LMP awards in teaching, research and service

A faculty member who has shown sustained excellence in individual teaching performance in Undergraduate Medicine, Arts and Science, and other Health Sciences. 

Nominate for the Undergraduate Teaching Award

Previous winners

• 2024 - Sunit Das
• 2023 - Jason Fish
• 2022 - Michelle Bendeck
• 2021 - Corwyn Rowsell
• 2020 - Karim Mekhail
• 2019 - Lianna Kyriakopoulou
• 2018 - Ozgur Mete
• 2017 - Anna Plotkin
• 2016 - David Irwin
• 2015 - Doug Templeton
• 2014 - Paul Yip
• 2013 - Hong Chang
• 2012 - HeYu Ni
• 2011 - Susan Poutanen
• 2010 - Pang Shek
• 2009 - Eleanor Latta
• 2008 - Lei fu
• 2007 - Wolfgang Vogel
• 2006 - Michael Ohh
• 2005 - Michelle Bendeck
• 2004 - Art Vandenbroucke
• 2003 - Simon Raphael
• 2002 - Miles Johnston
• 2001 - Denis Bailey and Martin Petric
• 2000 - Marie Louie

A faculty member who has shown excellence in clinical teaching and/or education in LMP within the first six years of their university appointment. 

This award was formerly categorised as Early Clinical Teaching Excellence Award in PGME and Early Clinical Teaching Excellence Award in UME, which has now been combined.

Nominate for the Early Career Teaching Award

Previous winners

• 2024 - Mario Capitano
• 2023 - Felix Leung
• 2022 - Klaudia Nowak
• 2021 - Rajeevan Selvaratnam

Previous winners (former PGME category)

• 2020 - Gulisa Turashvili
• 2019 - James Conner
• 2018 - Carlo Hojilla
• 2017 - Carlos Parra-Herran

Previous winners (former UME category)

• 2020 - Lusia Sepiashvili
• 2019 - Hala Faragalla
• 2018 - Michelle Downes
• 2017 - Adriana Krizova

A faculty member who has shown excellence in medical residents' education. This can be demonstrated through course teaching, one-on-one teaching or lectures, in addition to other education tools.

This award is for resident teaching, excluding clinical fellows and medical students.

Nominate for Clinical Teaching Excellence Award in Residency Teaching Award

Previous winners

• 2024 - David Barth
• 2023 - Katerina Pavenski
• 2022 - Anjelica Hodgson
• 2021 - Susan Poutanen

This award was formerly combined as the Award for Graduate and Postgraduate Education, the previous winners of that category are:

• 2020 - Larissa Matukas and Christopher Sherman
• 2019 - Paul Hamel and Stephen Girardin
• 2018 - George Yousef
• 2017 - Khosrow Adeli
• 2016 - Julia Keith
• 2015 - Jeffrey Lee and Karim Mekhail
• 2014 - Catherine Streutker
• 2013 - Jeanne Callum
• 2012 - Terence Colgan
• 2011 - Nadia Ismiil
• 2010 - David Munoz
• 2009 - Ingrid Zbieranowski
• 2008 - Myron Cybulsky
• 2007 - Jeremy Mogridge
• 2006 - Mahmoud Khalifa
• 2005 - Bill Chapman
• 2004 - Barry Hoffman
• 2003 - David Irwin
• 2002 - Paul Hamel
• 2001 - Marc Grynpas
• 2000 - Sylvia Asa

A faculty member who has shown excellence in clinical fellowship teaching. Nominees who have not previously received this award will be favoured.

Nominate for Teaching Excellence Award in Fellowship Teaching Award

Previous winners

• 2024 - Blaise Clarke
• 2023 - Andrew Williams
• 2022 - Carmen Avila-Casado
• 2021 - Sharon Nofech-Mozes
• 2020 - Anna Marie Mulligan
• 2019 - Yvonne Yau
• 2018 - Zeina Ghorab and Toby Rose 
• 2017 - Danny Ghazarian

Awarded to a faculty member for their excellence in the teaching and supervision of MSc and PhD graduate and life sciences students (Research and Health Science Education (RHSE)).

Nominate for Teaching Excellence in Graduate Education Award

Previous winners

• 2024 - Scott Yuzwa
• 2023 - Daniel Winer
• 2022 - Joseph Ferenbok
• 2021 - Jeff Lee

This award was formerly combined as the Award for Graduate and Postgraduate Education, the previous winners of that category are:

• 2020 - Larissa Matukas and Christopher Sherman
• 2019 - Paul Hamel and Stephen Girardin
• 2018 - George Yousef
• 2017 - Khosrow Adeli
• 2016 - Julia Keith
• 2015 - Jeffrey Lee and Karim Mekhail
• 2014 - Catherine Streutker
• 2013 - Jeanne Callum
• 2012 - Terence Colgan
• 2011 - Nadia Ismiil
• 2010 - David Munoz
• 2009 - Ingrid Zbieranowski
• 2008 - Myron Cybulsky
• 2007 - Jeremy Mogridge
• 2006 - Mahmoud Khalifa
• 2005 - Bill Chapman
• 2004 - Barry Hoffman
• 2003 - David Irwin
• 2002 - Paul Hamel
• 2001 - Marc Grynpas
• 2000 - Sylvia Asa

A faculty member with 10 or more years of appointment who has shown a sustained excellence in clinical education at any level (undergraduate, graduate and post-graduate).

Nominate for Sustained Excellence Education Award

Previous winners

• 2024 - Lianna Kyriakopoulou
• 2023 - Paul Yip
• 2022 - Brendan Dickson and Jeff Lee
• 2021 - Brendon Mullen and Susan Done

For outstanding contributions by an LMP faculty member to the design, development or coordination of any course or a digital education initiative in the Temerty Faculty of Medicine, Arts and Sciences, Postgraduate Education and Continuing Education. The course/program must be successfully running for at least two years.

Nominate for John B. Walter Prize

Previous winners

• 2024 - Scot Hamilton and Yulia Lin
• 2023 - Avrum I. Gotlieb
• 2022 - Vathany Kulasingam
• 2021 - Gabriella Chan
• 2020 - Carlo Hojilla
• 2019 - Maria Pasic
• 2018 - Clifford Lingwood
• 2017 - Stephen Girardin
• 2016 - Michael Pollanen
• 2015 - Sima Salahshor
• 2014 - Shabin Nanji
• 2013 - Eleanor Latta
• 2012 - George Yousef
• 2011 - Miles Johnston 
• 2010 - Sarah Keating
• 2009 - Ian Crandall
• 2008 - Robert Riddell
• 2007 - Christopher Sherman
• 2006 - Khosrow Adeli
• 2005 - Martin McGavin
• 2004 - Doug Templeton and Avrum Gotlieb
• 2003 - Alice Lytwyn
• 2002 - Jagdish Butany
• 2001 - Susan Richardson
• 2000 - Denis MacDonald

A faculty member in the department of LMP, in recognition of original research, invention, or creative professional activity that improves our understanding of mechanisms of disease or advances clinical practice relevant to the discipline.

Open to both the life sciences and clinical streams.

Nominate for Richard G. Hegele Award

Previous winners

• 2024 - Sara Vasconcelos and Daniel Beriault
• 2023 - Samira Mubareka and Rumina Musani
• 2022 - Heyu Ni and Ming-Sound Tsao
• 2021 - Cynthia Hawkins
• 2020 - Khosrow Adeli
• 2019 - Michael Ohh
• 2018 - Jason Fish
• 2017 - Michael Pollanen

For faculty or administrative staff who have demonstrated the highest level of sustained service to the department in education, research, creative professional activity or administrative services. The recipient demonstrates innovation, excellence or scholarship and provides outstanding leadership that advances the vision and mission of the department. The recipient of this award will have provided outstanding leadership for at least 10 years.  

Nominate for Distinguished Service Award

Previous winners

• 2024 - Myron Cybulsky
• 2023 - Jan Delabie
• 2022 - Aaron Pollett
• 2021 - George Yousef and Rick Hegele
• 2020 - Danny Ghazarian
• 2019 - Cathy Streutker
• 2018 - Barry Hoffman
• 2017 - Susan Richardson and Doug Templeton
• 2016 - Harry Elsholtz and Rita Kandel
• 2015 - Robert Riddell
• 2014 - Khosrow Adeli
• 2013 - Allison McGeer
• 2012 - Tony Mazzulli
• 2011 - Marciano Reis
• 2010 - Eleftherios Diamandis
• 2009 - Wedad Hanna
• 2008 - Sylvia Asa
• 2007 - Jagdish Butany
• 2006 - Yvan Bedard
• 2005 - Andrew Simor
• 2004 - Donald Low
• 2003 - David Murray
• 2002 - Laurence Becker
• 2001 - DSR Sarma
• 2000 - Kenneth Pritzker
• 1999 - Andrew Baines
• 1998 - David Goldberg and Dominic Pantalony
• 1997 - Shao-nan Huang and Marika Michael
• 1996 - Ian Dube
• 1995 - Irving Dardick and Malcolm D Silver
• 1994 - Avrum Gotlieb and Richard J Austin
• 1993 - Etienne deHarven
• 1992 - M James Phillips
• 1991 - Emmanuel Farber
• 1990 - Kalman K Kovacs
• 1989 - Dean W Chamberlain
• 1988 - James B Cullen
• 1987 - Henry Z Movat

Recognizing an outstanding contribution by an LMP resident, fellow or graduate student through the design, development or coordination of any course or a digital education initiative in the Temerty Faculty of Medicine and Continuing Education.

Nominate for The Avrum Gotlieb Award

Previous winners

• 2024 - Emily Forster
• 2023 - Negin Khosraviani
• 2022 - Quinn Bonafiglia
• 2021 – Amanda Mohabeer
• 2020 – Susan Armstrong

A faculty member who has shown sustained excellence in individual teaching performance in hematologic pathology.

Nominate for Hematologic Pathology Clinical Teaching Excellence Award

Previous winners

• 2024 - Hubert Tsui
• 2023 - Ali Sakhdari
• 2022 - Larissa Liontos
• 2021 - Anna Tierens

Chosen by the LMP Departmental Chair, this award is given to a faculty member in appreciation for their leadership role and commitment to advancing clinical excellence in LMP. 

Previous winners

• 2024 - David Hwang
• 2023 - Corwyn Rowsell
• 2022 - Patrick Shannon
• 2021 - Scott Boerner
• 2020 - Harry Elsholtz
• 2019 - Rumina Musani
• 2018 - Sachar Sade

A bi-annual award presented to an LMP faculty member who participates in the training of residents in forensic pathology. The criteria for the award include superior contributions in education, research, or creative professional activity.

Previous winners

• 2024 - Michael Pollanen
• 2022 - Kristopher Cunningham
• 2020 - Jayantha Herath

A bi-annual award presented to a faculty member who has shown commitment to mentorship.

Previous winners

• 2024 - Catherin Streutker
• 2022 - Ming-Sound Tsao
• 2020 - Yulia Lin
• 2019 - Myron Cybulsky

Read an interview with Dr. Yulia Lin: Learning from each other: how mentoring is a two-way street for personal and professional development

This award recognizes a graduate student’s dedication as a mentor as part of the LMP Peer-to-Peer Graduate Mentoring Program.

Previous winners

• 2024 - Priya Mistry
• 2023 - Kim Krasta

This award recognizes the dedication of one of our alumni as a mentor and the contribution they make to students’ personal, professional or academic development as part of the LMP Alumni Graduate Mentoring Program.

Previous winners

• 2024 - Richard Hegele
• 2023 - Amanda Mohabeer