Daniel M. Panisko, MD, MPH, FRCP(C)
Director, Undergraduate Medical Education Program, University of Toronto
Associate Professor of Medicine, University of Toronto
Dr. Danny Panisko is an Associate Professor of Medicine and a Clinician Educator within the Division of General Internal Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology at the Department of Medicine, University of Toronto and at the Department of Medicine, University Health Network. He has won several faculty-wide, hospital-wide, and academy-wide awards for excellence in Clinical Teaching including the Faculty Mary E. Hollington and W. T. Aikins Awards. He graduated with his MD from the University of Manitoba in 1984, and received his FRCPC in Internal Medicine in 1989, after completion of a residency training program in Internal Medicine and Tropical Medicine at the University of Toronto. Dr. Panisko then received his Master’s of Public Health from the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore in 1993 with Delta Omega honours after majoring in Epidemiology and International Health. Dr. Panisko maintains a busy hospital-based academic general internal medicine in-patient and consultative practice. His current medical education activities are varied and involve the teaching of trainees at many different academic levels.
Dr. Panisko currently directs the Undergraduate Medical Education Program and the Year 3 and Year 4 Clinical Clerkships for the Department of Medicine at the University of Toronto. He is recently the past-PGY-4 Program Director for General Internal Medicine in the Department of Medicine at the University of Toronto, after having served a six year term. Dr. Panisko also has a major role in faculty development and instructional development at the University of Toronto.
He is the Director of the Department of Medicine’s Master Teacher Program, which also receives support from the Dean’s Excellence Fund. The latter is a 2 year, longitudinal, one-half day per week course in instructional development for faculty and senior trainees that is now entering its sixth year and has enrolled over 50 faculty members. The program focuses on the faculty development of clinical teaching skills and has won the inaugural Faculty-wide Helen P. Batty Faculty Development Award for Program Excellence in 2005. In preparation for the directorship of this program, Dr. Panisko completed a one-month intensive facilitator course for Clinical Teaching instruction at the Stanford University Faculty Development Center in 2001. In addition, Dr. Panisko has presented Clinical Teaching Workshops at national meetings such as the Canadian Association for Medical Education, the Canadian Society of Internal Medicine, and during visiting professorships.