Women in Allergy & Immunology 2025
Come join us again as we celebrate the women of Allergy and Clinical Immunology!
May 2, from noon to 5:30 PM EST
Preliminary Program (subject to change)
Welcome & Introduction – Dr. Samira Jeimy & Dr. Anne Ellis 12:00 – 12:05 PM
Balance & Breathe: Workplace Wellness through Stretching and Mindfulness – Speaker: Tana Bullock / Moderated by: Dr. Lori Connors 12:05 – 1:00 PM
Yoga Session – Instructor: Leanne Whiting / Moderated by: Dr. Mary McHenry 1:00 – 1:30 PM
The School of Unlearning : Tools to Help You Reconnect with Passion and Purpose—So You Can Keep Doing the Work You Love! – Speaker: Dr. Jessie Mahoney / Moderated by: Dr. Keelia Farrell 1:30 – 2:30 PM
Break – 2:30 – 2:45 PM
Becoming Financially Independent Women: A Roundtable discussion with Drs. Jane Healey & Stephanie Zhou – Speakers: Dr. Jane Healey and Dr. Stephanie Zhou / Moderated by: Dr. Stephanie Erdle & Dr. Samira Jeimy 2:45 – 3:45 PM
Charting Champions (Practice Management) – Speaker: Dr. Sarah Smith / Moderated by Dr. Tiffany Wong 3:45 – 4:45 PM
Networking Hour – Virtual Chocolate Tasting 4:45 – 5:15 PM
Women in Allergy & Immunology Program Committee
Dr. Samira Jeimy (Chair)
Dr. Devyani Bakshi
Ms. Emilia Burgueno
Dr. Lori Connors
Dr. Stephanie Erdle
Dr. Keelia Farrell
Ms. Jasmin Lidington
Dr. Mary McHenry
Dr. Tiffany Wong
Registration
- Regular rate: $ 95.00 CAD
The Women in Allergy and Immunology Conference is an accredited group learning activity (Section 1) as defined by the Maintenance of Certification Program of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada.
Meet Our Speakers
Tana Bullock
Tana Bullock, B.Sc, PKin, is the lead for office ergonomics assessments and services of MoveSafe in the greater Vancouver area. She’s been a part of the MoveSafe team for 13 years, performing both Field and Office Ergonomic assessments and providing education. Her background in Disability Management helps her understand the consequences of sustained unhealthy posture and movement habits. She is focused on applying her knowledge to help prevent injury.
Tana enjoys the preventative aspect of her work that allows her to combine her Kinesiology education and coaching skillset. She educates her clients on their workstation set-up as well as teaches them the proper posture and movement habits necessary for working in the millennial office environment.
Dr. Jessie Mahoney
Dr. Mahoney believes that mindfulness and coaching are a key component to changing the culture of healthcare, improving health patients and caregivers, and to improving our healthcare system. Her passion is utilizing coaching and mindfulness to help her colleagues be the best healers and humans they can be.
Dr. Jane Healey
Dr. Jane Healey is a hospital-based paediatrician at Trillium Health Partners in Mississauga. Together with her husband, Dr. Paul Healey, they created the Physician Financial Independence (PFI) online community in 2017, which now has over 35,000 members. It is a space where physicians can teach each other about personal finance and happiness that does not accept any advertising and is free from industry bias.
Jane is a strong advocate for promoting financial literacy and reducing burnout in medicine and values being a neutral, non-biased source of information for Canadian physicians.
Leanne Whiting
Leanne Whiting is an author, elementary school teacher, yoga instructor, teacher trainer and founder of Grow A Lotus Yoga. She is renowned for her creative and playful teachings of yoga through story. Leanne skillfully teaches with subtle alignment in the body, inquiry and discovery of the mind, and a playful enthusiasm of the heart.
She teaches children’s yoga in schools throughout Halifax, NS, along with professional development programs for educators and professionals.
Leanne is the author of children’s yoga book, Be Like A Tree, and a Master of Education student at St. Francis Xavier University.
Dr. Sarah Smith
Dr. Sarah Smith is a Charting Coach, Clinical Day Advisor and Rural Family Physician. She completed medical training and general practice fellowship in Australia, moved to rural Canada in 2013 and returned to rural Queensland Australia in 2024.
Sarah discovered general life coaching while on a personal mission to figure out how to stop feeling trapped by the clinical day and overwhelmed by its administrative tasks. After finding effective strategies to reclaim her time and achieve change, she felt compelled to share these insights with her struggling colleagues.
Dr. Smith has a passion for helping reduce healthcare burnout and administrative burnout with specific strategies to help Doctors and Clinicians create a sustainable clinical practice within the clinical environments that they work in, giving them more time for their lives outside of medicine.
Dr. Stephanie Zhou
Dr. Stephanie Zhou is an Addictions & Family Physician, and Department Lead of EDI & Social Accountability at Sunnybrook Hospital. Stephanie developed the Financial Literacy Curriculum at the University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine and serves on the Financial Aid committee. Outside of her clinical roles, she is on the Board of Directors for Toronto Public Health, Habitat for Humanity GTA, and Chair of the Practicing Well program at the Ontario College of Family Physicians.
She is a nationally invited speaker on economic mobility, diversity mentorship, and founded the Canadian Physicians Financial Wellness Conference. In 2022, she was selected as Canada’s Top 100 Most Powerful Women by WXN.
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