Celebrating your recent achievements
Congratulations to all faculty, staff and trainees on your recent accomplishments and successes.
Gregor Reid,
Alison Allan,
Seven faculty members have received awards for excellence in teaching, Western's highest honours for inspiring active and deep learning in their students. Congratulations to:
- Nicole Campbell, PhD, Physiology and Pharmacology
- Charys Martin, PhD, Anatomy and Cell Biology
- Michele Barbeau, PhD, Anatomy and Cell Biology
- Anita Woods, PhD, Physiology and Pharmacology
- Tom Stavraky, PhD, Physiology and Pharmacology
- Angela
Beye , PhD, Physiology and Pharmacology - Sarah McLean, PhD, Physiology and Pharmacology; Anatomy and Cell Biology
Timothy Scholl, PhD, and his team received a U.S. Department of Defense Prostate Cancer Idea Development Award.
Frank Beier, PhD, is being honoured with an Award for Basic Science Research from the Osteoarthritis Research Society International (OARSI). The award recognizes Beier’s pioneering work in applying genomics techniques to osteoarthritis models. Read the announcement
Dr. Samuel Asfaha was awarded a renewal of his CIHR
Jina Kum,
Research projects led by Sayra Cristancho,
Congratulations to the following recipients of 2019 Lawson Impact Awards:
- Dr. Guido Filler, Professor, Paediatrics – Scientist of the Year
- Dr. Don Richardson, Associate Professor, Psychiatry – Innovation Award
- Dr. Sarah Morrow, Associate Professor, Clinical Neurological Sciences – Dr. Joseph Gilbert Research Contribution of the Year Award
- Laura Craven,
PhD Candidate, Microbiology & Immunology – Leadership Award for Fellows & Students - Lawrence Yip,
PhD Candidate, Medical Biophysics – Leadership Award for Fellows & Students
Congratulations to the recipients of the Academic Medical Organization of Southwestern Ontario (AMOSO) 2018-19 Innovation Fund competition:
- Dr. John Murkin and Dr. Jason Chui, Anesthesia and Perioperative Medicine
Continuous, Non-Invasive Monitoring of Intraoperative Cerebral Perfusion and Oxidative Metabolism (CPOM): A Knowledge Translation Study - Dr. Neil Duggal, Clinical Neurological Sciences
Validation of a Novel Hand Rehabilitation Program and Dexterity Assessment Device in Patients with Cervical Myelopathy - Dr. Alexander Khaw, Clinical Neurological Sciences
Predictive Value of the AlphaFIM for Functional Outcomes in Intracerebral Hemorrhage versus Ischemic Stroke - Dr. Lillian Barra and Dr. Susan Huang, Medicine
Structural Cerebrovascular Sequelae and Cognitive Impairment in Anti-Neutrophilic Cytoplasmic Antibody-Associated Vasculitis - Dr. Sanjay Mehta, Medicine
A Pilot Translational Study to Assess the Clinical Utility of Endotyping Patients with Sepsis Using a Novel in vitro Human Endothelial Cell Bioassay - Dr. Marco Mura, Medicine
Molecular Diagnosis of Idiopathic InterstitialPneumonias : A Prospective Study - Dr. Janet Pope, Medicine
A Randomized Trial of Advanced Therapeutics in RA - Dr. Marat Slessarev, Medicine
Improving ICU Outcomes for Acute Kidney Injury Patients by Cooling Blood in the Dialysis Circuit: A Randomized Controlled Trial - Dr. Erin Spicer and Dr. Marko Mrkobrada, Medicine
WalkMORE : A randomized controlled trial of a volunteer-driven walking intervention to improve hospital-associated deconditioning and frailty - Dr. Javeed Sukhera, Psychiatry
Improving Outcomes for Vulnerable Populations through Implicit Addictions Stigma Reduction - Dr. Lakshman Gunaratnam and Dr. Robert Hegele, Medicine
Predicting Delayed Graft function after Deceased Donor Kidney Transplantation using Polymorphisms of Kidney Injury Molecule-1 (KIM-1) - Dr. Aze Wilson and Dr. Richard B. Kim, Medicine
Enhancing Safety and Benefit from Azathioprine Therapy for Our Inflammatory Bowel Disease Patients - Dr. Douglas D. Fraser and Dr. Claudio Martin, Paediatrics and Medicine
Early Rehabilitation in Critically ill Children – The PICU Liber8 Pilot Study - Dr. Lena Palaniyappan, Psychiatry
Preventing Functional Decline in Schizophrenia: A Novel Stratification Approach for High-Risk Clinics