Please see below for the following updates:

• Congratulations to Our CIHR Project Grant Recipients!
• Michael Lazarus Award
• UT Dept of Medicine: Late Career Transitions Workshop 2025
• Call for Nominations: Charles Mickle Fellowship Award
• Thrive training now available to Unity Health physicians
• Faculty Announcement | PGME Faculty Lead, Fellowships

 Dear Colleagues,

I am delighted to share that several members of the Department of Medicine have been awarded CIHR Project Grants in this funding cycle. Please join me in congratulating:

• Jane Batt – $100,000 (1 year)
• Claudia Dos Santos – $543,150 (2 years)
• Warren Lee – $944,775 (5 years)
• Joel Ray – $466,650 (2 years)

These grants recognize their exceptional research and commitment to advancing medicine. Congratulations to all recipients on this well-deserved success!

Natalie

Jeff Perl has been honored with the J. Michael Lazarus Award by the National Kidney Foundation (NKF). This award recognizes individuals whose research has provided novel insights into renal replacement therapy. Jeff will deliver the J. Michael Lazarus Distinguished Lecture titled "Finding Our Way 'Home'" on Friday, April 11, 2025, during the NKF Spring Clinical Meetings in Boston.

The Late Career Transitions Workshop 2025 will take place on Mar 25, 2025, 7:00pm - 8:30pm, hosted by the Department of Medicine. This workshop is designed to support faculty in navigating the professional and personal aspects of late-career transitions, including retirement planning, mentorship opportunities, and continued contributions to academia and clinical practice.

For More information and to register please visit:

https://deptmedicine.utoronto.ca/event/late-career-transitions-workshop-2025

Please see the award opportunity below and advise Arno if you would like to move forward with a nomination. The deadline is March 17, 2025 at noon.

Charles Mickle Fellowship Award

The Charles Mickle Fellowship Award was established in 1921 to advance and promote sound medical knowledge. The award recognizes senior faculty who have made exceptional contributions to medical education at the University of Toronto throughout their careers. One award is presented annually at the Temerty Faculty of Medicine Education Achievement Celebration.

Thank you,

Ramona

Unity Health is pleased to be offering Thrive training for physicians, nurse practitioners, midwives and physician assistants. Thrive training is a great way to improve your proficiency in Epic, with a focus on updating user settings, learning how to perform workflows in fewer steps and discovering other tips and tricks to improve efficiency. Thrive training requires only a two-hour time commitment and will help you save time on daily Epic-related tasks.

Thrive classes will be offered from Feb. 6 to March 31, 2025. Classes are virtual, discipline-specific and led by Epic trainers. Classes are open to all Epic community members, providing a great opportunity to connect with clinicians from other organizations. Attendance is strongly recommended. 

Registration for Thrive training is available in Epic University (EpicU) – Epic’s learning management system. To register, please follow the instructions in this how-to document. Each of you has been mapped to a discipline-specific training track, which should make it easy to find the class(es) that you’re eligible to complete. If you think that you were mapped incorrectly, please email [email protected]. More information can be found in this FAQs document. 

Please note: 

• Space is limited, and classes will be offered on a first come, first served basis. Register early to avoid disappointment! Classes are led by Epic; Unity Health is unable to add additional sessions.
• You may see sessions available in EpicU through May 30. Please register for a class in February or March; Unity Health cannot guarantee that the program will be offered beyond March 31.
• Class times may be listed in CST. Please keep this in mind when you’re registering.

Thrive training is being offered in response to feedback that many of you want more opportunities to practice new workflows and ask questions about Epic. These classes are a great way to do that. Successful completion will help reduce frustration and lead to more comfortability with the new system. I strongly encourage you to attend. 

Dear Colleagues,

I am delighted to announce that Dr. Laura Simone is appointed to the role of PGME Faculty Lead, Fellowships effective March 1, 2025. The Faculty Lead, Fellowships is responsible for strategic oversight and direction of Fellowships in PGME. This role will also be an essential support for our Area of Focused Competence (AFC) programs. This position reflects the Faculty’s commitment to supporting our learners to have an excellent educational experience within a supportive learning environment which is the focus of the Temerty Faculty of Medicine’s Education Goals.

Dr. Simone brings leadership experience as the Program Director for the Pediatric Emergency Medicine (PEM) Royal College Fellowship at SickKids and UofT. She is an academic clinician and associate staff physician in pediatric emergency medicine at the Hospital for Sick Children, and Assistant Professor of Paediatrics at the University of Toronto.

Among other roles, she is also the Director of the PEM Postgraduate Simulation & Competency Curriculum, Medical Director of the PEM divisional academic half day, and is a member of the Royal College PEM subspecialty committee, being instrumental in developing PEM national training standards and the development of licensing and in-training exams. She is also the newly appointed co-Director for the SickKids Annual PEM Conference and the PEM Division Representative for the SickKids Annual Paediatric Update Planning Committee. Internationally, she sits on the International Pediatric Simulation Society Education Committee and is the Medical Director for IPSS monthly webinars. She holds a Master of Health Science Education and an Advanced Fellowship in Simulation Education, and has extensive experience in curriculum design, program evaluation, and educational scholarship.

Dr. Simone will be a critical member of the PGME team to realize a strengthening and modernization of our fellowship programs and to oversee the growth and sustainability of our Area of Focused Competence (AFC) programs.

Please join me in welcoming Dr. Simone in her new role within Temerty Medicine.

Sincerely,