Awards & Accolades - June 2019

Canada Research Chairs

The 2018 Cycle 1 and Cycle 2 Canada Research Chairs have been announced. Congratulations to the following faculty members on your appointments:

Cycle 1

• Lisa Hartling, Department of Pediatrics - Canada Research Chair in Knowledge Synthesis and Translation - Tier 1 (New)

• Xing-Fang Li, Department of Laboratory Medicine & Pathology - Canada Research Chair in Analytical and Environmental Toxicology - Tier 1 (New)

• Vivian Mushahwar, Department of Medicine - Canada Research Chair in Functional Restoration - Tier 1 (New)

• Jessica Yue, Department of Physiology - Canada Research Chair in Brain Regulation of Metabolism - Tier 2 (New)

Cycle 2

• Stephane Bourque, Department of Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine - Canada Research Chair in Developmental and Integrative Cardiovascular Pharmacology - Tier 2 (New)

• Zam Kassiri, Department of Physiology - Canada Research Chair in Extracellular Matrix in Cardiovascular Diseases - Tier 1 (New)

• Qiumin Tan, Department of Cell Biology - Canada Research Chair in Molecular Genetics of Human Disease - Tier 2 (New)

• Anastassia Voronova, Department of Medical Genetics - Canada Research Chair in Neural Stem Cell Biology - Tier 2 (New)

Faculty Recognition

Mia Lang, Department of Pediatrics, has been recognized with the Michel Weber Education Award from the Canadian Pediatric Society.

Alice Cojocaru, departments of Pediatrics and Emergency Medicine, was named Preceptor of the Year by the Basic Clinical Year Residents from the Island Medical Program at UBC.

Stephanie Liu, (aka "Dr. Mom") Department of Family Medicine, is the winner of the 2019 new media award for Momentum Mental Health.

Puneeta Tandon, Department of Medicine, received the Alberta Society of Gastroenterology Distinguished Researcher Award.

Pablo Amigo, Department of Oncology, received the Grey Nuns Community Hospital Excellence in Teaching Award.

Samina Ali, Department of Pediatrics, was honoured with the 2019 Top Pediatric Research Abstract and the Richard Kohn Memorial Award for Mentorship in Emergency Medicine from the Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians.

Vickie Baracos, Department of Oncology, was awarded the Earle Willard McHenry Award of the Canadian Nutrition Society for Distinguished Service in Nutrition.

Sandra Davidge, Executive Director of the Women and Children's Health Research Institute (WCHRI), Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, received the 2019 Excellence in Research Award from the Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada.

Congratulations to the winners of the 2019 FoMD Excellence in Mentoring Awards:

• Andrew Simmonds, Department of Cell Biology - Basic Science, Tier I

• Anita Kozyrskyj, Department of Pediatrics - Basic Science Tier II

• Jacqueline Hebert, Department of Medicine - Clinical Tier I

Department of Pediatrics

Debbi Andrews was awarded a Canadian Pediatric Society Life Membership for her outstanding work in the areas of developmental disabilities and child mental health.

Congratulations to PhD candidate Osnat Wine, (supervisor Alvaro Osornio-Vargas) on the 2019 National Collaborating Centres for Public Health Award. Read more.

Department of Pediatrics 2019 Faculty Awards

• Heather Leonard - Best Teacher in Community Pediatrics

• Elizabeth DeBruyne and Eileen Estrabillo - Excellence in Teaching in Community Pediatrics

• Division of Pediatric Nephrology - Best Teaching Division

• Division of Gastroenterology & Nutrition - Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Division

• Francois Morneau-Jacob - Teaching Award by Subspecialty Residents

• Anne Hicks, Hanna Kolski, Heather Leonard and Dax Rumsey - Best Pediatric Grand Rounds

• Pediatric Diabetes Education Centre - Cooperation, Collaboration and Teamwork Award

Top 10 Teachers:

• Georgeta Apostol

• Lola Baydala

• Jessica Foulds

• Karen Forbes

• Anne Hicks

• Lynn Jacoby

• Alicja Wladyslawa Janicka

• Jacqueline Lee

• Mia Lang

• Melanie Lewis

Academic and Clinical Research Paper Awards

• Andrew Mackie - "Transition intervention for adolescents with congenital heart disease."

• Jason Dyck - "Co-administration of resveratrol with doxorubicin in young mice attenuates detrimental late-occuring cardiovascular changes."

• Eytan Wine - "Host immunoglobulin G selectively identifies pathobionts in pediatric inflammatory bowel disease."

Students, Residents and Trainees

Regan Clarke, Radiation Therapy Class of 2019, received best poster, Junior Investigator category, at the RTi3 Radiation Therapy conference in Toronto, Ontario.

Sara Belga (supervisor Carlos Cervera), Department of Medicine, received an American Society of Transplantation (AST) Infectious Disease Community of Practice (IDCOP) Travel Grant for 2019.

Zhimeng Jia, Department of Oncology, was awarded the Canadian Society Palliative Care Physicians Resident Research Award. Read more.

2019 PGME Resident Awards

Alberta Jenkinson & Stephen Buhl Award

• Mark Assmus, Department of Surgery (Urology)
• Gurpreet Khaira, Department of Pediatrics (Critical Care)
• Mitch Wilson, Department of Radiology & Diagnostic Imaging

Gordon Denchfield Thompson Scholarship

• Teresa Li, Department of Surgery (Orthopedics)

Convocating MD Student Awards

• Fatemeh Ramazani - A.E. Bowie Scholarship in Medicine

• Nicole Roshko - Alberta College of Family Physicians Scholarship

• Miranda Wan - Professional Association of Resident Physicians of Alberta Bursary

• Cary Ma - Brian Stewart Memorial Award

• Jennifer Croden - Conn Memorial Medal in Obstetrics & Gynecology

• Paulina Podgorny - Diane Dompe Memorial Scholarship in Medicine

• Karine Girgulis - Douglas Leitch Medal in Pediatrics

• Patrick Vallance - Dr. Bohdan Michalyshyn Scholarship in Surgery

• Jennifer Croden - Dr. Charles T. Fried Memorial Award

• Rachel Wang - A. David W. J. Reid Scholarship in Obstetrics & Gynecology

• Shauna Regan and Paxton Ting - Dr. Ernest A. Johnson Prize in Ophthalmology

• Jennifer Croden - Dr. F. Lloyd Roberts Scholarship

• Julie McSweeney - Dr. Frank Elliott Memorial Scholarship

• Aran Yukseloglu - Dr. Harry Weinlos Humanitarian Prize in Medicine

• Nicole Labine - Dr. H.H. Hepburn Memorial Prize in Surgery

• Levi Johnston - Dr. Jo-Ann Guinan Memorial Medical Award

• Kristina Lea - Dr. Michael C. Koilpillai Prize in Neuro-Psychiatry

• Natalia Binczyk - Dr. Morris Weinlos Prize in Pathology & Surgery

• Bailey Sorochan - Dr S.S. Spaner Prize in Psychiatry

• Kirsten Puznak - Dr. Susan Rajee Koilpillai Memorial Prize in Family Medicine

• Gregory Frick - Dr. Vincent Choi Memorial Scholarship in Rheumatology

• Alexandra Bain - Dr. Walter C. MacKenzie Award

• Levi Johnston - Edmonton Emergency Physicians Association Award in Emergency Medicine

• Emma Hjartarson - E.L. Pope Memorial Award in Medicine

• Karine Pohoreski - Emma Bailey Memorial Award

• Chaitanya Gandhi - Endocrine Society Medical Student Achievement Award

• Alexandra Bain, Milton Chan, Jennifer Croden, Caitlin Marchak - E. W. Kuder Memorial Scholarship in Surgery

• Jennifer Croden - Francis Norman Fallis Memorial Award in Medicine

• Chaitanya Gandhi - Isaac and Leah Weinlos Prize in Pathology

• Jeffrey Grab - Isaac and Leah Weinlos Prize in Surgery

• Daniel Chambers - Isidore and Rebecca Hardin Undergraduate Prize in Dermatology

• Collette Mattson - Jacquie Tiltgen Memorial Award

• Amy Varner - John James Ower Medal and Scholarship in Pathology

• Zia Saleh - John W. Scott Honor Award

• Savanna Boutin - J. Ross Vant Prize in Obstetrics

• Alexander Laurie - A. Louie Family Award in Medicine

• Betty Wang - Mewburn Memorial Medal in Surgery

• Jennifer Croden - Moshier Memorial Gold Medal

• Taesuk Song - Rajcoomarie Singh Memorial Achievement Award

• Natalia Binczyk - Rose Bogoch Prize in Ophthalmology

• Marie DeCock - Shaner Award

• Courtney Bailey - Shragge Memorial Award in Medicine

• Sarah Henschke - Society of Academic Emergency Medicine Certificate of Excellence

• Monique Jarrett - Swarn K. Parmar Award in Geriatrics

• Levi Johnston - Presentation of GHHS, Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine Award

Gold Humanism Honor Society Award

• Marya Aman

• Jennifer Croden

• Ghazal Danesh

• Marie DeCock

• Kathleen Degner

• Derek Fehr

• Finola Hackett

• Levi Johnston

• Zander Laurie

• Yasamin Mahjoub

• Caitlin Marchak

• Kristin Pon

• Fatemeh Ramazani

• Graeme Rinholm

• Zia Saleh

• Christina Shaw

• Nikita-Kiran Singh

• Mahabba Smoka

• Miranda Wan

• Jennifer Weekes

• Aran Yukseloglu

Convocating Medical Laboratory Science (MLS) Student Awards

• Judith Rho - HB Collier Memorial Gold Medal for graduating with superior academic achievement

• Elijah Chan - U of A Hospital Laboratory Medicine & Pathology Staff Scholarship, for graduating with the highest distinction.

• Denise Alano - Barbara Motyl Prize for overall contribution to the MLS program

• Robyn Dickner - Medical Laboratory Science Research Scholarship

• Judith Rho - Beckman-Coulter Canada Ltd. Award in Hematology

• Christine Austerman - Beckman-Coulter Canada Ltd. Award in Hemostasis

• Natalie Bunten - Beckman-Coulter Canada Ltd. Award in Clinical Chemistry.

Dental Hygiene Student Awards

• Bretton Schmidt - Estella Stelter Award in Dental Hygiene

• Kayla Shannon and Amber Lundberg - ADA&C Graduation Scholarship in Dental Hygiene

• Melissa Diep - CRDHA Gold Scholarship in Dental Hygiene

• Alora Pedersen - CRDHA Silver Scholarship in Dental Hygiene

• Melissa Diep - CRDHA Gold Medal

• Celina Ellingwood - ADA&C Medal in Dental Hygiene

• Alora Pedersen, Jessy Nguyen, and Angela Wan - Barbara Ann Zier Memorial Scholarship

• Tessa Cameron - Charl Els/CRDHA Prize in Addiction Awareness and Brief Interventions

• Emily Barlow - CRDHA Jan Pimlott Award

Convocating Dentistry Student Awards

• Kevin Amaniampon - American Association of Orthodontists Dental Student Award

• Connor Grimes - Canadian Academy of Pediatric Dentistry Norm Levine Undergraduate Award

• Brenda Pham - American Academy of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology Dental Student Award

• Emily Ervin - Canadian Student Leadership Award

• Travis MacLean - Horace Wells Senior Student Award

2019 E.N. Skakun and David Cook Awards

Do you know an amazing instructor or team that deserves to be recognized? The Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry is now accepting nominations for the 2019 E.N. Skakun and David Cook awards for teaching and leadership in the field of medical education.