DFCM BBQ - Who we’re celebrating!

Dr. Khalidha Nasiri, 2025 Robert Sheppard Award Learner Recipient

Dr. Nasiri, DFCM resident physician, was selected among many nominees across Temerty Medicine as the recipient of the 2025 Robert Sheppard Award for Health Equity and Social Justice. This prestigious award recognizes physicians and learners who’ve shown exceptional commitment to health equity, social justice and postgraduate medical education. Her residency research and quality improvement projects address health disparities amongst immigrant and refugee populations. Dr. Nasiri is also the founder of the Afghan Youth Engagement and Development Initiative, a not-for-profit that increases civic engagement and social development among Afghan newcomer and immigrant youth. Her research spans global health equity, refugee health and community-based research.

Dr. Melissa Graham, Academic Fellowship and Graduate Studies Program Director

Effective June 1, 2025, Dr. Graham will be DFCM’s new director of the Academic Fellowship and Graduate Studies Program. A graduate of the DFCM Family and Community Medicine Master’s program, she brings extensive teaching and leadership experience, including roles at Credit Valley and Trillium Health Partners. In her new role, she will lead curriculum innovation and ensure the program's continued excellence in family and community medicine education.

Dr. Aisha Lofters, Inaugural Waddington Family Community Research Capacity Building Program Director

Dr. Lofters has been acting as the DFCM’s inaugural Waddington family community research capacity building program director since the beginning of February. In this position, she has been working with Dr. Peter Selby to develop a research capacity-building program for community-based family physicians. Dr. Lofters, a family physician at Women’s College Hospital and associate professor at the University of Toronto, brings expertise in health equity, cancer care and primary care.

Dr. Christine Soong, Vice-Chair, Quality & Innovation with the Department of Medicine

Effective April 1, Dr. Soong has been serving as the vice-chair, quality and innovation with the Department of Medicine at the University of Toronto. The DFCM faculty and alum brings years of experience as an academic hospitalist, along with expertise in research and quality improvement to the role. Her research and QI interests include patient safety, high-value care, novel models of inpatient care and transitions of care.

Dr. Sherylan Young, Director of Undergraduate Education

Dr. Young is a comprehensive family physician who has been a long-standing leader on the undergraduate medical education team for 15 years. She has served as our clerkship curriculum coordinator since 2015 as well as the hospital site director at Sunnybrook since 2010. She has also been the clerkship evaluation coordinator since 2020, where she led the redevelopment of the family medicine clerkship examination and processes. She is a dedicated clinician, mentor and award-winning teacher, and we are thrilled to welcome her into this new role! 

DFCM Peer Reviewed Publications Awards: Drs. Tara Kiran, Bjug Borgundvaag, Noah Ivers, Abhimanyu Sud, Anne Biringer and Sakina Walji

The DFCM Peer Reviewed Publications Awards are given out each year to DFCM faculty who led outstanding peer-reviewed publications. Recipients are chosen by the DFCM Clinician Investigator Award recipients. Congratulations to this year’s winners:

1^st place—Drs. Tara Kiran (Public experiences and perspectives of primary care in Canada: results from a cross-sectional survey) and Bjug Borgundvaag (Guidelines for Reasonable and Appropriate Care in the Emergency Department (GRACE-4): Alcohol use disorder and cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome management in the emergency department).

2^nd place—Drs. Noah Ivers (Mailed feedback to primary care physicians on antibiotic prescribing for patients aged 65 years and older: pragmatic, factorial randomised controlled trial) and Abhimanyu Sud (Federal opioid agonist therapy policy: interrupted time series analysis of the impact of the methadone exemption removal across eight provinces in Canada).

3^rd place—Drs. Anne Biringer (Recreating the village: the patient’s experience with a hybrid model of Group Prenatal Care (GPPC) in an academic family health team) and Sakina Walji (Implementing virtual care: experiences, perspectives and identification of improvement opportunities in an academic primary care setting).

Rebecca Bourdon: DFCM patient advocacy award

Dr. Katherine Rouleau: Continuing Education and Graduate Studies Field Practicum Preceptor Award 

Professor

Dr. Noah Ivers

Dr. Noah Ivers, MD, CCFP, PhD, is a family physician at Women's College Hospital and scientist at Women’s College Research Institute, where he leads a research program in implementation science, focusing on the use of data to drive evidence-based, patient-centred improvements in health-care. He is also a Professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Toronto, where he is also the Scientific Lead for the Office of Health System Partnerships. He also has cross-appointments at the Institute for Health Policy, Management and Evaluation and the Institute for Medical Sciences at the University of Toronto and is an adjunct scientist at ICES. He holds a Canada Research Chair in the Implementation of Evidence Based Practice.

Dr. Marcus Law

Dr. Marcus Law, MD, MBA, MEd, CCFP, FCFP, is a Professor of Family Medicine at the Temerty Faculty of Medicine, where he has assumed many roles, including Academic Lead in Educational Technology, Director of Preclerkship Renewal, and Director of Foundations. He currently serves as the Associate Dean of the MD Program.

Born and raised in Hong Kong, Dr. Law immigrated to Canada with his family and settled in Toronto, where he completed an undergraduate degree in Pharmacology. Dr. Law remained in Toronto to earn his medical degree in 2000 and completed a Family Medicine residency at Michael Garron Hospital, where he eventually became the Director of Medical Education. Additionally, he served as the Director of Technology-Enabled Learning at the Centre for Faculty Development in Toronto. 

Dr. Law holds an MBA from the W. P. Carey School of Business and a Master of Education from the University of Toronto.

At the national level, Dr. Law has been actively involved with the Canadian Association for Medical Education as its Past President. 

Dr. Law's academic work and research focus on translating our understanding of how medical students develop expertise into effective educational design and implementing theory-informed large-scale curricular redevelopment in medical schools.

Dr. Jeff Myers

Dr. Jeff Myers, MD, MSEd, CCFP(PC). Dr. Jeff Myers is a palliative medicine physician at Sinai Health’s Hennick Bridgepoint Hospital. He completed his family medicine training at the University of Toronto and earned a Master of Health Professions Education degree at the University of Southern California. In 2005, he joined U of T faculty in the Department of Family and Community Medicine, and since then has held various leadership roles, including Head of DFCM’s Division of Palliative Care. He currently serves as the Bresver Family Chair in End-of-Life Care and Medical Assistance in Dying.

Dr. Myers has dedicated much of his academic career to addressing inequities in access to palliative care, with a particular focus on activities that aim to address the clinical challenges related to communication about serious illness. He has sought to improve quality through the development, implementation and dissemination of person-centred solutions and educational interventions for individual clinicians, health-care teams and broader systems. As a clinician educator he is deeply committed to fostering generative learner and faculty experiences and has been honoured with multiple awards recognizing excellence in his teaching, education scholarship and leadership.

Dr. Nav Persaud

Dr. Nav Persaud is the Canada Research Chair in Health Justice.

He conducts clinical trials of interventions aimed at improving health outcomes and equity or fairness, including of free medicine access (CLEAN Meds), cash transfers, and access to health foods. He co-leads clinical practice guidelines such as one related to equitable access to preventive health-care.

Dr. Persaud’s work also helps to improve the way research is done, for example, how patients and members of the public are involved in the research enterprise and who joins guideline panels. He has also conducted primary historical research to understand the contributions of Dr. Alexander Thomas Augusta during the late 1800s.

He leads an international collaboration comparing and improving national essential medicines lists for more than 100 countries. Dr. Persaud shares his work with decision makers around the world and across Canada; he chairs the National Pharmacare Committee of Experts. 

Associate Professor

Dr. Joan Cheng

Dr. Joan Cheng is the Chief of Emergency Medicine at St. Joseph’s Health Centre – Unity Health Toronto. She believes that the strength of academic medicine lies in its ability to cultivate environments where all individuals can see themselves reflected and valued.

Her academic contributions are centered on supporting learners, faculty members, colleagues and the broader academic community through peer support, mentorship and advocacy.

Guided by a commitment to inclusive excellence, Dr. Cheng is dedicated to supporting the visibility and influence of women, racialized individuals, members of the LGBTQ+ community and others from underrepresented groups. With a focus on creating belonging, she supports learners, colleagues and faculty members in understanding who they are and who they aspire to be in order to thrive within academic medicine.  

Dr. Cheng’s contributions reflect a broader vision of academic leadership—one that seeks to foster professional growth, elevate teaching excellence and education scholarship, and drive systemic change.

Dr. Ramona Mahtani

Dr. Ramona Mahtani's extensive innovations in improving access to high quality, equitable palliative care, in acute care, is remarkable. Her leadership at Sinai Health  in integrating palliative care across all settings is a testament to her creativity, clinical sophistication, and intrinsic wisdom. She was a key pillar through the entire pandemic, demonstrating her advocacy for the most vulnerable by individually delivering an unprecedented 24-7 care model as a frontline hospital palliative care physician in long-term care. The consistency of her approach is clear in her academic research, clinical leadership, and educational mentorship: showing up actionably as a skilled physician to provide care to the most vulnerable patients, thoughtful collaboration amongst teams, critical self-reflectiveness, and the ability to hold space for complex dialogue. Her expertise in evolving medical education to promote inclusivity, combined with her sustained success in delivering measurable changes in access to palliative care for those who had pre-existing barriers, has led Dr. Ramona Mahtani to shift to a new focus — developing sustainable and compassionate approaches in inclusivity work that coherently unifies rather than haphazardly divides those in the work.

Dr. Osnat Melamad

Dr. Osnat Melamad is a Family Physician with a focused practice in Addiction Medicine at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH). She is also an Associate Scientist at the Campbell Family Mental Health Research Institute at CAMH. She completed her Family Medicine Residency in Israel, and post-graduate fellowships in Addiction Medicine and Medical Psychiatry at the University of Toronto.

Her program of research with the INTREPID lab at CAMH is dedicated to reducing the health disparities experienced by individuals with psychiatric and addiction conditions. Her work focuses on tobacco addiction, chronic disease management, and the development of digital health tools, particularly those tailored for women. She has authored over 40 peer-reviewed publications and secured over $400,000 in grant funding as Principal Investigator. Her work is widely published in leading journals in psychiatry, public health, and primary care, and has contributed to national clinical practice guidelines, including the Diabetes Canada 2023 Mental Health Chapter. Notably, she secured grant funding from CAMH Womenmind Seed competition and CIHR to develop woman-specific smoking cessation interventions.

An early-career physician-researcher, Dr. Melamed leads a growing research program aimed at harnessing the power of AI-based conversational agents (“chatbots”) and to deliver empathic counselling for health behaviour change. Her work with chatbots earned her an AMS Fellowship in Artificial Intelligence and Compassion in 2021-22, and a spot in the prestigious Innovation to Impact program at Yale University School of Management in the Fall of 2022.

Dr. Melamed is a passionate educator and mentor. She has delivered lectures and clinical teaching across undergraduate, postgraduate, and continuing professional education platforms on smoking and vaping cessation, and has supervised over 80 medical learners in her clinical addictions practice. She has also mentored medical students on research projects exploring women-specific approaches to smoking cessation and chronic disease management using digital health. She is a member of several advisory and review committees and currently chairs the Cass Family Grants competition at the University of Toronto. She is the recipient of the DFCM’s New Investigator Award, recognizing her contributions as an early-career physician-researcher.

Dr. Nadia Minian

Dr. Nadia Minian, a scientist at INTREID Lab at CAMH, has been promoted to Associate Professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto.

Dr. Minian has led a program of research aimed at identifying effective strategies for integrating evidence-based interventions into health-care settings. Her work emphasizes equitable adoption, long-term sustainability, and rapid dissemination to maximize public health impact. Recently, she has turned her attention to how technological innovation, such as digital tools and chatbots, can be leveraged to transform the delivery of care and make the healthcare system more sustainable.

Her vision is to help build a learning health system that not only fosters clinical excellence but also ensures the efficient use of health-care resources, with a strong commitment to health equity at its core.

Dr. Helen Senderovich

Dr. Helen Senderovich, a distinguished physician at the Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care, has dedicated her career to advancing the care of older adults, particularly those nearing the end of life. Her practice spans Palliative Care, Geriatrics, and Pain Medicine, combining clinical expertise with a deep commitment to education, research, and policy development.

Dr. Helen Senderovich’s academic journey is a testament to her dedication. After completing rigorous training in Internal and Family Medicine, she pursued double fellowships in Advanced Skills in Family Medicine and Care of the Elderly at the University of Toronto’s Temerty Faculty of Medicine. Throughout her career, Dr. Helen Senderovich has been an influential voice in the development of Palliative and Pain Medicine, both nationally and internationally.

Her work has significantly impacted the care of geriatric populations and those facing terminal illnesses. Through her innovative educational initiatives, Dr. Helen Senderovich has empowered clinicians to provide compassionate, evidence-based care at the end of life. Notably, she created a widely utilized module for the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada’s Palliative Medicine Exam Preparation Course (PEP-C). This resource, developed in collaboration with the Canadian Society of Palliative Care Physicians (CSPCP), provides a step-by-step algorithm for managing complex symptoms at the end of life, enabling family physicians and specialists to improve their care for patients in need.

Dr. Helen Senderovich has also played a critical role in the development of continuing professional education for family physicians and specialists. As a collaborator and palliative care expert within CSPCP working groups, she has contributed to the creation of several online study modules. These modules, which cover a wide range of essential topics such as palliative care principles and symptom management have been designed to enhance the knowledge and skills of health-care providers. These modules have become integral to the standard of practice for health-care providers across Canada, ensuring that clinicians are equipped with the necessary tools to deliver high-quality, compassionate care to individuals with serious, life-limiting conditions.

Additionally, Dr. Helen Senderovich played a pivotal role in developing advanced care planning strategies for the aging population, which were widely distributed by the Canadian Medical Association. These strategies emphasize the benefits of incorporating a palliative care approach into the care of older adults, particularly in the context of end-of-life decision-making. The distribution of these guidelines by the Canadian Medical Association helped raise awareness and standardize the approach to advanced care planning across the country, ensuring that health-care providers are equipped to guide patients and families through sensitive decisions with respect and clarity.

In her role as Education Lead with Pallium Canada, Dr. Helen Senderovich teaches Advanced Palliative Care and the Canadian Serious Illness Conversation Program at various levels and settings. Her educational contributions extend beyond the classroom; she is also a co-author of three books and a book chapter on managing chronic non-malignant terminal illnesses.

Dr. Diana Toubassi

Dr. Diana Toubassi is a comprehensive family physician and clinician-teacher who has been recognized for her educational and leadership contributions with numerous faculty and departmental awards.

Shortly after joining the DFCM as a faculty member, she completed a highly successful tenure as Postgraduate Site Director at the UHN-Toronto Western, during which she supported the transition towards Competency-Based Medical Education and further elaboration of the CFPC’s “Triple C” model of education. She additionally developed and evaluated numerous initiatives to improve the residency program and experience, including a patient-based 360 tool to evaluate the CANMEDS-FM Communicator role, a dedicated resident procedure clinic, and a resident anti-coagulation enrichment experience. All these initiatives were successfully disseminated locally, nationally and/or internationally.

In more recent years, Dr. Toubassi’s academic work has related to trainee wellbeing and how one might best leverage the medical humanities in its support. In this arena, she developed and disseminated a highly successful narrative-based curriculum (“Resident Reflection Rounds”), which sought to foster resident wellbeing through reflection on professional identity formation. This curriculum has since been adapted to, and implemented in, other residency programs. She also served as the inaugural Wellness Lead at her site. She has published several pieces of creative non-fiction and presented numerous invited lectures and workshops on narrative medicine, and the relationship between the experience of meaning and wellbeing.

Lecturer

Dr. Kamil Prasad

The Department of Family and Community Medicine (DFCM) values the contributions of our faculty and is committed to supporting them in addressing their mentorship interests. Mentorship is key in helping faculty fulfill their professional goals, improve their job satisfaction, and build a supportive culture across our department. DFCM is made up of over 100 faculty mentors with various interests in research, teaching, and career development.

Sandy Shamon

Michelle Lockyer

Serena Beber

Barbara Stubbs

Paul Krueger

Karthika sithamparanathan

Charlie Guiang

Jack Westfall

Kulamakan (Mahan) Kulasegaram

Abbas Ghavam-Rassoul

Deanna Telner

Bill Watson

Ashley Yu

Sheryl Spithoff

Neil Ingber

Rahul Jain

Camille Lemieux

Anthony Davies

Thea Weisdorf

Yashi Yathindra

Dr Naznin Lalani 

Giovanna Sirianni

Adam Pyle

Nadia Minian

James Owen

michael kates

Alessandra Palombo

Rick Penciner

Jeff Golisky

Keith Wong

Michael Roberts

Evelyn Rubin

Angie Hong

Jana Lazor

Aisha Husain 

Gary Bloch

Rachelle Ashcroft

Karthika sithamparanathan 

Jordana Sacks

Don Melady

Michelle Naimer

Domenica Tambasco

AbdulGhani Basith

Wan Jin Lee

Isabelle Dobronyi

Roy Blachowitz

Kimberly Blom

harvey kaplovitch

Suchitra Mensinkai 

Matyas Hervieux

Donna Vlahos

Jennifer McCabe

Kelly Emerson

Ada Gu

Sharon Domb

Milena Markovski

Katheirne Rouleau

Daphne Williams

Meeta Patel

Deborah Kopansky-Giles

James Carson 

Diana Toubassi

Maria Ivankovic 

Melissa Nutik

David White

Monica Nijhawan

Risa Bordman

Allyson Merbaum

Risa Freeman

Erin Bearss

June Carroll 

sami samain

Hedieh Molla Ghanbari 

Shawna Irons

Paul Perlon

Aaron Orkin

Martin R Chasen

Leoor Sommer

Jocelyn Charles

Amanda Li

Carrie Schram

Pirathapan Parameswaran

Roland Mollanji

Nikhil Shah

Dina Reiss

Dara Maker

Cristina de Lasa

Gray Moonen

Robyn Shafer

Sheila Lakhoo

Melissa Witty

Jenny Chen 

Neshmi Zaman

Warren Lewin

Sheldon Cheskes

Shelley McLeod

Jennifer Shapiro

Zhimeng Jia

David Tannenbaum

Alethea Correa

Christina Tunzi

Chetan Mehta

Robert Gabor

Enza Gucciardi

Monique Martin

Stephanie Milone

Miriam Moss

Kymm Feldman

Rebecca Stoller

Robert Battista

David Hsu

Nicholas Pimlott

Jeff Kwong

Nicole Nitti

Sharonie Valin

Helen Senderovich

Alexandra Ross

Vanessa Rambihar

Christopher Woo

Kimberly Lazare

Amir Salamat

Mihaela Cordos

Saad Ahmed

Anjum Kanjee

Allan Grill

Natascha Crispino

Nafisa Aptekar

Nancy Xi

Monika Kapoor

Dr. Shirley Lee, Vice-Chair Education, DFCM

Dr. Lee is a physician leader and academic family physician with a robust background in family and emergency medicine, a passion for advancing education and supporting family physicians, and a commitment to fostering inclusive and innovative learning environments. She has been an associate professor with DFCM since 2008. Dr. Lee is deeply committed to our vision of outstanding primary care for all and our mission of delivering the world’s best education for family doctors. In her role as Vice-Chair, Education, she will ensure the effective delivery of DFCM’s world-class education programs, advance the broader strategy of the Department, and help to champion our future practitioners.

Dr. Hedieh Molla Ghanbari, Division Head of Hospital Medicine, DFCM

Dr. Hedieh Molla Ghanbari is an academic hospitalist and clinician educator at Sinai Health since 2015 and is currently the Division Head of the Division of Hospital Medicine at the Department of Family and Community Medicine, as well as an assistant professor. She completed her Family Medicine Residency and Hospital Medicine Fellowship at U of T and later went on to complete a Master of Science in Community Health in Health Practitioner Teacher Education from the Dalla Lana Public Health as well as a Certificate in Quality and Patient Safety. She has led many quality improvement projects in collaboration with multiple departments at Sinai Health System.

Dr. Catherine Yu, Chief and Program Medical Director of Family and Community Medicine, Michael Garron Hospital (MGH)

Dr. Yu is a physician leader and academic with expertise in integrated care models and health systems design. She is the founding chair of the East Toronto Family Practice Network and is an assistant professor and engagement lead for DFCM. As Chief and Program Medical Director of Family and Community Medicine, Dr. Yu will serve as a strategic leader and role model in supporting MGH’s strategic direction while also being an agent of change for the DFCM. 

Dr. Danielle Manis, Chief and Program Medical Director of Family & Community Medicine, North York General Hospital (NYGH)

Dr. Manis is an assistant professor with DFCM and an active clinical teacher for our undergraduate and postgraduate programs. She has been a comprehensive family medicine physician in North York for over two decades, is an active member of the North York Family Health Team, and is part of the primary care leadership team with the North York Toronto Health Partners OHT. Dr. Manis has been committed to the NYGH team since her residency, taking on roles including undergraduate program director for family medicine and deputy chief of family medicine. She is looking forward to taking the next step in her physician leadership career with NYGH.

Dr. Milena Forte, Sydney G. Frankfort Chair in Family Medicine, Mount Sinai Hospital

Dr. Forte has been a family physician at Mount Sinai Hospital since 2001 and an associate professor with DFCM since 2022. She has been DFCM’s Maternity Care Lead since 2015 and is recognized as a leader in Family Medicine Obstetrics nationally. She has also served as the Education Scholarship Lead for DFCM in postgraduate education since 2016. She has led and supported many research team, taught and mentored learners and faculty for over two decades. She is the lead editor of Full Circle: a collection of Family Medicine Birth Stories.

King Charles III’s Coronation Medals: Drs. Aaron Orkin, Andrew Boozary, Farhan Asrar, Jocelyn Charles, Naheed Dosani and Sheldon Cheskes

To commemorate the Coronation of King Charles III, 30,000 Canadians were recognized for making significant contributions to Canada or achieving outstanding accomplishments abroad that bring credit to the nation.

Six DFCM faculty members were selected for this national honour. Some of their contributions include impactful research in first aid and resuscitation, advancements in space medicine, improving access to palliative care, and innovations in social medicine and housing.

Dr. Onyenyechukwu Nnorom, Associate Chief Medical Officer of Health for the Province of Ontario

Dr. Nnorom has taken on a new role as Associate Chief Medical Officer of Health for the Province, becoming the first Black person to hold this prestigious role. In this position, her main portfolio will focus on Black health. To our knowledge, this marks the first time this portfolio has been represented at a provincial level in public health anywhere in Canada. Dr. Nnorom is also the Black health faculty lead with the DFCM and the creator and host of Healthcaring Differently, a digital mentorship initiative encouraging diverse youth to explore careers in medicine, research and health care. 

“I am very pleased to welcome Onye to my team in Ontario’s Office of the Chief Medical Officer of Health,” says Dr. Kieran Moore. “Her dedication and public health expertise in the areas of health equity and Black health position her very well to contribute to advancing public health at the provincial level.”

Dr. Tania Tajirian, Award of Excellence in Mental Health and Addictions Quality Improvement

Dr. Tajirian and her team at CAMH received the Canadian College of Health Leaders’ Award of Excellence in Mental Health and Addictions Quality Improvement. Dr. Tajirian, who is the chief health information officer and chief of hospital medicine at CAMH, was selected in part for her contributions to the Improving Cancer Screening for Individuals with Severe Mental Illness Initiative (SMI). The initiative saw in-patients with SMI increase screening for colorectal, breast and cervical cancers by 33 per cent, 60 per cent and 50 per cent, respectively.

Dr. Ali Damji, Trillium Health Partners 2025 Better Together Award 

For Trillium Health Partners’ 2025 Better Together Week, Dr. Damji was the recipient of the Better Together Award for Clinical Teaching Undergrad and Postgrad.

“Teaching the next generation of health-care professionals and leaders here and abroad is the greatest joy and privilege of my life, and this award truly means the world to me!” he says.

Dr. Monica Aggarwal, Chair of the Health Standards Organization’s (HSO) Technical Committee

Dr. Aggarwal was selected as the Chair of the Health Standards Organization’s (HSO) Technical Committee, which will lead the update to the Primary Health Care Services National Standard of Canada. The HSO is a not-for-profit organization that develops standards, assessments and quality improvement solutions that help to create a safer, healthier world.

Dr. Karen Tu: WONCA Outstanding Research Award

At the 26th WONCA Asia Pacific Regional Conference held in Busan, Korea in April, Dr. Tu received the Outstanding Research Award for her exceptional oral presentation titled “Examining Anxiety and Depression Visits to Primary Care in 8 International Consortium of Primary Care Big Data Researchers (INTRePID) Countries.” This recognition highlights the global impact of her work and the strength of international collaboration in primary care research.

Dr. Farhan M. Asrar, Mississauga Civic Award of Recognition

Dr. Asrar received the Mississauga Civic Award of Recognition from the Mayor of Mississauga and the Mississauga Council for his outstanding contributions nationally and internationally as a physician, researcher and educator.

Dr. Simon Robarts, Creativity and Innovation Award from Veterans Affairs Canada

Dr. Robarts received this award for his work designing and implementing a system of virtual care for Veterans.

DFCM researchers on 50 most cited primary care scholars list: Dr. Dave Davis, Dr. Joel Lexchin, Dr. Eva Grunfeld, Dr. Bernard Le Foll, Dr. Murray Finkelstein, Dr. Noah Ivers, Dr. Richard Glazier, Dr. Jeff Kwong, Dr. Robert J Reid, Dr. Ross Upshur, Dr. Stewart Harris, Dr. Tony Antoniou, Dr. Karen Tu, Dr. Mary Ann O'Brien, Dr. Ann Burchell, Dr. Walter Rosser

Dr. Sandy Buchman: the Order of Canada

Dr. Eva Grunfeld: investiture as an officer to the Order of Canada

Dr. Onyenyechukwu Nnorom: Dalla Lana School of Public Health's 2025 Black Leaders in Health Award

Dr. Howard Ovens: The Order of Ontario

Dr. Praseedha Janakiram: Harrison Waddington Fellowship, Colin Woolf Excellence in Program Development and Coordination

Dana Arafeh: Patient Partner Award of Excellence

Dr. Meeta Patel: Temerty Faculty of Medicine Award for Excellence in Professional Values

Dr. Samantha Nutt: Canada's Walk of Fame

Caroline Turenko: Retirement

After 38 years at the University of Toronto, the DFCM'S business and administration director is retiring on September 30, 2025.