Latika Nirula PhD

Director, Centre for Faculty Development, University of Toronto and Unity Health Toronto
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto

Sustained Excellence in Teaching as a Faculty Developer

Center for Faculty Development Awards

Latika Nirula

Guestbook

  1. Congratulations Latika!! Your work and leadership is truly innovative, creative, and inspiring! Looking forward to continuing to learn from you!
    Alpna Munshi
  2. Congratulations well done. I am so proud of you.
    Kiran Nirula
  3. Superb! Well done!! 👏🏽 👏🏽
    Sohail Shaikh
  4. Congratulations! well deserved!
    Heather MacNeill
  5. Way to go! Very well deserved. Congratulations!
    Marcus Law

The guestbook is closed.

Biography

Dr. Latika Nirula is the Director of the Centre of Faculty Development (effective July 1, 2020), after serving most recently as the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health’s (CAMH) Director of Simulation and Teaching Excellence for eight years. Dr. Nirula has led a number of significant initiatives to advance faculty development across the health system, and her accomplishments include: leading in the development diverse education training programs locally and in the community, creating faculty development awards and unique programming to recognize and support teachers at CAMH, and collaborating in the development of customized faculty development programming internationally. She has led innovative digital learning initiatives for health-care providers focused on knowledge translation and exchange. Dr. Nirula is also an experienced curriculum designer and facilitator of faculty development programming, with special interests in applying simulation-based education and diverse program evaluation approaches to her work. She is highly-rated teacher, who is deeply committed to supporting faculty in enhancing their own teaching skills, exemplified by her approach to coaching and mentorship.

Dr. Nirula holds an academic appointment as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry in the Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto. Dr. Nirula has a PhD from OISE/UT in Human Development and Applied Psychology, and is a graduate of the New and Evolving Academic Leaders (NEAL) program at the Centre for Faculty Development. Dr. Nirula’s research interests include faculty development to support simulation-based learning, and applications of quality improvement in the design of educational interventions for health care professionals.

I am deeply grateful for this acknowledgement of my contributions, only possible through the support and mentorship of other faculty developers, and ultimately the trust of teachers I had the honour to work with.

“It turns out that trust is in fact earned in the smallest of moments. It is not earned through heroic deeds, or even highly visible actions, but through paying attention, listening, and gestures of genuine care and connection.” – Brene Brown

About the Award

These awards, named after one of our own award-winning educators, were established in 2005 to recognize outstanding departmental faculty development programs leading to the enhancement of education, instruction, career development, professionalism, inter-professionalism, and/or health professional leadership within the Faculty of Medicine. There are three categories: Sustained Excellence in Teaching as a Faculty Developer, Innovation in Program Development and Design, and Sustained Contribution to the Field of Faculty Development.