Appointments & Awards: March 2025

Appointments

Christopher Chan appointed Clinical Lead - Integrated Care by Primary and Community-Based Care (PCBC) at Ontario Health

Dharini Mahendira appointed Program Director for Rheumatology at the University of Toronto, effective July 1, 2025

Gustavo Saposnik appointed Adjunct Professor in the Stroke Program at Mahidol University in Bangkok, Thailand and Vice-President elect for the World Stroke Organization

Awards

Division of Dermatology

Christian Murry, recognized by Cancer Care Ontario for his contributions to the Program in Evidence-Based Care, particularly as an expert panel member on #8-1 Version 6 Systemic Adjuvant Therapy for Adult Patients at High Risk for Recurrent Melanoma

Division of General Internal Medicine

Yashesh Patel, Excellence in Clinical Teaching Award, Professional Association of Residents of Ontario (PARO)

Division of Geriatric Medicine

Katrina Piggott and Carolyn Tan, Sunnybrook AFP Innovation Award, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre AFP Innovation Fund/Innovation Fund Provincial Oversight Committee (IFPOC)

Division of Nephrology

Jeffrey Perl, J. Michael Lazarus Award, The National Kidney Foundation (NKF)

Division of Neurology

Robert De Santis, MD Program Teaching Award of Excellence 2023-24, University of Toronto

Christine Hawkes, MD Program Teaching Award of Excellence 2023-24, University of Toronto

William Kingston, MD Program Teaching Award of Excellence 2023-24, University of Toronto

Andrew Micieli, MD Program Teaching Award of Excellence 2023-24, University of Toronto

Victoria Reedman, MD Program Teaching Award of Excellence 2023-24, University of Toronto

Stephanie Reiter, MD Program Teaching Award of Excellence 2023-24, University of Toronto

Keith Sivakumar, MD Program Teaching Award of Excellence 2023-24, University of Toronto

Edwin Wong, MD Program Teaching Award of Excellence 2023-24, University of Toronto

Annie Zhu, MD Program Teaching Award of Excellence 2023-24, University of Toronto

Jaime Cazes, 2025 Resident Teaching Award, Professional Association of Residents of Ontario (PARO)

Victoria Reedman, CAME Rising Star Award, Canadian Association for Medical Education (CAME)

Division of Respirology

Andrea Gershon, King Charles III Coronation Medal, Governor General of Canada

Elizabeth Tullis, King Charles III Coronation Medal (for exceptional contributions to cystic fibrosis care and research), Governor General of Canada

Samir Gupta, King Charles III Coronation Medal (for wide-reaching public health contributions through education and communication), Governor General of Canada

Anju Anand, King Charles III Coronation Medal (for leadership of the This is Our Shot campaign, impactful community engagement and public health improvement through vaccination), Governor General of Canada

Stephen Juvet and Tereza Martinu, CIHR Project Grant for the project Novel Alveolar Macrophages in the pathogenesis of chronic lung allograft dysfunction