Practice Changes Following a Psychiatry Continuing Medical Education Event
What We Learned from the University of Toronto Annual Psychopharmacology Conference
Certina Ho | Assistant Professor Rajeevan Rasasingham | Assistant Professor and Director of CPPD
Dave Davis Research Award
Continuing Professional Development Awards
Biographies
Rajeevan Rasasingham is the Director of Continuing Professional and Practice Development for the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto. He is the National Chair of CPD Directors in Psychiatry in Canada and has been instrumental in advancing Continuing Professional Development nationally in Psychiatry. His research has focused on virtual care and practice change in CPD. He has been awarded the Council on Psychiatric Continuing Education Award and the Ivan Silver Award for Innovation. He was also instrumental in developing an online platform for the department of Psychiatry. He is also Co-PI and collaborator on numerous grants in Post Graduate and Public Education. His other interest is in advocacy and he is the Chair of Advocacy and Global Psychiatry for the Canadian Academy of Child Psychiatry (CACAP). He is also a recipient of the Paul Steinhauer Advocacy Award and serves as the current Vice President/ President Elect of CACAP.
Certina Ho holds faculty appointments at the Department of Psychiatry and the Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Toronto; School of Pharmacy, University of Waterloo; and the Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine, McMaster University, with a focus on educational program evaluation and scholarship, and the development of patient/medication safety and quality improvement curriculum, respectively.
Summary of Award Work
The University of Toronto Annual Psychopharmacology Conference is an annual event that demonstrates excellence in project design, from needs assessment to program evaluation, and is a very exciting CPD initiative where its lessons learned can be applied to future CPD events at the Department of Psychiatry and beyond.
About the Award
Dr. Dave Davis has had a long and distinguished career in Continuing Education at the University of Toronto. He was the Associate Dean of Continuing Education at the University of Toronto from 1994-2005, and laid the groundwork for the concept of evidence-based continuing professional development. The Dave Davis Research Award recognizes an outstanding completed research/scholarly project in Continuing Professional Development in the Faculty of Medicine.
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