Awards and Accolades - July 2018

Celebrating the achievements of faculty, staff and students

Kirsten Bauer - 18 July 2018

July signals a new academic year for clinical trainees and brings a host of celebrated achievements for faculty, staff, students and alumni. Congratulations to all of our award winners on your successes and best of luck for the year ahead.

National and International Recognition

Steven Caldwell, Department of Medicine, was appointed fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of London.

Brian Holroyd, '79 BMedSc, '81 MD, Department of Emergency Medicine, received the Order of the International Federation for Emergency Medicine Fellowship.

Carlos Flores Mir, School of Dentistry, received the Houston Research Award for best poster at the 2018 European Orthodontic Society Meeting, alongside co-researchers from Naples, Italy.

John B. Dossetor, Professor Emeritus, Department of Medicine, has been awarded the 2018 CMA Medal of Service for his contributions to Canadian medical care. Read more.

Cara Bablitz, '11 MD, Department of Family Medicine, has been awarded the 2018 Canadian Medical Association Award for Young Leaders (Early Career Physician Category) for her work with vulnerable Indigenous populations.

James Shapiro, '01 PhD, Department of Surgery and Alberta Diabetes Institute (ADI), received a Lifetime Achievement Award from Diabetes Canada. Read more.

Patrick MacDonald, Department of Pharmacology and Alberta Diabetes Institute (ADI), received the Diabetes Canada Young Scientist Award.

Specialty Awards

Loren Kline, School of Dentistry, received a Faculty of Science 2018 Student's Choice award.

Shelley Ross, Department of Family Medicine, received a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) grant, in support of a collaborative project with UBC examining the self-regulated learning behaviours in residents in competency-based medical education.

Joel Berube, '07 MD, Department of Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine, was voted 2018 Teacher of the Year by the Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine residents.

Jessica Foulds, Department of Pediatrics, was awarded 2017-2018 Teacher of the Year Award for a General Pediatrician, and the Promotion of Resident Well-Being Award by the general pediatric residents. (image provided)

Dax Rumsey, Department of Pediatrics, was awarded the 2017-2018 Teacher of the Year Award for a Subspecialty Pediatrician by the general pediatric residents. (image provided)

2018 Kaye Fund

An annual competition and a collaboration between the University Hospital Foundation, the University of Alberta Hospital site and the Kaye Edmonton Clinic, the award is funded by a generous donation from Mr. Donald Kaye. Congratulations to the following seven research teams on receiving the 2018 award:

  • Fang Ba, '02 PhD, Department of Medicine, and Bin Zheng, Department of Surgery - Project Title: Stereopsis as a Visual Biomarker for Parkinson's Disease

  • Linda Chui and Brendon Parsons, '15 PhD, Department of Laboratory Medicine & Pathology - Project Title: Development of a Typing Assay for Tracking Clostridium difficile Infections in the University of Alberta Hospital

  • Shubha De, Department of Surgery and Todd Alexander, Department of Pediatrics - Project Title: Establishing a Multidisciplinary Kidney Stone Clinic for Metabolic Syndrome Risk Reduction

  • John Lewis, Department of Oncology - Project Title: Improving the Management of Prostate Cancer Using Advanced Biofluid Diagnostics

  • Janis Miyasaki, Department of Medicine, and Cary Brown, Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine - Project Title: Efficacy of Bright Light Therapy in Persons with Parkinson's Disease Suffering from Excessive Daytime Sleepiness

  • Oleksa Rewa, Department of Critical Care Medicine - Project Title: Quality Indicators for Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy - A Pilot Project

  • Frank Wuest, Department of Oncology - Project Title: Novel Radiolabeled PSMA Inhibitors for Clinical PET Imaging of Prostate Cancer

Department of Psychiatry

Resident Awards

  • Chair's Prize for Research - Reji Thomas, '14 MD

  • RH Mewburn Memorial Prize in Rehabilitation Psychiatry - Reji Thomas, '14 MD

  • Health-CPR Society Prize in Addiction Psychiatry - Bryan Duong, '17 MD

  • Henry Wojckicki Prize in Transcultural Psychiatry - Ehsan Dorri and Emerson Marinas

  • Junior On-Call Award - Emerson Marinas

  • Senior On-Call Award - Marko Tymchuk

  • RH Mewburn Memorial Prize in General Adult Psychiatry - Michele Foster

  • Medical Student Teaching Award - Michele Foster

  • Sidney Spaner Memorial Award in CBT - Chantelle Bowden, '16 MD

  • Julius Guild Prize in Group and Family Therapy - Alex Dyck

  • Sidney Spaner Memorial Award in Psychotherapeutic Psychiatry - Bethany Ostrowerka, '15 MD

  • Henry Wojckiki Prize in Child Psychiatry - Bethany Ostrowerka, '15 MD

  • RH Mewburn Memorial Prize in Geriatric Psychiatry - Mike Martyna

  • RH Mewburn Memorial Prize in Consolation Liaison Psychiatry - Sarah MacArthur and Eric Gee

  • Emergency Psychiatry Award - Mike Bielawski, '13 MD

Teaching Awards

  • Dr. Sol Levin Psychotherapy Supervisor Award - Doug Ginter, '80 MD

  • CBT Teaching Award - Kate Hibbard, '11 MD

  • The On-Call Award - Stephanie Moffat

  • Research Supervisor Award - Glen Baker

  • Subspecialty Teacher of the Year Award - John McCahill

  • Teacher of the Year Award - Melanie Marsh

The Edmonton Early Psychosis Intervention Clinic (EEPIC) received the 2018 AHS President's Award for Outstanding Excellence in Patient and Family Centred Care. The team included Scot Purdon, Katherine Aitchison, Virginia Newton and Sudhakar Sivapalan, '17 MD, from the Department of Psychiatry. (Image included)

Students, Residents and Trainees

Catherine Cheng, resident in the Department of Psychiatry, has been awarded a 2018 Canadian Academy of Geriatric Psychiatry Subspecialty Resident Award.

Raisa Canda, PhD student, School of Dentistry, (supervisors Maria Febbraio, Liran Levin) won the CIHR Silver Prize for her poster presentation at the Canadian Student Health Research Forum in Winnipeg from June 12 to 15, 2018.

Mackenzie Lees, '13 MD, resident in the Department of Surgery, won a Royal College/JGME Top Resident Research paper entitled Factors affecting the development of confidence during surgical residency training.

The Alberta Jenkins & Stephen Buhl Award was awarded to the following residents:

  • Anas Alrohimi, Department of Medicine (Neurology)

  • Selina Dobing, '13 MD, Department of Medicine (General Internal Medicine)

  • Jennifer Duncan, '14 MD, Department of Laboratory Medicine & Pathology (Hematological Pathology)

  • Sara Horne, '14 MD, Department of Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine

  • Noah Switzer, '13 MD, Department of Surgery (General Surgery)

 

 

The Gordon Denchfield Thompson Scholarship was awarded to Baljot (Bill) Chahal, '15 BMS, '17 MD, Department of Radiology and Diagnostic Imaging.

Sara Horne, '14 MD, Department of Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine, was also named PARA Resident Physician of the Month.

MLS Program Convocation Awards

Congratulations to the Medical Laboratory Science (MLS) graduates who earned 2018 convocation awards:

  • Lillian Feng - HB Collier Memorial Gold Medal
  • Adesewa Adeleye - U of A Hospital Laboratory Medicine & Pathology Staff Scholarship
  • Rachel McKellar - Barbara Motyl Prize
  • Shelby Sissons - Medical Laboratory Science Research Scholarship
  • Lina-Wanlin Ding - Beckman Coulter Canada Ltd. Award in Hematology
  • Carly Vanderschaaf- Beckman Coulter Canada Ltd. Award in Hemostasis
  • Rachel McKellar - Beckman Coulter Canada Ltd. Award in Clinical Chemistry

MD Program Convocation Awards

Congratulations to the following graduates who received awards at the June 7, 2018 MD convocation breakfast, made possible by the generous donors who contribute to these awards:

 

  • E. William Kuder Memorial Prize in Surgery

    • Lucila Chen

    • Megan Cook

    • Brock Randolph

    • Brian Whiteside

  • Michelle Hanbidge - Brian Stewart Memorial Award

  • Ian Stefanuk - Emma Bailey Memorial Award

  • James Welke - Shaner Award

  • Julianna Deutscher - Dr. Jo-Ann Guinan Memorial Medical Award

  • Sarah Hanafi - Dr. Harry Weinlos Humanitarian Award in Medicine

  • Jeremy Christensen - Dr. Frank Elliott Memorial Scholarship

  • Jeremy Wu - Rajcoomarie Singh Memorial Achievement Award

  • Brandon Christensen - John W. Scott Honor Award

  • Laura Soong - Francis Norman Fallis Memorial Award in Medicine

  • Zhiyuan Ou - Dr. F. Lloyd Roberts Scholarship and Moshier Memorial Gold Medal

  • Taylor Nikel - Edmonton Emergency Physicians Association Award in Emergency Medicine

  • Amanda Hemming - Swarn K. Parmar Award in Geriatrics

  • Rebecca Brassington - Dr. Walter C. MacKenzie Award

  • Stephanie Wickersham - Shragge Memorial Award in Medicine

  • Danielle Meunier - John James Ower Medal & Scholarship in Pathology

  • Alexandra Dowhanik - Dr. Morris Weinlos Prize in Pathology & Surgery

  • A.E. Bowie Scholarship in Medicine

    • Colin Andrews

    • Amr Hamour

  • Kieran Purich - Dr. Bohdan Michalyshyn Scholarship in Surgery

  • Courtney Boyer - Isaac and Leah Weinlos Prize in Surgery

  • Ann Tran - Mewburn Memorial Medal in Surgery

  • Albert Vu - Dr. H.H. Hepburn Memorial Scholarship in Surgery

  • Anna Whalen-Browne - Conn Memorial Medal in Obstetrics and Gynecology

  • A Dr David W J Reid Scholarship in Obstetrics and Gynecology

    • Silken Stone

    • Xinjue Rachel Wang

  • Xinjue Rachel Wang - Douglas & Kathleen Ritchie Award in Obstetrics & Gynecology

  • Jeremy Christensen - J. Ross Vant Prize in Obstetrics

  • Collette Mattson - Jacquie Tiltgen Memorial Award

  • Barbara Pedrycz - Alberta College of Family Physicians Scholarship

  • Nathanael Turner - Louie Family Award in Medicine

  • Troy Mitchell - Dr. Susan Rajee Koilpillai Memorial Prize in Family Medicine

  • Megan Howlett - Dr. Michael C Koilpillai Prize in Neuro-Psychiatry

  • Quinn Daviduck - Dr. S.S. Spaner Prize in Psychiatry

  • Helya Aghazadeh - Dr. Ernest A Johnson Prize in Ophthalmology

  • Scott Anderson - Rose Bogoch Prize in Ophthalmology

  • Julianna Deutscher - Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine Award

  • Stephen Miazga - E.L. Pope Memorial Award in Medicine

  • Rohan Mittal - Isaac and Leah Weinlos Prize in Pathology

  • Brian Whiteside - Society of Academic Emergency Medicine Certificate of Excellence

  • Ishrat Gill - A.W. Downs Prize in Physiology

  • Alexandra Gustafson - Merck Canada Inc Prize in Therapeutics

  • Michael Schlegelmilch - Endocrine Society Medical Student Achievement Award

  • Curtis LaRue - Professional Association of Resident Physicians of Alberta Bursary

  • Laura Soong - Isidore and Rebecca Hardin Undergraduate Prize in Dermatology

  • Alexandra Gustafson - Dr. Charles T. Fried Memorial Award

  • Larissa Shapka - Douglas Leitch Medal in Pediatrics

 

2019 Alumni Awards

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Help us recognize these outstanding University of Alberta grads by nominating them for an Alumni Award.

Nomination deadline: December 15, 2019

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