Appointments & Awards: Sept. 2016

Appointments

College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists

Sharon Straus, appointed member

University of Toronto, Faculty of Medicine

Raed Joundi, Postgraduate Research Award
Patrick Fleming, Postgraduate Research Award

Awards

Arthritis Society

Lihi Eder, Young Investigator Salary Award
Three year salary award  for project title, "Investigation of the Interplay between Inflammation, Metabolic Abnormalities and Cardiovascular Risk and Development of Cardiovascular Risk Score in Psoriatic Disease."

Canadian Society of Transplantation

Nazia Selzner, CST Research Excellence Award

Craig H Nielsen Foundation

Cathy Craven, Senior Scientist Award

Federation of Chinese American and Chinese Canadian Medical Societies

Ho Ping Kong, FCMS Achievement Award in Education
The FCMS Achievement Award has been established to recognize the extraordinary and exemplary achievements by a physician in clinical services, education, or research that is consistent with the values, mission, and goals of the FCMS. 

University of Pennsylvania's Abramson Cancer Center

Steven Narod, Basser Global Prize Basser Center for BRCA
The Basser Global Prize was established by Shari Basser Potter and Leonard Potter to honour a visionary scientist who has conceptually advanced BRCA1/2 related research that has led to improvements in clinical care.

Sunnybrook Health Sciences, 2016 Department of Medicine Awards

Mario Masellis, Junior Investigator Award
Andrew Simor, Senior Investigator Award
Dov Gandell, Young Teacher Award
Jerome Leis, In-Patient Teaching Award
Shaheeda Ahmed, Pre-Clerkship Teaching Award
Harvey Wong, Ambulatory Teaching Award
William Geerts, Department of Medicine Leadership Award
Joel DeKoven, Part-Time Teaching Award
Michelle Hladunewich, Continuing Education Award
Craig Earle, William J. Sibbald Faculty Mentorship Award
Adrienne Chan, Humanitarian Award
Sonal Gandhi, Quality Award

University Health Network/Sinai Health System

Paul Bunce, Andrew Morris, Teaching Awards
Wayne Gold, Teacher of the Year Award

Endocrinology and Metabolism

Robert Silver, Dr. Robert Volpé Undergraduate Education Award in Endocrinology and Metabolism
The award recognizes excellence in teaching, educational leadership and educational administration at the Undergraduate level

Catherine Yu, George L.A. From Endocrine Postgraduate Teaching Award
The award recognizes teachers in the division of endocrinology who are outstanding based on their teaching effectiveness and role modeling of ALL the competencies of the specialist physician as outlined in the CANMEDS document.