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Announcements – June 2023

Announcements – June 2023

  • Congratulations to…
  • Special Congratulations to our Retirees!
  • Endocrinology Divisional Leadership Change
  • Chief Medical Resident Changeover
  • Postings

 Congratulations to…

  • Anju Anand, recipient of the 2023 Dean’s Alumni Humanitarian Award for co-founding the South Asian COVID Task Force (SACTF) to create culturally-appropriate public health messaging early in the COVID-19 pandemic. As well for co-founding the This is Our Shot (TiOS) COVID-19 vaccination campaign, which gained support from a nationwide volunteer coalition of 500+ health care professionals and influencers. And for her work as a cystic fibrosis specialist, to improve the patient experience through the development and use of digital communication tools and channels.
  • Fahad Razak, winner of the 2023 Goldie Travel Award for Research (Clinical)
  • Samir Gupta, winner of the Department of Medicine Award in Quality and Innovation for 2022
  • Bob Josse, inducted into the 2023 Class of Master Clinicians
  • Jane Batt, appointed UTDOM Vice-Chair of Research as of June 1, 2023
  • Dan Selchen, recipient of the Peter Ashby Award from the UT Division of Neurology
  • Rashida Haq, recipient of the UT Division of Medical Oncology Faculty Award for Education
  • Malika Sharma, recipient of the UT Division of Infectious Diseases Early Faculty Research Award
  • Jeff Perl, recipient of the Distinguished Leader Award from the American Society of Nephrology
  • Fahad Razak, recipient of the 2023 Dr. Robert Sargeant Awardfor Mentorshipin GIM
  • Reena Pattani, recipient of a 2023 Mid-Career Teaching Award in GIM

Special congratulations to our Retirees!  Thank you and best wishes as you start your next chapter!

  • Ezio La Delfa, General Internal Medicine
  • Rashida Haq, Hematology/Oncology
  • Victor Hoffstein, Respirology
  • Marika Hohol, Neurology

Endocrinology Divisional Leadership Change

Congratulations to Andrew Advani who is the successful candidate for the role of Head, Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism at SMH.  Andrew has been Interim Head since April 2022 and will therefore transition into this role immediately.

Thank you to the members of the Search Committee (Jacqueline James, Dana Whitham, Catherine Yu, Cynthia Luk, Julie Gilmour and Omar Saeed) for their thoughtful input.

Chief Medical Resident Update

With every new academic year, we say goodbye to our Chief Medical Resident.  Please join me in extending our sincere thanks to Dr. Grace Wang for the tremendous job she has done over the past year! Her support and advocacy for the residents has been outstanding! We wish her well as she embarks on her GI fellowship.

Please join me in welcoming Dr. Orly Bogler, who will become Chief Medical Resident as of July 1!  We all look forward to working with Orly!

Postings

Please visit https://www.smhdom.com/documents/job-postings to see positions available in the SMH DOM

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