Awards

The Career Development Awards include: the Thomas J. Marrie Mentoring Award; the Cooperation, Collaboration and Teamwork Award; and the Jonathan B. Meddings Clinical Innovation Award.

Thomas J. Marrie Mentoring Award

The Department of Medicine wishes to recognize a faculty member who best exemplifies the qualities of a mentor.

This year's recipient:

Dr. Steven Katz

Division of Rheumatology

Cooperation, Collaboration and Teamwork Award

The Department wishes to recognize those groups who have been successful in creating environments where the professional characteristics of Cooperation, Collaboration and Teamwork are effective for teaching, research, patient care and/or administration and are visible to others, thus representing operational role models in the academic environment and/or the larger community.

This year's recipients:

The University of Alberta/ Alberta Health Services Tuberculosis Consilium led by Dr. Ryan Cooper, Division of Infectious Diseases

Team Members:

Dr. Dennis Kunimoto
Dr. Rabia Ahmed
Dr. Shannon Turvey
Dr. Alena Tse-Chang
Dr. Vivek Dhawan
Dr. Anu Parhar
Dr. Angela Lau
Dr. Giovanni Ferrara
Dr. Alexander Doroshenko
Dr. Richard Long

Dr. Lakshmi Puttagunta
Ms. Jeanine Robertson
Ms. Kim Pinar
Ms. Sandy Cockburn
Ms. Andrea Warman
Ms. Julie Gorbahn
Ms. Hanna Rempel
Ms. Donna Chua
Dr. Greg Tyrrell
Ms. Courtney Heffernan

Jonathan B. Meddings Clinical Innovation Award

The Department of Medicine wishes to recognize clinical innovations that impact patient care in a positive and meaningful way.

This year's recipient:

Dr. Mohammed Osman

Division of Rheumatology

Chuck Morrison Award

The Department of Medicine wishes to recognize the significant contributions office support staff make to the Department of Medicine.

This year's recipient:

Ms. Ashley Small

Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism

Research Awards

The Research Awards include: the Clinical Investigation Publication Award the Paul W. Armstrong Excellence in Research Award, the Translational Research Fellowship Award, and the University of Alberta Doctoral Recruitment Scholarship.

Clinical Investigation Publication Award

The Department of Medicine wishes to recognize a research publication in a top ranked journal, with the work having been completed at the U of A and the award winner as PI.

Terms of Reference

This year's recipient:

Dr. Carlos Cervera Alvarez

Division of Infectious Diseases

For his published work in the Journal: Clinical Infectious Diseases