoon, SK where he was lucky enough to attend medical school and complete his 5 year FRCP in Emergency Medicine. Completing his residency in 2022 he now works as an Emergency Physician and Trauma team leader in Saskatoon. He completed a fellowship in medical simulation with the KidSIM group at the Alberta Children's Hospital in 2021 and currently works as the Post Graduate Medical Education Simulation Coordinator. His area of interest is in in situ simulation and how it can help improve patient safety and quality outcomes, as well as its benefit towards both resident and CME learning.
Dr. Jonathan Dean is an assistant professor and competency committee member for the Division of General Internal Medicine at the University of Saskatchewan. He completed his medical schooling and residency in Saskatoon and continues work towards a master’s degree in medical education through the University of Dundee, Scotland. He has served as a Competency by Design Resident Lead and as a member of the PGME’s Competency by Design Implementation Working Group. Dr. Dean was President of Resident Doctors of Saskatchewan and Co-chair of the Wellness Committee for Resident Doctors of Canada, where he helped develop guidelines on the promotion of a positive learning environment and advocated for both fatigue risk management and resiliency training. He received the Resident Doctors of Canada Puddester Award for Resident Wellness in 2019.
Dawn De Souza completed her residency at the University of Saskatchewan. She obtained her Clinician Educator Diploma in 2023 through the Clinician Educator Diploma Program at the University of Saskatchewan. She has been active throughout her career in both Undergraduate and Postgraduate Medical Education serving many roles. She is currently the Psychiatry Residency Program Co-Program Director.
Trustin Domes is the current Director of Admissions for the College of Medicine at the University of Saskatchewan. He completed his Bachelor of Science Degree at the University of Saskatchewan, Medical Degree at the University of Alberta and Urology Residency at Western University. After residency, he completed a Male Reproductive Medicine and Surgery Fellowship at the University of Toronto in 2011. Trustin is an Adjunct Professor of Surgery at the University of Saskatchewan and continues to be involved in the administration and delivery of undergraduate, postgraduate and continuing medical education. After completing a Master of Education Degree in 2014, he became the Director of Undergraduate Surgical Education at the University of Saskatchewan (2015-current) and sits on numerous College of Medicine, Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, Saskatchewan Medical Association and Canadian Urology Association committees. He is the current Chair of the Canadian Undergraduate Urology Curriculum Committee, SMA Specialist Recruitment and Retention Committee and Vice Chair of the Royal College Urology Examination Committee. With over 25 published peer-reviewed manuscripts and three book chapters, his current academic and research interests involve quality improvement initiatives, minimally invasive treatment of small renal masses and developing and evaluating strategies to improve the delivery of medical education, including mobile technology and competency assessments, surgical simulation in interdisciplinary teams and team-based learning.
Dr. Regina Taylor Gjevre is a Professor of Medicine and the current Assistant Dean for Curriculum for the UGME program at the College of Medicine at the University of Saskatchewan. She had completed her Bachelor of Science (Biochemistry), MD degree (1987), Rotating Interneship (1988) at Memorial University of Newfoundland, followed by Internal Medicine residency at University of Manitoba in Winnipeg (1992) and a three-year fellowship in Rheumatology at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota (1995) receiving the Philip Showalter Hench Award for Excellence. Additional qualifications include holding a MSc in Clinical Epidemiology and a RCPSC Diploma in an Area of Focused Competence (Clinician Educator). Since joining faculty at University of Saskatchewan in 2002, Dr. Taylor Gjevre has been active in the research, educational and administrative missions of the College of Medicine. She has been actively involved in classroom and clinical teaching at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels, she has participated in various education related roles within and outside the College of Medicine including serving as post-graduate rheumatology program director, member of the RCPSC specialty committee for rheumatology, undergraduate MSK module director, Foundations of Clinical Medicine course chair and CACMS accreditation team member. She has received the College of Medicine Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2011 and the Provost’s College Teaching Award in 2015. Since 2015, Dr. Gjevre has been the Assistant Dean for Curriculum for the UGME program. Her medical education interests lie in curriculum quality and development, curriculum delivery methodologies, program management processes and inter-professional education.
Dr. Kaitlyn Hughes is a family physician and Assistant Professor in the Department of Academic Family Medicine at the University of Saskatchewan. She graduated from the U of S with an M.D. in 2016 and completed her Family Medicine residency training in Regina in 2018. Dr. Hughes practices full-scope family medicine with low-risk obstetrics at the Regina Family Medicine residency training site. She obtained her Clinician Educator Diploma (CEd) in 2023 through the Clinician Educator Diploma Program at the U of S. She previously served as the Regina Family Medicine Clerkship Coordinator and now acts as the Saskatchewan Family Medicine Curriculum Director. Dr. Hughes has a passion to share and exchange knowledge with others. She has a strong interest in behavioural medicine and strives to engage learners with different teaching style and methods in different educational contexts.
Dr. Joann Kawchuk completed her MD in Saskatchewan, Anesthesiology training in Ottawa, and Critical Care fellowship in Sydney Australia. She received her Medical Simulation fellowship at the University of Western Ontario. She returned to the University of Saskatchewan in 2008 as Assistant Professor in the College of Medicine. She has collaborating roles in the development and delivery of interprofessional simulation curriculum in post-graduate residency programs and in the development of undergraduate simulation-based education. She contributed to the Canadian National Anesthesiology Simulation Curriculum (CanNASC) through 2010-2019 and served as Director of Simulation at the College of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan from 2018 to 2019. She is a Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons examiner, and an executive committee member of their Anesthesiology exam board as Simulation Lead. Her active interest is in translational simulation to impact patient care and health care system improvements.
Lisa Krol earned her M.Ed. in Special Education and Educational Psychology investigating observable signs of reading disabilities among second language learners. For twenty years she taught, developed curriculum, and wrote courses for both the University of Saskatchewan’s Language Centre and the College of Education. Together with her husband Ed Krol, Professor in Pharmacy, they developed, implemented, and published an innovative technique to help improve the writing skills of graduate students. Lisa earned two Provost’s Awards for International Teaching and Support of Teaching and Learning. In 2022, Lisa joined the UGME as the Assessment Specialist and then moved into the role of Curriculum and Program Specialist. She has been deeply involved in establishing assessment maps that plot program and course objectives with exam questions and results to identify opportunities for improvement and loop closures. Lisa’s interests lie in the areas of enhancing the student experience through purposeful course design, practical assessment techniques, and instructor reflection.
Matt Kushneriuk is the current Undergraduate Director for the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Saskatchewan. He completed his medical schooling and family medicine residency in Saskatoon. After residency, he completed a Professional Master of Education with a focused concentration on evaluation and assessment at Queen’s University in 2020. In 2021, Matt moved his practice to the Academic Family Medicine Unit based out of West Winds Primary Health Centre. He spent five years as the Course Director for “Clinical Integration”, a Year 2 Course within the medicine undergraduate curriculum at the U of S and helped transition the course to Competency-Based Assessment. He also spent a year as the Assessment Director for the U of S Family Medicine Residency Program. Matt is an Assistant Professor at the University of Saskatchewan and continues to be involved in the administration and delivery of undergraduate, postgraduate, and continuing medical education. His current areas of scholarship surround undergraduate medical education and family medicine career choice decisions.
Dr. Lloyd holds a Ph.D. in Educational Psychology, focusing on development, implementation, and review of assessments. Over the past ten years, he has worked with Pre-service teachers on how to effectively use assessments within their classrooms as well as worked for test design companies helping design and evaluate assessments following best practice. More recently his work has shifted to a focus on Medical Education and he has worked to support the assessment process within all course in the Undergraduate Medical Education Program in the College of Medicine. He offers support, workshops, and advice around assessment best practices to all module, course, and rotation directors in the UGME.
Dr. Cathy MacLean received her MD from Dalhousie University in 1985 and followed with her family medicine residency there and entered community full scope practice in Moncton, NB. She moved to academic family medicine at the University of Western Ontario in 1992 where she became Undergraduate Family Medicine Director. In 1997, she took the same role at Dalhousie. From 2007 to 2012, Dr. MacLean was Professor and Head of the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Calgary and was Chair at Memorial following this. In January, 2017 Dr. Cathy MacLean became the Director of Faculty Development for the College of Medicine at the University of Saskatchewan. Dr. MacLean has completed a Masters in Clinical Science in Family Medicine at Western University and later received a Masters in Business Administration from Saint Mary’s University in Halifax. She has been active in teaching and research throughout her career. The highlight of her research has been working with Dr. Pat McGrath on the Strongest Families program which has won national recognition for health services innovation. Dr. MacLean has been involved with the College of Family Physicians of Canada for many years and was national President of the College of Family Physicians of Canada in 2009/2010. She served as chair of the national Patient Education Committee until 2018 and served on the Patients’ Medical Home Steering Committee until 2019. In her leadership roles, she has successfully implemented initiatives for an alternate funding plan, expansions in both UG and PG family medicine programs, implementation of Triple C curriculum and new distributed models to enhance recruitment and retention of family physicians, improved matches to family medicine as a career choice, introduced inter-professional team based care in microsystems and has started a Patients Advisory Committee within the Patients Medical Home model. Her primary interests are in systems transformation using the “quadruple aim” targets and meeting societal needs in a more coordinated and accountable primary care system. She continues to be interested in research and scholarship in medical education focusing on physician behaviour change.
Dr. McBain completed her MD at Usask, followed by Anesthesia training also at Usask. She has been extensively involved in Undergraduate Medical Education, having been the Year 3/4 Chair for the last 10 years. She recently completed her Master of Education in Health Professions Education at the University of Saskatchewan. She has now moved into Postgraduate training as the Assistant Site Director for the residency site in Regina and has taken on the role of Simulation Lead for their group.
Dr. Athena McConnell completed her medical school training at Queens University, pediatric residency at the University of Alberta, fellowship in Pediatric Infectious Diseases at Alberta Children's Hospital and Masters of Medical Education through the University of Calgary. She is an Associate Professor in the department of Pediatrics and is the Director, Quality and Accreditation for the College of Medicine. Prior to taking on the work of undergraduate accreditation, she held several UGME leadership roles including being the Chair of the clerkship subcommittee. She has served on several undergraduate accreditation survey teams, and is a present member of the Faculty Undergraduate Accreditation Leads group as well as the Committee on Accreditation of Canadian Medical Schools.
Emergency physician (2008) and Director of Emergency Ultrasound for the provincial Department of Emergency Medicine (2018). Introduced to clinical ultrasonography shortly after completing residency training, Paul is passionate about its widespread adoption throughout healthcare to improve patient care. A bedside instructor for both basic and advanced ultrasound courses, co-developer of an ultrasound simulator for critical care simulation (edus2) and Chair of the Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians’ Emergency Ultrasound Committee, he is excited about advancing Clinical Ultrasound at the University of Saskatchewan.
Sean is the Teaching and Learning Specialist for Faculty Development in the College of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan. He started his career as a high school teacher and, after joining the College of Medicine in 2008, completed his Master of Education in Curriculum Studies. He is involved in several committees including the AFMC Faculty Development Network, the Curriculum Mapping Workshop Planning Group, and Competence Committee Workshop Planning Group. Sean also serves as the module co-lead for interprofessional based learning in undergraduate education. For over a decade, Sean has been the primary facilitator for TIPS - the College’s 2-day resident-as-teacher course for all first year residents. He has been responsible for facilitating workshops on a wide range of teaching and learning topics including assessment, feedback, learning objectives, coaching, how people learn, active learning, clinical reasoning, reflection, positive learning environments, and competency based medical education. Sean has recently been trained to facilitate Cook Ross’s Everyday Bias for Healthcare Professionals and has facilitated several sessions for the College of Medicine.
Dr. Anurag Saxena is Professor of Pathology and Associate Dean, Postgraduate Medical Education at the University of Saskatchewan and a practicing pathologist in Saskatchewan Health Authority. He has obtained M.Ed. from the University of Saskatchewan and MBA from the University of Wales. He has leadership certification from the Canadian College of Health Leaders and the Canadian Society of Physician Executives. He has held many leadership roles in educational administration and clinical service. He has served as a surveyor for national and international accreditation visits and is a member of the Royal College Accreditation Committee and of the AFC Accreditation Committee. He has offered multiple workshops on various facets of leadership at local, national and international conferences. A recipient of the Master Teacher Award of the University of Saskatchewan, he is passionate about teaching and is involved in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and external teaching through workshops on various aspects leadership and change. His current research interest is in leadership in medical education and health systems. He has numerous peer-reviewed publications and ongoing projects on leadership in healthcare and medical education.
Dr. Nicole Shedden is a family physician and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Saskatchewan (U of S). She graduated from the U of S with an M.D. in 2017 and completed her Family Medicine residency in 2019. She obtained her Clinician Educator Diploma (CEd) in 2022 through the Clinician Educator Diploma Program at the U of S and was the first graduate from the program. She is currently Year 1 Co-Chair for the undergraduate (UG) program at the U of S College of Medicine (CoM), and Course Director for the Success in Medical School course.
Dr. Sinha obtained her medical degree from the University of Ottawa and then went on to do her Pediatrics Residency at the University of Alberta followed by subspecialty training in pediatric hematology oncology at the University of British Columbia. She also has a Masters of Health Professions Education from Maastricht University in the Netherlands. On the clinical side Dr. Sinha is the provincial head of pediatric hematology oncology in Saskatchewan and practices as a pediatric hematologist oncologist based out of the Jim Pattison Children's hospital. She also involved in the community and serves on the Board of Directors for Ronald McDonald House Saskatchewan. Her medical education interests include transitions, community of practice, curriculum quality and development, and change management. She serves as the University of Saskatchewan UGME Curriculum Quality Review Sub-Committee Co-Chair.
Dr. Brent Thoma is a Professor at the University of Saskatchewan where he works as an emergency physician, trauma team leader, and medical education researcher. He recently earned his PhD with a thesis exploring the use of competency-based assessment data for organizational development. His research explores technology enhanced learning with a focus on online educational resources, simulation, and learning analytics. He also works with the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons as a Clinician Educator and the Vice-Chair of the Clinician Educator Area of Focused Competency Committee.
Krista Trinder received her Masters in Applied Social Psychology in 2008 from the University of Saskatchewan. That same year, she began working at the College of Medicine. In her role as Program Evaluation Specialist, she is responsible for evaluating the undergraduate program and collecting, analyzing, and reporting several sources of data required for accreditation. She also chairs the Program Evaluation Sub-Committee. As well, Krista holds a Credentialed Evaluator designation with the Canadian Evaluation Society.
Dr. Scott Tunison completed an undergraduate degree in music education/performance at the University of Regina in 1986 and started his education career in Churchbridge SK teaching Band, Music, and English Language Arts. In 1988, he moved to Saskatoon and taught high school Band and English Language Arts in Greater Saskatoon Catholic Schools for 16 years. During his tenure with GSCS, he also completed his MEd (1997) and PhD (2003) in Educational Administration. From 2004 to 2018, he served as Coordinator of Research, Measurement, and Assessment at Saskatoon Public Schools. Since July 2018, he has been working at the University of Saskatchewan in a variety of roles including: Assistant Professor (2018 – 2022), Sessional Lecturer (2022-2023), and Coordinator of Teaching and Learning Enhancements (2023-2024). In July 2024, he joined the College of Medicine Faculty Development Unit as a Teaching and Learning Specialist. His scholarly work explores evidence-informed educational leadership practice, organizational effectiveness and strategic planning, ethical research methodologies and design principles, student assessment reform, and Indigenous education. He is very excited about the opportunity to join the College of Medicine and contribute to its many physician education programs.
Dr. Rob Woods completed his undergrad and medical school at the University of Saskatchewan, his Emergency Medicine residency at the University of Alberta, and his Masters of Medical Education through Dundee, Scotland. Clinically he works as an Emergency Physician & STARS Transport Physician. He has held several education roles, has won several local and national teaching awards, and is currently the Program Director for Emergency Medicine. He is also the chair of the Education Scholarship Committee for the Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians and a Decision Editor for Education Scholarship at the Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine. His current area of scholarship is around the quality of director observation narrative assessments. He is very excited to help bring the Clinician Educator Diploma program to the University of Saskatchewan.
