Iwona Baran

Title: Staff Physician, Division of Emergency Medicine

Designations: MD, B.Sc., MScCH, FRCPC

Pronouns: she/her

Fax: 416-813-5043

U of T Positions: Lecturer, Department of Paediatrics

Learning Positions

Program Director, Paediatric Emergency Medicine Fellowship Program

Biography

Dr. Iwona Baran is a Paediatric Emergency Medicine physician who joined The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) in September 2014. She has been actively involved in health-care education, acting as the Program Director for the Paediatric Emergency Medicine training program at SickKids since 2015. Baran completed the Education Scholars Program at the Centre for Faculty Development and a Masters in Community Healthy - Health Practitioner Education at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health. She is involved in curriculum design and evaluation, course development, and faculty development.

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.