Faculty
Allan Peterkin MD, Program Head
Dr. Peterkin studied English and French literature before starting medical school at the University of Manitoba and went on to complete residencies in family medicine and psychiatry at McGill University. He is the author of ten books for adults and children, including textbooks on physician wellbeing and on the medical care of sexual minorities. He is a founding editor of ARS MEDICA and has published poetry, fiction and critical essays on narrative medicine and the use of the humanities in medical education in Canadian and international journals. (A bibliography of faculty publications can be found below.) Peterkin is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Family Medicine at the University of Toronto and is a Senior Fellow at Massey College.
Ronna Bloom, Poet in Residence
Ronna Bloom is a poet, teacher and psychotherapist. She has published four books of poetry, most recently Permiso (Pedlar Press, 2009) shortlisted for the Pat Lowther Award. Ronna has hosted workshops across Canada and abroad. She has designed and led writing workshops for health care professionals at UHN, students at the Medical School of U of T, Occupational Therapists’ and Social Workers’ professional development retreats, and front-line hospital workers at Sunnybrook who were affected by SARS. She is currently Poet in Community at the University of Toronto and is pleased to join faculty in the Health, Arts and Humanities Program to create new learning initiatives.
http://www.ronnabloom.com
- Lisa Andermann MD
- Bruce Ballon, MD
- Charlotte Chagoya, RPN
- Leo Chagoya, MD
- Allison Crawford, MD
- Bill Gayner, MSW
- Julie Hann, OT
- Jon Hunter, MD
- Rex Kay, MD
- Robert Maunder, MD
- Paula Ravitz, MD
- Michael Roberts, MD
- Robin Roger, MA
- Donna Romano, RN, PhD
- Ronald Ruskin, MD