Celebrating your achievements
Dr. Susan McNair was honoured by The College of Family Physicians of Canada as an Award of Excellence recipient for Ontario. Read more.
Congratulations to Susan Simpson, Neuroscience Program Coordinator, on receiving a 2018 Western University Award of Excellence – the highest honour for staff member achievement. Read more.
Jay Rosenfield, Vice Dean – Medicine, for being named the President of the Medical Council of Canada. Read more.
Dr. Les Kalman, Schulich Dentistry, for receiving a Merck Patients First Award reflecting his commitment to dental outreach through the Dental Outreach Community Service.
Dr. Jane Thornton received the prestigious Murray Stalker Award for 2018 from the College of Family Physicians of Canada. Read more.
Drs. Geoffrey Pickering, Janet Pope, Emil Schemitsch, and Frank Prato, PhD, for being named as Fellows to the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences. Induction into the CAHS as a Fellow is considered one of the highest honours within Canada’s academic community. CAHS Fellows are nominated by their peers and selected in a competitive process based on their internationally recognized leadership, academic performance, scientific creativity and willingness to serve. Read more.
Congratulations to the 23 Schulich Medicine & Dentistry faculty and staff who were recently honoured at the Western University long-service award ceremony. This award marks an impressive milestone of 25 years of servicing Western. View the recipient list.
Jeffrey Dixon, PhD, was honoured by the International Association for Dental Research (IADR) as the 2018 recipient of the IADR Distinguished Scientist Award in Research in Oral Biology. Read the announcement.
Shelley McKellar, PhD, has been appointed to the AMS Healthcare Board of Directors. Read the announcement
Dr. Subrata Chakrabarti has been named Geographic Leader for Asia. The role of Geographic Leader is to serve as a resource and support to the Dean, the Senior Leadership Council and the Internationalization Office in developing a strategic direction for educational, clinical and research activities for the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry related to the specific country or region. Read the announcement.
Dr. Sunil Parapuram received the Best Glaucoma Paper Award 2018 for Staff PhD Scientist from the Canadian Glaucoma Society, for the paper "TGF-β induces phosphorylation of phosphatase and tensin homolog: implications for fibrosis of the trabecular meshwork tissue in glaucoma."
Corey Baron, PhD, received the 2018 Petro-Canada Young Innovator Award, a program that provides funding to new researchers to recognize, promote and support work that is innovative, impacts positively on the learning environment and has potential to be of significance to society.
Gregor Reid, PhD, a pioneer in the field of human microbiome and probiotics research, has been awarded with the 2018 Canadian Society of Microbiologists (CSM) Murray Award for Career Achievement. He accepted his award at the CSM meeting in Winnipeg in June 2018. Read the announcement.
Evelyn Vingilis, PhD, received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Canadian Association of Road Safety Professionals. Read the announcement.
Congratulations to the award recipients at the Canadian Association of Pathologists Meeting in Quebec City - Dr. Bertha Garcia, Susan McRae, Avneet Dhardwar, Boris Virine and Matthew Cecchini. Read the announcement.
Congratulations to the 119 faculty and staff who walked, ran, swam or biked over 80,000 km during the 100-day Virgin Pulse Global Challenge this summer. The team from Celebral Systems Lab was at the top of the Schulich Medicine & Dentistry leaderboard. In addition, this team achieved the most improved honour and one member, Alex Levine, led all competitors at the School, averaging 25,346 steps per day.
