The GenAI Advantage: Innovating CPD While Navigating Ethical Challenges and Pitfalls
Monday, June 30, 2025
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Eastern Time
Free registration for SACME Members / $30 for Non-Members
Event Overview
Generative AI is transforming Continuing Professional Development (CPD), offering new opportunities for innovation, efficiency, and engagement. This webinar explores how CPD leaders and medical educators can harness the advantages of AI in a CPD context while critically examining ethical considerations, potential biases, and practical pitfalls. Join us for an insightful discussion on the promises and challenges of integrating AI into CPD.
Speakers
Heather MacNeill, MD, BSc(PT), MScCH(HPTE), FRCPC
Heather MacNeill, MD, BSc(PT), MScCH(HPTE), FRCPC, is the Interim Assistant Dean, Faculty Development, for the new Toronto Metropolitan University School of Medicine (TMU SoM). She is Associate Professor in the Temerty Faculty of Medicine and co-instructs a masters class in educational technology in the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at University of Toronto. She is a practicing PM&R physician and Medical Director of Stroke Rehabilitation at Sinai Health. She has been teaching about, creating, and researching the effect of educational technologies in healthcare for over a decade.
Sofia Valanci, MD, PhD
Sofia Valanci, MD, PhD, completed her General Surgery training at the American British Cowdray Medical Center in Mexico City, where she began her surgical practice and participated closely in undergrad and resident education. She is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons. Her passion for medical education, continuing professional development, and culture in medicine brought her to McGill University, where she completed a master’s and Ph.D. in surgical education. Her dissertation focused on Peer Coaching for Practicing Surgeons. Currently, she works as the Program Advisor for the Learning and Connecting department at the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada where she leads the quality improvement of the learning frameworks and guides the implementation of learning needs for Fellows, including AI.
Ken Masters, PhD, FDE
Ken Masters, PhD, FDE, is Associate Professor of Medical Informatics in the Department of Medical Education and Informatics, at the College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Sultan Qaboos University, Oman. He has been involved in Health Informatics and Education for more than 20 years, and has published widely in both areas. He has served on the Association for Medical Education (AMEE) Technology-Enhanced Learning (TEL) Committee since 2013, and serves on the AAMC’s International Advisory Committee for Artificial Intelligence (IACAI).
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