Mar 4, 2024

Appointments & Awards: March 2024

Division of Dermatology, Emergency Medicine, Geriatric Medicine, Neurology, Rheumatology

Appointments

Sameer Masood, appointed Clinical Quality Co-Lead for Emergency Medicine at Ontario Health

Lihi Eder, Invited Committee Member, Cardio-Rheumatology Working GroupAmerican College of Cardiology Prevention Council

Lili Eder, appointed Co-Chair, American College of Rheumatology Clinical and Basic Science Symposium 2024

Awards

Division of Dermatology

An-Wen Chan, Temerty Medicine Research Excellence Award, Office of the Vice Dean, Research and Health Science Education, University of Toronto

Division of Geriatric Medicine 

Mireille Norris, 2023 Arbor Award, University of Toronto

Shabbir Alibhai, awarded three grants by The Canadian Cancer Society Research Institute for the following studies: IMproving uPtake Of geRiaTric AssessmeNt reCommEndations: the IMPORTANCE study; A randomized controlled trial adding behavioural counselling to supervised physical activity in cancer survivors; and Canada-wide implementation of a Virtual Sexual Health and Rehabilitation eClinic (SHAReClinic) for prostate cancer patients and their partners

Jillian Alston, 2024 Robert Sheppard Award for Health Equity and Social Justice in Postgraduate Medical Education, University of Toronto

Division of Neurology

Howard Chertkow, five-year Canadian Consortium on Neurodegeneration in Aging grant awarded to Baycrest Academy with Dr. Chertkow as Principal Investigator, Canadian Institutes of Health Research