Dr Ayelet Kuper MD DPhil FRCPC is an Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto and an Internist at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre. She is a Scientist and Associate Director at the Wilson Centre for Research in Education and is cross-appointed to the Institute for Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, to the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, and to the Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish Studies (all at the University of Toronto).

A child and grandchild of Holocaust survivors, she received a doctorate in Holocaust literature from the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar prior to her medical training. She has been teaching and doing committee work related to social justice for a wide range of equity-seeking groups for many years; she has published over 100 peer-reviewed papers, many of which are related to power, equity, and inclusion in medical education. Between June 2022 and June 2023 she served as the Temerty Faculty of Medicine’s Senior Advisor on Antisemitism.