Giovanna Sirianni

Dr. Giovanna Sirianni is the Enhanced Skills Program Director at the University of Toronto Department of Family and Community Medicine. She is an assistant professor at DFCM, a family physician with a focused practice in palliative care at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, and a Master’s degree candidate at both the Dalla Lana School of Public Health and DFCM, where she is working toward her MScCH in Health Practitioner Teacher Education. She is also a former Program Director for DFCM’s Palliative Medicine Enhanced Skills Program.

Dr. Sirianni's academic interests include curriculum development and assessment methods in postgraduate medical education. Dr. Sirianni is actively involved in faculty development for competency-based medical education (CBME) at the postgraduate level. She is currently the lead author of an education scholarship grant focusing on the development of a pilot podcast focusing on the stories of patients, caregivers and health care professionals in the setting of serious, life-limiting illness. She is a dedicated teacher in the undergraduate, postgraduate and continuing professional development areas of medicine.