Celebrating your achievements - February
Anatomy and Cell Biology
Congratulations to PhD Candidate Madeline Norris on recently receiving the American Association of Anatomists Education Research Scholarship.
Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Congratulations to Steven Habbous, PhD Candidate, supervised by Dr. Amit Garg, for having two papers accepted for publication since the beginning of the new year: “Optimizing efficiency in the evaluation of living donor candidates: Best practices and implications” in Current Transplantation Reports and “A multi-centre retrospective study of evaluation times in living kidney donors” in American Journal of Kidney Diseases.
Congratulations to Mostafa Shokoohi, PhD Candidate, supervised by Greta Bauer, PhD, for his recent publication, “Underreporting in HIV-Related High-Risk Behaviors: Comparing the Results of Multiple Data Collection Methods in a Behavioral Survey of Prisoners in Iran” in The Prison Journal.
Congratulations to Siobhan Churchill, MSc Candidate, supervised by Greta Bauer, PhD, for being awarded CIHR funding to participate the Hacking the Knowledge Gap Design Jam in Vancouver this month. She has received a Trainee Award for Innovative Thinking to Support LGBTQI2S Health and Wellness and her proposal was based on current evidence that LGBTQI2S seniors often face invisibility, discrimination, and lack of access to culturally competent care in Canadian Long Term Care facilities.
Family Medicine
Congratulations to our MClSc graduate and newly appointed faculty member Dr. Tanya Thornton. Dr. Thornton recently won the 2017 Mimi Divinsky Award for History and Narrative in Family Medicine sponsored by the Foundation for Advancing Family Medicine of the College of Family Physicians of Canada for this piece. This award is named in memory of the late Dr. Mimi Divinsky for her role as a pioneer in narrative medicine in Canada, and it recognizes the best submitted narrative account of experiences in family medicine.
Physiology and Pharmacology
Trevor Morey successfully defended his PhD thesis on January 25. Trevor was supervised by Jane Rylett, PhD, and the title of his thesis was “Regulation of Human 69-kDa Choline Acetyltransferase Protein Stability and Function by Molecular Chaperones and the Ubiquitin-Proteasome System".
