Celebrating your recent achievements – May 2018

Congratulations to all faculty and trainees on your recent accomplishments and successes.

Gilles Lajoie, PhD, was awarded the CNPN-Tony Pawson Proteomics Award from the Canadian National Proteomics Network, recognizing remarkable achievements on the fundamental understanding and/or practice of proteomics in biological sciences. Read the complete announcement

Shawn Li, PhD, was moved from a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair (CRC) in Molecular and Epigenetic Basis of Cancer to a Tier 1 CRC. Read the Western News article

Jeffrey Dixon, PhD, received a Life Time Achievements Award from the Canadian Connective Tissue Society (CCTS). The award will be presented at the 24th Annual Canadian Connective Tissue conference to be held in Toronto from May 23 – 25. Read the complete announcement

Rui Nui, PhD’18, completed his doctoral degree in pathology. Nui was supervised by Tianqing Peng, PhD. His thesis is entitled, "Increased Mitochondrial Calpain-1 Is an Important Mechanism Contributing to Mitochondrial ROS Generation in Cardiac Diseases.”

Ruth Lanius, PhD, was re-appointed as the Harris-Woodman Endowed Chair in Psyche and Soma. Read the complete announcement

Professor Emeritus Peter Canham, PhD, received an Ontario Service Award for his contributions to the community through volunteer service with the Heart and Stroke Foundation. Read the complete announcement

Dr. Jason Chui was awarded the Canadian Anesthesiologists' Society Research Award (New Investigator) for his project “A randomized controlled study in detection and prevention of nerve injury using a novel automated Somatosensory Evoked Potential monitoring device in shoulder arthroplasty surgery.” Read the complete announcement

Dr. Shalini Dhir won the award for Best Paper in Chronic Pain from the Chronic Pain Section of the Canadian Anesthesiologists’ Society. Dr. Dhir collaborated with Yves Bureau, Janice Yu, and Achal Dhir on the paper, “Ketamine, lidocaine and combination for postoperative analgesia in major liver resection: A prospective, randomized, four-arm, triple blind, placebo controlled trial.” Read the complete announcement

Dr. John Murkin received the Critical Care Medicine Award from the Critical Care Medicine Section of the Canadian Anesthesiologists’ Society for his abstract, “Initial Soft Tissue Oxygenation is Inversely Associated With Prolonged ICU Admission”. The paper was co-authored by Tina Mele, Satoru Fujii, Franklin DaukinsArce, and Tracey Bentall. Read the complete announcement

London Health Research Day Award Winners

Poster Awards

Advances in structural and physiological treatment of disease and therapeutic intervention (includes surgery and drugs)

  • Brandon Baer
  • Nathan Orlando

Advancing health services provision and health policy

  • Mojgan Farahani
  • Nima Gheisarzadeh

Detection, screening and diagnosis of health and disease

  • Olivia Tong
  • Ana-Bianca Popa

Determinants of health

  • Natalie Au
  • Klajdi Puka

Early life programming and development

  • Faraj Haddad
  • Shelby Oke

Mechanisms of disease

  • Brennan Dirk
  • Najwa Zebian

Population, public health and education

  • Jordan Edwards
  • Leah Taylor

Prevention of diseases and health conditions and promotion of well-being

  • Nick Bray
  • Ariel Frame

Feature Platform Presentations - Morning Session

  • Salon B: Zachary Hawley
  • Salon B1: Victoria Thorburn
  • Salon D: Alice Shin
  • Salon E: Kara Ruicci

Feature Platform Presentations - Afternoon Session

  • Salon B: Charles Yin
  • Salon B1: Patrick Rudak
  • Salon D: Jessica Rodgers
  • Salon E: Jacqueline Dron

The Lucille & Norton Wolf London Health Research Day Trainee Publications Awards

  • Matthew Berg
  • Jacqueline Dron
  • Zachary Hawley
  • Miljan Kuljanin

Clinical Neurological Sciences (CNS) Research Day Best Presentation Winners

Congratulations to the following trainees who were awarded "Best Presentation" at the 2018 CNS Research Day on April 17.

  • Neurology Platform: Ana Suller-Marti, "An assessment on the efficacy of VNS in generalized epilepsy."
  • Neurosurgery Platform: Jonathan C. Lau, "Identification of electrode locations within hippocampal substructures using 7-Tesla magnetic resonance imaging."
  • Graduate Student Platform: Andrew M. Deweyert, "Developing novel electrotherapeutic interventions for glioblastoma and pediatric diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma."
  • Neurology Poster: Adrian Budhram, "Evaluating the positive predictive value of onconeural antibody testing in patients with suspected paraneoplastic neurologic syndromes."
  • Neurosurgery Poster: Michael D. Staudt, "High rate of spinal nerve root stimulation for the treatment of chronic neuropathic pain."
  • Graduate Student Poster: Victoria Jaremek, "Assessing cardiac dysfunction post-stroke in the insular cortex ischemic stroke rat model."

Updates from the Master of Public Health Program

  • The MPH Class of 2018 began practicums on May 7: 59 students are working in nine different countries.
  • Sukhmeet (Rohan) Sachal, MPH Class of 2018, was selected for the UNLEASH 2018 UN Sustainability Developmental Goals Conference in Singapore from May 30 - June 6, and was awarded a full scholarship.
  • Sajjad Fazel, MPH Class of 2018, won a CIHR travel award and had his abstract accepted for presentation at the Canadian Public Health Association Conference in Montreal from May 28 - 31.
  • Larizza Dalmacio, MPH '17, is a Public Health Nurse in Vaccine Preventable Diseases at Region of Durham Health Department.
  • Josiah Marquis, MPH '17, is a Project Officer with Health Canada.
  • Jaelyn Kloepfer, MPH '17, is a Health Promoter with Peterborough Public Health.
  • Neha Bhatia, MPH '15, began a new position as a Strategy Specialist, Prevention Division with the Ontario Ministry of Labour.