Undergraduate Medical Education Committee

Mandate

The Undergraduate Education Committee’s mandate is to promote excellence in Undergraduate education from the onset to completion of Medicine, specifically promoting excellence in teaching Perioperative medicine; including preoperative evaluation skills, resuscitation, pain management, technical skills, team centered care and other essential skills necessary for all physicians. Development and implementation of innovative teaching through simulation and web-based educational tools will be incorporated to achieve these goals.

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Members of the Undergraduate Medical Education Committee

Committee Members

The Undergraduate medical program could not function at a high level of excellence without the commitment and dedication of the Undergraduate Medical Education Committee. The committee is composed of the site coordinators from our 6 core teaching hospitals and our 6 community partners, as well as our electives lead, simulation lead, pre-clerkship lead, a Year 3 and 4 student representative, a resident representatives, the Vice-Chair of Education and the Chair of the Department of Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine. This committee meets on a monthly basis during the academic year.

Course Director 

Course Administrator

Dr. Anita Sarmah
anita.sarmah@sunnybrook.ca

Ms. Eva Bowman 
undergrad.anesthesia@utoronto.ca

Site

Director (Faculty) 

Administrative Assistant

HSC

Dr. Evelina Pankiv
evelina.pankiv@sickkids.ca

Makisha Vijikaran
makisha.vijikaran@sickkids.ca

MSH

Dr. Evan Wild
evan.wild@sinaihealth.ca

Dr. David He
david.he@sinaihealth.ca

Lourdes Gomes lourdes.gomes@sinaihealth.ca

NYGH

Dr. Jane Meng
zhen.meng@nygh.on.ca

Peggy Sze
Peggy.sze@nygh.on.ca

SJHC

Dr. Bernard Ma
bernie.ma@mail.utoronto.ca

N/A

SMH

Dr. Wesla Pfeifer
Wesla.ferrarezi@unityhealth.to

Dr. Stephen Chan
skw.chan@unityhealth.to

Anna Salter
anna.salter@unityhealth.to

SHSC

Dr. Stephanie Ladowski
stephanie.ladowski@sunnybrook.ca

Eva Delavinias Eva.delavinias@sunnybrook.ca

Holly Mae
Holly.Gabriel@sunnybrook.ca

Scarborough Health Network

Dr. Jeffrey Knight
jknight1@shn.ca

Rachel Marcello
rmarcelo@shn.ca

Benson Fong
bfong@shn.ca

Credit Valley Hospital - Trillium

Dr. Christopher Flynn
Christopher.flynn@trilliumhealthpartners.ca

Lorraine Ferraro
lorraine.ferraro@thp.ca

Mississauga Hospital - Trillium

Dr. Julian DeBacker
Julian.deBacker@thp.ca

Lorraine Ferraro
lorraine.ferraro@thp.ca

MGH

Dr. Patrick Mark
Patrick.mark@utoronto.ca

N/A

Toronto General - UHN

Dr. Paul Nandra
kiritpaul.nandra@uhn.ca

Linda Diep
TGHAnesthesiaEducation@uhn.ca

Toronto Western -UHN 

Zoe Unger
Zoe.unger@uhn.ca

Karla Pungsornruk
karla.pungsornruk@uhn.ca

twhanesthesiaadmin@uhn.ca

Resident Representatives 2024/2025

Year Group

Contact

Year 2

Dr. Jenny Ho
Dr. Maggie Li

Year 3

Dr. Emily-Michaela Hamel 

Dr. Puru Panchal 

Year 4

Dr. Linor Berezin 

Dr. Connor Brenna 

Student Representatives 2024/2025

Year Group

Contact

Year 3

Ekambir Saran

Year 4

Yuanxin Xue