ACADEMY OF MASTER CLINICIANS
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David Tang-Wai, Neurology, Toronto General Hospital
Maureen Trudeau, Medical Oncology, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
David Wong, Gastroenterology, Toronto Western Hospital
Scott Walsh, Dermatology, Sunnybook Health Sciences Centre
Joel Yaphe, Emergency Medicine, Toronto Western Hospital
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EATON SCHOLAR RESEARCHER OF THE YEAR AWARD (BASIC SCIENCE)
Robert Rottapel

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Dr. Robert Rottapel is a rheumatologist at St. Michael’s Hospital and a senior scientist at the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre where he holds the Amgen Chair for Cancer Research. He is Professor of Medicine, Immunology and Medical Biophysics at the University of Toronto. He serves on the national executive of the Terry Fox Research Institute and is a program director at the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research. Dr. Rottapel obtained his MD at the George Washington University with clinical training in medicine at UCLA and rheumatology fellowship training at the University of Toronto. He did his post doctoral studies with Alan Bernstein at the Lunenfeld Research Institute in Toronto Dr. Rottapel’s laboratory focuses on signalling pathways regulating immune networks in arthritis and cancer. He is a founding member of Northern Biologics, a Toronto-based biotechnology company developing novel antibody-based therapeutics in fibrosis and oncology.
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EATON SCHOLAR RESEARCHER OF THE YEAR AWARD (CLINICAL)
Margaret Herridge
Dr. Margaret Herridge
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Dr. Margaret Herridge is a Professor in the Department of Medicine, a Senior Scientist at the Toronto General Hospital Research Institute and Director of the RECOVER Program, a novel continuum of care model for patient and family-centred rehabilitation and follow-up after critical illness. Critical illness is a traumatic life event and Dr. Herridge is privileged to advocate for patients and families to improve functional outcomes and address acquired medical complexity, cognitive and mood disorders. She has been the lead or co-lead on five publications in the New England Journal of Medicine and has published almost 160 original articles and book chapters on patient and caregiver outcomes after critical illness. She has been the co-editor of the first two international textbooks on patient and family outcomes after critical illness. She has received several international research distinctions including the Dr. F. Marguerite Hill Lecturer (2015), Honorary Member of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (2016) and most recently, the 2018 Lifetime Achievement Award in Critical Care from the American Thoracic Society.
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DEPARTMENT OF MEDICINE TEACHER OF THE YEAR AWARD
Peter Seidelin
Dr. Peter Seidelin
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Dr. Peter Seidelin is an interventional cardiologist at University Health Network and Professor of Medicine at the University of Toronto. His clinical and academic interests are in cardiac invasive procedures, coronary intervention and intensive cardiac care. Dr. Seidelin focuses on the education of postgraduate general internal medicine and cardiology trainees, and of interventional cardiology fellows. In doing so, he places great emphasis on patient safety and also individual and team safety. Dr. Seidelin has developed a series of novel simulations, simulators and device workshops at the hospital, university and national levels. These have involved trainees in practical procedures to further their understanding and technique.
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ROBERT HYLAND AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN MENTORSHIP
Rob Fowler
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“Dr. Fowler is one of the best teachers I have seen, and he is a role model not only to trainees, but to his peers and colleagues too. His rapport with his peers, students, residents and other health personnel is excellent.” - Abhijit Duggal
“He is a humble master of encouraging the pursuit of self-learning, exploring unanswered, impactful clinical practice-changing questions, and promoting healthcare to all socioeconomic strata and ages around the world.” - Aleksandra Leligdowicz
“I leave our mentee-mentor conversations feeling buoyed by his enthusiasm and encouragement of my work, and less burdened by the weight of challenging choices and decisions we face in our careers.” - Sharmistha Mishra
“Rob is more than a role model to emulate as a player. It is his active coaching that truly sets him apart as a mentor. Rob makes everyone around him better.” - Nick Daneman
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DEPARTMENT OF MEDICINE AWARD IN QUALITY AND INNOVATION
Irfan Dhalla
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Dr. Irfan Dhalla is a vice-president at Health Quality Ontario, a general internist at St. Michael’s Hospital, and an associate professor in the Department of Medicine and the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation at the University of Toronto. His work, largely focused on using evidence to inform improvements to health care policy and practice, has been recognized with awards from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care, the Canadian Society of Internal Medicine, the Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health, the Toronto Star and the Medical Post. He gets his best advice from Tara Kiran and their three children, Anousha, Nikhil and Mihir.
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DEPARTMENT OF MEDICINE AWARD FOR HUMANISM IN MEDICINE
Nora Cullen
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Dr. Nora Cullen is a specialist in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and Chief of Staff at West Park Healthcare Centre. She completed medical school at U of T, followed by residency in 1998 and a research fellowship at the Rehabilitation Institute of Michigan in 1999. Since then, she has worked clinically with adults who have sustained a brain injury, assisting them with re-integration into the community. She is an Associate Professor at U of T where she teaches medical students, residents and fellows. Her research interests involve long-term outcome measurement in patients following brain injury as well as the interventions and systems of care that optimize those outcomes. She is the founding chair of NepalAbility, a charity that provides teaching, mentoring and financial support to clinicians in rural Nepal who are caring for patients with significant disabilities.
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Luke Devine
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Dr. Luke Devine is an assistant professor and clinician educator in the Department of Medicine. His current appointments include Director of Undergraduate Medical Education in the DoM, Site Lead and CTU Director in the Division of GIM at Mount Sinai Hospital and Faculty Supervisor of the Internal Medicine Interest Group. Dr. Devine has won multiple teaching and education awards, including the Ted Freedman Award for Innovation in Education, awarded for the development of innovations that advocate, inspire and enable education in Canada. Internationally, Dr. Devine is recognized as a leader in simulation based medical education.
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Andrea Page
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Dr. Andrea Page is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine and an attending physician on the GIM CTU at MSH and the ID rotation at MSH/UHN. Her interest in medical education was fostered during her year as Chief Medical Resident at MSH/UHN, and she currently holds several roles in educational leadership, including MSH Site Director for the Internal Medicine program and MSH/UHN Education Coordinator for the ID rotation. More recently, she was appointed as one of the interim co-directors of the Mentorship, Equity, and Diversity Committee for the Department of Medicine.
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WILLIAM GOLDIE AWARD IN RESEARCH
An-Wen Chan
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Dr. Chan is a clinical epidemiologist and Mohs micrographic skin cancer surgeon at Women’s College Hospital. He is the Phelan Scientist at Women’s College Research Institute and Associate Professor of Medicine U of T. His research focuses on developing ways to improve the quality and transparency of clinical trials, as well as preventing and managing high-risk skin cancer, particularly in solid organ transplant recipients. Dr. Chan leads the international SPIRIT initiative to improve the quality of clinical trial protocols and chairs the Advisory Panel of the World Health Organization’s International Clinical Trials Registry Platform.
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Camilla Wong
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Dr. Camilla Wong is a geriatrician at St. Michael’s Hospital, associate professor at the University of Toronto and project investigator at the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute. Her clinical and research interests include ‘interface geriatrics,’ the intersection between proactive comprehensive geriatric assessment and a health event that results in a significant change in the health status of an older adult. The geriatric trauma model developed and evaluated at St. Michael’s Hospital has been adopted at other national and international trauma care centres.
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