Honours, Awards & Achievements
Bharat Sharma (GenSurg) received a CIHR Master's
Award for the study titled: 'Situational Awareness' in
Surgery: Evaluation and Training using lessons learnt
from the Aviation Industry ($17,500 - Supervisor Teodor
Grantcharov)
Jeremy Freeman (H&NSurg) was one of the recipients
of the Colin R. Woolf Award for Long-Term
Contributions to Continuing Education
Michael Taylor (NeurSurg) ranked #2 on the Toronto
Star's list of the biggest scientific discoveries of 2010.
Betty Kim (NeurSurg) has been selected as this year's
Royal College Fellowship Winner.
Mike Ellis (NeurSurg) received an Award for having the
top resident vascular/functional poster at the American
Association of Neurological Surgeons Annual Meeting.
Cleveland, Ohio, November 30-December 3, 2010.
Mike also received a Travelling Fellowship to study at
the Children's Hospital Boston, January-February 2011
Ab Guha (NeurSurg) received a 2 year grant from
B.R.A.I.N Child for his work on Receptor Tyrosine
Kinase Expression, Activations and Inhibition in High
Grade Pediatric Gliomas.
Ab also received a 5-year CIHRGrant for his work
"Oncogene-containing microvesicles as mediators and messengers
of tumour progression".
Jeff Wilson (NeurSurg) received a Cervical Spine
Research Society Resident/Fellow grant for his project
entitled "Determinants of outcomes from traumatic
spinal cord injury: Development of a novel classification
system to facilitate clinical trials and improved therapeutic
strategies".
Michael Fehlings (NeurSurg) was awarded a Seed/
Starter Research and Education Grant for his project
entitled "Investigation of the neuroprotective effects of thioredoxin
for the treatment of spinal cord injury" from the
Cervical Spine Research Society.
Michael Fehlings (NeurSurg) received the 3rd Place
Clinical Science Award from the Cervical Spine Research
Society for his paper entitled, "Anterior vs. posterior surgical
approaches to treat cervical spondylotic myelopathy:
Outcomes of the prospective multicenter AOSpine North
America CSM study in 280 patients".
Michael was also awarded a Hansjörg Wyss Foundation
Award for his project "Intervertebral disc-derived multipotent
stem cell rescue of the injured spinal cord".
Loch Macdonald (NeurSurg) has been elected to the
Editorial Board of the Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow
and Metabolism
Andres Lozano's (NeurSurg) Stereotactic and Functional
Neurosurgery Program at Toronto Western Hospital has
been awarded a 1-year Fellowship Grant by Neurosurgery
Research and Education Foundation (NREF). The grant
is made possible with funding from Codman & Shurtleff
Michael Ellis and Peter Dirks were awarded
a grant from the Ontario Ministry of Health/Ontario
Stroke System to support a pilot study of a prospective
pediatric cerebrovascular disease database at the Hospital
for Sick Children, Toronto
Albert Yee (OrthoSurg) was one of two recipients of
the 2011 Awards for Excellence in Postgraduate Medical
Education in the category of Development and Innovation.
Ryan Neinstein (PlasSurg) was awarded Best Paper at the
2011 American Society of Reconstructive Microsurgery
for his study: "The Role of Peri-operative Fluid Infusion Rate
on Postoperative Complications Following Microsurgical
Breast Reconstruction" (Co-supervised by Toni Zhong
and Stefan Hofer).
Taiba Al-Rasheed (PlasSurg) was awarded funding to
attend the Operation Rainbow mission to India from
March 2 -12, 2011 by theThe Educational
Karen Cross (PlasSurg) was awarded a Mentor Canada,
Johnson and Johnson Medical Companies Prize for Best
Clinical Paper titled: "Multiphoton Imaging of Acute
Thermally Injured Tissue: A Preliminary Assessment of an
Emerging Technology" (Supervisor: Joel Fish).
Kunaal Jindal (PlasSurg) received a Mentor Canada,
Johnson and Johnson Medical Companies Prize for
Best Clinical Paper titled: "Results of Primary Orbital
Fracture Repair: An Analysis of Morphological Outcomes",
(Supervisor: Oleh Antonyshyn)
Siba Haykal (PlasSurg) received the Best Basic Science
Award for the "Evaluating the Extracellular Matrix
Components Following Decellularization of Tracheal
Allografts Used for Airway Transplantation" (Supervisors:
Stefan Hofer and Thomas Waddell)
Siba also received the Training Program in Regenerative
Medicine Scholarship (supervisor - Thomas Waddell)
and a PSI Resident Research Grant (supervisor -
Thomas Waddell)
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Kristen Davidge (PlasSurg) received the Best Clinical
Paper Award for the article "Qualitative Assessment of
Patient Experiences Following Sacrectomy and Reconstruction"
(Supervisors: Joan Lipa and Frances Wright)
Marcelo Cypel (ThorSurg) received the Michael E.
DeBakey Research Scholarship from the American
Association of Thoracic Surgery, 2010
Marcelo Cypel and Thomas Waddell (ThorSurg) were
awarded the Princess Margaret Hospital Foundation's
Invest in Research Award, 2010
Thomas Waddell and Shaf Keshavjee (ThorSurg)
received the McEwen Centre Acceleration Award:
Towards Human Tracheal Decellularized Allografts,
2010 - 2012
Tom also received - the La Roche Organ Transplant
Research Fund: Lung Progenitor Cell Profiling in the
Development of Bronchiolitis Obliterans Syndrome; -
a Physician's Services Incorporated Foundation grant:
Determining the Immunogenicity of Decellularized
Tracheal Allografts and a Canadian Institutes of Health
Research grant to study Mitigation of Radiation-Induced
Lung Damage with Richard Hill Andrew Hope.
Thomas Waddell and Alison McGuigan (ThorSurg)
were awarded the NSERC-CIHR Collaborative Health
Research Program: Engineering Improved Tracheal
Replacement Tissues.
Takahiro Nakajima (ThorSurg) received the Young
Investigator Award of the American College of Chest
Physicians (supervisor - Kazuhiro Yasufuku)
Kazuhiro Yasufuku (ThorSurg) received the CIHR:
Emerging Team Grant to study Nanotechnology-
Enabled Image-Guided Interventions in Vascular and
Lung Diseases (2010 - 2014)
Shaf Keshavjee and Mingyao Liu (ThorSurg) received
a Ministry of Research and Innovation GL2 - 01-019
Grant: Molecular and Genomic Diagnostics to Improve
Outcomes in Lung Transplantation.
Robert Zeldin and Carmine Simone (ThorSurg) and
the Thoracic Team from TEGH have won another
Quality Award from Cancer Care Ontario for their work
partnering with Royal Victoria Hospital (RVH) in Barrie
and setting up a successful Diagnostic Assessment Unit
modelled on their previous award winning "Time to
Treat" Rapid Access Lung Cancer Program.
Michael Ko (ThorSurg) received the President's Award
for the Best Scientific Abstract submitted by a resident or
young investigator to the Society of Thoracic Surgeons
47th Annual Meeting in San Diego.
Michael also received the Pearson Day Award and the
Pearson Teaching Award, 2010
Barry Rubin (UrolSurg) was awarded the 2010 Lister
Prize in Surgery for sustained excellence in surgical
research over the course of a career, for his research into
the mechanisms that regulate recovery of heart function
after a heart attack.
Joao L. Pippi Salle (Pediatric UrolSurg) was honored
on Dec. 3, 2010 with the Herbie Doctor of the Year
Award for 2010 recognizing all of his contributions to
underprivileged children needing care at SickKids from
all over the world.
Thomas Lindsay (VascSurg) is the recipient of this
year's Ross Fleming Surgical Educator Award. This
award is presented by the Surgeon-in-Chief at UHN for
Excellence in Surgical Education
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