Speakers
Keynote Speaker
Dr. Alison Harris
"Lessons on a Career: Medicine, Motherhood and Migration"
Plenary Speaker
Dr. Nikolina Mizdrak
"Know your worth: Negotiations tips and tricks for women in medicine”
Graduated from McMaster Medicine in 2022 and did my Family Medicine residency till 2024. I started off my career as an academic at University of Toronto and did both outpatient and inpatient work. After having kids I moved over to exclusively outpatient medicine and I work in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at U of T at the Torono Western resident training site, which is part of the University Network. I have a diverse practice and some of my interests are pediatrics, women's health and procedures. I have also been the Finance Chair for our partnership for over 15 years and have a deep knowledge of the way in which we fund our clinicians. In 2016, when the government of Ontario was acting in bad faith with doctors I got involved at the Ontario Medical association. The art of negotiations was always a secret interest of mine. I was picked for the Negotiations task force in 2017 and was on the team that successfully negotiated the arbitration framework and then the arbitrated 2017 agreement . Subsequent to that I was on the next negotiations team and we negotiated the 2021 Physician Services agreement. I am currently the chair of the negotiations task force, on the OMA side, for the current 2024-8 PSA.
Guest Speakers
Dr. Jana Taylor
"Academic Promotion"
Dr. Lindsay Milroy
"Transition to Practice: Thriving from Day One"
Dr. Lindsay Milroy is a Diagnostic and Spine Interventional Neuroradiologist at Western University in London, Ontario. She received her medical degree at Dalhousie University and completed her Diagnostic Radiology residency at the University of Ottawa in 2020. This was followed by completing a Diagnostic Neuroradiology fellowship at the University of Toronto in 2022. Her practice encompasses the full breadth of Diagnostic Neuroradiology, and her current area of interest is the management and treatment of spine pathologies through spine intervention. She has a passion for medical education leadership and multi-level advocacy, as evidenced by several leadership positions she held throughout her training.
Dr. Sonya Sagredo
"Practicing Radiology in Quebec: Discussion and Identification of Action Priorities" (with Dr. Kiana Lebel)
Dr. Kiana Lebel
"Practicing Radiology in Quebec: Discussion and Identification of Action Priorities" (with Dr. Sonya Sagredo)
Dr. Elsie Nguyen
"Building Relationship Capital to Empower You and Your Team for Success"
Dr. Elsie T. Nguyen is an Associate Professor of Radiology at University Medical Imaging Toronto, University of Toronto. She completed her thoracic imaging fellowship at the University of British Columbia and cardiovascular imaging fellowship at Stanford University. Dr. Nguyen is the Vice-Chair of on SIDE (Support, Inclusion, Diversity and Equity), and the Cardiothoracic Division Lead for Medical Imaging at the University of Toronto. She is also the President of the Canadian Society of Thoracic Radiology (CSTR).
She is passionate about education and has won several teaching awards at the undergraduate and post-graduate level and leads several research initiatives including creating a joint Breast and Cardiovascular Screening Program, optimization and utilization of coronary CT angiography among primary care physicians and MR imaging of non-ischemic cardiomyopathies.
Mentoring, sponsoring and coaching trainees and faculty to achieve their full potential is a passion and source of joy and meaning in her day to day work.
Dr. Rebecca Hibbert
"Women in Interventional Radiology" (with Dr. Niamh Coffey)
Dr. Rebecca Hibbert is a radiologist currently practicing at Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA with clinical expertise in abdominal radiology and body US/CT interventions including chest, MSK, and abdominal biopsies, drainages, thermal ablations and other procedures. She is also a medical educator with special interest in simulation training and competency-based medical education.