Student Services

Awards and events

Medical Education Achievement Day for Physicians

Every year, St. Michael’s honours its physician educators at the Education Achievement Day Award event. The annual breakfast ceremony is hosted by the vice-president, Education and pays tribute to the exceptional achievements in medical education by physicians, medical residents and staff.

The award recipients, nominees, faculty, learners and staff are making significant contributions to our education mission to be global leaders in health professional and systems education.

Congratulations to the 2018 recipients:

2018 Gallery

Department	Award(s)	Award Winner(s)
Board of Directors	Complete Physician Award	Dr. Cristina Pop
Student Centre & DFCM	Philip Berger Advocacy Award	Dr. Maggie Yu
Family & Community Medicine	Award for Outstanding Contribution to Medical Education	Dr. Mary Beth DeRocher
	Excellence in Teaching and Mentoring Award	Dr. Irv Gora (inaugural winner)
	Collaborator Award For Outstanding Contribution to Medical Education	Dr. Brenda Chang
Ophthalmology	Surgical Ophthalmology Teaching Award	Dr. Rajeev Muni
	Medical Ophthalmology Teaching Award	Dr. Mark Mandell
	Dr. Michael Shea Commitment to Ophthalmology Education Award	Dr. Brad Kates
Surgery	Donald J. Currie Undergraduate Teaching Award	Dr. Jory Simpson
	William Horsey Postgraduate Teaching Award	Dr. James Mahoney
	Jameel Ali Continuing Education Award	Dr. Earl Bogoch
	Squires-Hyland Trust James Waddell Mentoring Award	Dr. James Waddell
	Leo Mahoney Resident Teaching Award	Dr. Colin Sue-Chue-Lam
Anesthesia	William Noble Fellowship Teaching Award	Dr. Mark Kataoka
	Art Dunn Postgraduate Education Award	Dr. Deven Chandra
	Art Dunn Undergraduate Education Award	Dr. Rachel Martin
Pediatrics	Excellence in Neonatal Intensive Care Teaching	Dr. Tony Barozzino
	Excellence in Ambulatory Pediatric Teaching	Dr. Shazeen Suleman
Emergency Medicine	Emergency Medicine Teacher of the Year	Dr. Laura Hans
Medicine	Dr. Murray Muirhead Postgraduate Awards	Dr. Varuna Prakash Dr. Alexander Cressman Dr. Zahra Tejani
	Dr. J.J. Connon Award	Dr. Maria Jogova
	Outstanding Postgraduate Teacher Awards	Dr. Ahmed Bayoumi Dr. Karen Burns Dr. Claudia Dos Santos Dr. Reena Pattani Dr. Michelle Sholzberg Dr. Camilla Wong
	Dr. Gerald Wong Award	Dr. Reena Pattani
	Dr. Luigi Casella Award	Dr. John Graham
Obstetrics & Gynecology	Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching	Dr. Mark Yudin
	Sustained Excellence in Postgraduate Teaching	Dr. Deborah Robertson
	Paul McCleary Award	Dr. Donna Steele
	Antonio Cecutti Prize	Dr. Tamara Abraham
Medical Imaging	Professor Ronald W. McCallum Award for Excellence in the Promotion of Quality, Innovation and Research in Medical Imaging	Dr. Amy Lin
	Professor William J. Weiser Award for Excellence in Teaching of Medical Imaging Residents and Fellows	Dr. Lyne Noël de Tilly Dr. Gevork Mnatzakanian
Laboratory Medicine	Kalman Kovacs Award for Undergraduate Teaching	Dr. Corwyn Rowsell
	Bernadette Garvey Award for Postgraduate Teaching	Dr. Ramzi Fattouh
	Arthur Vandenbroucke Award – Laboratory Technologists & Technicians	Dr. Vladimir Iakovlev
Psychiatry	Award for Excellence in Postgraduate Medical Education	Dr. Karen Shin
	Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Medical Education	Dr. Ilana Shawn
	Award for Excellence in Continuing Medical Education	Dr. Michaela Beder
	Aileen Meagher Resident Award for Best Grand Rounds Presentation	Dr. Hussein Hirjee
Student Experience Committee	2018 Student Experience Award	The Student Centre Team
FitzGerald Academy	Clinical Skills Teacher Award	Dr. Jerome Liu Dr. Filipe Caparica Santos
	Case-based Learning Teacher Award	Dr. Jeff Wassermann
	Health in the Community Teacher Award	Dr. Fok-Han Leung Dr. Holly Knowles
	Clerkship Award	Dr. Christopher Hicks
	Resident/Fellow Teacher Award	Dr. Zachary Liederman Dr. Maria Jogova Dr. Zachary Lim Dr. Latif Murji
	Master Teacher Award	Dr. Adelmo Martoglio
	Friends of the Academy	Dr. William Watson

Health Disciplines Professional Practice and Education Awards

The Health Disciplines Professional Practice team: (from left) Aimee Hindle, Kimberley Bradley, Eduarda Costa, Kimberly Jackson, Christine Williams, Lauren Massey and Colleen Dunphy.

The 12th annual Health Disciplines recognition event was held on Wednesday, June 6, 2018 and a number of awards were handed out to recognize achievements in leadership, clinical excellence, education excellence and interprofessional collaboration among the 29 different health disciplines at St. Michael’s.

Check out the award winners highlighting Health Disciplines achievements from the past year in the gallery below.

Our 2018 winners are:

Education Excellence Award: Zuleikha Wadhwaniya, speech language pathologist
Clinical Excellence Award: Edma Joy McManus, OT/PT assistant
Scholarship Award: Ann-Marie McLaren, Suzanne Lu and Sreenath (Nat) Rave
Leadership Award: Ian Barrett, physiotherapist
Interprofessional Collaboration Award: Malnutrition Screening Implementation Group