LMP awards in teaching, research and service
We recognize and celebrate outstanding contributions in teaching, research and service through our annual departmental awards.
Nominations for many of these awards come from our faculty, staff and learners.
Awards are presented at our Annual Celebration of Excellence which takes place in June each year. This year, the event will take place on Thursday, June 19, 2025.
Contact lmp.chairadmin@utoronto.ca for questions about the awards.
Award nominations for 2024-2025 are now closed
Award for Undergraduate Teaching
A faculty member who has shown sustained excellence in individual teaching performance in Undergraduate Medicine, Arts and Science, and other Health Sciences.
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
Early Career Teaching Award
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.
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
Clinical Teaching Excellence Award in Residency Teaching
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.
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
Teaching Excellence Award in Fellowship Teaching
A faculty member who has shown excellence in clinical fellowship teaching. Nominees who have not previously received this award will be favoured.
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
Teaching Excellence in Graduate Education
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)).
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
Sustained Excellence Education Award
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).
Previous winners
- 2024 - Lianna Kyriakopoulou
- 2023 - Paul Yip
- 2022 - Brendan Dickson and Jeff Lee
- 2021 - Brendon Mullen and Susan Done
The John B. Walter Prize for Course and Curriculum Design and Development (faculty)
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.
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
Richard G. Hegele Award for Excellence in Research and Innovation
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.
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
LMP Distinguished Service Award
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.
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
The Avrum Gotlieb Award for Curriculum Development and Teaching Excellence in Training (resident, fellow or graduate student)
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.
Previous winners
- 2024 - Emily Forster
- 2023 - Negin Khosraviani
- 2022 - Quinn Bonafiglia
- 2021 – Amanda Mohabeer
- 2020 – Susan Armstrong
Hematologic Pathology Clinical Teaching Excellence Award
A faculty member who has shown sustained excellence in individual teaching performance in hematologic pathology.
Previous winners
- 2024 - Hubert Tsui
- 2023 - Ali Sakhdari
- 2022 - Larissa Liontos
- 2021 - Anna Tierens
Awards not open to nominations
LMP Leadership Acknowledgement Award
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
The Raymond Chang Award in Forensic Medicine (bi-annual)
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
Mentoring Awards
These awards are chosen based on mentee nomination and mentoring committee decision.
LMP Faculty Outstanding Mentor Award (bi-annual)
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
Outstanding student mentor
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
Outstanding Alumni Mentor
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