2026 Distinguished Teacher-Educator Award

Susan Humphrey-Murto, MD, FRCPC, MEd

Dr. Susan Humphrey-Murto is a Professor of Medicine at the University of Ottawa with an active clinical practice in General Rheumatology and Osteoporosis. She began her career with a deep commitment to workplace-based teaching, serving for many years on the CRA Education Committee. Over the course of her career, she has held several leadership roles, including Deputy Registrar of the Medical Council of Canada, Co-Chair of the Royal College Education Research Committee, and Program Director for both Rheumatology and a Medical Education Fellowship. She currently serves as Associate Director of Education Scholarship at the Centre for Innovation in Medical Education, Chair of the Rheumatology Competence Committee, and holds a Tier 2 Research Chair in medical education.

Dr. Humphrey-Murto’s scholarship in education has made sustained international contributions to performance-based assessment, learner handover, and consensus methods. She has published eighty-eight peer-reviewed papers with over half as first or senior author in top-tier journals such as Academic Medicine, Medical Education, and Advances in Health Sciences Education. Her work has been disseminated internationally, and she has collaborated with renowned leaders including Olle ten Cate, Cees van der Vleuten, John Norcini, Karen Hauer, Larry Gruppen, and Lara Varpio.

As a principal investigator, she has secured more than one million dollars in external funding from the Royal College, the Medical Council of Canada, and AMEE. Her contributions have been recognized with major honours, including the RCPSC Duncan Graham Award for Outstanding Contribution to Medical Education, multiple University of Ottawa mentorship and education awards, and a prestigious Tier 2 Research Chair.

Dr. Humphrey-Murto has also made substantial local impact through the development of the Fellowship in Medical Education, the Healthcare Education Scholars Program, and the mentoring of more than forty trainees. She looks forward to assuming the role of Division Head of Rheumatology in 2026.