Our Team

Dr. Robert (Bob) Connelly is a neonatologist and medical educator at Queen's University. He completed his MD degree at the University of Toronto in 1990, and his Pediatrics and Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine training at Dalhousie University/IWK Health Centre from 1991 to 1998. He subsequently completed his MBA at Queen’s University in 2012. From 2013 to 2023, Bob served as the Head of Pediatrics at Queen’s University and Pediatrics Program Medical Director at the Kingston Health Sciences Centre. He was the President of the Pediatric Chairs of Canada from 2019 to 2021 and held the inaugural Queen’s Endowed Chair in Pediatric Research and Education from 2019 to 2023.

Over his career, Bob has held many educational leadership roles, including Program Director of the Queen’s Pediatrics residency training program. He has served on several Royal College specialty education committees and chaired both the Royal College MCQ Examination Committee in Pediatrics and the Specialty Committee for Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine. His passion for education is infectious, and he has received multiple awards including the Canadian Association of Medical Education (CAME) Award of Merit and the Queen’s Aesculapian Society Lectureship Award for eleven consecutive years.

Complementing his leadership training and experience, design-thinking fuels Bob’s development and implementation of new strategies, whether in delivering a more compelling presentation or improving patient care. He is a self-described “typography nerd” and “geek wannabe” who is on the lookout for a better font for his presentations and new technologies to improve his productivity.

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Dr. Denise Stockley is a Professor and Scholar in Higher Education with the Office of the Provost (Teaching and Learning Portfolio) and the Faculty of Health Sciences at Queen’s University. She is the President of the Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education and represents Canada on the Council for the International Consortium for Educational Development. She has led curricular development and innovation at the systems level and has facilitated hundreds of workshops in the area of educational development. Her current research focuses on how we create and study environments that promote learning such as the impact of national teaching awards, research ethics training, and system-wide curricular change. She is the Principal Investigator on several research grants including those from the Tri-Council (SSHRC, NSERC, and CIHR) and the Networks of Centre of Excellence (NCE).

Of interest to this program, Dr. Stockley was part of the TeleLearning NCE in the 1990s that created one of the first learning management systems and has since used this background to work with all sectors on developing, implementing and evaluating online learning. When Dr. Stockley joined Queen’s in 2001, there were only 3 courses that used technology enhanced learning and she was instrumental in enabling Queen’s to become a leader in this area and was part of the team that instituted Quality Assurance and curriculum mapping across the institution.

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Jennifer is the Graduate Assistant for MHPE, and a member of the Office of Professional Development & Educational Scholarship. She is happy to assist with questions about the program or admissions process.

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Meet Rhonda, our Master of Health Profession Education (MHPE) Learning Experience Advisor and the buzzing mastermind behind The Buzz Newsletter. Rhonda ensures our hive of learners stays as busy as bees, blending humour and wisdom into every update. With a knack for turning even the most complex topics into honey-sweet insights, Rhonda keeps our MHPE community buzzing with excitement and knowledge.

Before joining Queen’s, Rhonda taught adult learners in Ottawa for over 10 years and was a curriculum developer for Ottawa Public Health. Currently she is also an Educational Developer and Instructional Designer with the Course Development team in the Office of Professional Development and Educational Scholarship, Queen’s Health Sciences.

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Dr. Lindsay Brant is the Director, Indigenous Initiatives at St. Lawrence College and is from Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory. In addition to her administrative role, Lindsay teaches in the Master of Health Professions Education program at Queen’s, and advises on the curriculum design and redevelopment for this program.

Lindsay has received several awards in recognition of her contributions to education, including the Educational Leadership Award from the Educational Developers Caucus and an Ideas Worth Teaching Award from the Aspen Institute in 2021, the latter acknowledging her innovative work in the Commerce program at Smith School of Business at Queen’s University. Most recently, she was honoured with the Canadian Association for Medical Education’s Certificate of Merit Award (2024) for her impactful work in health education curriculum development. Lindsay was also the 2025 recipient of the Indigenous Women’s Movement Award from the Ontario Native Women’s Association.

In addition to her academic and leadership roles, Lindsay is also an accomplished storyteller, writer, and poet, whose work is rooted in Indigenous knowledges, creativity, and community.

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Kate is Associate Director of Operations of MHPE and the Office of Professional Development & Educational Scholarship (OPDES). The MHPE program is offered by OPDES, which is also responsible for Continuing Professional Development, Educational Scholarship, Faculty Development, and Course Development in the Faculty of Health Sciences. Learn more about OPDES.

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Dr. Robert Connelly

Dr. Denise Stockley

Jennifer Fowler

Rhonda Newhook

Dr. Lindsay Brant

Courtney Svab

Kate Kittner