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Sessional Lecturer MHI2006H: Advanced Topics in Health Informatics Strategic Frameworks

CUPE Local 3902 (Unit 3) Job Posting

Sessional Lecturer Position

 

Posting Date: May 2, 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.appointments@utoronto.ca and ihpme.mhi.program@utoronto.ca

 

Closing Date: May 22, 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

 

 

All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadians and permanent residents will be given priority.

Diversity Statement

The University of Toronto embraces Diversity and is building a culture of belonging that increases our capacity to effectively address and serve the interests of our global community. We strongly encourage applications from Indigenous Peoples, Black and racialized persons, women, persons with disabilities, and people of diverse sexual and gender identities. We value applicants who have demonstrated a commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion and recognize that diverse perspectives, experiences, and expertise are essential to strengthening our academic mission.

As part of your application, you will be asked to complete a brief Diversity Survey. This survey is voluntary. Any information directly related to you is confidential and cannot be accessed by search committees or human resources staff. Results will be aggregated for institutional planning purposes. For more information, please see http://uoft.me/UP.

Accessibility Statement

The University strives to be an equitable and inclusive community, and proactively seeks to increase diversity among its community members. Our values regarding equity and diversity are linked with our unwavering commitment to excellence in the pursuit of our academic mission.

The University is committed to the principles of the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA). As such, we strive to make our recruitment, assessment and selection processes as accessible as possible and provide accommodations as required for applicants with disabilities.

If you require any accommodations at any point during the application and hiring process, please contact uoft.careers@utoronto.ca.


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