Dr. Fiona Webster is an Associate Professor with the Institute of Health Policy Management and Evaluation (IHPME), Dalla Lana School of Public Health (DLSPH), University of Toronto. She was the Interim co-Lead of the Social and Behavioural Sciences Division of the DLSPH in 2016-2017. She is a Scientist at the Wilson Centre for Medical Education Research and a fellow of the Centre for Critical Qualitative Health Research (CQ). She teaches 2 graduate courses in qualitative research methodologies and methods. She was a member of the BRIDGES Executive Committee and led their Qualitative Research Committee in the evaluation of interventions for patients with complex needs. Her formal training is in sociology and specifically institutional ethnography. She has worked extensively as an embedded scientist in clinical settings. Her current CIHR funded research program focuses on the social organization of education, care delivery and policy management of chronic pain in family medicine.

Dr. Fiona Webster’s paper “The Erasure of Gender in Academic Surgery: A Qualitative Study” received the 2016 Scanlan Family – AWS AJS Best Paper Award.