Honours & Awards
Subodh Verma (CardSurg) was selected by the fourth
year class as this year's Silver Shovel Chute Award winner
- an award presented annually to the undergraduate
teacher who is deemed to have demonstrated excellence
in overall clinical teaching in the undergraduate medical
program. Subodh is also the recipient of the 2010
University of Toronto George-Armstrong Peters Prize.
Bobby Yanagawa (CardSurg) won the 13th Annual
C. Walton Lillehei Resident Forum Award at the 2010
American Association for Thoracic Surgery annual meeting
in Toronto, Ontario for his paper "BRCA1 is a novel
regulator of cardiac function via altering myocardial
substrate utilization and mitochondrial bioenergetics"
(Supervisor: Subodh Verma).
Gilbert Tang (CardSurg) was selected as the 2009
Edward B. Diethrich Vascular Surgical Society North
American travelling fellow. Gilbert spent 3 weeks at
the University of Leipzig Heart Center in January
2010 studying transcatheter valves and minimally invasive
valve surgery. He was invited to present his fellowship
experience at the International Congress on
Endovascular Interventions in Scottsdale, Arizona in
February 2010.
Gilbert also received the inaugural 2009 UofT
Postgraduate Trainee Award for Leadership and Teaching
Excellence.
Gilbert is the recipient of the 2010 Canadian
Cardiovascular Society (CCS) Trainee Excellence in
Education Award. It acknowledges a CCS Member-in-
Training for extraordinary accomplishment in all aspects
of medical education in any of the cardiovascular fields.
He has also been awarded a Physician Services
Incorporated (PSI) research grant ($20,000) for the
project entitled: Neuregulin and Endothelial Dysfunction
(supervisor: Subodh Verma). This is Gilbert's third PSI
grant award.
Eisar Al Sukhni (GenSurg) received a General Surgery
Resident Research Initiation Grant from the American
Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons (value $20,000).
Luke Szobota (GenSurg) achieved 2nd place on the
2010 Resident in Training Examination for 2nd year
residents from the Examinations Committee and the
Board of the Canadian Association of General Surgeons.
He will receive a cheque and a recognition plaque at
the Canadian Surgery Forum in Quebec City during
the Surgical Jeopardy portion of the Program on Friday,
September 3, 2010.
James Rutka (NeurSurg) delivered the Penfield Lecture
at the Canadian Neurological Science Federation
Congress on June 9th, 2010 in Quebec City.
Charles H. Tator (NeurSurg)was awarded the Canadian
Neurosurgical Society's Lifetime Achievement Award at
the Canadian Neurological Science Federation Congress
meeting on June 10, 2010.
Scellig Stone (NeurSurg) won the KG McKenzie
Memorial Prize for Basic Science Research at the 2010
CNSF Annual Meeting June 8-11, Halifax, Nova Scotia.
D.J. Cook (NeurSurg) won the fist prize in the Gallie-
Bateman Competition for best resident research paper
and presentation at the Annual Gallie Day on May 7th.
Farhad Pirouzmand (NeurSurg) won the AR Hudson
Annual Teaching Award for the Faculty, Ryan DeMarchi
for the residents and David Cadotte won the Warren Ho
Memorial Scholarship.
Betty Kim (NeurSurg) received the 2010 Sopman
Humanitarian Award.
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Clement Hamani (NeurSurg) was elected as a board
member of the American Society for Stereotactic and
Functional Neurosurgery.
Michael G. Fehlings (NeurSurg) has been awarded
a Hansj�rg Wyss Foundation Award from AOSpine
International for the project "A cellular and molecular
strategy to unlock the regenerative reservoir of the notochordal
cell: A novel approach to treat intervertebral disc
degeneration".
Michael has also been awarded a 2-year grant from
the Physicians' Services Incorporated Foundation for a
research project entitled, "A bioengineered approach to
enhance recovery following severe traumatic spinal cord
injury".
Michael Taylor (NeurSurg) received a 3 year renewal
from the Canadian Institutes of Health, Clinician
Scientist Phase II Award.
Peter Ferguson (OrthoSurg) won the 2010 Aikins
award. This award is one of the most prestigious awards
in our entire Faculty for sustained commitment to excellence
in undergraduate teaching. This teaching award is
given serious consideration in the academic promotions
process.
Ali Zahrai - PGY 5 orthopaedic resident received the
JA Nutter award for best paper presentation at the 2010
Canadian Orthopaedic Residents Association meeting
in Edmonton His paper was titled "Quality Of Life
And Educational Benefit Among Orthopedic Surgery
Residents: A Prospective, Multi-Centre Comparison Of
The Night Float And The Standard Call Systems"
Tatiana Cypel (PlasSurg) won this year's McMurrich
Award presented at Gallie Day held on May 7th, 2010
(supervisor Christopher Forrest and Co-Supervisors Cho
Pang, Peter Dirks and Iona Leong). Her study "In Vitro
Assessment of Osteoblast Behavior in Craniosynostosis"
enhanced the excellent research in Cho Pang and Chris
Forrest's laboratories.
Darius Bagli (UrolSurg) with Co-PIs Conny Tolg,
and Armando Lorenzo received a grant from the PSI
Foundation (2010-2012) for a clinical study entitled:
"Uropathogenic E.coli infection-induced alterations of
the uroepithelial cell epigenome as a marker for urinary
tract infection risk".
Urology resident Ahmed Haddad and Darius Bagli (Division of Urology) were awarded a
Society for Pediatric Urology grant (2010-2011) for their study
entitled: "Establishing Biological Rationale for Preoperative
Androgens in Hypospadias Surgery - Initial Human Studies
in Vitro"
Barry Rubin(VascSurg) was awarded the Lister Prize
in Surgery, the Department's highest research award
given to a senior investigator. He has also received three
independent molecular biology operating grants from
CIHR: Role of Group V and Group X secretory phospholipases
A2 in myocardial infarction ($428,342); Role of
Group V and Group X secretory phospholipase A2 in the
innate immune responses to pulmonary bacterial infection ($388,520) and Role of microsomal prostaglandin
E2 synthase in ventricular remodeling after myocardial
infarction ($368,820)
CORRECTION FROM THE LAST ISSUE
We apologize for the error in the John Edward de Toro
Scholarship award announcement from last issue which
should read:
Siba Haykal (Division of Plastic and Reconstructive
Surgery) was awarded the John Edward De Toro
Scholarship", University of Toronto.
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