Dr. Lynn Henderson completed her undergraduate degree at the University of Toronto, specializing in Ecology (2002), she then completed the Doctor of Veterinary Medicine program at the Ontario Veterinary (2007). Having worked in veterinary general practice, emergency medicine, house-call medicine and hospice and palliative care, Dr. Henderson has always been most interested in the areas of veterinary medicine that allow engagement with the human and community side of practice. After successfully operating a veterinary house-call practice for 10 years and gaining certification in veterinary hospice and palliative care, Dr. Henderson completed her Master of Education at the University of Toronto in Education for the Health Professions (2022). In her current position as the Director of the Kim & Stu Lang Community Healthcare Partnership Program at the Ontario Veterinary College, Dr. Henderson oversee a team of practitioners and student veterinarians engaged in clinical service provision and service-learning in made-vulnerable communities with a focus on improving access to veterinary care.
As a PhD student in the Social and Behavioural Public Health Sciences, Dr. Henderson is exploring land-based learning and critical pedagogies in the health professions towards recentring the position of humans in the natural world. Incorporation of both Western and Indigenous Ways of knowing will be fundamental to this work, alongside exploration of how relationship with the environment contributes to ‘health’. How do we create meaningful land-based experiences for students in the health professions that foster a transformative view of our relationship with land, climate, and the more-than-human world? Supervisor: Dr. Angela Mashford-Pringle.