Postgraduate Report
The Family Medicine Postgraduate Program would like to sincerely thank the following faculty members for their dedication to the Postgraduate Program:
Dr. Munsif Bhimani for his leadership in the Enhanced Skills Program as Program Director for the Emergency Medicine Program.
Dr. Paige Hacking for her leadership in the Enhanced Skills Program as Program Director for the Obstetrics and Women’s Health Program.
Dr. Firas Al-Dhaher for his many years of leadership and mentorship at the Petrolia teaching site.
We would also like to welcome the following faculty members to their new roles commencing in the 2025-26 academic year:
Dr. Kevinjeet Mahngar as the Emergency Medicine Enhanced Skills Program Director.
Dr. Nisha Arora as the Obstetrics and Women’s Health Enhanced Skills Program Director (London).
Following the completion of the second iteration CaRMS match, we are pleased to report that our program has filled all our residency positions.
June has been a busy month for our residents. On June 11th we held Resident Project Day at the Western Centre for Public Health and Family Medicine where the PGY2 and PGY3 residents presented on their research or quality improvement projects on a wide range of topics: Resident Project Day Abstracts.
On June 20th we congratulated and celebrated our graduating residents at a Graduation Celebration at The Great Hall. It was a wonderful evening filled with much excitement amongst residents, family, friends and faculty. We wish our residents the very best as they venture out into practice or into additional enhanced skills training programs in July. It has been a pleasure training you over the past couple of years!
Thank you to our faculty who joined us for the Graduation Celebration!
Congratulations to the 2024/25 Family Medicine Award Winners:
Resident Awards:
Dr. Frank J. Butson Resident Award in Family Medicine – Dr. Joseph Herbert
Lilija and Janis Strauts Award – Dr. Emma McIvor
Leonora Sheppard Award in Family Medicine – Dr. Mohmeet Brar and Dr. Nousheen Khan
Jo-Anne Hammond Family Medicine Resident Award – Dr. Rebecca Whitehead
City of Windsor Family Physicians Award – Dr. Mark Rodrigues
Windsor Resident – FM Postgraduate Award for Academic Leadership – Dr. Rachel Haywood
Department of Family Medicine: Outstanding Resident Award – Dr. Mohmeet Brar
Research Awards:
Department of Family Medicine: Best Resident Project Presentation (PGY3) – Dr. Geoffrey Ching (Rate of Missed Incidental Pulmonary Nodules in London Area EDs)
Honourable Mentions (PGY3) – Dr. Jackson Blonde (Increasing Emergency Physicians’ Confidence in Performing High Acuity Low Occurrence Procedures: A Quality Improvement Initiative)
Department of Family Medicine: Best Resident Project Presentation (PGY2) – Dr. Emily St. Pierre, Dr. Shruti Sinha (Improving Resident’s Comfort with Menopause Management)
Honourable Mentions (PGY2) – Dr. Simon Bahru (Improving the Management of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in Primary Care Through a Multidisciplinary Approach: A Retrospective Study of the Mini Diabetes Clinic at Byron Family Medical Centre (BFMC) and Dr. Ryan DeVrieze (Methadone Use in LTC: Physician Attitudes and Opinions)
CFPC Family Medicine Resident Scholarship – Dr. Joanna Walters
Teacher Awards:
Best Core Family Medicine Teacher Award – London - Dr. Saadia Hameed Jan
Best Core Family Medicine Teacher Award – Rural / Distributed - Dr. Angela Wang
Best Core Family Medicine Teacher Award – Regional – Dr. Jay Taylor
Faculty of the Year Award – Windsor - Dr. Margarette Youssef
Best Adjunct Non-Core Family Medicine Teacher Award – London – Dr. Kathleen Milne
Best Adjunct Non-Core Family Medicine Teacher Award – Regional – Dr. Ranbir Verraich
Faculty of the Year Award – Sub Specialty Rotation – Windsor – Dr. Bilal Akil
Best Specialist Teacher Award – Dr. Pandu Shetty
DFM Allied Health Care Recognition Award – Bernadette Garrity, RN (SJFMC)
Dr. Ian McWhinney Teacher of the Year Award – Dr. Saadia Hameed Jan
Recognition Award: Chief Residents – Drs. Mohmeet Brar, Abdullah Haroon, Rachel Haywood
Important News and Upcoming Dates:
- We are transitioning from One45 to Elentra effective July 1st. We strongly suggest that faculty and residents download ITERs, PRFs and evaluation summaries as they will not be available to you in One45 past September 2025.
- Residents have been sent an email containing Elentra user guide and resident modules for basic orientation to the system.
- Resident Orientation: July 2, 2025 – In-person for Urban/Regional residents, Rural residents welcome to attend in person, but hybrid option is available (email link has been distributed via email)
We have completed our Spring / Summer PG Site visit tour. These meetings are used to provide feedback on your training site, to discuss on-going evaluation issues and for the sites to discuss any issues of importance to them locally.
Thank you to all the faculty and administrative staff for all their hard work and diligence in supervising, supporting and teaching our residents. Wishing you all a wonderful summer.
