CUPE Local 3902 (Unit 3) Job Posting

Sessional Lecturer Position

Posting Date: July 14, 2025

Program: Master of Health Informatics (MHI)

Sessional dates of appointment: Fall 2025 September to December

Course title: MHI2006H: Advanced Topics in Health Informatics (Strategic Frameworks for Solution Architecture)

Course Description:

This capstone course challenges students to integrate their learning from the Master of Health Informatics program by designing actionable solutions to real-world digital health challenges. Through structured engagement with public and private sector case partners, students will apply strategic thinking, stakeholder alignment, and architecture planning to solve critical issues in healthcare.

At the heart of the course is the Playing to Win strategy framework, used to guide students through defining problems, identifying stakeholder requirements, evaluating solution options, and constructing architectures that address real constraints. Students will also use tools such as architecture layering, governance modeling, and value proposition mapping to develop system-level responses to today’s most pressing digital health challenges, including interoperability, AI integration, and e-prescribing.

Course cases include live briefings from subject matter experts and explore actual health system priorities, such as the implementation of PrescribeIT, Online Appointment Booking, EMR Regulation, ethical deployment of AI tools, and health data sharing across jurisdictions.

Learning Objectives (Modernized and Strategy-Oriented):

By the end of this course, students will be able to:

• Use the Playing to Win framework to define a real-world health informatics challenge, analyze constraints, and craft a strategic response.
• Identify stakeholder roles, requirements, and incentives, using tools such as the multi-stakeholder House of Quality matrix and architecture layering.
• Design system architectures that align technology, policy, and governance structures with clinical and operational realities.
• Articulate clear value propositions for digital health investments, integrating perspectives from vendors, providers, patients, and government.
• Present and defend architecture plans using structured storytelling that blends strategic rationale, stakeholder alignment, and feasibility.

Qualifications:

• A PhD or Masters level education with recent experience in clinical and health informatics, preferably in the areas of ICT adoption, implementation, and evaluation;
• A robust understanding of clinical/clinician work processes, as influenced by health informatics and related technology;
• Past teaching experience related to health informatics, preferably at the graduate level;
• Prior experience in curriculum development and adult teaching-learning methods;
• Comfortable with electronic teaching tools such as Learning Management Systems (e.g., Canvas), PowerPoint, as well as on-line collaboration tools (Blogs, Wikis, Discussion Boards, Webinars, or Video-conferencing).

Class schedule: Weekly

Estimated enrolment: 60

Estimated TA support: based on enrolment - None

Duties:

• Course instructor for a professional graduate course using competency-based learning and assessment methods.
• Responsible for course design and assessment of student outcomes. Must be accessible to students outside of classroom hours.

Salary: Commensurate with experience

How to submit an application: Please send your CV and cover letter, outlining additional value you will bring to teaching the course via e-mail to ihpme.cupe.unit3@utoronto.ca

Closing Date: August 4, 2025

This job is posted in accordance with the CUPE 3902 Unit 3 Collective Agreement.

Preference in hiring is given to qualified individuals advanced to the rank of Sessional Lecturer II and Sessional Lecturer III in accordance with Article 14:12.

Candidates who are members of Indigenous. Black, racialized and 2SLGBTQ+ communities, persons with disabilities, and other equity-deserving groups are encouraged to apply, and their lived experience shall be taken into consideration as applicable to the position