Eliot Phillipson Clinician Scientist Training Program

On behalf of the Department of Medicine, Dr. Mamatha Bhat, Director, Clinician Scientist Training Program and Dr. Michael Farkouh, Vice Chair Research, we are proud to welcome our newest trainees to the Eliot Phillipson Clinician Scientist Training Program:

Michael Colacci, Amanda Formosa, Jenny Yu Qing Huang, Erika Lee, Ayodele Odutayo, Shohinee Sarma, Katherine Sawicka and Kevin Yau. Their biographies can be found below.

We also wish to congratulate our current trainees on another successful year, with numerous awards and distinctions, including:

Maneesh Sud, 1st place winner of the Young Investigator Award in Outcomes Research at the American College of Cardiology’s Annual Scientific Session.

Christina Reppas-Rindlisbacher, recipient of the Edmund V Cowdry Award for the best scientific presentation by a Masters, Ph.D. or post-doc student at the Canadian Geriatrics Society Annual Scientific Meeting.

Lauren King, Early Career Investigator award winner for one of the highest rated abstracts by Early Career Investigators, Osteoarthritis Research Society International World Congress (Berlin).

Shohinee Sarma – recipient of the national Dr. Fernand Labrie Fellowship Research Grant from Canadian Society of Endocrinology and Metabolism.

Michael Colacci

Dr. Michael Colacci is a PGY5 in general internal medicine and a graduate student in clinical epidemiology at IHPME. His research will focus on methods for the development, implementation, and critical assessment of machine learning models used for clinical decision making within internal medicine.

Dr. Amanda Formosa

Dr. Amanda Formosa is a Critical Care physician and a recent graduate of the Critical Care Medicine program at the University of Toronto. As a postdoctoral fellow in Critical Care translational medicine, her work focuses on transcriptomics in the peripheral blood of critically ill patients with COVID-19 so as to understand the mechanisms behind a variable host response to the virus leading to severe lung injury.   

Jenny Yu Qing Huang

Dr. Jenny Huang is a geriatric medicine resident and graduate student in the Clinical Epidemiology & Health Care Research program at the School of Public Health and Institute of Health Policy, Management & Evaluation. Her research looks at dementia, institutionalization and homecare use in older adults with traumatic brain injury.

Erika Lee

Dr. Erika Lee is a Clinical Fellow and graduate student in Clinical Epidemiology at IHPME. Her research work is focused on the relative risks of antibiotic-associated severe drug eruptions and evaluating hospital-based outcomes in patients who develop sever drug eruptions. Her clinical fellowship is focussed on Type 2 inflammatory skin disease, with the intention of building her clinical knowledge of allergy-related skin diseases.

Ayodele Odutayo

Dr. Ayodele Odutayo is a General Internist and Nephrologist. He obtained his Doctor of Medicine degree at UofT in 2013 and completed his Masters of Science (MSc) and Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil) in Epidemiology from 2013-2017, both at the University of Oxford as a Rhodes scholar. His research focuses on clinical trials examining cardiovascular and renal disease and is co-funded by the Kidney Foundation of Canada.

Shohinee Sarma

Dr. Shohinee Sarma is an endocrinologist and graduate student in Clinical Epidemiology at IHPME. She completed a Master’s degree in Population Epidemiology from Columbia University in 2013, medical school and Internal Medicine training at McMaster University, and Adult Endocrinology training at University of Toronto in June 2021. Her research looks at trends, management, and cardiovascular impact of obesity and weight loss in primary care using risk prediction. 

Katherine Sawicka

Dr. Katherine Sawicka is an adult neurology resident in Toronto and a PhD candidate studying clinical epidemiology at the Institute of Health Policy Management and Evaluation at the University of Toronto. Her clinical and research population of interest is adolescents and young adults with multiple sclerosis and their clinical, radiological, and psychosocial outcomes in early adulthood. Her Phd thesis focuses on exploring autonomy and self-efficacy in young people with multiple sclerosis especially as they transition from paediatric to adult MS care.

Kevin Yau

Dr. Kevin Yau is a Nephrology Fellow at the University of Toronto. He completed medical school at the University of Toronto in 2016 followed by Internal Medicine residency at Western University. He is currently pursuing a graduate degree in Clinical Epidemiology and Health Care Research at the Institute of Health Policy Management and Evaluation where his research interests include studying patients with cardiorenal syndrome and drug safety.