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Iwona Baran

Title:
Staff Physician, Division of Emergency Medicine
Designations:
MD, B.Sc., MScCH, FRCPC
Pronouns:
she/her
External Email:
pamela.hardy@sickkids.ca
Alternate Contact Name:
Pamela Hardy
U of T Positions:
Assistant Professor, Department of Paediatrics

Learning Positions

Environment Lead, SK. IDEAS Advanced Training Program

Biography

Dr. Iwona Baran is a paediatric emergency medicine physician who joined SickKids in 2014. She completed the Education Scholars Program at the Centre for Faculty Development and a Master of Science in Community Health (Health Practitioner Education) at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health.

She is involved in health-care education and served as Program Director of the paediatric emergency medicine training program at SickKids from 2015 to 2024. She is currently the Environment Lead for the IDEAS Advanced Training Certificate Program and is actively involved in climate sustainability initiatives and paediatric planetary health education in the Emergency Department and beyond.

Research

Baran's research is centered on health professions education and climate change and child health.

Education and experience

Degrees

  • 2019–2023: Master of Science in Community Health (M.Sc.CH): Health Practitioner Teacher Education, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario
  • 2005–2009: Doctor of Medicine, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario
  • 2001–2005: Bachelor of Science, Biology, Minor in Biochemistry, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario (Graduated with distinction)

Postgraduate specialty training

  • 2012–2014: Paediatric Emergency Medicine Fellowship, Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario
  • 2009–2012: Paediatric Residency, Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario

Qualifications, certifications, and licenses

  • 2014: FRCPC, Fellow of Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, Paediatric Emergency Medicine, Ottawa, Ontario
  • 2013: FRCPC, Fellow of Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, Paediatrics, Ottawa, Ontario

Other courses

  • 2018–2020: Education Scholars Program, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario
    • A longitudinal leadership development program for health professional educators which fosters academic excellence, creativity, and scholarly productivity in education. The program builds capacity by enhancing competence in education leadership, scholarship, curriculum and teaching thus facilitating opportunities for advancement.

Publications

  1. Henry Annan, Iwona Baran, Sasha Litwin. Five I’s of Climate Change and Child Health: A Framework for Pediatric Planetary Health Education. Pediatrics December 2024; 154 (6): e2024066064.  
  2. Annan, H., King, N., Baran, I. et al. Climate change and the Canadian pediatric emergency medicine experience: an integrated mixed-methods study. Can J Emerg Med (2026). https://doi.org/10.1007/s43678-026-01113-6 
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