Celebrating your achievements - July 27

Congratulations to the Schulich community on your recent achievements:

Congratulations to the 2023 Schulich Medicine & Dentistry Internal Graduate Awards recipients:

  • Amena Aktar for receiving the Drs. Madge and Charles Macklin Fellowship for Teaching and Research in Medical Science.
  • Kesavi Kanagasabai for being awarded the Norman E. Nixon Marie Rämö Nixon Award
  • Breanne Kearney, Alaa El-Cheick Mohamad, Katherine Quesnel and Hayley Shanks for receiving the Jonathan & Joshua Memorial Graduate Scholarship (4 Doctoral Awards)
  • Matthew Kolisnyl for being awarded the Cobban Student Award in Heart and Stroke Research
  • Hien Chi Nguyen for receiving the Drs. Madge and Charles Macklin Fellowship for Publication in Medical Sciences
  • Megan Roussy for being awarded the Collip Medal Award
  • Emily Tomas for being awarded the Morris Kroll Award

Congratulations to Olivia Dobson for receiving the Best Clinical Talk award at Schulich’s annual Dr. Benjamin Goldberg Developmental Disabilities Provincial Research Day.

Congrats to Lyndsay Glass and Chris Zhang on winning the Meds ‘49 Excellence in Teaching Awards for the best resident teachers at Western University.

Congratulations to Assistant Professor Justin Hicks for being one of the recipients of Alzehimer Society of Canada’s funding grants.

The Department of Pathology and Laboratory of Medicine would like to offer congratulations to MohdWessam Al Jawhri, who has completed his MSc in Pathology. Dr. Lisa Cameron is Wessam’s supervisor. The title of Wessam’s thesis is “The Effects of Glucocorticoids on Th2 Cell Phenotype and Function.”

Congratulations to Kimya Manouchehri for taking home the second-place poster prize at The American Head and Neck Society’s international conference. Her project examined how accurately CT imaging estimates cartilage invasion in laryngeal cancer.

Congratulations to Kelly Zhou for being recognized by Inspiring Minds — a campus-wide partnership that broadens awareness of graduate student research. Zhou's current research focuses on a family of receptors called Adhesion G protein-coupled receptors (aGPCRs). These receptors are involved in various diseases, but there are currently no drugs that directly target them.

Recognition

Staff at Schulich Medicine & Dentistry achieve success daily, and we want to celebrate these successes. Let us know if you, your colleagues or members of your team have achieved a professional milestone by submitting the online form.