Honours, Awards & Accomplishments
Michael Taylor (Neurosurgery) has been named the
2010 Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of
Canada Medalist in Surgery. Michael and colleagues
recently published this award winning work, entitled
Multiple recurrent genetic events converge on control of
histone lysine methylation in medulloblastoma, in Nature
Genetics. The Department of Surgery has done well in
the Royal College Medal award. As the Department
celebrates the 25th anniversary of the Surgeon Scientist
Program, it is noteworthy that in the last twenty-five
years faculty members have won the Royal College Medal 14 times.
Michael also was awarded a 5 year grant from
the National Institute of Health for his project on
"Medulloblastoma and Metastases".
Kellie Leitch (Orthopaedics) received the Order of
Ontario for her contributions as a Paediatric Orthopaedic
surgeon and a national voice for children's health in
Canada.
Abdallah Daar (Department of Surgery and Dalla Lana
School of Public Health) has been elected as the founding
chair of the Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases.
The Alliance was created in June 2009 to support clear
and coordinated research funding priorities in the battle
against chronic, noncommunicable diseases, including
cardiovascular disease and stroke, cancer, diabetes, and
chronic respiratory diseases. CNCDs account for 60%
of all deaths worldwide, of which 80% occur in low- and
middle-income countries.
Andres Lozano (Neurosurgery) has been awarded
the seventh annual Donald Calne Lectureship by the
Parkinson Society Canada. Dr. Lozano's research is
focused on developing novel surgical treatments for
neurological and psychiatric disorders particularly for
's disease and depression.
Michael Fehlings (Neurosurgery) has been elected to be
Vice-President and President-Elect of the Cervical Spine
Research Society, one of the most prestigious academic
international spine societies.
Sender Herschorn (Urology) has been awarded the
2010 Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of
"significant contributions and leadership in the field
of voiding dysfunction by the Society of Urodynamics
and Female urology at their annual meeting in St.
Petersburg Florida. Professor Herschorn delivered the
Blaivas Lecture entitled What have we learned about the
use of bowel in urologic reconstruction in the past 30 years?
Richard Reznick (Chair, Department of Surgery) has been
awarded the 2010 Karolinska Institutet Prize for Research
in Medical Education. "This international prize is awarded
for outstanding research in medical education. The purpose
of the prize is to recognize and stimulate high-quality
research in the field, and to promote long-term improvements
in educational practice. Professor Reznick's research
in surgical education is focused on patient safety practice.
He facilitated the development of a checklist that today is
used globally to reduce surgical complications. His research
has been instrumental in the assessment and training of
surgical skills and their transfer from simulated to clinical
environments. Professor Reznick's focus on non-technical
safety aspects such as team communication and interprofessional
collaboration has been highly influential in the
promotion of safer surgery practice."
Stefan Hofer was recently appointment as Editor of the
Journal of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery,
which is the former British Journal of Plastic Surgery.
Stefan is the first non-British Plastic Surgeon to hold
this position.
The laboratory of Darius Bagli (Division of Urology at
Hospital for Sick Children) was awarded an American
Urological Association Foundation Fellowship (AUAF)
entitled: "Epigenetic Responses to Uropathogenic E.coli
Urinary Tract Infection", to support a research fellow for
2010-2011. These fellowships are based on competitive
grant applications, and are very difficult to obtain outside
of the U.S.
David Backstein (Division of Orthopaedics) and
Subodh Verma (Division of Cardiac Surgery) have been
elected co-winners of the Silver Shovel Chute Award.
The winner is selected by the fourth year class as the<
undergraduate teacher who is deemed to have demonstrated
excellence in overall clinical teaching in the
undergraduate medical program.
General Surgery Resident Bharat Sharma received a
PSI Grant for her study titled "Comparing three different
Non - Technical Skills Assessment Tools in the Post Operative
Setting". Bharat's supervisor is Teodor Grantcharov.
Andrea Covelli, resident in general surgery, has been
awarded the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation
Fellowship grant for the 2010 funding year. She is currently
in the SSP, PGY-3.
Wigdan Al-Sukhni, general surgery resident in the
Surgeon-Scientist Program, has been awarded a Vanier
CIHR Canada Graduate Scholarship. This $50,000/
year award will support her as she continues her PhD
project entitled "Validation and characterization of candidate
Familial Pancreatic Cancer genes". Her supervisor is
Steven Gallinger, Division of General Surgery.
Oleh Antonyshyn (Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery)
was awarded the William K. Lindsay Faculty Research
Mentor Award, 2010.
Christopher Forrest (Plastic and Reconstructive
Surgery) received the Arnis Freiberg Faculty Teaching
Excellence Award, 2010.
Mary-Helen Mahoney and Ryan Neinstein (Plastic
Surgery) won the Mentor Canada Prize for Best Clinical
Paper Award, 2010.
Karen Cross (Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery)
received the Best Basic Science Award, University of
Toronto, 2010.
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Karen Wong (Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery)
received the Best Clinical Paper Award, University of
Toronto 2010.
John Edward (Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery) was
awarded the De Toro Scholarship, University of Toronto,
2010.
Shaf Keshavjee (Thoracic Surgery) received a $1,750,000
grant from the Ministry of Research and Innovation
entitled Molecular and Genomic Diagnostics to Improve
Outcomes in Lung Transplantation (GL2-01-019).
D.J. Cook (Neurosurgery) won the Cerebrovascular Disease Award from the Section on Cerebrovascular Surgery of the AANS/CNS for his work "Immunomodulatory effects
of the PDS-95 inhibitor NA-1 following middle cerebral
artery occlusion in the rat and cynomolgus macaque".
Michael Cusimano won a 5 year CIHR Strategic Team
Grant in Applied Injury Research Study for his work on
"Traumatic Brain Injury & Violence: Reducing the risks,
improving the outcomes".
Michael Fehlings has received funding from Tyco
Healthcare Group LP (d/b/a Covidien) for his project
"Examination of the therapeutic potential of self-assembling
nanofibers in spinal cord injury".
Carlo Santaguida won the Codman Neurotrauma
Fellowship.
Gelareh Zadeh received a BrainCHILD grant for her
project "role of bone marrow derived progenitor cells in
tumor vascularization".
Gelareh Zadeh received a Canadian Brain Tumor
Foundation Grant for her project "Discovery of biomarkers
to guide individualized therapy of brain metastasis".
Ali Zahrai (Orthopaedic Surgery) has received the T.R.
Sullivan Award for best presentation at the Division of
Orthopaedics Research Day.
Isaac Moss (Orthopaedic Surgery) has been awarded the
Lawson Family Post-Graduate Fellowship.
Harith Abbas (Orthopaedic Surgery) has been awarded
the Lawson Family Post-Graduate Fellowship for junior
trainees.
Erion Qamirani (Orthopaedic Surgery) has been awarded
the Lawson Family Post-Graduate Fellowship for
junior trainees.
Daniel Whelan (Orthopaedic Surgery) has received the
Orthopaedic Chair's Teaching Award for contributions
to orthopaedic education as voted by the residents.
Rashid Jinnah (Orthopaedic Surgery) has received the
Dr. Borna Meisami Post-Graduate Award in Orthopaedic
Surgery for most compassionate resident as selected by
the faculty.
Jaskarndip (Jas) Chahal PGY 5 (Orthopaedic Surgery)
has won The Robert Jackson prize for the best resident
paper on Sports Medicine.
Isaac Moss PGY 5 (Orthopaedic Surgery) has received
The R. I. Harris award for best resident's presentation
as selected by the visiting professor.
Mehdi Sadougi PGY 5 (Orthopaedic Surgery) won The
CBI (Canadian Back Institute) award for the best resident
presentation on the spine topic.
William Kraemer (Orthopaedic Surgery PD) has
received The "PGME Excellence in Teaching Award
for Development and Innovation in Post Graduate
Education".
Aikins Awards
What a Department! This year we celebrate three of
our faculty who are the recipients of Aikins awards.
Mike Wiley (Division of Anatomy), Peter Ferguson
(Division of Orthopaedics) and Ron Kodama (Division
of Urology) all won the Aikins this year. This award is the
most prestigious award in undergraduate medical education
in our entire Faculty. And considering that there are
thousands of eligible teachers, to have three members of
our Department win this award in one year is astounding.
We should take enormous pride in this Department's
commitment to UGME and take vicarious pride in the
accomplishments of Mike, Ron and Peter.
I would be remiss if I did not acknowledge the outstanding
contributions of our educational administrators in
the Department - David Latter, David Backstein, Ron
Levine, Sid Radomoski and Terry Axelrod.
Richard Reznick
Promotions
Michael Taylor was promoted to the rank of Associate
Professor, Division of Neurosurgery, University of
Toronto.
Bill Tucker was promoted to Full Professor in the
Division of Neurosurgery, University of Toronto.
Eric Massicotte was promoted to the rank of Associate
Professor, Division of Neurosurgery, University of
Toronto.
Tom Waddell has been promoted to Full Professor and
Dr. Yaron Shargall has been promoted to Associate
Professor in the Division of Thoracic Surgery at the
University of Toronto.
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