SPEAKERS

Jason M. Harley, Ph.D

Professor Jason M. Harley, PhD is an Associate Professor (tenured) in the Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences at McGill and a Scientist at the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC). They are also the Director of Research at the Steinberg Centre for Simulation and Interactive Learning, Director of the Simulation, Affect, Innovation, Learning, and Surgery (SAILS) Lab, and an Associate Member of the Institute for Health Sciences Education (IHSE). Prof. Harley completed their FRQSC and SSHRC CGS-funded Ph.D. in Educational Psychology at McGill University in 2014. They held an FRQSC-funded postdoctoral position in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Montréal from 2014-2015 before joining the Department of Educational Psychology at the University of Alberta as an Assistant Professor of Educational Psychology and Technology (tenure-track) from 2016-2019. In 2018, they won the Outstanding Early Career Researcher Award sponsored by the Technology, Instruction, Cognition, and Learning (TICL) SIG of the American Educational Research Association (AERA).

The overarching goal of Dr. Harley’s research program is to support the current and future well-being and clinical performance of healthcare trainees through innovative educational interventions, leveraging interactive simulations and emerging technologies. Their research has attracted over 1 million dollars of funding (as PI) from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, The Killam Foundation, Mitacs, the McGill Interdisciplinary Initiative in Infection and Immunity, and others. Dr. Harley serves on the editorial boards of the journals, Learning & Instruction (IF = 6.6) and Educational Technology Research and Development (IF = 5.58), as well as on program committees for conferences such as Artificial Intelligence in Education. Their research has led to dozens of broadcast and print interviews in venues such as The Guardian, CBC News, The Globe and Mail, Global News, CTV News and the Montreal Gazette.

Laura Drudi, MD, MSc

Dr. Laura Drudi is an Assistant Professor in Vascular Surgery at the Centre Hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal (CHUM) and Surgeon-Scientist at the Centre de Recherche du CHUM (CRCHUM). She completed her residency training in Vascular Surgery and MSc in Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health at McGill University. She went on to pursue fellowship training in complex peripheral endovascular interventions for limb salvage in Belgium. Her research interests are centered around vulnerability in patients with peripheral arterial disease and burnout in the vascular surgery workforce. She is an FRQS-funded scientist, holds several grants and has over 60 peer-reviewed publications.

Prof. Roger Kneebone

Roger is a clinician and educationalist who leads the Centre for Engagement and Simulation Science at Imperial College London and the Royal College of Music–Imperial Centre for Performance Science. His multidisciplinary research into contextualised simulation and embodied knowledge builds on his personal experience as a surgeon and a general practitioner and his fascination with domains of expertise beyond medicine.   

Roger presents Countercurrent, a fortnightly iTunes podcast featuring conversations with people whose interests and careers cross boundaries.

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