Stella Ng, University of Toronto

Research

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Childhood Disability Collaborative Practice Communication Critically Reflective Practice Documentation Practices Health Professions Education Integrated Care Mixed Methods

Latest papers

Transforming research in team-based learning.
Medical education · 2026 · senior author
How national healthcare change initiatives balance emergent and deliberate change: A principles-focused evaluation
Healthcare Management Forum · 2025 · senior author
Distinct journeys and unique stories: how individuals from multiple professions cultivate careers in healthcare leadership
BMJ Leader · 2025 · senior author

All 25 publications

Latest funding

What Enables and Sustains Critically Reflective Practice? Transforming Health Professionals' Written Communication to Improve Integrated Care for Children with Disabilities at School
CIHR · 2025 · Nominated PI
$449,848
Making the Invisible Visible: A Cognitive Ethnography of PSW Knowledge and Practice
CIHR · 2025 · Principal investigator
$294,526
Prepared to learn: Toward valid assessments of self-regulated learning from classroom to workplace
SSHRC · 2020 · Co-investigator
$99,496

All 5 grants and awards

25 publications.

01

Transforming research in team-based learning.

Edelist T, Ng S

Medical education2026Senior author

DOI: 10.1111/medu.70128 PMID: 41316678

02

How national healthcare change initiatives balance emergent and deliberate change: A principles-focused evaluation

Apramian T, Karim A, Parker K, Sinclair L, Ladak Z, Ku C, Gregor S, Winnebota L, Ponte D, Ng S

Healthcare Management Forum20253 citationsSenior author

DOI: 10.1177/08404704241279501

03

Distinct journeys and unique stories: how individuals from multiple professions cultivate careers in healthcare leadership

Gregor S, Mulholland AD, Brydges R, Bulmer B, Kangasjarvi E, Onyura B, Lieff S, Ng S

BMJ Leader20253 citationsSenior author

DOI: 10.1136/leader-2024-001051

04

A critical interpretive synthesis of interprofessional education interventions.

Kaas-Mason S, Langlois S, Bartlett S, Friesen F, Ng S, Bellicoso D, Rowland P

Journal of interprofessional care2024

DOI: 10.1080/13561820.2023.2294755 PMID: 38186060

05

Critical reflection in team-based practice: A narrative review.

Edelist T, Friesen F, Ng S, Fernandez N, Bélisle M, Lechasseur K, Rochette A, Vachon B, Caty MÈ

Medical education2024

DOI: 10.1111/medu.15462 PMID: 38973068

06

"What got you here, won't get you there": Students as leaders of the change we need.

Parker K, Binns A, Dupre C, Friesen F, Lising D, Sinclair L, Ng S

Healthcare management forum2024Senior author

DOI: 10.1177/08404704241259917 PMID: 39194278

07

Exploring the valued outcomes of school-based speech-language therapy services: a sequential iterative design

Cahill PT, Ng S, Turkstra LS, Ferro MA, Campbell WN

Frontiers in Rehabilitation Sciences20247 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.3389/fresc.2024.1290800 PMID: W4391033767

08

Core outcomes for speech-language services in Ontario schools: a group concept mapping study and guiding framework

Cahill PT, Ferro MA, Ng S, Turkstra LS, Campbell WN

BMC Health Services Research20243 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1186/s12913-024-10821-7 PMID: W4392884847

09

Teaching critical reflection in health professions education with transformative-vygotskian praxis.

Diaz BA, Rieker J, Ng S

Advances in health sciences education : theory and practice2023Senior author

DOI: 10.1007/s10459-023-10209-y PMID: 36890283

10

Outcomes management practices in tiered school‐based speech–language therapy: A Canadian example

Cahill PT, Ng S, Dix L, Ferro MA, Turkstra L, Campbell WN

International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders20236 citations

DOI: 10.1111/1460-6984.12822

What Enables and Sustains Critically Reflective Practice? Transforming Health Professionals' Written Communication to Improve Integrated Care for Children with Disabilities at School

Nominated PICIHR2025Project Grant

Principal investigators: Ng, Stella L; Binns, Amanda; Boyd, Victoria A; Woods, Nicole N

Keywords: Childhood Disability; Collaborative Practice; Communication; Critically Reflective Practice; Documentation Practices; Health Professions Education; Integrated Care; Mixed Methods; School Health; Transformative Education

$449,848

Making the Invisible Visible: A Cognitive Ethnography of PSW Knowledge and Practice

Principal investigatorCIHR2025Project Grant

Principal investigators: Woods, Nicole N; McKay, Sandra M; Mylopoulos, Maria; Ng, Stella L

Keywords: Adaptive Expertise; Care Work; Ethnographic Research; Health Human Resources; Health Systems Transformation; Personal Support Workers

$294,526

Prepared to learn: Toward valid assessments of self-regulated learning from classroom to workplace

Co-investigatorSSHRC2020Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Brydges, Ryan N.

Keywords: self-regulated learning; learning retention and transfer; health professions education; assessment and validation; simulation and technology-enabled education

$99,496

Reducing patient preoperative anxiety through an innovative translational simulation intervention targeting health professionals

SupervisorCIHR2019Doctoral Research Award: Canada Graduate Scholarships

Principal investigators: Gavarkovs, Adam G

Keywords: Anesthesiologists; Empathetic Communication; Implementation Science; Preoperative Anxiety; Randomized Controlled Trial; Simulation; Surgical Outcomes; Virtual Reality

$105,000

Fixing the broken links: toward integrating social sciences and humanities and health professions education

Principal investigatorSSHRC2017Connection Grants

Principal investigators: Ng, Stella L.

Keywords: health professions education; interdisciplinary; epistemic culture; knowledge mobilization; competence

$7,000

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

Frequent collaborators

Co-authors at University of Toronto, colored by department. Thicker lines mean more shared papers; select anyone to open their profile and their own map.

Paula Rowland

Department of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy

4 shared papers, latest 2024

Wenonah Campbell

Rehabilitation Science

3 shared papers, latest 2024

Ryan Brydges

Department of Medicine

3 shared papers, latest 2025

Lyn Turkstra

Rehabilitation Science

3 shared papers, latest 2024

Sarah Gregman

Rehabilitation Science

2 shared papers, latest 2025

Nicole Woods

Department of Family and Community Medicine

1 shared papers, latest 2017

Amanda Binns

Faculty

1 shared papers, latest 2024

Karen Devon

Clinical Public Health Division

1 shared papers, latest 2016

Risa Freeman

Clinical Public Health Division

1 shared papers, latest 2021

Denyse Richardson

Clinical Public Health Division

1 shared papers, latest 2018

Patricia Houston

Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine

1 shared papers, latest 2019

Stella Ng

Medicine

1 shared papers, latest 2023

Annie Rochette

Occupational Therapy

1 shared papers, latest 2024

Nicolas Fernandez

Faculty

1 shared papers, latest 2024

Walter Tavares

Health and Society

1 shared papers, latest 2021

Ayelet Kuper

Social & Behavioural Health Sciences Division

1 shared papers, latest 2021

Jerry Maniate

Faculty

1 shared papers, latest 2018

Leah Dix

Rehabilitation Science

1 shared papers, latest 2023

Sayra Cristancho

Surgery

1 shared papers, latest 2017

Brigitte Vachon

Ecole de réadaptation

1 shared papers, latest 2024

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Subject: Prospective PhD student: Childhood Disability Dear Professor Ng, My name is [your name], and I am a [your current degree or role] at [your institution]. I am applying for a PhD position starting in [term and year]. I read your paper "Transforming research in team-based learning." (2026), and it connects closely to my own work on [your research topic]. [One or two sentences on what you did and what you learned.] I also saw your CIHR-funded project "What Enables and Sustains Critically Reflective Practice? Transforming Health Professionals' Written Communication to Improve Integrated Care for Children with Disabilities at School" (2025), and I would be glad to contribute to work in that direction. Are you accepting new PhD students for [term and year]? I have attached my CV and transcripts, and I would be glad to talk at a time that suits you. Thank you for your time. Kind regards, [your name]