Department of Medicine Annual Awards Dinner 2020
The Department of Medicine held the Annual Awards Dinner on Thursday, November 19th and had a great turnout. Thank you to all faculty members who attended the shortest but very special virtual dinner.
Awards, Promotions and Key Role Recognitions
ENDOWED CHAIRS
Dr. Alberto Caminero Fernandez. He was appointed as the Douglas Family Chair in Gastroenterology Research for a three-year term beginning July 1, 2019.
Dr. John Neary was awarded the Boris Chair in General Internal Medicine and is the new Medical Director of the Boris Clinic.
KEY ROLES RECOGNITION
Dr. PJ Devereaux — Director, Division of Cardiology
Dr. Judah Denburg — Director, Division of Clinical Immunology and Allergy
Dr. Hertzel Gerstein — Director, Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism
Dr. Akbar Panju –Director, Division of General Internal Medicine; Associate Chair, Clinical and T&P committee member
Dr. Nader Khalidi — Director, Rheumatology Training Program – (Program Director)
Dr. Kevin Woodward –Director, Infectious Diseases Training Program (Program Director)
Dr. Agnes Chmiel — Director, Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Training Program (Program Director)
KEY ROLES RECOGNITION
Dr. Doug Richards (EM) — Member, AFP Financial Management Committee
Dr. David Cowan (Geriatrics) -Member, AFP Financial Management Committee
Dr. Roman Jaeschke — Member, Internal Career Awards Committee
Dr. Tim O’Shea — Member, Internal Career Awards Committee
NEW FULL PROFESSORS
Dr. Khalid Azzam
Dr. Premsyl Bercik
Dr. Azim Gangji
Dr. Sanjit Jolly
Dr. Nader Khalidi
Dr. Roma Sehmi
NEW ASSOCIATE PROFESSORS
Dr. Waleed Alhazzani
Dr. Zain Chagla
Dr. Teresa Chan
Dr. David Conen
Dr. Barbara Connolly
Dr. Jeffrey Dickhout
Dr. Paul Forsythe
Dr. Susan Goodwin
Dr. Philip Joseph
Dr. Matthew Miller
Dr. Kelvin Ng
Dr. Natya Raghavan
Dr. Matthew Sibbald
PART-TIME PROMOTIONS
ASSOCIATE CLINICAL
Ms. Karen Moffatt
DEPARTMENT TEACHING AWARDS
Graduate Education: Dr. Peter Gross
Postgraduate Education: Dr. Christine Ribic and Dr. Nader Khalidi
Undergraduate Education: Dr. Jill Rudkowski
CAREER AWARDS
Dr. Leslie Martin – W. Watson Buchanan Clinician Educator Award
Dr. Nathan Hambly – AFP Clinician Educator Award
Dr. Emilie Belley-Cote – E.J. Moran Campbell Internal Career Research Award
Dr. Marie Pigeyre – AFP Internal Career Research Award
Dr. Kanjana Perera – Medicine Internal Career Research Award
Dr. Flavia Borges – Medicine Internal Career Research Award
Dr. Mike Walsh – Mid-Career Research Award
RETIREMENTS
Dr. Jeff Ginsberg
Dr. Kieran Killian
Dr. Lawrence Hart
Dr. Luke Janssen
RESEARCH DAY AWARD WINNERS – This was held virtually in May
Paul O’Byrne Research Grant: Wendy Ye and Jinbaek Kim
Supervisors: Dr. Anne Woods, Dr. Azim Gangji, Dr. Anne Boyle
Paul O’Byrne Research Grant: David Putman
Supervisor: Dr. Judah Denburg
Parveen Wasi Medical Education Research Grant:
Wendy Ye, Jaymee Shell, Aram Karkar, MacKenzieTurpin
Supervisor: Dr. Leslie Martin
Christopher Patterson Grant in Geriatric Care: Victoria Chuen
Supervisor: Dr. Joanne Ho
Hamilton Health Sciences Patient Safety Grant: Sanjay Sonney
Supervisor: Dr. Steven Wong
Chief Medical Resident Award: Laura Goodliffe
Chief Medical Resident Award: Ankur Goswami
Chief Medical Resident Award: Torrance Oravec
Hui Lee Senior Medical Resident Award: Olivia Cook
Hui Lee Senior Medical Resident Award: Waseem Hijazi
Hui Lee Senior Medical Resident Award: Nischal Ranganath
Hui Lee Senior Medical Resident Award: Michael Rheaume
Akbar Panju Professionalism Award: Tamoor Afzaal
Oral Presentation, Silver Omar Ibrahim
First Place Scientific Poster Carly Barron
Second Place Scientific Poster Teresa Semalulu
First Place Clinical Poster Tauben Averbuch
Second Place Clinical Poster Waseem Hijazi
Oral Presentation, Gold Anasuiya Surendran
Oral Presentation, Bronze Jason An
First Place Scientific Poster Megan Guay
First Place Clinical Poster Xena Li
General Internal Medicine Faculty Dr. Haroon Yousuf
General Internal Medicine Faculty Dr. Zahira Khalid
General Internal Medicine Faculty Dr. Leslie Martin
Subspecialty Faculty Teaching Award Dr. Zain Chagla
Community Preceptor Award Dr. Matt Chamberlain, Waterloo campus
Community Preceptor Award Dr. William Ciccotelli, Waterloo campus
Dr. Jeff Ginsberg Award – Dr. Andrea Cervi and Dr. Richard Kenji Onizuka
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