A Symposium Celebrating Massey Grand Rounds: 20 Years of Leadership
Join us as we celebrate the 20th anniversary of Massey Grand Rounds with a half day symposium full of insightful discussions at the intersection of medicine, science, and society. The event will feature a Massey Dialogues panel from the founding co-chairs of Massey Grand Rounds chaired by Principal James Orbinski and a plenary session featuring our esteemed MGR alumni and co-chairs chaired by Dr. Aubie Angel. Featured guest speakers include Dr. Danielle Rodin, the 2025 Janet Rossant Lecturer. After the symposium, please join us for a ticketed gala dinner featuring a short talk by Dr. Danielle Martin, Chair of Department of Family & Community Medicine. We look forward to seeing you there.
Agenda:
1:00 PM: Registration
1:30 PM: Welcoming Remarks by Principal James Orbinski, Dr. Peter Lewis and Dr. Aubie Angel
1:40 PM – 2:50 PM – Plenary Session Co-Chairs’ Perspectives: Careers Shaped by MGR
Chair: Dr. Aubie Angel
Speakers: Dr. Victoria Arrandale (2008-09), Dr. Rami Shoucri (2009-10), Dr.
Lisette Yorke (2012-14), Dr. Alex Harris (2013 – 18), Dr. Patrick Steadman
(2014 – 16), Dr. Katherine Dunlop (2014 – 17), Dr. Daniel Szulc (2019 – 20)
MGR leaders will address the impact of Massey College experiences with vignettes and insights on diverse career trajectories.
1:50 PM – 3:15 PM: Coffee Break / Interlude
1:15 PM – 4:30 PM: Massey Dialogues with Founding Co-Chairs
Chair: Principal James Orbinski
Panelists: Dr. Martin Betts, Dr. Fiona Menzies, Dr. Jai Shah Principal James Orbinski will delve into the creation of Massey Grand Rounds with the founding MGR co-chairs.
4:30 PM – 5:30 PM: Introducing Dr. Danielle Rodin 2025 Janet Rossant Lecturer
Dr. Rodin will give brief remarks on her research and career followed by coffee and cookies. Closing remarks will be given by Dr. Aubie Angel.
6:00 PM – 9:30 PM: GALA DINNER
Ticketed gala dinner in the Upper Library with featured guest speaker Dr. Danielle
Martin (Chair of Department of Family & Community Medicine).
This event is kindly sponsored by:
Department of Medicine , Temerty Faculty of Medicine
Department of Surgery , Temerty Faculty of Medicine
Friends of CIHR
Department of Family and Community Medicine, Temerty Faculty of Medicine
Diabetes Research & Treatment Centre Inc. (DRTC)
To Register for the half-day event, please select the half day free ticket.
To register for the Gala Dinner:
- Junior Fellows at Massey College:
Kindly select the Junior Fellow Ticket in the box below, which has a registration fee of $20.00. If the cost poses any difficulty, please don’t hesitate to reach out to Rachel at rachel.tyli@utoronto.ca — we’re happy to help. - Guests, Senior Fellows, and Senior Mentors:
Please select the General Ticket in the box below.
MASSEY MEMBERS: Please login using your registered Massey email to receive applicable discounts and offers.
Speakers
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James OrbinskiPrincipal, Massey CollegeDr. James Orbinski is Principal of Massey College at the University of Toronto. To this role, Dr. Orbinski brings a lifelong commitment to learning, leadership, and civility for the public good. As a medical doctor, humanitarian practitioner and advocate, author, and global health scholar, James Orbinski believes in actively engaging and shaping our world so that it is more just, fair, and humane.
Providing medical humanitarian relief worldwide in situations of war, famine, epidemic disease and genocide with Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders), Dr. Orbinski also served as MSF’s International Council president and accepted the 1999 Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of Médecins Sans Frontières. He is the founding director of York University’s Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research, co-founder of Dignitas International, and co-chair of the founding and startup of the Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi).
Renowned for his ground-breaking research on medical humanitarianism, infectious diseases, global health governance, and the health impacts of climate change, Dr. Orbinski’s work is documented in his bestselling book, An Imperfect Offering: Humanitarianism in the 21st Century, as well as the award-winning documentary film Triage: the Humanitarian Dilemma of Dr. James Orbinski.
James Orbinski holds an MD degree from McMaster University, and an MA in International Relations from the University of Toronto. He is an Officer of the Order of Canada, awarded for a lifetime of leadership in global health and humanitarianism, and received Canada’s Meritorious Service Cross for his leadership in providing direct medical relief in Kigali during the 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi in Rwanda.
James and his wife Rolie lived at Massey College when James held the inaugural Saul Rose Fellowship at Massey College. In the twenty years since, James has served the Massey community as a Senior Fellow and on the Board of Governors. As well as serving as Principal of Massey College, Dr. Orbinski is a full Professor at the University of Toronto’s Termerty Faculty of Medicine and the Munk School for Public Policy.
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Danielle RodinRadiation Oncologist
Danielle Rodin, MD, MPH, FRCPC, is a radiation oncologist and Clinician-Scientist at Princess Margaret Cancer Centre (PM) and an Associate Professor in the Department of Radiation Oncology at the University of Toronto (UTDRO), with a clinical practice focused on breast cancer and hematologic malignancies. She is Director of the PM Global Cancer Program, co-Director of Equity, Diversity, and Professionalism at UTDRO, and recently completed three terms as an elected member of the Board of Directors for the Union for International Cancer Control in Geneva. Dr. Rodin’s research focuses on the affordability of cancer treatment, reducing disparities in access to cancer services, and improving the quality of life and outcomes of individuals with cancer, both locally and globally. She is supported by the Hold ‘Em for Life Professorship in Cancer Research, a named professorship at the University of Toronto, and the Canadian Cancer Society Emerging Scholar Research Grant for her work leading an international phase II clinical trial of breast cancer reirradiation for recurrent disease. Dr. Rodin received her B.A. (Hons.) from McGill University, her MD from the University of Toronto, and her Master of Public Health from Harvard University. She was the 2017-2018 Harkness Fellow in Health Care Policy and Practice in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, where she focused on value-based care across international health systems.
