Salvatore Spadafora
Dr. Salvatore (Sal) Spadafora is the vice dean of post MD education (Postgraduate Medical Education and Continuous Professional Development) at the University of Toronto and an anesthesiologist at Mount Sinai Hospital. He previously served as vice dean of Postgraduate Medical Education at the University of Toronto and associate dean of the Postgraduate Medical Education at the Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry at the University of Western Ontario. In addition to these positions, Dr. Spadafora also served as an anesthesiologist at the London Health Sciences Centre and St. Joseph's Health Centre in London.
Dr. Spadafora was born and raised in northern Ontario and received his MD from the University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine. After his FRCPC anesthesia training at the University of Western Ontario he completed his master’s degree in Health Professions Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He has distinguished himself as a leader in medical education as a past program director for the University of Western Ontario's anesthesia and family medicine-anesthesia residency programs and nationally as a member of important leadership committees of the Canadian Anesthesiologists' Society and the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada.
Dr. Spadafora has advocated effectively and tirelessly for medical education to benefit Canadian patient populations with respect to fiscal and human resources, education methodology and technology and the social mission of medical education, including developing strategies to integrate education in urban and small community sites. He has developed models of inter-professional education and assessment and integration of international medical graduates provincially.
Dr. Spadafora is the recipient of numerous prestigious education awards, recognized by national organizations, peers, and trainees. He is highly respected by health care educators and scholars nationally for his high scholarly and ethical standards, exceptional capacity for work, consensus building and common sense approaches to solving difficult problems.