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Ivy Felicidad Oandasan MD CCFP MHSc FCFP
Ivy Oandasan is a Full Professor with the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Toronto. An active family physician, she has been involved in teaching and research since 1997. Dr. Oandasan’s main scholarship has been in curriculum development, evaluation, and research related to interprofessional education, and competency based family medicine education. Dr. Oandasan was the inaugural Director of the Office of Interprofessional Education at the University of Toronto (U of T) (1996). She led the development of the requisite IPE curriculum for all of U of T’s health professional students, which has been replicated internationally. She was the Co-Chair for HealthForceOntario’s Interprofessional Blueprint for Action that advanced a systems approach to implementing IPE and IPC across Ontario and led the national research team funded by Health Canada that developed a theoretical framework used worldwide on Interprofessionality: the field of study exploring the interprofessional practice and interprofessional education. Now, as The Director of Education at the College of Family Physicians of Canada (CFPC), the national certifying and accrediting body for family medicine, she is charged with enhancing undergraduate and postgraduate family medicine education supporting the development of family physicians who can meet societal needs. In November 2022, she led an initiative at the CFPC which received $ 45 million of federal funding to advance training for team-based comprehensive family practice across disciplines. Dr.Oandasan’s burning platform remains to foster a generation of competent and caring healthcare professionals who believe in the practice of interprofessional patient-centred care. She grounds her knowledge and practices through her work as a clinician, educator, researcher, administrator, and healthcare leader.
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Dr. Mandy Buss
Dr. Mandy Buss is Metis from the Red River Settlement in Manitoba and was born and raised in Manitoba. She is a proud mother to 12 year old son who is a member of Wanipigow First Nations. She did her Residency in the Northern Remote Family Medicine program and spent the first 5 years of practice working in First Nations Communities in Northern Manitoba. She currently works as a family physician at Northern Connections Medical Center with the Northern Remote Family medicine program. Her other roles within the University of Manitoba include the Indigenous Health Lead for the Department of Family Medicine and The Director of the Indigenous Health Longitudinal Curriculum for the Undergrad Medical Education department. She sits on the Executive of the Post Graduated Truth and Reconciliation committee as the co-chair of the Curriculum development and Implementation Working Group at the University of Manitoba and the CFPC Indigenous Health Committee.
She is the former president of the Indigenous Physicians Association of Canada and continues to be involved with the association as a representative on the Okanagan Charter Collaborative and leading a pilot program to expand mentorship for medicine to Indigenous youth. She also is a member of the College of Family Physician of Canada’s Indigenous Health Committee.
