Appointments & Awards: May 2025

Appointments

Rita Selby appointed the inaugural medical director of the Ontario Lab Medicine Program (OLMP)

• OLMP is part of Ontario Health. This is a pivotal provincial role that will shape the approach to lab test ordering, interpretation and understanding.

Awards

Division of Cardiology

Shaheeda Ahmed, W.T. Aikins Award, MD Program Teaching Awards, University of Toronto

Andriy Katyukha, nominated as a Canadian Federation of Medical Students (CFMS) Champion for his contributions to a positive learning environment

Division of Dermatology

Aaron Drucker awarded the Research Mentor Award at the Women's College Hospital Day of Excellence in Academics

Perla Lansang, Excellence in Postgraduate Medical Education Award for Teaching Performance, Mentorship & Advocacy, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto

Division of Emergency Medicine

Sarah McClennan, Sustained Excellence in Community-Based Teaching Award, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto

Division of Endocrinology & Metabolism

Diane Donat, W.T. Aikins Award, MD Program Teaching Awards, University of Toronto

Division of General Internal Medicine

Leora Branfield Day awarded the Research – Education Scholarship Publication Award for (Mis) Alignment in resident and advisor co-regulated learning in compentecy-based training at the Women's College Hospital Day of Excellence in Academics

Edward Etchells, W.T. Aikins Award, MD Program Teaching Awards, University of Toronto

Umberin Najeeb, Miriam Rossi Award, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto

Division of Geriatric Medicine

Mireille Norris, 2025 Charles Mickle Fellowship Award, University of Toronto

Division of Medical Oncology

Steven Narod, President’s Impact Award and Carloyn Tuohy Impact on Public Policy Award, University of Toronto 

• Dr. Narod is recognized for shaping current policies assessing cancer risk that have expanded genetic testing and reduced mortality among carriers of BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations

Nazik Hammad, International Women Who Conquer Cancer Mentorship Award, American Society of Clinical Oncology

Division of Neurology

Suvendrini Lena awarded a Teacher-Education/Clinical Instructor/Preceptor Award at the Women's College Hospital Day of Excellence in Academics

Peter Carlen, $220,000 in funding for Technological Advancements in Biomarkers of Brain Activity and Connectivity Using Human Cerebral Organoids, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Discovery Grants Program

Division of Respirology

Stephen Juvet, 2025 Faculty Recognition Award for Exceptional Mentorship, Institute of Medical Science and International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation Grant, entitled “A Machine Learning Enhanced Lung-Specific Autoantibody Signature to Identify Patients At Risk for CLAD"

Stephen Juvet and Tereza Martinu, CIHR Project Grant, entitled “Novel Alveolar Macrophages in the Pathogenesis of Chronic Lung Allograft Dysfunction

Richard Horner, Sustained Excellence and Innovation in Life Sciences Education Award 2025, University of Toronto

Division of Rheumatology

Natasha Gakhal and team, awarded Best Poster and a Quality Excellence Award for Osteoporosis 101: You Asked, We Answered (QI project), as well as the Joan Lesmond Quality Excellence Award at the Women's College Hospital Day of Excellence in Academics