Interprofessional Collaboration (IPC) Showcase 2025
16th Annual Hybrid Interprofessional Collaboration (IPC) Showcase 2025
Elevating Care Through Purposeful Relationships
Wednesday June 4, 2025 | 1:00 - 5:00PM EDT
Virtual on Zoom & In Person at the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute
Unity Health Toronto – 209 Victoria Street, Toronto, Ontario
Register Now: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/IPCshowcase2025
The Interprofessional Collaboration (IPC) Showcase celebrates excellence in team-based learning, collaborative care and leadership, interprofessional research, and quality improvement across our healthcare system. Offered jointly by Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, the University of Toronto’s Centre for Advancing Collaborative Healthcare & Education (CACHE), and Unity Health Toronto, this hybrid forum will provide a variety of speakers, presentations, and opportunities to connect. The IPC Showcase brings together people in diverse professions and roles to network with like-minded colleagues, share ideas, and create new opportunities for collaboration.
Keynote Speaker
Dr. Kateryna Metersky, PhD, RN is a patient partner with the Centre for Advancing Collaborative Healthcare & Education and an Assistant Professor of Nursing at the Daphne Cockwell School of Nursing at Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU). She still continues to maintain her nursing practice in General Internal Medicine at the Toronto Western Hospital and is an Affiliate Scientist with the Centre of Immigration and Settlement at TMU and The Institute of Education Research (TIER) at UHN. Dr. Metersky is also on the board of directors of the Canadian Interprofessional Health Collaborative (CIHC) and the co-chair of the Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario's Best Practice Guideline redevelopment on patient and family-centred care. Components of her program of research are focused on 1) persons with social, economic and health challenges 2) interprofessional practice and education and 3) intersectionality and positionality in population-centred care.
Agenda
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1:00 – 1:20 |
Opening Remarks Land Acknowledgement Indigenous Welcoming Ceremony |
Beverly Bulmer, Vice President of Education, Unity Health Toronto Stella Ng, Director & Scientist, CACHE Painted Sky Johnston, Indigenous Cultural and Ceremonial Facilitator, Unity Health Toronto |
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1:20 – 1:50 |
Keynote - Relationships that Heal: Building Stronger Teams and Better Outcomes |
Kateryna Metersky |
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1:50 – 1:55 |
BREAK |
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1:55 – 2:15 |
Story 1 - All My Relations: Ways of Creating Indigenous Relationship-Centered Care |
Roberta Pike, Director, Indigenous Wellness Reconciliation & Partnerships, Care Experience & Equity, Unity Health Toronto |
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2:15 – 2:35 |
Story 2 - The Crisis, the Cleaning Professional, and the Clock: A Tale of Relational-Informed Best Practices in Dementia Care |
Shoshana Helfenbaum, Interprofessional Educator, Special Projects, Baycrest |
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2:35 – 2:55 |
Story 3 - Practicing Connection: Cultivating Relationship-Centered Care in Ourselves, Teams, and Teaching |
Rachelle Ashcroft, Associate Professor, Factor-Inwentash, Faculty of Social Work, University of Toronto |
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2:55 – 3:05 |
BREAK |
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3:05 – 3:25 |
Panel Discussion - Optimizing Relationships Optimizes Patient Partnerships |
Elizabeth Cadavid, Education Coordinator, Communications & Community, CACHE Beverly Guttman, Patient Partner, Sinai Health, CACHE; Board Member, Canadian Interprofessional Health Collaborative Helen Sklarz, Patient Family Partner, Unity Health Toronto |
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3:25 – 3:55 |
Collaborative Collage Making |
Erin Gross, Professional & Education Leader, Creative Arts Therapies, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre |
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3:55 – 4:00 |
Closing Remarks |
Calvin Law, Vice President of Education, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre |
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4:00 – 4:15 |
Reflective Poetry Reading |
Kateryna Metersky |
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4:15 – 5:00 |
Networking |
Light refreshments available for in person attendees |
REGISTER TODAY: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/IPCshowcase2025
- We are pleased to offer this event at no charge.
- Select in-person seats will be available at the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, Unity Health Toronto. When you visit the registration link you will have the opportunity to indicate your interest in attending in person.
- Zoom (virtual) attendance is unlimited.
- Light refreshments will be served for those who attend in person.
If you have any questions please contact Fatima.Mimoso@uhn.ca