Honours & Awards
Sean Cleary (GenSurg) has been awarded the Frank Mills Award.
Natalie Coburn (GenSurg) has recently been granted a Career Scientist
Award with the Ministry of Health and Long Term Care. Through the Career Scientist
Awards, the ministry supports outstanding candidates to carryout independent research
in health services. By investing in health services researchers in Ontario, the
ministry is working to ensure that the necessary human resources are present to
address issues that are important to Ontario's health care system. Health services
research examines the management, organization, and effectiveness of health services
to inform decision-making in policy, development, planning and delivery of health
services.
Walid Farhat (UrolSurg) was awarded the 2008 A.W. Bruce Faculty
Undergraduate Teaching Award from the University of Toronto.
Michael Fehlings (NeurSurg) has been appointed Director of the
University of Toronto Neurosciences Program.
Neil Fleshner (UrolSurg) was named the inaugural Love Chair in
Prostate Cancer Prevention at UHN. This Hospital/University Chair acknowledges Neil's
tremendous accomplishments as a scientist, a surgeon and an administrative leader.
Ab Guha (NeurSurg) was named one of the University of Toronto,
Mississauga's top 40 Alumni as part of its 40 Year Anniversary celebration.
Leila Lax (Surg/BMC) was presented with the Fred Fallis Award in
Online Learning, Undergraduate Medical Education, at the 6th Annual Education Achievement
Event held on May 20, 2008.
Armando Lorenzo (UrolSurg) won the Family Advisory Humanitarian
Award in May 2008 at SickKids.
Cindi Morshead (Anat) was granted tenure at the rank of Associate
Professor, effective as of July 1, 2008.
Glenn Regehr (Surg/The Wilson Centre) is this year's recipient
of the Medical Council of Canada's Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Evaluation
of Clinical Competence.
James Rutka's (NeurSurg) international contribution to neurosurgery
is being recognized by his selection as the 2009 "Honoured Guest" of the Congress
of Neurological Surgeons in New Orleans. The Congress is the biggest neurosurgical
meeting in the world. The "Honoured Guest" gives three or four major plenary addresses
and actually creates the entire atmosphere for this meeting. Jim is an extraordinary
ambassador for University of Toronto surgery!
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Patricia Stewart (Surg/BMC) was presented with the Excellence in
Undergraduate Teaching Award, Undergraduate Medical Education, at the 6th Annual
Education Achievement Event held on May 20, 2008.
Michael Wiley (Anat) was presented with the Aikins Award for Innovative
Methods, Undergraduate Medical Education, at the 6th Annual Education Achievement
Event held on May 20, 2008.
Carin Wittnich (Res) was presented with the Excellence in Undergraduate
Teaching Award, Undergraduate Medical Education, at the 6th Annual Education Achievement
Event held on May 20, 2008.
Douglas Wooster (VascSurg) was presented with the Colin R. Woolf
Award in Long-term Contribution to CE Activities and the David Fear Fellowship,
Undergraduate Medical Education, at the 6th Annual Education Achievement Event held
on May 20, 2008.
David Cadotte (NeurSurg Resident) received the Fitzgerald Academy,
Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Resident Teacher Excellence Award for
the 2007-2008 academic year.
Barbara Haas (GenSurg Resident) is the recipient of the Paddy Lewis
Award.
Gregory Hawryluk (NeurSurg Resident) was awarded First Place in
the Basic Science, Eastern Canada Category at the Canadian Surgical Forum, Halifax
N.S., September 13, 2008 for his abstract and talk entitled "Examination of the
Early Effects of Neural Precursor Cell Transplantation of the Peri-Lesional Environment
of the Injured Spinal Cord".
Varun Kapila (GenSurg Resident) is the recipient of the Paddy Lewis
Award.
Betty Kim (NeurSurg Resident) has been awarded the Neveren (Miriam)
Memorial Prize and the Joseph M. West Family Memorial.
Patrick Tawadros (GenSurg Resident) awarded the Best Oral Presentation
Award in Basic Science at the Critical Care Medicine Annual Research Day in Toronto,
June 2008.
Patrick also received the award for Best Basic Science Poster Presentation
at the Canadian Association of General Surgeons Annual Meeting in Halifax, Nova
Scotia, September 2008.
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