Appointments & Awards: April 2025

Awards

Division of Cardiology

Husam Abdel-Qadir, King Charles III Coronation Medal, Governor General of Canada

Division of Clinical Pharmacology & Toxicology

David Juurlink, 2024/2025 CSPT Distinguished Service and Education Award, Canadian Society of Pharmacology and Therapeutics (CSPT)

Division of Dermatology

Dermatology at U of T has reached a Top 10 spot in the world for research and impact on the ScholarGPS® Institutional Rankings for the first time

Division of Emergency Medicine

Lucas Chartier, 2024 Top 20 Under 40 in Canadian Life Sciences, Catalytic Health and Bedford Group Transearch

• The Canadian Life Sciences Top 20 Under 40 Awards put a spotlight on young leaders in the life sciences industry that are making an outsized impact. Read more about Dr. Lucas Chartier. 

Kathryn Chan, $10,000 Education Development Fund (EDF) grant for a project on principle-focused evaluation of the Equity, Diversity, Advocacy and Cultural Safety (EDACS) curriculum, University of Toronto

Division of Endocrinology & Metabolism

Daniel Drucker, 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences

Division of General Internal Medicine

Shaan Chugh, 2024 Top 20 Under 40 in Canadian Life Sciences, Catalytic Health and Bedford Group Transearch

• The Canadian Life Sciences Top 20 Under 40 Awards put a spotlight on young leaders in the life sciences industry that are making an outsized impact. Read more about Dr. Shaan Chugh.

Division of Hematology

Tomohiro Aoki, American Society of Hematology Scholar Award, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre

Division of Nephrology

Michelle Hladunewich, King Charles III Coronation Medal, Governor General of Canada

• Dr. Hladunewich is a renowned nephrologist specializing in glomerular-based kidney disease and kidney care during pregnancy. Her work bridges women’s health and nephrology, making her a key advocate for improved patient outcomes and advancing kidney care. Dr. Hladunewich was presented with her medal on March 20, 2025 at a special awards ceremony at The Kidney Foundation of Canada.

Division of Neurology

Danielle Andrade, Precision Health Network for Neurodevelopment, Mental Health and Brain Injury, Genome Canada/National

Sara Mitchell, invited to the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida to give a talk as their second Irving S. Cooper Visiting Professor to recognize Dr. Cooper’s professional accomplishments and humanitarian values. Dr. Mitchell was also invited to present at the Mayo Clinic on the innovative Brain Medicine Program she is running at UofT and Sunnybrook.

Sara Mitchell and Sarah Lidstone awarded $99,600 over two years through the Slamen-Fast Special Projects Initiative, a highly competitive grant within the Division of Neurology at UofT, for the project titled Clinical efficacy and implementation of a city-wide care pathway for Functional Neurological Disorder

Esther Bui, 2025 Award for Excellence in Postgraduate Medical Education in the category of Development and Innovation, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto

Nardin Samuel, 2025 Canadian Society of Clinical Neurophysiologists (CSCN) - Herbert Jasper Prize, Canadian Neurological Sciences Federation 

Division of Respirology

Stephen Juvet and Tereza Martinu, CIHR Project Grant for the project Novel Alveolar Macrophages in the pathogenesis of chronic lung allograft dysfunction