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Colleen Saunder's Retirement Tea
Congratulations to
Michelle Gagnon, Joye St. Onge, Sabina Keen, Heather McLeod and David Cowan for their outstanding accomplishment in being awarded the Internal Medicine Residency Program, "Best Sub-specialty Rotation within the Department of Medicine, at McMaster University".
Geriatrics at St. Joseph's Hospital site was selected by the Internal Medicine Residents for this year's Sub-specialty award. Acceptance of awards on May 25, 2011 at the Department of Medicine Resident Research Day.
Aliya Khan for her well deserved "Internationlal Clinician Instructor Award", which acknowledges the work and teaching Dr. Khan has done in the field of metabolic bone disease. She recently received this award at the Annual Scientific Meeting of the International Society of Clinical Densitometry held in April 2011.
Ms. Janet Pritchard (above), PhD Candidate in the Medical Sciences program at McMaster University is researching the impact of type 2 diabetes on skeletal health under the primary supervision of Dr. Alexandra Papaioannou. Using novel imaging and microscopy modalities, Ms. Pritchard is aiming to further our knowledge on the mechanism of elevated fracture risk in adults with type 2 diabetes. Ms. Pritchard has been funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research Training Program in Skeletal Health Research, the Department of Medicine Graduate Student Initiative, and the Ontario Graduate Scholarship for her PhD. Research funding has been kindly provided by the Lloyd Carr Harris Foundation and Amgen Canada. On June 22, 2011 at St. Peter’s Hospital, Hamilton Health Sciences, Ms. Pritchard was awarded the Amgen Fellowship Award where the funds will go to the current research she is conducting.
Ms. Courtney Kennedy is a PhD Candidate in the Health Research Methodology program at McMaster University and a member of the St Peter's Geriatric Research Group. Her research interests are centred on knowledge translation related to bone health in long-term care, and epidemiological aspects of osteoporosis, fractures and frailty in the elderly. She is the PhD candidate on the Vitamin D in Osteoporosis Study (ViDos) – a CIHR funded knowledge translation randomized controlled trial in 40 long-term care homes. In September 2011, at the American Society of Bone and Mineral Research in San Diego, she received a President’s Poster Competition Award for her abstract entitled “How Can We Improve Bone Health in the Long-term Care Setting? Lessons from the ViDOS study”.
Dr. Michelle Gagnon (left) and Ms. Anne Pizzacalla (right) on receiving awards at the 8th Annual SAGE Awards on May 27, 2011. Dr. Gagnon received the Executive Senior Leadership award. Dr. Gagnon is a dedicated geriatrician and brilliant educator, committed to sharing her knowledge with residents, other physicians, allied health care providers and older adults and their caregivers. Many health professionals have been attracted to the field of geriatrics due to Dr. Gagnon’s mentoring and encouragement. Ms. Pizzacalla received the Individual award. Anne is not only a skilled clinician, leader and innovator; she is described by her colleagues as an influential educator. Anne’s “can do” attitude has lead to many pioneering accomplishments including the establishment of the first Hospital Elder Life Program in Canada.
On behalf of the Division of Geriatric Medicine, Department of Medicine, I would like to congratulate Dr. Heather McLeod on being awarded the prestigious W. Watson Buchanan AFP Clinician Educator Award, Medicine Internal Career Award. This award promotes the work of young scientists and educators in the Department of Medicine who are within the first five years of their initial appointment. Dr. McLeod will use this award to support her research, which will focus on evidence based best practice for enhancing geriatric specific knowledge and skills within the pre-clerkship and clerkship program with the Undergraduate MD program at McMaster University.
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