Dr. Certina Ho is an exceptional early-career educator whose teaching, innovation, and scholarly leadership have made a transformative impact across the University of Toronto’s Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy and Temerty Faculty of Medicine. Her work is defined by a deep commitment to inclusive, evidence-informed pedagogy and to creating learning environments that prepare future health professionals to improve patient care. As an Assistant Professor in Pharmacy and Psychiatry, Dr. Ho leads high-impact teaching in patient safety, medication-incident analysis, continuous quality improvement, and program evaluation. She designs accessible, practice-grounded courses guided by Universal Design for Learning and evaluates them rigorously. Her decade-long assessment of PHM322 demonstrated measurable gains in students’ knowledge, confidence, and readiness to lead patient-safety and CQI initiatives, which is testament to the effectiveness of her applied, learner-centred approach. Students consistently praise her passion, mentorship, and genuine investment in their success. Dr. Ho is a leading innovator in gamified learning, developing scalable educational tools funded through multiple institutional grants and disseminated through peer-reviewed publications and international conferences. She has also helped to establish impactful mentorship structures, including the Clinician Scholar Program and the Department of Psychiatry Mentorship Program, both of which are grounded in scholarly evaluation and have significantly expanded opportunities for resident and faculty development. As an education scholar, Dr. Ho has secured more than 30 grants and contributed to a robust body of peer-reviewed work advancing health professions education. Her leadership, scholarly rigour, and unwavering dedication to learner growth exemplify the qualities recognized by this award.