Simon C. Kitto PhD

Dr. Kitto is a medical sociologist who has been working in health professions education research since 2002. He is the Director of Research in Continuing Professional Development, an Assistant Professor at the Department of Surgery, UofT, and a Scientist at The Wilson Centre, University Health Network. Dr Kitto is also a Visiting Scholar at the Medical Case Centre, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, and has held a position as a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Surgery at Monash University since 2004.

His main research interests are studying how structural, historical and socio-cultural variables shape interprofessional clinical practice, educational settings and activities. Dr Kitto’s work involves studying issues related to identity/role expectation and formation, competency acquisition/performance and profession-based evidence/knowledge production within team contexts. His current research focuses on the nature and role of continuing interprofessional education and practice within the nexus of patient safety, quality improvement and implementation science intervention design and practice.

Dr Kitto’s research has gathered active attention internationally resulting in invitations to present his work in the UK, Australasia, North America and Europe. His most recent international research collaboration is as a co-principal investigator with Professor Scott Reeves founding Director of Center for Innovation in Interprofessional Education, University of California, San Francisco, on the project, ‘Understanding the nature of interprofessional teamwork in intensive care units: a multi-institutional ethnographic study’.