Feb 3, 2025

Appointments & Awards: February 2025

Clinical Pharmacology & Toxicology, General Internal Medicine, Geriatric Medicine, Nephrology, Neurology, Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation

Appointments

William Kingston appointed Board Member at Migraine Canada

Abhijat Kitchlu appointed President of the American Society of Onconephrology

Awards

Division of Clinical Pharmacology & Toxicology

David Juurlink, CIHR Project Grant ($870,000) for the project Advancing the Science of Drug Interactions

David Juurlink and Jessica Kent-Rice, PSI Resident Research Grant ($23,000) for the project Trends in Opioid Agonist Therapy Retention After Nonfatal Opioid Overdose

Division of Geriatric Medicine

Jillian Alston and Sharon Straus, Tackling late-life homelessness in Canada ranked #5 in the Canadian Medical Association Journal's top 10 articles for the most media coverage in 2024

Division of Nephrology

Darren Yuen, Angels Den 2024 Award, St. Michael’s Foundation

Christopher Chan, Dr. Richard Yu Endowed Lectureship, Hong Kong Society of Nephrology and International Congress of Chinese Nephrologists

Division of Neurology

Mark Boulos, Sleep Science Award (in recognition of outstanding achievements in sleep research), American Academy of Neurology

Jennifer Rabin, Early Career Award, International Neuropsychological Society 

Priti GrosDoctoral award, Canadian Institutes of Health Research

Seyed Mohammad Fereshtehnejad, Francis McNaughton Memorial Prize for Clinical Research 2024, Canadian Neurological Society (CNS); Write Now Award 2024, Parkinson's Progression Markers Initiative; Connected Care Clinical Student Scholarship 2024, Canada Health Infoway and Postgraduate Medical Education Research Award, Joseph M. West Family Memorial Fund

Shane Arsenault, ACTRIMS (America’s Committee for Treatment and Research in Multiple Sclerosis) Forum 2025 Young Investigator Educational Grant

Jaime Godoy-Santin, Hold’em for Life Oncology Fellowship Award

James ImInternational Fellow Scholarship to the Annual Meeting, American Academy of Neurology; International Headache Academy Fellow Scholarship, American Headache Society and Frontiers in Headache Research Award, American Headache Society

Mary Jane Lim Fat, 2025 Neuro-oncology Investigator Award,  American Academy of Neurology

  • The Neuro-oncology Investigator Award is given in recognition of outstanding achievements in neuro-oncology research. This award is given in partnership with the American Academy of Neurology and supported by friends of Dr. Jerome Posner.

Matthew BurkeNorman Geschwind Prize, American Academy of Neurology

Aylin Reid, Project Grant Award entitled “Targeting the kynurenine pathway to improve outcomes in experimental traumatic brain injury”, Canadian Institutes of Health Research

Division of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation

Alice Kam, Principal Investigator for a CIHR Research Award and Medical Educational Scholarship, Department of Medicine

Angela MailisDistinguished Career Award 2024, Canadian Pain Society

Nimish MittalMD Program Teaching Award of Excellence for the 2023-2024 academic year, U of T MD Program