Honours & Awards
Subodh Verma (CardSurg) was a co-recipient of the
Dean A.L. Chute Award (The Silver Shovel) award, honoring
his demonstrated excellence in overall teaching in
the second, third and fourth years of the undergraduate
medical program.
Mitesh Badiwala (CardSurg) received the Shafie S. Fazel
Outstanding Resident Award.
Ed Hickey (CardSurg) received the Zane Cohen Clinical
Fellowship Achievement Award, which honours the clinical
fellows for their significant accomplishments.
Teodor Grantcharov (GenSurg) was awarded the
Education Development Funds for his proposal on the
Design and Validation of a Surgical Skills Assessment Tool
for Laproscopic Roux-enY Gastric Bypass.
Frances Wright (GenSurg) received the 2011 Tovee
Award - Undergraduate category.
Jaime Escallon (GenSurg) has been awarded a
2010-11Wightman-Berris Academy Individual Teaching
Award in the Undergraduate category
Homer Tien (GenSurg) was awarded the Marvin Tile
Award for outstanding contributions to the Department
of Surgery at Sunnybrook.
John de Almeida (H&NSurg) received the Resident
Teacher of the Year Award at the 20th Annual Percy
Ireland Academic Day on May 6, 2011.
Nikolaus Wolter (H&NSurg) is the recipient of the Best
Paper Award at the 20th Annual Percy Ireland Academic
Day, in the category of Work Undertaken by PGY 2
Residents during Clinical Rotation for "Investigation
of the Effect of the Acoustic Reflex on Contralateral
Cochleotopic Frequency Specific Suppression of DPOAEs by
Surgical Division of the Middle Ear Muscles" (mentors -
Adrian James and Robert Harrison).
Thileeban Kandasamy (H&NSurg) is the recipient of
the Best Paper award at the 20th Annual Percy Ireland
Academic Day in the category of Work Undertaken
by PGY 3 Residents during Clinical Rotation for:
"Presbycusis and VEGF -An Update of Molecular Changes
in the Aging Mouse Cochlea" (mentor: Vincent Lin).
Eitan Prisman (H&NSurg) is the recipient of the Best
Paper Award- Work Undertaken by PGY 4 Residents
during Clinical Rotation category, presented at the
20th Annual Percy Ireland Academic Day for "The
Utility of Preoperative Mandibular Plating for Mandibular
Reconstruction." (mentors Jonathan Irish, Harley Chan
and Michael Daly) )
Alex Osborn (H&NSurg) is the recipient of the Best
Paper in Work Undertaken by Post-Residency Clinical
Fellows category at the 20th Annual Percy Ireland
Academic Day for "A Mechanical Valve-Based System
of Endotracheal Tube Cuff Pressure Modulation for the
Reduction of Subglottic Injury" (mentor Vito Forte).
Daniel D.E. Wong (H&NSurg) is the recipient of
the Best Paper award in Work Undertaken by Post-
Residency Research Fellows/Graduate Degree Program
category at the 20th Annual Percy Ireland Academic Day
for "Binaural Processing is Abnormal in Children Receiving
Bilateral Cochlea Implants Sequentially" (mentor Karen
Gordon).
David Pothier (H&NSurg) is the recipient of Best
Overall Presented Paper award at the 20th Annual
Percy Ireland Academic Day for "A Low-Cost Scalable
Vestibular Prosthesis that Uses Auditory Biofeedback for
Bilateral Vestibular Loss" (mentor John Rutka).
Antoine Eskander (H&NSurg) is the recipient of Chapnik,
Freeman and Friedberg Clinician Scientist Program Award
at the 20th Annual Percy Ireland Academic Day, which
is awarded to a resident/fellow or junior faculty in the
Department of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery
enrolled in a Master of Science or Master's in Education or
PhD degree at the University of Toronto.
Lukas Kus (H&NSurg) received the Judy Chauvin
Otolaryngology Resident Award at the 20th Annual
Percy Ireland Academic Day for his demonstration of
an enthusiastic interest in the initiation of a serious
otolaryngology-related research project.
Charles Tator (NeurSurg) received the American Spinal
Injury Association (ASIA) Lifetime Achievement Award
2011 for his significant contribution and dedication to
the field of spinal cord injury care.
Michael Taylor (NeurSurg) was awarded the George
Armstrong-Peters Prize offered to a young investigator
who has shown outstanding productivity during his/her
initial period as an independent investigator as evidenced
by research publications in peer reviewed journals, grants
held, and students trained.
Mojgan Hodaie (NeurSurg) has been awarded a
2010-11Wightman-Berris Academy Individual Teaching
Award in the Postgraduate category.
James Rutka (NeurSurg) was elected to Fellowship in
the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences (CAHS).
James Rutka also received a research grant for his work
entitled "The Role of Dysregulated HGF/c-Met pathway
Signalling in Medulloblastoma Dissemination" from the
Brain Tumour Foundation of Canada.
Soha Alomar (NeurSurg) won the ISRS Congress best
poster award for "Electrophysiological assessment of tremor
response after Gamma Knife thalamotomy in patients with
medically intractable essential tremor" presented at the
International Society of Radiosurgery, Paris, France,
2011.
Michael Tymianski (NeurSurg) received an ORF grant
from the Ministry of Research and Innovation for 5
years for TRPM7 Inhibitors for the treatment of stroke
and myocardial ischemia.
Michael Fehlings (NeurSurg) was awarded a oneyear,
renewable grant from the Wings for Life Spinal
Cord Research Foundation for his project entitled
"Investigation of human piggyBac induced pluripotent
stem cells for repair and regeneration of the injured cervical
spinal cord".
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Adrienne Weeks (NeurSurg) received 1st place for
the Gallie-Bateman Prize in the competition for her
work entitled "ECT2 and RASAL2 mediate mesenchymalamoeboid
transition in human astrocytoma cells".
Bill Kraemer (OrthoSurg) was the recipient of the
2011Tovee Award - Postgraduate category.
David Backstein (OrthoSurg) was a co-recipient of the
Dean A.L. Chute Award (The Silver Shovel), honoring
his demonstrated excellence in overall teaching in the
second, third and fourth years of the undergraduate
medical program.
Ben Alman (OrthoSurg) received the Charles Tator
Surgeon Scientist Mentoring Award which recognizes
individuals supervising participants in the SSP who
emulate Professor Tator's qualities, namely excellence in
Research, commitment to SSP mentoring and dedication
to promotion of Surgeon-Scientists.
Ralph Manktelow (PlasSurg) was the recipient of the
Canadian Society of Plastic Surgeons (CSPS) Lifetime
Achievement Award at the Society's Annual Business
meeting, which was held in Halifax in June 2010. There
have been only three other Canadians honoured in the
25-year history of this award.
Ralph was also honoured by the International
Federation of Societies for Surgery of the Hand (IFSSH)
at their international Congress in Seoul in November
2010. He was named a Pioneer of Hand Surgery, joining
an illustrious list of such Pioneers named since 1986 by
the Society. This is the highest international recognition
available to a hand surgeon.
Dimitri Anastakis (PlasSurg) was awarded a
2010-11Wightman-Berris Academy Individual Teaching
Award in the Postgraduate category.
Melinda Musgrave (PlasSurg) recently received the
Donald J. Currie Undergraduate Teaching award from
St. Michael's Hospital in recognition for her dedication
to teaching, commitment and passion about undergraduate
medical education.
Taiba Al-Rasheed (PlasSurg) received the D.R. Wilson
award for teaching which is annually given to a surgical
resident who is rated by undergraduate students as being
an outstanding teacher.
Taiba was also awarded The Educational Foundation
of the CSPS 2011 funding towards the Operation
Rainbow mission to India from March 2 -12, 2011.
Siba Haykal (PlasSurg) has recently received a three year
Vanier Scholarship, which will support her PhD work
on "Tracheal Allograft Transplantation". The Vanier CGS
Program aims to attract and retain world class doctoral
students who have demonstrated a high level of scholarly
achievement.
Siba has also recently successfully defended her experimental
work to date in a transfer examination to the
PhD Postgraduate Program at the Institute of Medical
Science. She works under the supervision of Stefan
Hofer and Tom Waddell.
Toni Zhong (PlasSurg) received the William K. Lindsay
Faculty Research Mentor Award 2011.
Toni was also awarded with one of two Outstanding
Paper Presentations by the American Society for
Reconstructive Microsurgery (ASRM), at the 2011
Annual Meeting in Cancun, Mexico for the project
entitled "Perioperative Fluid Considerations to Minimize
Early Postoperative Complications in Free Flap Breast
Reconstruction".
Kyle Wanzel (PlasSurg) received the Arnis Freiberg
Faculty Teaching Excellence Award.
Jennica Platt (PlasSurg) received the John Edward De
Toro Award, 2011.
Jennica has also received acceptance to the Clinical
Investigators Program along with one year of funding
from the Ministry of Health.
Kian Karimi (PlasSurg) is the recipient of Kris Conrad
Award in Facial Plastic Surgery at the 20th Annual Percy
Ireland Academic Day for demonstrating outstanding
skills in facial plastic surgery.
Kristen Davidge (PlasSurg), along with J. Semple and
M. Brown, was awarded a $13,500 grant from Women's
College Hospital for her work, "Quality of Recovery in
Women Undergoing Autogenous Breast Reconstruction in
an Ambulatory Setting".
Greg Hawryluk (PlasSurg) received 3rd place for the
Gallie-Bateman Prize for his work entitled "Remyelination
is the key mechanism underlying functional recovery from
spinal cord injury following neural precursor cell transplantation".
Dee Ballyk (Surg) in the Division of Anatomy was
awarded the W.T. Aikins Faculty Teaching Award
Individual Teaching Performance (Large Group) award.
Michael Wiley (Surg) in the Division of Anatomy, was
the receiver of the Harry Whittaker Memorial Award -
Excellence in Teaching award.
Nicole N. Woods (Surg) is the recipient of the Education
Development Fund for The Integration of Basic Science
with Clinical Knowledge in Undergraduate Teaching
for her proposal on The Integration of Basic Science with
Clinical Knowledge in Undergraduate Teaching.
Tom Waddell (ThorSurg) was the recipient of the Lister
Prize 2011, awarded to an investigator who has shown
outstanding and continuing productivity of international
stature as evidenced by research publications, grants
held, students trained and other evidence of stature of
the work produced.
Michael Jewett (UrolSurg) is the recipient of two awards
at the American Urological Association Annual Scientific
Meeting 2011 - the American Urological Association
Distinguished Contribution Award for his outstanding
contribution to the science and treatment of urological
malignancies and the Society of Urologic Oncology
Medal provided to an individual for specific achievement
and contributions in the field of urologic oncology.
Tony Finelli (UrolSurg) was awarded the 2011 Bernard
Langer Surgeon-Scientist Award, presented to an outstanding
graduate of the Surgeon Scientist Program in
the Department, who shows the greatest promise for a
career in academic surgery.
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