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This work was supported by a grant from the Ontario Ministry of Children Community and Social Services' Ontario Autism Program (OAP) Workforce Capacity Fund - Sector Innovation Stream

Team

NEST is comprised of scientists, researchers, educators, patient/family/caregiver partners, community partners, and learners.

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Core Team

Meet the members of our core Teaching and SLED-Vast Operations teams 

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Learners

Learners are integral and foundational parts of our SLE communities and work.

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Community

NEST projects and SLED-VAST are supported by a community of partnerships.

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Consortium

Ensuring that the SLED-VAST initiative is a genuinely and meaningfully partnered co-creation

Core Team

Core Team

This includes the Core Teaching Team and the SLED-VAST Operations team,
who are also the Co-PI of the OAP Workforce Capacity grants.

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Amanda Binns

PhD, SLP - CCC Reg. CASLPO

Clinician, Researcher, Educator​

  • Education Development Lead, Clinical Teaching, Centre for Faculty Development

  • Assistant Professor, Department of Speech-Language Pathology, University of Toronto 

  • Adjunct Research Professor, School of Communication Sciences and Disorders

  • Western University, Autism Spectrum and Language Disorders Lab

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Farah Friesen

MI

Researcher, Educator

  • Manager, Research & Knowledge Mobilization, Centre for Advancing Collaborative Healthcare & Education (CACHE), Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto

  • Education Investigator I, The Institute for Education Research (TIER), University Health Network

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Alifa Khan

Family as Faculty, Autism Student-Led Environment

  • Vice Chair of the Research Family Engagement Committee (RFEC), Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital

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Stella Ng

PhD, RegCASLPO

Director, Scientist, Educator

  • Director & Scientist, Centre for Advancing Collaborative Healthcare & Education (CACHE)

  • Associate Professor, Speech-Language Pathology & Institute of Health Policy, Management & Evaluation, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto

  • Scientist, The Wilson Centre & The Institute for Education Research, University Health Network

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Gunjan Seth

Family as Faculty, Autism Student-Led Environment

  • Co-Chair, Family Advisory Committee (FAC), Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital

  • Member, Patient and Family Advisory Committee (PFAC), Ontario Health

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Kathryn Parker

PhD

Associate Director, Evaluation Specialist, Educator

  • Associate Director, Transformative Change, Centre for Advancing Collaborative Healthcare & Education (CACHE), University Health Network

  • Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto

Learners

Learners

Student-Led Environments (SLE) such as SLED-VAST would not be possible without the enthusiastic learners that are integral and foundational parts of our SLE communities and work.

This list includes learners who wished to be represented on this website. These individuals engaged with us during their time as learners in their health professions education programs, though many have since graduated and may be practicing clinicians or pursuing other academic and professional endeavours.

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Community

Community

NEST projects and SLED-VAST are supported by a community of partnerships.

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Consortium

Consortium

The SLED-VAST Consortium is responsible for ensuring that the SLED-VAST initiative is a genuinely and meaningfully partnered co-creation of a new SLE; building partnerships and establishing connections to ensure representation and impact; and informing, reflecting on, and sharing practical developments, including future opportunities for scale-up and sustainability.

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Sincerest appreciation to Consortium members who have been there since day 1!

  • Gayle Adams-Carpino, Faculty, Interprofessional Education-Laurentian University  Division of Human Sciences, NOSM University

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  • Michelle Addison, Director, Health Professions & Collaborative Practice, Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre; Assistant Professor, Clinical Sciences Division, NOSM University

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  • Victoria Boyd, Post-doctoral fellow, CanChild, McMaster University

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  • Wenonah Campbell, Associate Professor; John and Margaret Lillie Chair in Childhood Disability Research; Scientist, CanChild, Speech-Language Pathology Program School of Rehabilitation Science

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  • Farah Friesen, Operations Manager & Co-Lead, SLED-VAST and Manager, Research & Knowledge Mobilization, CACHE

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  • Sharon Gabison, Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, Department of Physical Therapy, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto

  • Sylvia Langlois, Associate Professor, Department of Occupational Science & Occupational Therapy, University of Toronto and Associate Director, Academic, CACHE

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  • Dean Lising, Lecturer, Department of Physical Therapy, University of Toronto and Integration Lead, Collaborative Healthcare & Education, CACHE

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  • Stella Ng, Director & Scientist, CACHE, Associate Professor, Department of Speech-Language Pathology, University of Toronto, Scientist, Wilson Centre, and AMS Phoenix Fellow in Compassion and AI/Digital Technology

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  • Kathryn Parker, Associate Director, Transformative Change, CACHE; Fellow, AMS Phoenix Project; Assistant Professor, Department of Paediatrics, Temerty Faculty of Medicine University of Toronto

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  • Mike Ravenek, Director, Health Sciences and Program Development, NOSM University

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  • Nicole Woods, Scientist & Associate Director of Operations/UHN, The Wilson Centre, Director, The Institute for Education Research (TIER) at UHN, and Associate Professor, Department of Family and Community Medicine, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto

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