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Dr. Mary Elliott chats with Dr. Ada Barlatt, an award-winning researcher and entrepreneur. Over the years she has worked in various roles, including as an industrial engineer, professor, data scientist, and consultant. Ada brings this expertise to her passion for creating efficient systems that are fun to use. In this episode, Ada reflects on how her experience being a new mom helped her reflect on her own use of technology and inspired her to create a new app – Happy ...

This week, our featured guest on The Lift Podcast is Ronna Bloom, an educator, writing coach, and author of seven books and a chapbook. Her latest book, A Possible Trust: The Poetry of Ronna Bloom (Edited by Phil Hall) is available to order through Wilfrid Laurier University Press. Ronna is also an arts innovator. With support from Ontario Arts Council, and in conjunction with the Health, Arts & Humanities program at the University of Toronto, she was instrumental in est...

Dr. Mary Elliott speaks with Dr. Warren Lewin, Site Lead, Palliative Care, Toronto Western Hospital, University Health Network and Assistant Professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Toronto. Warren is also a senior faculty member of Vital Talk and Founding Director of The Conversation Lab, an education and research innovation hub at the University of Toronto. Together, they discuss Warren’s work teaching and learning from clinical trainees and re...

Dr. Mary Elliott sits down with Dr. Dawn Lim, Emergency Physician at University Health Network & Assistant Professor in The Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto. Dawn's love of learning and exploration led her to the peaks of a European space agency parabola, the rough roads of rural Cambodia, and the shiny halls of the Richard Ivey School of business where she obtained an MBA. Eventually she paused her work to take an 800km spiritual journey to find her way home throug...

This week, Dr. Mary Elliott chats with Dr. Melissa Lem, a Vancouver-based family physician who also works in rural and northern communities within Canada. She is the co-founder and Director of Parks Prescriptions, known as #PaRx, an initiation in partnership with the BC Parks Foundation, and President of the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment (CAPE). Melissa is also a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of British Columbia. &nbsp...

Our featured guest this week is Dr. Lisa Richardson, a mixed blood Anishinaabe physician and clinician educator in the Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto and the Associate Dean of Inclusion & Diversity. Lisa also practices internal medicine at the University Health Network and is an education researcher at the Wilson Center. Dr. Richardson is a powerful advocate for Indigenous health equity at both local and national levels, and her contributions have been recognized ...