October

Sean M. Nestor, MSc’09, was awarded the 2022 Future Leaders in Canadian Brain Research grant from Brain Canada.

The Future Leaders in Canadian Brain Research grant provides support of $100,000 to “accelerate novel and transformative research that will fundamentally change our understanding of nervous system function and dysfunction and their impact on health.”

In addition to Dr. Nestor’s role as clinician-investigator at the Harquail Centre, he is an associate scientist in the Hurvitz Brain Sciences Research Program at Sunnybrook Research Institute and an assistant director of the Clinician Researcher Track Residency Program in Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry at the Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto.

Dr. Pankaj Bhatia, MD’05, has been appointed as Chief of Staff for Health Sciences North.

Bhatia has been at HSN for 12 years and previously served as medical director of the HSN simulation lab.