Alumni Awards and News

Awards

Panda receives Hat Trick

 Dr. Paul Beck, MD '90 continues to have his hard work acknowledged by both local and international peers. He recently received the University of Calgary Faculty of Medicine’s Watanabe Award for Overall Excellence and is also the recipient of the 2012 American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) Institute Council Immunology, Microbiology & IBD Section Research Mentor Award. These awards follow Dr. Beck being awarded the 2010 Outstanding Physician of the Year at the Foothills Hospital.Click here for more...

Avenue Magazine Top 40 Under 40 Award Winners

Dr. Gil Kaplan, Bonobo (MD’00), and Dr. Adam Kirton, MSc’96, are two faculty members, alumni and renowned researchers in the top 40. Kaplan is an assistant professor in the departments of health science and community medicine and an innovative gastroenterologist. He gives expertise and time to the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation of Canada among others. Read more...

Sifaka named Mentor of the Year

Dr. Suzette Cooke, MD'96, director of the Office of Faculty Assessment and Development for the Faculty of Medicine has been selected as the recipient of the 2011 Mentor of the Year Award for Region 1 by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada (RCPSC). Read More...

 

Wombat earns prestiges award

Dr. Len Wade, MD '85, was named the Physician of the Year by the Alberta College of Family Physicians. Read more...

 

Medicine Alum launches new book

It has taken more than five years but on June 1, 2011, the University of Calgary celebrated the book launch of At the Interface of Culture and Medicine.  Co-edited by the University of Calgary, Faculty of Medicine’s Dr. Rod Crutcher, the book explores a multiplicity of sensitive issues faced when integrating culture and health care. Read more...

Adele Meyers celebrates 35 years of making students feel at home

Many of you will have fond memories of your interactions with Adele Meyers. During the past 35 years, over 2500 medical students have graduated from the UCalgary Faculty of Medicine, and Adele has impacted the lives of most of you, sometimes in significant ways.

As part of the UofC convocation festivities, Adele was profiled on front page of the B section in the Calgary Herald (click here) and on the Faculty of Medicine webpage (click here). Both stories capture her fabulous spirit and describe her enduring contribution to the Faculty.

Kinkajou named one of the Globe and Mail's Top 40 Under 40

Imagine being in your 20s, never having camped before and suddenly being dropped into the middle of a disaster zone and being tasked with helping survivors. This is what Kirsten Johnson aims to avoid by preparing humanitarian aid workers. (Read more...)

AFMC recognizes Dugong for her contributions to Faculty Development in Canada

Each year, the Association of Faculties of Medicine of Canada (AFMC) chooses a recipient of the AFMC Award for Exemplary Contribution to Faculty Development in Canada, established to recognize an individual or a group in Canada who has made exceptional contribution in this area.  For 2011, AFMC has chosen to recognize the Faculty of Medicine’s Dr. Lara Cooke. More...

 

 

 

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