Appointments & Awards: September 2025

Appointments

Rulan Parekh elected as a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences

Pamela Goodwin elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada

Kamran Khan elected as a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences

Natasha Leighl elected as a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences

Arthur Slutsky inducted into the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame

Dafna Gladman appointed to the Order of Canada, Governor General of Canada 

Michael Schull appointed CEO of the Digital Research Alliance of Canada

Awards

Division of Endocrinology & Metabolism

Daniel Drucker, Frontiers of Knowledge Award, BBVA Foundation

Division of Emergency Medicine

Brodie Nolan recognized as an Emerging Leader in Health Sciences by the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences

Division of General Internal Medicine

Leora Branfield Day, 2025 Jerry Zownir Early Career Teaching Award, University of Toronto Division of General Internal Medicine

• This award is presented to a full-time faculty member in the Division of General Internal Medicine in the first 10 years of their academic appointment and recognizes sustained excellence in teaching in the Division of General Internal Medicine (GIM) at U of T. The award is selected through a competitive process that evaluates nominations on the basis of teaching excellence, provision of feedback, role modeling and citizenship. 

Division of Medical Oncology

Pamela Goodwin, O. Harold Warwick Award, Canadian Cancer Society

Division of Nephrology

Kevin Yau, KRESCENT New Investigator Award, Kidney Foundation of Canada

Division of Neurology

Raphael Schneider, CIHR grant for the project, NfL, GFAP, CHI3L1 and advanced imaging measures as biomarkers of disease progression in the Canadian Prospective Cohort Study to Understand Progression in Multiple Sclerosis (CanProCo)

Galit Kleiner, Ignite program awardee, Global Dementia Research + Innovation Showcase pitch competition, hosted by the Centre for Aging + Brain Health Innovation (CABHI) powered by Baycrest

Morris Freedman, paper titled, A vision transformer approach for fully automated and scalable dementia screening using clock drawing test images, has been accepted for publication in Alzheimer's & Dementia: Diagnosis, Assessment & Disease Monitoring

Keith Sivakumar, Excellence in Teaching Award, New Faculty, Department of Medicine, University Health Network

Julie Ottoy, CIHR grant for the project, Early-stage in vivo biomarkers of cerebral amyloid angiopathy and associated inflammation in Alzheimer's disease

Kristen Krysko, 2025 Rachel Horne Prize for Women’s Research in MS

David Tang-Wai, Dr. Michael Hutcheon Mentorship Award, UHN

Division of Respirology

Sarah Brode, Academic Merger Fund to enhance the Tuberculosis (TB) program at UHN/West Park Healthcare Centre and establish a single high-quality TB database to be linked across the city, as well as Public Health Ontario and ICES. The funding will also help to develop TB research cohorts for trials in collaboration with McGill and UBC, as well as support a translational scientist evaluating the immune response to TB infection to inform vaccine development. 

Jane Batt, Project Grant Award for “Operationalizing Neuromuscular Electrical Stimulation (NMES) therapy in the Intensive Care Unit: Developing tools, technologies and automation to combat Intensive Care Unit Acquired Weakness (ICUAW)," CIHR 

Chung-Wai Chow, U of T Derrick Rossi Innovation Award for “Machine Learning Based System for Interpretation of Respiratory Oscillometry”

Samir Gupta, 2025 Division of Respirology Sustained Excellence in Professional Innovation & Creativity 

Clodagh Ryan, 2025 Division of Respirology Exceptional Contributions to the Development of Professional Practices

Division of Rheumatology

Lihi Eder and the Psoriatic Arthritis Research Program have received highly competitive awards to fund two projects on sex and gender in psoriatic arthritis for their project entitled “Exploring Sex-related Mechanisms of Psoriatic Arthritis response to advance therapies (EXSEMP): Individual participant data meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials of advanced therapies” from Arthritis Society Canada and “Sex Differences in the cellular immune profiles of males and females with psoriatic arthritis” (Steven Dang is the recipient of the CIHR CGS-Doctoral Research Award, under Dr. Eder’s supervision)

Lihi Eder, Mid-Career Women’s Health Research Award, Partnership for Women’s Health Research Canada (PWHR) national peer review committee