Honours & Awards

Sean Cleary (GenSurg) has been awarded the Frank Mills Award.

Natalie Coburn (GenSurg) has recently been granted a Career Scientist Award with the Ministry of Health and Long Term Care. Through the Career Scientist Awards, the ministry supports outstanding candidates to carryout independent research in health services. By investing in health services researchers in Ontario, the ministry is working to ensure that the necessary human resources are present to address issues that are important to Ontario's health care system. Health services research examines the management, organization, and effectiveness of health services to inform decision-making in policy, development, planning and delivery of health services.

Walid Farhat (UrolSurg) was awarded the 2008 A.W. Bruce Faculty Undergraduate Teaching Award from the University of Toronto.

Michael Fehlings (NeurSurg) has been appointed Director of the University of Toronto Neurosciences Program.

Neil Fleshner (UrolSurg) was named the inaugural Love Chair in Prostate Cancer Prevention at UHN. This Hospital/University Chair acknowledges Neil's tremendous accomplishments as a scientist, a surgeon and an administrative leader.

Ab Guha (NeurSurg) was named one of the University of Toronto, Mississauga's top 40 Alumni as part of its 40 Year Anniversary celebration.

Leila Lax (Surg/BMC) was presented with the Fred Fallis Award in Online Learning, Undergraduate Medical Education, at the 6th Annual Education Achievement Event held on May 20, 2008.

Armando Lorenzo (UrolSurg) won the Family Advisory Humanitarian Award in May 2008 at SickKids.

Cindi Morshead (Anat) was granted tenure at the rank of Associate Professor, effective as of July 1, 2008.

Glenn Regehr (Surg/The Wilson Centre) is this year's recipient of the Medical Council of Canada's Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Evaluation of Clinical Competence.

James Rutka's (NeurSurg) international contribution to neurosurgery is being recognized by his selection as the 2009 "Honoured Guest" of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons in New Orleans. The Congress is the biggest neurosurgical meeting in the world. The "Honoured Guest" gives three or four major plenary addresses and actually creates the entire atmosphere for this meeting. Jim is an extraordinary ambassador for University of Toronto surgery!

Patricia Stewart (Surg/BMC) was presented with the Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award, Undergraduate Medical Education, at the 6th Annual Education Achievement Event held on May 20, 2008.

Michael Wiley (Anat) was presented with the Aikins Award for Innovative Methods, Undergraduate Medical Education, at the 6th Annual Education Achievement Event held on May 20, 2008.

Carin Wittnich (Res) was presented with the Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award, Undergraduate Medical Education, at the 6th Annual Education Achievement Event held on May 20, 2008.

Douglas Wooster (VascSurg) was presented with the Colin R. Woolf Award in Long-term Contribution to CE Activities and the David Fear Fellowship, Undergraduate Medical Education, at the 6th Annual Education Achievement Event held on May 20, 2008.

David Cadotte (NeurSurg Resident) received the Fitzgerald Academy, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Resident Teacher Excellence Award for the 2007-2008 academic year.

Barbara Haas (GenSurg Resident) is the recipient of the Paddy Lewis Award.

Gregory Hawryluk (NeurSurg Resident) was awarded First Place in the Basic Science, Eastern Canada Category at the Canadian Surgical Forum, Halifax N.S., September 13, 2008 for his abstract and talk entitled "Examination of the Early Effects of Neural Precursor Cell Transplantation of the Peri-Lesional Environment of the Injured Spinal Cord".

Varun Kapila (GenSurg Resident) is the recipient of the Paddy Lewis Award.

Betty Kim (NeurSurg Resident) has been awarded the Neveren (Miriam) Memorial Prize and the Joseph M. West Family Memorial.

Patrick Tawadros (GenSurg Resident) awarded the Best Oral Presentation Award in Basic Science at the Critical Care Medicine Annual Research Day in Toronto, June 2008.

Patrick also received the award for Best Basic Science Poster Presentation at the Canadian Association of General Surgeons Annual Meeting in Halifax, Nova Scotia, September 2008.