Resident and MSc in Surgery Student Celebration Dinner

The Annual Resident and MSc in Surgery Student Celebration Dinner is held near the end of the academic year, in recognition of our graduating class as well as the teaching achievements of our faculty and residents.

The Celebration Dinner was held on the evening of June 25, 2025, where the following residents and faculty were awarded for their achievements this year: 

Winners of the Postgraduate Education Awards

Best Resident Advocate: Dr. Mehdi Qiabi
Department of Surgery Entrusted Teacher: Dr. Debra Bartley
CBME Champion: Dr. Tanya DeLyzer
Community CBME Champion: Dr. Robert Black

Winners of the Surgical Foundations Awards

Best Lecture: Dr. Terry Zwiep
Best Non-Surgical Instructor: Dr. Aldo Espinosa
Best Lab Lecture: Dr. Jeffrey Lovell

Winners of the Clerkship Teaching Awards

Dr. Murray Girotti Teaching Award

Dr. Chris Zhang

London Surgery Clerkship Faculty Award for Excellence in Surgical Education

Dr. Natashia Seemann

Overall Division Awards

Cardiac Surgery
Residents: Dr. Mathieu Rheault-Henry
Faculty: Dr. Michael Chu, Dr. Dave Nagpal, and Dr. Peter Vo

General Surgery
Resident: Dr. Justin Wee
Faculty: Dr. Terry Zwiep

Orthopaedic Surgery
Resident: Dr. Mitchell Thom
Faculty: Dr. Debra Bartley

Paediatric Surgery
Faculty: Dr. Natashia Seemann

Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery
Resident: Dr. Sukhmeet Sachal
Faculty: Dr. Spencer Chambers

Thoracic Surgery
Resident: Dr. Pooja Patel
Faculty: Dr. Mehdi Qiabi

Urology
Resident: Dr. Haider Abed
Faculty: Dr. Patrick Luke

Vascular Surgery
Resident: Dr. Hugo Perrier
Faculty: Dr. Shane Smith

Windsor Surgery Clerkship Faculty Award for Excellence in Surgical Education

Dr. Matthew Laschuk, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Winners of the MSc in Surgery Awards

MSc in Surgery Teaching Excellence Award: Dr. Sayra Cristancho
MSc in Surgery Student Colloquium Presentation Winning Paper: Dr. Brynn Charron

Graduating Residents

The following Doctors were honoured for completing their residencies and were awarded their Graduation Certificates:

Cardiac Surgery
Dr. Mohamad Rabbani

General Surgery
Dr. Jeremy Drung
Dr. Dora Laczko
Dr. Madeline Lemke
Dr. Matthew Lund
Dr. Sydney Selznick
Dr. Ge Shi

Orthopaedic Surgery
Dr. Raheef Alatassi
Dr. Kristen Barton
Dr. Trevor Blanchard
Dr. Hyder Ali Khan
Dr. Jason Arie Koppert
Dr. Silvio Ndoja
Dr. Kirk Vannitamby

Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery
Dr. Ali Alkhawaja
Dr. Stephanie Kim
Dr. Eric Mitchell

Urology
Dr. Haider Abed
Dr. William Luke
Dr. Carolyn Macleod
Dr. Matthew Playfair

Vascular Surgery
Dr. Shreya Jalal
Dr. Shareef Alqahtani

MSc in Surgery

The MSc in Surgery Class of 2025 was also honoured for their completion of the program:

Dr. Sebastian Braun
Dr. Brynn Charron
Dr. Winston Jin
Dr. Dyanna Melo
Dr. Jimmy Ro
Dr. Alexandra Rocha
Dr. Ahmed Saidahmed
Dr. Ge Shi
Dr. Thananjeyen (Thana) Srirangarajan
Dr. Amirti Vivekanandan