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Ivy Oandasan is a Full Professor with the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Toronto. An active family physician who practices at the Toronto Western Hospital she has been involved in teaching and research since 1997.

Passionate about enhancing the education provided to health professional learners, Dr. Oandasan’s main scholarly area has been in curriculum development and research related to community oriented primary care, health advocacy and interprofessional education.  In January of 2006, Dr. Oandasan was named the inaugural Director of the Office of Interprofessional Education at the University of Toronto (U of T). She held this leadership position for three years successfully fulfilling her mandate to develop the organizational structures and strategies to implement a mandatory IPE curriculum for the ten U of T health care discipline programs beginning in the Fall of 2009. In her role as Director she was able to catalyze relationships within and across hospitals and the university health science faculties to advance interprofessional education and interprofessional care.

Now acting as the Director of Education at the College of Family Physicians of Canada (CFPC), Dr Oandasan leads the implementation of the renewed post-graduate family medicine residency education curriculum in Canada known as the Triple C. The CFPC is the national certifying and accrediting body for family medicine in Canada. Her role at the College in leading and advancing change in health professions education, builds upon her work at the University of Toronto.

Dr.Oandasan has a solid academic track record publishing, presenting and acquiring research grants particularly focusing on educational scholarship within family medicine and across other health professions. Interested in the pursuit of educational policy at a systems level, Dr. Oandasan has been involved in a number of initiatives locally, nationally and internationally.  She was the project lead for the Health Canada report describing the  environmental scan and literature review to advance interprofessional education for collaborative patient centred practice in Canada.  In October 2007 she was named the provincial co-lead for the Ontario Ministry of Health’s HealthForceOntario Interprofessional Care Project - Advancing a Blueprint for Action for Interprofessional Care. She continues to work at a provincial and national level to influence system change.

Her burning educational platform remains to foster a generation of competent and caring healthcare professionals who believe in the practice of interprofessional patient-centred care.  Considered an expert in the field of Interprofessional Education, she grounds her knowledge and practice through her work as a clinician, educator, researcher, and administrator.