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Department of Medicine Weekly Roundup - March 14

Congratulations to Dr. Laura Walker! Recipient of the 2024 Award for Excellence in Postgraduate Medical Education
REMINDER: Annual Medical Staff Re-appointments
Celebrating Dr. Thomas Parker’s significant contributions to leadership
Guinness world record for SMH Transplant Program
CRAFT - Diagnostics Horizon's Laboratory - At Unity Health
LKSKI – Parking Garage Closure
REMINDER: Nominations now open: SMHDOM Master Clinician Award, Dr. Michael R Freeman Award for Integrity and Professionalism, and the Dr. Michael Ward Mentorship Award
REMINDER: Call for Nominations now Open - Unity Health Toronto Education Awards

Congragulations to Dr. Laura Walker who has been selected as one of the recipients of the 2024 Awards for Excellence in Postgraduate Medical Education in the category of Teaching Performance, Mentorship and Advocacy.

Congratulations Laura!

CMaRS went live for all of UHT – all physicians should have received an email from CMaRS.

If you did not receive the CMaRs email today, please contact Narisha Jiwa at [email protected]

Please be sure to complete your re-appointment before March 31!

Please join us on Wednesday, March 27 at Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute at St. Michael’s Hospital to celebrate Dr. Thomas Parker’s, Executive Vice-President Clinical and Chief Medical Officer, significant contributions to leadership.

Dr. Parker will be retiring from his executive role on April 5, 2024. After a sabbatical, he will continue as a clinical Cardiologist at St. Michael’s Hospital.

Dr. Parker served as Chief Resident in Cardiology at St. Michael’s in 1988. After tenures at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, and at University Health Network in Toronto, he was recruited back to St. Michael’s in 2003 as Head of the Division of Cardiology. He was the inaugural Brazilian Ball Chair in Cardiology Research – positions he held until 2010. In 2010, and was appointed Physician-in-Chief and Squires-Chalmers professor in the Department of Medicine at St. Michael’s. Dr. Parker also served as Chair of the Medical Advisory Committee and was a member of the Joint Board Steering Committee during the integration of Providence Healthcare, St. Joseph’s Health Centre and St. Michael’s.

Please join us to celebrate Dr. Parker:

Wednesday, March 27

2:00 to 4:00 p.m. (speeches will begin at 2:30 p.m.)

Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, 38 Shuter, Room 136

Dr. Ramesh Prasad and the Kidney Transplant Program at SMH have set a Guinness world record for the oldest patient ever to receive a kidney transplant.

To read more about this world record please click on the link: https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/762969-oldest-kidney-transplant-recipient-male

CRAFT-led team awarded $17.5M to create new generation of ‘distributed’ diagnostics.

A team of researchers from the University of Toronto (U of T), Unity Health Toronto (Unity), University Health Network (UHN) and the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) have been awarded a $17.5M grant from the Canada Foundation for Innovation and partners to build the Diagnostic Horizons Lab (DHL) in Toronto.

The Li Ka Shing Parking Garage (209 Victoria St) will be closed due to essential maintenance work on Thursday March 28^th at 11:00pm to Monday April 1^st.

We apologize for the inconvenience this may cause.

Thank you,

UHT Security Leadership

Nominations are open for the following SMH DOM Awards:

- SMHDOM Master Clinician Award

- Dr. Michael R Freeman Award for Integrity and Professionalism

- Dr. Michael Ward Mentorship Award

Nomination deadline is March 31^st. Please see the attached emails for more details about these awards.

Unity Health Toronto Education Awards Nomination Form (smhroot.net)