NEWS
12/4/2009

Awards and Honours
 
I am writing to announce a number of awards and honours received by members of the Department of Psychiatry recently.
 
Jeff Daskalakis received the British Association for Psychopharmacology/Schering Plough Journal Award for Best Paper in 2008 in the Journal of Psychopharmacology. The paper was titled “Increased Cortical Inhibition in Persons with Schizophrenia Treated with Clozapine.”
 
Rohan Ganguli received the Pittsburgh Schizophrenia Conference Award presented each year to a researcher of international renown who is judged by the conference committee to have made important and lasting contributions to the understanding and treatment of schizophrenia. In receiving this award Dr. Ganguli joins a very distinguished group of leaders in schizophrenia research including Gerald Hogarty, John Kane, Jeffrey Lieberman, David Lewis and Daniel Weinberger.
 
Robin Green received a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair to support her work in neurorehabilitation.
 
Nathan Kolla was granted the 2009 PSI Resident Research Prize for his paper entitled ”An fMRI investigation of reversal learning in violent offenders with psychopathy and antisocial personality disorder.”
 
Fiona Kouyoumdjian received a 2009 Resident Leadership Award from the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada.
 
Susan Lieff was honoured with membership as a Distinguished Life Fellow by the Association for Academic Psychiatry. This designation recognizes individuals who have achieved mastery in a career dedicated to educational endeavors, have demonstrated sensitivity by unselfishly guiding the next generation of academic psychiatrists, and who are engaged in passing on the traditions of the past to the next generation of academic psychiatrists.
 
Paul Links received the 2009 Canadian Association for Suicide Prevention Research Award. This award is presented to a deserving individual who has made an outstanding contribution to the field of suicide research in Canada.
 
Jose Silvera has been appointed Psychiatrist in Chief at St. Joseph’s Health Centre.
 
Tom Ungar received the Paul Patterson Education Leadership Award from the Canadian Psychiatric Association. This award is presented annually to a psychiatric educator who, in responding to change or leading in new directions, makes a significant contribution to undergraduate, postgraduate, continuing professional or public education.
 
I am sure everyone will join me in congratulating these outstanding colleagues!
 
Donald Wasylenki, MD, FRCPC
Professor and Chair
Department of Psychiatry

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