2019 Thank Yous and Transitions

At Annual Day on June 11, we gave our heartfelt thanks to our outgoing DDDs, PDs, PICs and, and celebrated our newly minted Professors Emeriti in the Department of Medicine. For those of you who were unable to join us, here they are in brief:

Flavio Habal (Gastroenterology) and Scott Berry (Medical Oncology) are stepping down from their roles as Interim DDDs, and Sharon Straus is stepping down as Geriatric Medicine DDD. They have all made incredible contributions to the department, their divisions and their fields, and for that we thank them. 

Also stepping down as Program Directors are Eric Yu (Cardiology), Scott Walsh (Dermatology), Barbara Liu (Geriatric Medicine), David Tang-Wai (Neurology) and James Downar (Palliative Medicine). And, of course, Kevin Imrie is stepping down this year as Physician-in-Cheif of Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre. He has been an incredible, positive force at Sunnybrook and the DoM, and we look forward to seeing where the next chapter of his career takes him. We would also like to acknowledge several long-standing committee chairs who are stepping down this year Susan George is stepping down as Senior Promotions Committee Chair, and Frank Silver and Joan Wither as CFAR Committee Co-Chairs. 

We're celebrating a number of newly minted Professors Emeriti who have been appointed to this most distinguished academic rank: David Fitchett (Cardiology), Neil Lazar (Respiratory Medicine), Gary Levy (Gastroenterology), Anita Rachlis (Infectious Diseases) and Robert Richardson (Nephrology). Thank you all so much for your invaluable contributions.