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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".

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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