Academic Achievements & Awards

Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians Honorary Lifetime Member Award. Dr. Howard Ovens

International Federation of Emergency Medicine, Clinical Practice Committee Chair. Dr. Don Melady

Society for Academic Emergency Medicine 2022 Faculty Award for Best Abstract, Presentation, and Manuscript. Risk of intracranial hemorrhage between direct oral anticoagulants in older patients seen in the emergency department with a head injury: A population based cohort study. Dr. Keerat Grewal

Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine, Appointed Decision Editor. Dr. Catherine Varner

Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians 2022 Research Plenary: The Best of Canadian EM Research (Plenary 1). Impact of a knowledge to practice intervention to promote use of POCUS-GRA in the ED on the rate of delirium in older people with hip fracture: A multicenter stepped-wedge pragmatic cluster randomized trial. Dr. Jacques Lee

Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians 2022 Grant Innes Research Paper and Presentation Award. Impact of a knowledge to practice intervention to promote use of POCUS-GRA in the ED on the rate of delirium in older people with hip fracture: A multicenter stepped- wedge pragmatic cluster randomized trial. Dr. Jacques Lee

Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians 2022 Best Medical Education Innovation Award. Co-designing a web-based education platform for patients with early pregnancy loss. Dr. Catherine Varner

Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians 2022 Top 7 Research Moderated Posters. Emergency department volumes and outcomes for appendicitis and ectopic pregnancy diagnoses during the COVID-19 pandemic: A population based study. Dr. Keerat Grewal

Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians 2022 Emergency Ultrasound Committee Research Award – Administration. Towards quality assurance: implementation of a POCUS image archiving system in a high-volume community emergency department. Dr. Rohit Mohindra and Dr. Paul Hannam

Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians 2022 Top Resident Research Award. Intra-articular lidocaine versus intravenous sedation for closed reduction of acute anterior shoulder dislocation in the emergency department: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Dr. Arjun Sithamparapillai (supervised by Dr. Keerat Grewal and Dr. Shelley McLeod)

Promoted to Associate Professor, Department of Family and Community Medicine, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto. Dr. Catherine Varner

Promoted to Associate Professor, Department of Family and Community Medicine, Temerty Faculty of Medicine University of Toronto. Dr. Shelley McLeod

Co-authored a textbook, “Creating a Geriatric Emergency Department”, published by Cambridge University Press. Dr. Don Melady

Nominated for Outstanding Clinical Teaching Award. Division of Emergency Medicine, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto. Dr. Rohit Mohindra

Research Co-Leads, Division of Emergency Medicine Executive, Department of Family and Community Medicine, Termerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto. Dr. Catherine Varner and Dr. Shelley McLeod

Member of the Ontario Health R5 Pandemic Response Table. Dr. Howard Ovens.

Promotion to Full Member with the Institute of Medical Science, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto. Dr. Jacques Lee.

2022 Esther and Saul Baker Award. Department of Geriatrics, Sinai Health and University Health Network. Dr. Marie-Pier Lanoue.

Leon and Blossom Wigdor Award. Institute of Life Course in Aging, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto. Ms. Sara Corvinelli