Appointments & Awards: December 2025

Appointments

Nazia Sharfuddin appointed Physician Lead of Patient Safety at Trillium Health Partners and Ontario Representative on the Canadian Society of Internal Medicine Council for a 3 year term 

Kim Coros appointed President of the Board of Directors for the Canadian Academy of Sport and Exercise Medicine (CASEM)

Phavalan Rajendram appointed Deputy Chair for the Canadian Stroke Consortium’s National Stroke Fellowship Certification Program

Awards

Core Internal Medicine Program

Mario Corrado, Royal College/Journal of Graduate Medical Education (JGME) Resident Research Award at the International Conference on Residency Education for his project, Does Programmatic Assessment Help Prepare Residents for Independent Practice? A Qualitative Study of Residents’ Perceptions

Division of Dermatology

Sheila Wang, Karen Green Courage Award of $100,000 and the People’s Choice Award of $85,000, made possible through donations to the Women's College Hospital Foundation for the third annual Breakthrough Challenge, for her project entitled “Seeing the Unseen: Closing Gaps in Dermatology Care”

Division of Endocrinology & Metabolism

Olexandra Koshkina, George From Post Graduate Teaching Award, U of T Division of Endocrinology & Metabolism

Geetha Mukerji and the Women's College Hospital e-consult team, top 3 provincial finalists for the Ontario Health System Quality and Innovation awards in the category of Collaborative Partnership for the project "Triaging referrals to e-consults - improving access to specialist care" 

Division of General Internal Medicine

Nazia Sharfuddin, Young Leaders Award [Early Career], Canadian Medical Association, 2025 GIM Citywide Community-Based Teaching Award, University of Toronto and Sharon Wood Dauphinee Visiting Lectureship Award, McGill University Department of Medicine High Value Healthcare Symposium

Reena Pattani, CAME Certificate of Merit, University of Toronto

Tara O'Brien, CAME Certificate of Merit, University of Toronto

Eric Kaplovitch, UHN/Sinai Department of Medicine 2024 Citizenship Award (given to 10% of department members)

Division of Hematology

Lisa Hicks, St. Michael's Hospital Medical Services Association (SMHA) Innovation Funded project entitled “Reducing Repetitive Blooding Testing in the ICU: A Multidisciplinary Quality Improvement Initiative” was selected by the Innovation Funds Provincial Oversight Committee (IFPOC) for one of their annual awards in the category of “Chronic Diseases" 

Anne McLeod, Peter Webster Award for Excellence in Teaching and Patient Care, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre

Heather VanderMeulen, Early Career Award, Canadian Hematology Society

Steven Chan, Paper of the Year Award, Canadian Hematology Society and grant from the Cancer Research Society for the project, Targeting SYK signalling to overcome resistance to IDH inhibitors in acute myeloid leukemia

Zach Liederman, 2024-2025 Wightman-Berris Awards for Excellence in Teaching

Helena Dhamko, UHN/Sinai Department of Medicine 2024 Academic Excellence Award (given to 5% of department members)

Christine Cserti, UHN/Sinai Department of Medicine 2024 Citizenship Award (given to 10% of department members)

Farzana Sayani, UHN/Sinai Department of Medicine 2024 Citizenship Award (given to 10% of department members)

Sarah Ge, Innovation, Quality, and Education Award, University of Toronto

Division of Nephrology

Michelle Hladunewich, Michelle P. Winn, MD, Endowed Lectureship, American Society of Nephrology

Jeffrey Perl & Monica Farcas, Mitchell Award for Health System Innovation and Canada Life People's Choice Award, St. Michael’s Foundation’s Angels Den

Division of Neurology

Mark Boulos, William J. Sibbald Faculty Mentorship Award, Sunnybrook Department of Medicine 

Peter Carlen, Keynote speaker at the Canadian Epilepsy Research Initiative/CLAE meeting in October 2025 on “Precision and imprecision therapy: future medical therapies for epilepsy” 

Anthony Lang, Division of Neurology Publication Award, Category 1: Clinician Research paper, article titled “Clinical and Neuropathological Evaluations of the New Brunswick Neurological Syndrome of Unknown Cause" presented at the 39th Annual McEwan-Jones Faculty Research Day

Jennifer Rabin, Division of Neurology Publication Award, Category 2: Basic Research paper, article titled “Sex Differences in Associations of Lewy Body Disease with Alzheimer's Disease and Cognitive Decline" presented at the 39th Annual McEwan-Jones Faculty Research Day

Charles Kassardjian and Corey Bacher, Division of Neurology Publication Award, Category 3: QI & Education paper, article titled “International Consensus Guidance for the Management of Glucocorticoid Related Complications in Neuromuscular Disease" presented at the 39th Annual McEwan-Jones Faculty Research Day

Division of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation

McKyla McIntyre, Individual Teaching Excellence Award, Wightman-Berris Academy