Department of Medicine Weekly Roundup - March 17
Please see below for the following updates:
- CMARS – Medical Staff Re-appointments for 2025-2026
- Congratulations to Alice Cheng: 2025 Outstanding Physician Clinician in Diabetes Award
- Interim DOM Education Coordinator
- Kieran McIntyre - Physician Lead – Quality Improvement & Operational Excellence
- REMINDER: Nominations now open: SMHDOM Master Clinician Award, Dr. Michael R Freeman Award for Integrity and Professionalism, and the Dr. Michael Ward Mentorship Award
- Call for Nominations now OPEN - Unity Health Toronto Education Awards 2025
The reappointment application period for 2025-26 has begun! The deadline to complete your application is March 31, 2025. Reappointments cover the time period of July 1, 2025, to June 30, 2026.
For the 2025 reappointment application process, Medical Affairs has limited the mandatory learning requirements to only four modules, in recognition of the significant training physicians have undergone for Epic implementation.
Mandatory learning modules for 2025 reappointment:
- Workplace Violence & Harassment
- Fire Safety, Security & Emergency Codes
- WHMIS & Health & Safety
- TAHSN Privacy & Cyber Security
These modules must be completed as outlined in the Unity Health Toronto Corporate Mandatory Training Policy. Please see the attached guide for more information on completing these modules.
Please contact [email protected] if you have any questions.
Alice Cheng is the recipient of the 2025 Outstanding Physician Clinician in Diabetes Award from the American Diabetes Association.
Congratulations Alice!
Our current Postgraduate Hospital Education Coordinator, Tiffany Bras, will be going on maternity leave at the end of this month. Nadia Abdullahi will be taking over in Tiffany's absence. You can still reach Nadia at the usual [email protected] email address. Congrats Tiffany! & Welcome Nadia!
Thanks to a generous philanthropic donation from Ruth and Douglas Grant, three part-time Physician Lead roles have been established, focusing on quality, care experience, and patient safety. These roles aim to strengthen physician engagement in these critical areas and help achieve key healthcare priorities. We are excited to introduce the inaugural Physician Leads in these areas.
Dr. Zamin Ladha – Physician Lead – Patient Safety
Dr. Ladha is a pediatrician at St. Joseph’s. He brings long-standing focus and achievements in patient safety. This includes learning and improving from pediatric emergency reviews, the use of simulation to enhance interprofessional team preparedness and creating safer environments for staff, physicians and learners.
Dr. Kieran McIntyre - Physician Lead – Quality Improvement & Operational Excellence
Dr. McIntrye is a respirologist at St. Michael’s. He brings extensive experience in quality improvement with a Masters in QI from the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation at the University of Toronto. Dr. McIntyre has also led many quality improvement projects with St. Michael’s and across healthcare institutions.
Dr. Samuel Vaillancourt – Physician Lead – Care Experience Measurement & Improvement
Dr. Vaillancourt is an emergency department physician and trauma team leader at St. Michael’s. He has had a long-standing academic focus on data science, research and quality improvement with a focus on human-centred care. Dr. Vaillancourt also led the development of Patient-Reported Outcome Measure for the Emergency Department (PROM-ED).
Over the coming weeks all three Physician Leads will begin reaching out to Chiefs and Division Heads to introduce themselves and their role. Please join us in welcoming all three to their new roles.
Nominations are open for the following SMH DOM Awards:
- SMHDOM Master Clinician Award
- Michael R Freeman Award for Integrity and Professionalism
- Michael Ward Mentorship Award
Nomination deadline is March 31st. Please see the attached emails for more details about these awards.
Unity Health Toronto Education Awards Nomination Form