The Department of Family & Community Medicine at the University of Toronto sends its faculty members & subscribers a bi-weekly wrap-up of news; and alerts them to upcoming deadlines for submissions, conferences, awards or funding. 

Department of Family & Community Medicine, University of Toronto

The DFCM News Digest

May 13, 2013

A bi-weekly wrap-up of academic & conference deadlines, news & events, recognition & media for DFCM faculty and subscribers.


Featured News

Walter Rosser Faculty Retreat 2013

Academic Family Physician of the Year, Dr. Jeff Bloom   
 

Dr. Jeff Bloom, Academic Family Physician of the Year


News


Opportunities


Site seeing
May 2013: An opportunity for leaders, mentors, chiefs, knowledge and information managers, innovators and human resources specialists on how to Build Smarter Organizations in Toronto on May 14th, 2013.

Awards, Appointments and Honours

The DFCM is proud of the exceptional contributions these individuals have made to the Department, and thank them for all of their hard work in promoting education and scholarship within the University as well as nationally and internationally.
Congratulations are being extended to the following faculty members on their promotions:

To Associate Professor

  • Dr Arun Sayal, NYGH
  • Dr Dori Seccareccia, SBHC
  • Dr Jeffrey Kwong, TWH
  • Dr Michelle Naimer, MSH
  • Dr Onil Bhattacharyya, SMH


To Full Professor

  • Dr Bernard Le Foll, CAMH
  • Dr. Lynn Wilson, WCH

Faculty member Dr. Kiran Virdy (CVH) worked on an Association of Faculties of Medicine of Canada (AFMC) and Canada Health Infoway (Infoway) winning submission with Ayesha Malik. Malik won third place.

Case authors
Ayesha Malik, MSc, MD Candidate
Kiran Virdy, MD

About the case: http://pie.med.utoronto.ca/vic/demo/malik.htm
 


Deadlines

Academic and conference submission deadlines

Upcoming events, including professional development

Selected meetings, conferences, rounds, celebrations, workshops from DFCM and others ...visit the calendar on our website to view and add your own events.
 
May 16             Embedding Research Into Primary Care Remodeling: The Tale of one Healthcare System. DFCM Research Rounds with Dr. Robert Reid, Senior Investigator, Group Health Research Institute, Seattle, WA.
May 28             The 10th annual Canadian Association for Health Services and Policy Research (CAHSPR) conference from May 28 to 30, 2013. The themes this year: What will More...

May 31             The Storytelling Workshops with Barbara Sibbald Palliative Care for the Non-Specialist
Jun 19              Trillium Primary Health Care Research Day and Canadian Association for Health Services and Policy Research
Jun 19              Rita Shaughnessy’s Retirement Party
June 25            DFCM Central Office Team Building Day



Media

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