2013 Faculty of MedicineResearch Awards Celebration

Catharine WhitesideDean, Faculty of Medicine

Vice Provost, Relations with Health Care Institutions

Alison BuchanVice Dean, Research and International Relations

Molly ShoichetProfessor, Terrence Donnelly Centre for Cellular

and Biomolecular Research & Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering.

Dr. Shoichet was elected a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering and Member of the

International Fellows of Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine. She is also the recipient of a

Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal.

Katherine SiminovitchProfessor, Department of Medicine &

Canada Research Chair in the Mechanisms Regulating Immunologic Disease.

Dr. Siminovitch was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.

Z. Jeff DaskalakisProfessor, Department of Psychiatry

Dr. Daskalakis was appointed the Temerty Chair in Therapeutic Brain Stimulation, which is held jointly at the Centre for Addiction and Mental

Health and the University of Toronto.

Arnold NoyekProfessor Emeritus, Department of

Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery & Officer of the Order of Canada

Molly VerrierProfessor, Department of Physical Therapy &

Senior Scientist at UHN – Toronto Rehab

Rory FisherProfessor Emeritus, Department of Medicine

Officer of the Order of Ontario &Recipient of the Queen Elizabeth II

Diamond Jubilee Medal

Paula RochonProfessor, Department of Medicine

Vice-President, Research, Women’s College Hospital &

Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences

Vivian RambiharAssistant Professor, Department of Medicine

& Recipient of the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal

Kate BanksAssistant Professor, Department

of Physiology & Techniplast Veterinarian of the Year (Canadian Association for

Laboratory Medicine)

Angela CheungProfessor, Department of Medicine &

Recipient of the 2012 Dr. David Sackett Senior Investigator Award from the Canadian Society of

Internal Medicine

Karim MekhailAssistant Professor, Department of

Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology & Recipient of the Maud Menten New

Investigator Prize, Biomedical Theme

from the CIHR Institute of GeneticsJulie Claycomb

Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular Genetics &

Canada Research Chair in Small RNA Biology

Trevor MoraesAssistant Professor, Department of

Biochemistry & Canada Research Chair in Structural

Biology of Membrane Proteins