Associate Dean for Clinical Curriculum
Consultant, HMC
Marcellina Mian attended McGill University in Montreal, Canada, where she obtained her medical degree in 1971. She did her paediatric internship at the Montreal Children's Hospital and the rest of her pediatric training at the New England Medical Center, in Boston, USA, where she finished as Chief Resident in 1975. In 2008, Dr. Mian obtained a Master's in Health Professions Education from Maastricht University in the Netherlands. She is a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada and of the American Academy of Pediatrics.
From 1975 to 1980, Dr. Mian was Director of Medical Education at the North Shore Children's Hospital in Salem, Massachusetts and was Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Tufts University. In 1980, she joined the staff of The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) in Toronto, Canada, and in 2002 she was promoted to the rank of Professor of Paediatrics at the University of Toronto, with a cross appointment in the Department of Public Health. During her 26 years at SickKids, Dr. Mian worked in the General Paediatric Clinic, the Emergency Department and, principally, in the Suspected Child Abuse and Neglect (SCAN) Program and in undergraduate medical education. She was Director of the SCAN Program from 1984 to 1998 and in 1998 she became Director of Undergraduate Medical Education, until her move to Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar, in July, 2006. At WCMC-Q Dr. Mian holds the posts of Pediatric Clerkship Director and Course Director for the Medicine, Patients and Society I. As of April 2008, she is Acting Dean for Clinical Curriculum. Since 2007, she has been Professor of Pediatrics at Cornell University.
Dr. Mian has been active at the local, national and international level in organizations that aim at child maltreatment prevention. In Toronto, she was a member of the board of the Toronto Child Abuse Centre from 1986 to 2006 and, in the province of Ontario, she sat on a number of committees working on improving the response to child maltreatment prevention. She was involved in developing the Canadian Joint Statement on Shaken Baby Syndrome Prevention in 2000, signed by health, social services and law enforcement, the first such document in North America. She has been a member of the Executive Council of the International Society for Prevention of Child Abuse (ISPCAN) since 1994, and served as its president from 2002 to 2004. Since 1998 she has been a consultant to the World Health Organization, working on developing guidelines on an integrated multisectoral approach to child maltreatment prevention world wide, and some related training material. Dr. Mian has also conducted some research on child maltreatment and medical education; she has written a number of articles and been a presenter on these subjects at numerous conferences world-wide.