Honours and Awards

David Juurlink Receives William B. Abrams Young Investigator's Award

Dr. David Juurlink (Department of Medicine) won the William B. Abrams Award in Geriatric Clinical Pharmacology of the American Society of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics at the society's annual meeting in Orlando in March 2005. The award is given to a young investigator in the field of Geriatric Clinical Pharmacology for outstanding contributions to the field.

Ed Etchells Receives Patient Safety Project Award

The UofT Council of Health Science and Social Work Deans declared Dr. Ed Etchells and colleagues as recipients of the 2005 Inter-professional Education (IPE) Patient Safety Project Award, for their proposal, "Inter-professional Simulation and Patient Safety Education Module". This project will be conducted over the next year. Dr. Etchells is Associate Professor in the department of Medicine and HPME.

Dave Davis to be the Petersdorf Scholar-in-Residence

Dr. Dave Davis, Professor in HPME, will be the Petersdorf Scholar-in-Residence at the Association of American Medical Colleges from December 2005 to May 2006. During his stay, Dr. Davis will focus on CME delivery and accreditation in the United States and Canada.

Donald Wasylenki Re-appointed Chair of Psychiatry

Dr. Donald Wasylenki, Professor in the department of Psychiatry and HPME, has been appointed to a second five-year term as Chair of the Department of Psychiatry and as Psychiatrist-in-Chief at St. Michael's Hospital. Both appointments are effective as of July 1, 2005.

David Zakus Appointed President of (former) IHMEC

Dr. David Zakus, Associate Professor in HPME was installed for a two-year term as the next President of the International Health Medical Education Consortium (IHMEC) at the Consortium's Annual Conference in San Francisco, California in April 2005. As one of his first duties, he chaired the Annual General Meeting at which the IHMEC changed its name to the Global Health Education Consortium (GHEC) (see website: www.gheco.org). Although the membership of 86 institutions involves mostly US medical schools, membership is now being encouraged from other health professions.

Allan Detsky Receives 2005 Career Achievement Award

Dr. Allan Detsky, Professor in HPME and the Department of Medicine, has been recognized for lifetime achievement by the US Society for Medical Decision-Making with the 2005 Career Achievement Award. The award will by presented at the Society's annual meeting in San Francisco in October, at which Dr. Detsky will speak.

Murray Krahn Named F. Norman Hughes Chair in Pharmacoeconomics

The first F. Norman Hughes Chair in Pharmacoeconomics at the UofT Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy has been awarded to Dr. Murray Krahn, Associate Professor in HPME. The chair, named in honour of the first dean of UofT's Faculty of Pharmacy, will measure the economic benefits of pharmacists and pharamceuticals to the health of patients. Dr. Krahn's research will focus on the evaluation of alternative reimbursement methods for pharmacy services and cost-effective use of medicine in the treatment of disease.

Susan Jaglal Named Chair in Rehabilitation Research

Dr. Susan Jaglal, Associate Professor in the departments of HPME and Physical Therapy and Senior Scientist at Toronto Rehabilitation Institute (Toronto Rehab), has been named the first joint Chair in Rehabilitation Research by Toronto Rehab and UofT. The new Toronto Rehabilitation Institute Chair at the University of Toronto is one of five endowed research chairs totaling $10M created to support Toronto Rehab's growing rehabilitation research enterprise. Dr. Jaglal's research interests include hip fracture, osteoporosis, fall prevention, orthopaedic treatments, and women and heart disease.

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