Jun 3, 2022

Appointments & Awards: June 2022

Cardiology, Endocrinology & Metabolism, Gastroenterology & Hepatology, General Internal Medicine, Nephrology, Neurology, Respirology, Palliative Medicine

Appointments

Ebru Kaya, appointed the president of the Canadian Society of Palliative Care Physicians

Antonio Strafella, elected the Board of Director of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences

Kasia Czarnecka-Kujawa, appointed Medical Director of Rapid Assessment of Complex Pleural Effusion (RACE) Program

Awards

Division of Palliative Medicine, Department of Medicine

Camilla Zimmermann, Temerty Faculty of Medicine Graduate Teaching Award: Mid-Career Excellence in Graduate Teaching and Mentorship, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto
This is one of three annual graduate faculty teaching awards; this specific award honours and celebrates the outstanding contributions to graduate education by a faculty member with a School of Graduate Studies appointment of 8-15 years. Dr. Zimmermann was nominated by her students for fostering a supportive and empowering learning environment in which students are given the independence to devise and enact their own research plans, while also providing them with guidance in the form of honest and constructive feedback. Applications were reviewed and adjudicated by the Temerty Faculty of Medicine Graduate Awards Committee, consisting of faculty and graduate students.

Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine

Kim Connelly, 2022 Faculty Recognition Award for Exceptional Teaching, Institute of Medical Science, University of Toronto

Division of Critical Care, Department of Medicine

Karen Burns, 2022 Assembly on Critical Care Mid-Career Achievement Award, Critical Care Assembly and the American Thoracic Society

Division of Endocrinology, Department of Medicine

Arno Kumagai, John A. Benson Jr. Professionalism Article Prize, the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) Foundation

Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine

Jeff Mosko, AFP Innovation Fund Award 2021 in the category of Virtual Health Care, IFFOC
The Innovation Fund is a joint initiative of the Ministry of Health (MOH) and the Ontario Medical Association (OMA) resulting from the Academic Health Science Centre Alternative Funding Plan. The Innovation Fund has funded over 1500 projects during the past 13 years, and is available to the more than 5,000 academic physicians working in 17 of Ontario’s Academic Health Science Centres.

Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine

Umberin Najeeb, SEAC Award - Educational Research, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
The Excellence in Education Awards are designed to recognize the education achievements of Sunnybrook’s staff, physicians or volunteers, and their passion for teaching and learning.

Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine

James Scholey, 2022 Kidney Foundation of Canada Medal of Research Excellence, Kidney Foundation - The Kidney Foundation of Canada

Division of Neurology, Department of Medicine

Danielle Andrade (PI) Ryan Yuen, Renato Munhoz, Helio Teive, 2022 UofT McLaughlin Centre Accelerator Grants, McLaughlin Centre, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto

David Gladstone (PI) Mark Boulos, Phavalan Rajendram, Moni Lustig, Aaron Goldman, Andrew Demchuk, Andrew Micieli, 2022 UofT McLaughlin Centre Accelerator Grants, McLaughlin Centre, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto

Gyl Midroni, Department of Medicine Academy of Master Clinicians, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto
The Department of Medicine’s overriding mission is to ensure the delivery of excellent clinical care in its associated hospitals, and the preparation of future physician leaders that will help carry this mission forward throughout Canada and the World. Within the Department, certain faculty members serve as exemplars of this mission, providing leadership in patient care that elevates and enlarges the profession. The Academy of Master Clinicians honours those clinicians who have demonstrated consistent outstanding clinical performance and the highest standard of patient care.
The Academy of Master Clinicians reflects those clinicians who are recognized by colleagues and the medical community for setting an example in high quality patient care, diagnostic acumen, and ability to confront challenging cases, while demonstrating humility, respect and civility for patients and colleagues.

Morris Freedman, Department of Medicine Award in Quality and Innovation, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto
The Department of Medicine first started recognizing contributions to the related fields of healthcare quality, patient safety, and innovation in 2007. The award recognizes outstanding leadership or academic contributions that aim to improve the quality of healthcare. Examples might include efforts to improve the degree to which patients receive proven aspects of care (eg, increasing guideline concordant care), reducing harms to patients from medical care (patient safety), as well as innovations in health services delivery—new models of care that improve outcomes, the patient experience, or healthcare value.

Houman Khosravani, Student Experience Award, Education Committee, Sunnybrook Excellence in Education Awards
The Student Experience Award recognizes “above and beyond” contributions to creating an outstanding learning environment for students, interns, residents and fellows. Contributions should evolve Sunnybrook’s culture of teaching and learning and have an impact beyond individual students/trainees.

Charles Kassardjian, AFP Innovation Fund Award 2021 in the category of Virtual Health Care, IFFOC
The Innovation Fund is a joint initiative of the Ministry of Health (MOH) and the Ontario Medical Association (OMA) resulting from the Academic Health Science Centre Alternative Funding Plan. The Innovation Fund has funded over 1500 projects during the past 13 years, and is available to the more than 5,000 academic physicians working in 17 of Ontario’s Academic Health Science Centres.

Raphael Schneider, Discovery grant, Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada
The Discovery Research Grant Program is intended to support various research operations in all aspects of MS and defray the normal operating costs of carrying out a specific research proposal.

Mario Masellis (Supervisor); Awardee: Erlan Sanchez (Post-doctoral fellow), CIHR Fellowship, Canadian Institutes of Health Research
The overall goal of this project is to characterize and follow the integrity of the brain's functional networks in the pre-symptomatic to symptomatic phase of genetic frontotemporal dementia to differentiate between causative genetic variants and predict the clinical progression of the disease. This is essential to establish these functional neuroimaging biomarkers' utility in predicting when disease-modifying therapy should be initiated and how responses are best monitored.

Monica de Carvalho Alcantara, 2022 AANEM Resident and Fellowship Member Award, American Association of Electrodiagnostic and Neuromuscular Medicine

de Carvalho Alcantara, 2022 Best Abstract Award, American Association of Electrodiagnostic and Neuromuscular Medicine