Speaker Introduction

Lynn Curry earned a Ph.D. in educational psychology from Stanford University followed by a career in higher and professional education concluding with a Rosenstadt Professorship at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto. Lynn founded a consulting company, CurryCorp Inc. in 1990. The firm works to enhance education, social and health services through research, evaluation, social engineering and facilitation of organizational change.

Lynn’s publications cover a range of topics including change management, continuing professional education, health care, higher education, learning style, measurement, public education and one award winning recipe in Good Housekeeping magazine. The following might be of interest to session participants:

1. Educating Professionals: Responding to New Expectations for Competence and Accountability (Jossey-Bass, 1993), which won the American Educational Research Association Division I Award for the Best Scholarly Publication.

2. the concluding chapter in the International Handbook of Research in Medical Education, "Achieving Large-Scale Change in Medical Education" (Kluwer, 2002)

In Learning Style:

1. "Individual differences in cognitive style, learning styles and instructional preferences in medical education." Chapter 8 (pages 359-378) in International Handbook for Research in Medical Education. (Eds) Norman, G., van der Vleuten, C. and Newble, D. 2002. Amsterdam: Kluwer

2. The Perfect Learner: an expert debate on learning styles. (contribution as an ‘expert’). Training, May 2002, pages 28-36.

3. "Review of Learning Style, Studying Approach and Instructional Preference Research in Medical Education". Chapter 9 (pages 239 – 276) in International Perspectives on Individual Differences. (Eds) Riding, R and Rayner S. 2000. Stamford, Connecticut: Ablex Publishing Corporation

4. Cognitive and Learning Styles in Medical Education. Academic Medicine, 1999, Vol. 74, No. 4, 409-413.

Further details are available at the CurryCorp website: www.CurryCorp.net