Student Services
Education Achievement Day
Every year, St. Michael’s honours its physician educators at the Education Achievement Day Award Ceremony. The annual breakfast ceremony is hosted by the Vice President of Education and features St. Michael’s CEO and senior management. This event pays tribute to the exceptional achievements in medical education by our physicians, medical residents and staff.
2009 Honorees
Dr. Patricia Houston, Vice President of Education and Sarita Verma Vice-Dean, Postgraduate Medical Education UofT, present Dr Jeff Wassermann with the Art Dunn Undergraduate Award.
Dr. Bob Hyland, Physician-in-Chief and Jay Rosenfield Vice-Dean, Undergraduate Medical Education UofT, present the Outstanding Postgraduate Teacher Awards
Dr. Philip Berger and Dr. Ivan Silver, Vice-Dean Continuing Medical Education UofT present the St. Michael's Hospital Emergency Medicine Teacher of the Year 2009 to Dr. Jason Falk
Guest Speaker: Geoff Norman Expert Clinical Reasoning: Is It the Rules You Know or the Patients You've Known?”
Award Winners:
Ophthalmology
Best Surgical Ophthalmology Award - Dr. Trevor Chin Fook
Best Medical Ophthalmology Award - Dr. Gordon Squires
Anaesthesia
William Noble Award - Dr. Robert Chen
U of T Gerald Edelist Award for Postgraduate Education –
Dr. Jeff Wassermann
Art Dunn Undergraduate Award - Dr. Jeff Wassermann
Art Dunn Postgraduate Award - Dr. Brian Pollard
Surgery
Donald J. Currie Undergraduate Teaching Award - Dr. Julian Spears
Leo Mahoney Resident Teaching Award - Dr. Michael Ordon
William Horsey Postgraduate Teaching Award - Dr. Daniel Whelan
Jameel Ali Continuing Education Award - Dr. Lee Errett
Paul McGoey Teaching Award - Dr. Rashid Jinnah
Laboratory Medicine
Kalman Kovacs Award - Undergraduate Teaching - Dr. Eleanor Latta
Bernadette Garvey - Postgraduate Teaching - Dr. Cathy Streutker
Arthur Vandenbroucke Award - Laboratory Technologists and Technicians –
Dr. Larissa Matukas
IPE
Outstanding Leadership in Advancing Interprofessional Education –
Filomena Meffe
OBS/GYN
Excellence in Undergraduate teaching - Dr. Mark Yudin
Excellence in Postgraduate teaching - Dr. Howard Berger
Medicine
Dr. Murray Muirhead Postgraduate Awards -
PGY1 Dr. Ann Marie McKenna
PGY2 Dr. Bianca Cot
PGY3 Dr. Daniel Ricciuto
J.J. Connon Award -
Dr. Paul Szmitko
Outstanding Postgraduate Teacher Awards –
Dr. Vincent Chien, Dr. Jan Friedrich, Dr. Samir Grover, Dr. Peter Kopplin, Dr. Maria Kraw, Dr. Yuna Lee, Dr. Howard Leong-Poi , Dr. Ophyr Mourad, Dr. Natalie Wong
Dr. Gerald Wong Award – Dr. Yuna Lee
Dr. Luigi Casella Award – Dr. Paul Dorian
Fitzgerald Academy
Clinical Teacher Award –Dr. Ryan Mai
PBL Teacher Award - Dr. James Baker
Clerkship Award – Dr. Yuna Lee
Master Teacher Award – Dr. Rob Sargeant
Resident Teacher Award – Dr. Bianca Cot, Dr. Husam Abdel-Qadir, Dr. Megha Suri
Friends of the Academy Award - Dragana Markovic
Psychiatry
Award for Excellence in Postgraduate Medical Education - 2008/2009 - Dr. Shree Bhalerao
Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Medical Education - 2008/2009 - Dr. Shree Bhalerao and Dr. Kien Dang
Award for Excellence in Continuing Medical Education - 2008/2009 - Dr. Corinne Fischer
Family Medicine
Award for Outstanding Contribution to Medical Education - Dr. Gwen Jansz
Emergency Medicine
St. Michaels Hospital Emergency Medicine Teacher of the Year 2009 - Dr. Jason Falk
St. Michael’s Hospital Board of Directors Complete Physician Award 2009
Dr. Lawrence Leiter
Education Achievement Day Winners
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