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Oct 7, 2025

Appointments & Awards: October 2025

Division of Dermatology, Gastroenterology & Hepatology, Hematology, Neurology, Respirology, Rheumatology

Appointments

Ioana Medrea appointed Scientist (Early Career) with the Women’s College Hospital Research Institute

Awards

Division of Dermatology

Marissa Joseph, Postgraduate Education Award for 2024-2025, University of Toronto

Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Florence WongInternational Recognition Award, European Association for the Study of the Liver

Division of Hematology

Bernadette Garvey, Alumni Award of Distinction for Lifetime Achievement, University of Ottawa 

Division of Neurology

Esther BuiSpring 2025 Strategic Medical Education Scholarship (MEdS) Grant Competition, University of Toronto for the project titled, Impact of AI Integration in Teaching Evaluations on Teacher Efficacy and Teaching Outcomes

Division of Respirology

Owen Lyons, Sheldon Mintz Undergraduate Teaching Award 2024-2025, University of Toronto Division of Respirology  

Andrew KouriYoung Clinician Award, University of Toronto

Division of Rheumatology

Natasha Gakhal, Undergraduate Education Award for 2024-2025, University of Toronto

Bindee Kuriya, American College of Rheumatology Conference: Poster presentation titled "Exploring the Potential for Cardiorenal-Metabolic Therapies to Target Comorbidities in Early Rheumatoid Arthritis," as well as a poster and oral presentation titled "Impact of Rheumatoid Arthritis Therapeutic Classes on Risk of Major Adverse Cardiovascular Events and Venous Thromboembolism: A Population-Based Cohort Study"

Robert Inman, American College of Rheumatology Conference: Abstracts on "Obstetric and Neonatal Complications in Women living with Axial Spondyloarthritis: a population-based, matched cohort study", "Multi-Omic Profiling Of CD8+ T Cells In Axial Spondyloarthritis (axSpA) And Reactive Arthritis (ReA) Implicates Common Pathways", "Determinants of Difficult-to-Manage Axial Spondyloarthritis: Results from a Prospective Cohort Study", "Single Cell Sequencing Analysis of Tumour Necrosis Factor Inhibitor Drug Response Reveals Enrichment of Pro-inflammatory Pathway in Non-responders and Amino Acid Metabolic Pathways in Responders" and "Exosomal Cargo and Surface Markers: Informative Signals in Axial Spondyloarthritis