Speaker: Dr. Gianni Lorello

Moderator: Dr. Michael Dinsmore

Gianni R. Lorello is a staff anesthesiologist at Toronto Western Hospital – University Health Network and an Assistant Professor from the University of Toronto. He was the inaugural Director of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion for the Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, the inaugural Chair of the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee at the Canadian Anesthesiologists’ Society (CAS), and the Vice-Chair for the Section on Education and Simulation in Anesthesia at the CAS. He is currently a Clinician-Educator for the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada and the newly-appointed 2SLGBTQIA+ Health Theme Lead for the MD Program at the University of Toronto. He is a Cross-Appointed Researcher at the Wilson Centre and an Adjunct Scientist at the Women’s College Research Institute. He is currently a Flex-Time Health Professions Education Research 4th year PhD student at the Institute of Health Policy, Management, and Evaluation, University of Toronto, learning critical social theory at the Wilson Centre. 

Through national and international collaborations, Gianni R. Lorello’s research examines gender, sexuality, racial, and ethnic disparities while taking an intersectional lens within Anesthesiology, and more broadly, in Medicine. Specifically, he aims at better understanding how a continuum model of gender shifts academic dialogue, avoiding the current polarization via gender binaries that leads to segregation and isolation rather than diversity and inclusion. He is interested in better understanding the everyday, local world of sex and gender minority physicians working within the operating room and the knowledges of and experiences with dominant performances of sex and gender. Through his research, he aspires to start illuminating and describing ruling relations as well as showing how these ruling relations work in organizing sex and gender minority physicians.