Advancing critical reflection and transformative education to advance collaborative, compassionate, and ethical health care practice and health science systems.
Utilizing knowledge mobilization as praxis to create a more trustworthy health care system.
Improving school-based health services through critically reflective, strengths-based, neurodiversity-affirming documentation practices.
Advancing team-based primary care through critically reflective practices and a more inclusive, community-based care system.
Co-creating, collaborating, and bridging societal and systems divides through critical dialogue.
Stella's research program advances understanding of knowledge and practice to transform health and social care toward a more collaborative, compassionate, and ethical ideal. Funded by tri-council, ministry, and foundation sources, her qualitative research has identified key capabilities, including critically reflective practice, that enable successful navigation of value-conflicted and indeterminate zones of practice. Her experimental research has further refined evidence-informed approaches to teaching critically reflective practice.
Through the Praxis Lab, Stella traces the effects of critically reflective practices and the approaches used to teach this capability, examining their downstream impacts on care experiences. Her teams leverage education as a catalyst for transforming health and social care systems, mobilizing education theory and empirical research into educational, practical, and leadership work across a diverse range of contexts, from local to international settings.
Stella is currently the Nadir & Shabin Mohamed Chair in Innovation in Team-Based Primary Care Research, Director of the Centre for Advancing Collaborative Healthcare & Education (CACHE), Senior Scientist at UHN, and Professor at the University of Toronto.
- Nadir & Shabin Mohamed Chair in Innovation in Team-Based Primary Care Research
- Senior Scientist & Director, Centre for Advancing Collaborative Healthcare & Education (CACHE)
- Professor, Department of Speech-Language Pathology and Inst. of Health Policy, Management & Evaluation, University of Toronto
- Senior Scientist, The Wilson Centre
- Co-Founder, Collaborative Advocacy & Partnered Education
- Co-Founder, Teaching for Transformation