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