Vitals are key performance metrics for the Temerty Faculty of Medicine. They allow us to track aspects of our research and education activity relative to our Academic Strategic Plan, to our year-over-year performance, and to our peer institutions in Canada and around the world. Vitals are one way we measure our impact at Temerty Medicine.
Rankings
Clinical Medicine (or related fields) Subject Rankings 2020-24
Chart data
| Ranking | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| National Taiwan University | 3 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 2 |
| U.S. News & World Report | 3 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 3 |
| Times Higher Ed | 6 | 6 | 5 | 7 | 9 |
| QS World University | 13 | 13 | 12 | 13 | 13 |
| Shanghai | 15 | 15 | 15 | 17 | 20 |
Contributions to Physician Supply and Distribution in 2023
Temerty Medicine is the single largest contributor of physicians in Canada, representing 18.5% of all newly trained Canadian physicians in 2023. (CAPER 2024). According to the Canadian PostMD Education Registry:
U of T Contributed
Each Year:
U of T leads in the training of highly needed subspecialists
In the highly needed subspecialties of psychiatry
Where do our PhD graduates go?
The 10,000 PhDs Project, which was an initiative of the School of Graduate Studies, used Internet searches of open-access data sources such as official university and company websites to determine the current and/or first (2016) employment status of the 10,886 PhDs who graduated from U of T between 2000 and 2015 in all disciplines.
The 2022 Career Outcomes Study provides more recent data, using the same methodology as the 10,000 PhDs Project. This study shows that as of 2022, there were 3,636 PhD graduates from Temerty Medicine, and they work in a variety of sectors and jobs. The top three sectors for these graduates are postsecondary education, private industry and public organizations.
Temerty Medicine PhD Graduates
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| PSE | Private | Public | Charitable | Individual | Info Not Public |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 37.7 | 28.2 | 18.8 | 3.1 | 2.0 | 10.2 |
How We Innovate
Over the last five years (FY 2019 — FY 2023)
Research
Temerty Medicine, including its researchers at TAHSN-affiliated institutes, received approximately $995M in research funding in 2022-23. Collectively, Temerty Medicine receives 23 per cent of all CIHR investigator-initiated research project funding and foundation grants awarded in Canada. U of T Medicine has continued to diversify and seek funding from other sources, including not-for-profit ($408M in 2022-23) and industry ($143M in 2022-23).
Research Funding Sources (2018-19 to 2022-23)
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| Sector | 2018/19 | 2019/20 | 2020/21 | 2021/22 | 2022/23 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Private | 113 | 140 | 123 | 134 | 143 |
| Gov't & Other | 186 | 159 | 147 | 173 | 179 |
| Non-Profit | 362 | 389 | 345 | 390 | 408 |
| Tri-Agency | 225 | 233 | 289 | 255 | 263 |
Articles in Top Journals 2023
The 1% most-cited journals as defined by SNIP (Source-Normalized Impact per Paper). SNIP is a field-normalized journal metric, meaning that this metric can be used to compare the average impact of publications from journals in different disciplines.
Source: Scopus
Canada
World
Chart data
| Harvard | U of T | Johns Hopkins | UC London | Stanford |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 917 | 393 | 378 | 359 | 334 |
International Collaborations 2023
In 2023, Temerty Medicine researchers participated in collaborations producing
People
Alumni and Donors (FY 2023-24)
The Temerty Medicine benefits from the generous financial support of alumni and donors. These funds help drive programs and research, as well as faculty and student support.
Enrolment Numbers 2023-24
U of T is home to one of the largest MD Programs by enrolment in Canada and the largest in Ontario. U of T also has the most post-MD trainees in Canada and is a leading provider of medical continuing professional development.
Undergraduate Learners: 1,638
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| MD | MD/PhD | Physician Assistant Program | Medical Radiation Sciences |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1114 | 71 | 107 | 346 |
Postgraduate Medical Education: 4,029
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| Fellows | Residents |
|---|---|
| 1916 | 2113 |
Graduate Learners: 3,184
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| Professional Degrees | Masters Students | Doctoral Students | Graduate Diplomas |
|---|---|---|---|
| 812 | 768 | 1584 | 20 |
Continuing Professional Development 2023-24
Faculty and Staff 2024
Chart data
| Clinical | Status Only | Adjunct | Appointed | Staff |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7808 | 1371 | 614 | 250 | 908 |
Partnerships
Toronto Academic Health Science Network Hospitals and Other Affiliated Institutions
Temerty Medicine and our affiliated hospitals form one of the leading health sciences centres for research and education in North America. The hub centres on the Toronto Academic Health Science Network (TAHSN) — composed of our fully affiliated and associate affiliated hospitals — and extends to another 20 community-affiliated hospitals and health-care sites in the Greater Toronto Area and beyond.
TAHSN Fully Affiliated Hospitals
Community Affiliated Hospitals
- Georgian Bay General Hospital
- Lakeridge Health
- Oak Valley Health
- Ontario Shores Centre for Mental Health Sciences
- Unity Health Toronto – Providence Healthcare Site*
- Royal Victoria Regional Health Centre
- Southlake Regional Health Centre
- Waypoint Centre For Mental Health Care
- William Osler Health System
Other Affiliates
(*) These hospitals merged in 2017; the University’s affiliations continue on a site-specific basis.
(***) Formerly Hincks-Dellcrest Treatment Centre, this site integrated with The Hospital for Sick Children in 2017; the University’s affiliations continue on a site-specific basis.
Honours & Awards
At Temerty Medicine, many of our faculty members, learners and staff receive recognition for their work every year. View some of those honours and awards below.
International Awards
University Professor Brenda Andrews
2025 Henry G. Friesen International Prize in Health Research
Friends of Canadian Institutes of Health Research
The Henry G. Friesen International Prize in Health Research recognizes exceptional innovation by a visionary health leader of international stature.
Professor Mark Boulos
2025 American Academy of Neurology Sleep Science Award
American Academy of Neurology Sleep Science
This award recognizes distinguished academic contributions by neurologists to the field of sleep medicine or the contributions of non-neurologists to the interface area of sleep neurology.
Professor Laura Chiavaroli
2025 AFNS Emerging Leaders Award
Institute for the Advancement of Food and Nutrition Sciences
The IAFNS Emerging Leaders Awards promote excellence in the food safety and nutritional sciences as evidenced by research, leadership, initiative, collaboration and communication.
Professor Laura Chiavaroli
2024 Mead Johnson Award
American Society for Nutrition
This award is given to an investigator for a single outstanding piece of nutrition research or a series of papers on the same subject accomplished within 10 years of postgraduate training.
University Professor Daniel Drucker
2023 Wolf Prize in Medicine
The Wolf Foundation
The acclaimed Wolf Prize is awarded to outstanding scientists and artists from around the world for achievements in the interest of humanity and friendly relations among people. The prize laureates are selected by international Jury Committees which comprise world-renowned professionals from all over the world.
University Professor Daniel Drucker
2024 Princess of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research
Princess of Asturias Foundation
The Princess of Asturias Awards are conferred on individuals and/or institutions that, through their work and merits in scientific, technical, cultural, social and humanitarian fields, contribute to progress and social well-being in an extraordinary and exemplary way. University Professor Drucker shares the 2024 honor with Joel Habener, Jens Holst, Svetlana Mojsov and Jeffrey Friedman.
University Professor Daniel Drucker
2024 TOPS Research Achievement Award
The Obesity Society
The TOPS Research Achievement Award is for singular achievement or contribution to research in the field of obesity.
University Professor Daniel Drucker
2025 AACR-Irving Weinstein Foundation Distinguished Lecture
American Association for Cancer Research
The AACR-Irving Weinstein Foundation Distinguished Lectureship acknowledges an individual whose outstanding personal innovation in science and whose position as a thought leader in fields relevant to cancer research has the potential to inspire creative thinking and new directions in cancer research.
University Professor Daniel Drucker
2025 Frontiers of Knowledge Award
BBVA Foundation
The award recognizes scientists and innovators whose contributions are helping guide humanity's response to pressing global challenges. Prof. Drucker shares the honour with Professors Joel Habener of Harvard Medical School, Svetlana Mojsov of Rockefeller University and Jens Juul Holst of the University of Copenhagen.
University Professor Daniel Drucker
Fred Conrad Koch Lifetime Achievement Award
Endocrine Society
The Fred Conrad Koch Lifetime Achievement Award—the Society’s highest honor—recognizes the lifetime achievements and exceptional contributions of an individual to the field of endocrinology.
Professor Aled Edwards
Fellow of the Royal Society
The Royal Society
Prof. Edwards is recognized for his contributions to accelerating drug discovery following an open science ethos. He holds a Temerty Nexus Chair of Health Innovation and Technology and is the founder and CEO of the Structural Genomics Consortium.
Professor Rachel Harding
2024 Nancy S. Wexler Young Investigator Prize
Hereditary Disease Foundation
This distinctive recognition is presented annually to an early-career researcher whose work reflects the highest caliber of excellence, diligence, and creative thinking. The prize recipient is selected by the HDF Scientific Advisory Board. The Nancy S. Wexler Prize honors the pioneering spirit, relentless dedication, and enduring optimism of Nancy S. Wexler, PhD, President of HDF.
Professor Nicola Jones
2023 Shwachman Award
North American Society for Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition
This award honours a member of North American Society for Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition for their outstanding scientific or educational contributions and achievements in the field of pediatric gastroenterology, hepatology and nutrition.
Professor Sheena Josselyn
2023 American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow
American Association for the Advancement of Science
This award is a distinguished lifetime honour within the scientific community. Prof. Josselyn is recognized for her contributions to the field of neuroscience, particularly for establishing the existence of engrams – physical or chemical changes in the brain that correspond to memories.
University Professor Lewis Kay
2025 Alexander Hollaender Award in Biophysics
National Academy of Sciences
This award recognizes outstanding contributions made to the field of biophysics. Prof. Kay is recognized for his pioneering work in biochemistry and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy has transformed our understanding of the structure, dynamics, and functions of macromolecules.
Professor Shaf Keshavjee
2024 Medawar Prize
The Transplantation Society
This award recognizes the outstanding investigators whose contributions have had a profound influence on the field of organ transplantation. It is universally considered to be commensurate with the most outstanding world prizes for scientific achievement. Keshavjee is recognized for developing the low potassium dextran lung preservation solution and the Toronto Ex Vivo Lung Perfusion system, innovations which have significantly enhanced the viability and utilization of donor lungs worldwide, making critical advancements in lung transplantation.
Professor Adam Metherel
2024 E. L. R. Stokstad Award
American Society for Nutrition
This award is given for outstanding fundamental research in nutrition, with preference to scientists at relatively early stages in their careers.
Professor Tak Mak
Pezcoller Foundation-American Association for Cancer Research International Award for Extraordinary Achievement
Pezcoller Foundation
This award recognizes a scientist of international renown who has made a major scientific discovery in basic cancer research or made significant contributions to translational cancer research and who continues to be active in cancer research and has a record of recent, noteworthy publications and whose ongoing work holds promise for continued substantive contributions to progress in the field of cancer.
Professor Michael Patlas
Honorary Membership
Association of Radiologists of Ukraine
This award recognizes Professor Patlas' humanitarian work in Ukraine. Patlas organized a virtual monthly continuing education program, focused on emergency radiology, for Ukrainian radiologists who lost their continuing medical education access during the war and required immediate training in combat radiology.
Professor Jeffrey Perl
2025 J. Michael Lazarus Distinguished Award
National Kidney Foundation
This award recognizes individuals whose research has yielded novel insights related to renal replacement therapy.
Professor Allan Peterkin
2023 Visionary Award
Health Humanities Consortium
This award honours an individual who has made sustained and exceptional contributions to the field of health humanities in the realms of education, research or leadership.
Professor Ruth Ross
Mechoulam Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Field of Cannabinoid Research
International Cannabinoid Research Society
This award is given to a distinguished established scientist who has made continued meritorious, significant and widely recognized contributions to cannabinoid and endocannabinoid research that have moved the discipline forward.
University Professor Stephen Scherer
2024 Debrecen Award for Molecular Medicine
University of Debrecen
Established by the University of Debrecen in Hungary in 2003, the Debrecen Award for Molecular Medicine is an esteemed recognition given to scientists who have made significant advancements in the field of molecular medicine and whose pioneering research has had a profound impact on modern patient care.
Professor Adrienne Tan
Program Director of the Year Award
International Conference on Residency Education
This award is given to a program director who has demonstrated a commitment to enhancing residency education as evidenced by innovation and impact beyond their program.
National Awards
Professor Peter Adamson
2024 Teasdale-Corti Humanitarian Award
Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada
This award recognizes an individual who goes beyond the norms of routine practice to provide health care.
Professor Stavroula (Roula) Andreopoulos
OCUFA Teaching Award
Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations
The Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations Awards of Distinction showcase the great innovation, advocacy, and dedication found on public university campuses and in the higher education community.
Professor Venkat Bhat
2024 Royal College Award for Early Career Leadership in Professional Practice/Patient Care
Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada
This award recognizes new Royal College Fellows (with seven or fewer years of post-training full-time practice) who have shown outstanding leadership, initiative, service and/or innovation.
Professor Deanna Chaukos
2023 AFMC Young Educators Award
The Association of Faculties of Medicine of Canada
The AFMC Young Educators Award recognizes the outstanding effort or achievements of an individual within their first seven years as a faculty member who produced change within their Faculty of Medicine or the general medical community.
Professor Chung-Wai Chow
Brockhouse Prize for Interdisciplinary Research in Science and Engineering
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
Prof. Chow is recognized alongside fellow team members Greg Evans, Jeff Brook, Miriam Diamond, Marianne Hatzopoulou, Jim Wallace, Cheol-Heon Jeong and Jim Wallace for developing innovative tools and strategies for studying air pollution and its effects.
Trevor Cuddy
2025 AFMC Administration Award
The Association of Faculties of Medicine of Canada
Cuddy is recognized for his contributions to national discourse and the betterment of Canadian academic medicine. This award is the highest recognition for a non-clinical professional within a faculty of medicine in Canada.
Professor Shaheen Darani
2023 AFMC Clinical Teacher Award
The Association of Faculties of Medicine of Canada
The AFMC Clinical Teacher Award recognizes excellence in clinical teaching by an individual faculty member in a Faculty of Medicine in Canada. This award was established in 2014 and is intended to emphasize the importance of clinical teaching in academic medicine.
Professor Avram Denburg
2024 Recognition Awards 35th Anniversary Medal
Canada's Drug Agency
These medals recognize individuals whose commitment and dedication have helped maintain health technology assessment as a vital component of Canada’s health systems.
University Professor John Dick
2023 Canadian Medical Hall of Fame Laureate
Canadian Medical Hall of Fame
This honour recognizes people whose outstanding leadership and contributions to medicine and the health sciences, in Canada or abroad, have led to extraordinary improvements in human health.
Professor Julie Johnstone
2025 Certificate of Merit Award
Canadian Association for Medical Education
CAME Certificate of Merit which promotes, recognizes and rewards faculty committed to medical education in Canadian medical schools.
Professor Ayelet Kuper
2024 AFMC May Cohen Equity, Diversity and Gender Award
Association of Faculties of Medicine of Canada
This award recognizes the outstanding effort or achievement of an individual, program, department or faculty in improving the gender-equity environment and diversity in academic medicine in Canada. Named after May Cohen, the award is to exemplify the characteristics that she represents.
Professor Sylvia Langlois
2023 Certificate of Merit Award
Canadian Association for Medical Education
CAME Certificate of Merit which promotes, recognizes and rewards faculty committed to medical education in Canadian medical schools.
Professor Wendy Levinson
2024 Recognition Awards 35th Anniversary Medal
Canada's Drug Agency
These medals recognize individuals whose commitment and dedication have helped maintain health technology assessment as a vital component of Canada’s health systems.
Professor Heather MacNeill
2024 CAME Certificate of Merit
Canadian Association for Medical Education
This award recognizes senior faculty who have made an exceptional contribution to medical education throughout their academic career.
Professor Vasanti Malik
2024 CIHR-INMD-CNS Early Career Researcher Partnership Award
Canadian Nutrition Society
This prize recognizes an individual who is actively engaged in health-related research and has demonstrated excellence and outstanding contributions in nutrition-related research that is relevant to the mandate of the Institute of Nutrition, Metabolism and Diabetes and the Canadian Nutrition Society.
Professor Muhammad Mamdani
2024 Recognition Awards 35th Anniversary Medal
Canada's Drug Agency
These medals recognize individuals whose commitment and dedication have helped maintain health technology assessment as a vital component of Canada’s health systems.
Professor Allison McGeer
2023 Canadian Medical Hall of Fame Laureate
Canadian Medical Hall of Fame
This honour recognizes people whose outstanding leadership and contributions to medicine and the health sciences, in Canada or abroad, have led to extraordinary improvements in human health.
Professor Lindsay Melvin
2025 CAME Certificate of Merit
Canadian Association for Medical Education
This award recognizes senior faculty who have made an exceptional contribution to medical education throughout their academic career.
Professor Benoit Mulsant
2023 Presidential Award for Distinguished Scientific Achievement
American Association of Chairs of Departments of Psychiatry
Professor Steven Narod
2023 McLaughlin Medal
Royal Society of Canada
This award recognizes important research of sustained excellence in any branch of medical sciences.
Professor Steven Narod
2024 Canadian Medical Hall of Fame Laureate
Canadian Medical Hall of Fame
Canadian Medical Hall of Fame Laureates are Canadian citizens whose outstanding leadership and contributions to medicine and the health sciences, in Canada or abroad, have led to extraordinary improvements in human health. Prof. Narod is recognized for his work in cancer genetics.
Professor Mireille Norris
2023 Lifetime Achievement Award
Black Physicians of Canada
This award is given to a retired or practicing Black physician who has made an outstanding contribution to the Black community, through research, education or advocacy and advanced the humanitarian or cultural life of the Black community in Canada.
Professor Melissa Nutik
2024 CAME Certificate of Merit
Canadian Association for Medical Education
This award recognizes senior faculty who have made an exceptional contribution to medical education throughout their academic career.
Abigail Ortiz
2024 Clinical Innovator of the Year
Digital Health Canada
The prize is awarded to an individual who has shown outstanding leadership in Canada in advancing the use of Digital Health or Virtual Health in clinical practice resulting in improved provider and patient experiences and outcomes. The nominee has served as a role model, champion and leader in encouraging design, implementation and use of digital health to improve knowledge based practice and the quality of patient care.
Professor Michael Patlas
2025 CAR Gold Medal
Canadian Association of Radiologists
The Canadian Association of Radiologists Gold Medal Award is presented to a long-time member of the CAR who has made outstanding contributions to the Association and to the profession of radiology in Canada. It is the CAR's highest honour. Patlas is recognized for his transformational leadership as the editor-in-chief of the Canadian Association of Radiologists Journal and as the co-founder and president of the Canadian Emergency, Trauma and Acute Care Radiology Society. He also edited a reference textbook, titled Atlas of Emergency Imaging from Head-to-Toe, that provides a comprehensive and modern approach to the imaging of numerous non-traumatic and traumatic emergency conditions.
Professor Michael Patlas
Medal of Excellence Award
Canadian Emergency, Trauma and Acute Care Radiology Society
This award recognizes distinguished and extraordinary service to the discipline of Emergency, Trauma, and acute radiology.
Professor Emeritus Reinhart Reithmeier
2025 King Charles III Coronation Medal
Royal Canadian Institute for Science
This award recognizes people whose work furthers the Royal Canadian Institute for Science's mission of fostering science culture in Canada, including those who have made significant contributions to engaging the public and policy-makers with science, technology, engineering, math and medicine (STEMM) in Canada; combat mis- and disinformation in STEMM; and/or foster inclusive communities within STEMM.
Professor David Rojas
2024 CAME Certificate of Merit
Canadian Association for Medical Education
This award recognizes senior faculty who have made an exceptional contribution to medical education throughout their academic career.
Professor Paula Rowland
2023 Certificate of Merit Award
Canadian Association for Medical Education
CAME Certificate of Merit which promotes, recognizes and rewards faculty committed to medical education in Canadian medical schools.
Professor Giovanna Sirianni
2025 Certificate of Merit Award
Canadian Association for Medical Education
CAME Certificate of Merit which promotes, recognizes and rewards faculty committed to medical education in Canadian medical schools.
Professor Arthur Slutsky
2024 Canadian Medical Hall of Fame Laureate
Canadian Medical Hall of Fame
Canadian Medical Hall of Fame Laureates are Canadian citizens whose outstanding leadership and contributions to medicine and the health sciences, in Canada or abroad, have led to extraordinary improvements in human health. Prof. Slutsky is recognized as a changemaker in critical care and respiratory medicine.
Professor Walter Tavares
2023 Certificate of Merit Award
Canadian Association for Medical Education
CAME Certificate of Merit which promotes, recognizes and rewards faculty committed to medical education in Canadian medical schools.
Professor Cynthia Whitehead
2023 CAME Ian Hart Award Recipient
Canadian Association for Medical Education
Prof. Whitehead is a Professor of Family and Community Medicine, Director and Scientist at the Wilson Centre for Research in Education and holds the BMO Financial Group Chair in Health Professions Education Research at University Health Network. This this award recognizes senior faculty who have made an exceptional contribution to medical education throughout their academic career.
Professor Treena Wilkie
2024 AFMC Wellness Award
Association of Faculties of Medicine of Canada
The AFMC Wellness Award recognizes an individual in Canada who has shown dedication to the promotion and advancement of the wellness of physicians, medical students, residents, fellows, and/or researchers, graduate students, and post-doctoral scholars.
Professor Maureen Trudeau
2024 Recognition Awards 35th Anniversary Medal
Canada's Drug Agency
These medals recognize individuals whose commitment and dedication have helped maintain health technology assessment as a vital component of Canada’s health systems.
Professor Gelareh Zadeh
2023 Canada Gairdner Momentum Award
Gairdner Foundation
This award recognizes recognizes mid-career investigators who in their last six active years have produced exceptional scientific research contributions with continued potential for impact on human health.
Provincial Awards
Professor Farhan Asrar
Civic Award of Recognition
City of Mississauga
Professor Asrar recognized for his national and international achievements and leadership as a physician, researcher and educator particularly in the areas of equity, diversity, inclusion and accessibility, gender equity & STEM, and work on the environment and climate change. Additionally, he was also recognized for his volunteerism in supporting initiatives in Mississauga'
Professor Katherine Rouleau
2023 CPSO Council Award
College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario
The Council Award is presented at each meeting of Council to honour outstanding Ontario doctors who have demonstrated excellence and come closest to meeting society's vision of an "ideal physician".
Professor Charles Tator
2023 Bruce Prentice Family Legacy Award
Ontario Sports Hall Of Fame
This is presented to an individual or group whose outstanding contribution to sport or athletics is already well documented. Honourees have demonstrated remarkable, long term contribution to sport in Ontario and the people involved.
University of Toronto / Temerty Medicine Awards
Professor Petal Abdool
2025 Ivan Silver Innovation Award
Temerty Faculty of Medicine, Continuing Professional Development
The Ivan Silver Innovation Award recognizes excellence in innovation in a CPD initiative developed and delivered by a University of Toronto faculty member or team.
Professor Denise Belsham
2023 President’s Teaching Award
University of Toronto
Professor Angela Colantanio
2024 School of Graduate Studies Supervision Award
University of Toronto
The School of Graduate Studies Supervision Awards aim to recognize outstanding performance in the multiple roles associated with graduate student supervision.
Professor Brian Cox
2024 Excellence in Linking Undergraduate Teaching to Research in Life Sciences
Temerty Faculty of Medicine
This award is for sustained excellence, mentorship and innovative methods that link undergraduate teaching to experiential research opportunities such as research project courses and summer student research projects or equivalent programs.
Trevor Cuddy
2024 President’s Excellence Award – Influential Excellence
University of Toronto
Recipients of the President’s Excellence Award demonstrate outstanding service to the University and enhance the university experience for students, faculty members, librarians, and / or staff in accordance with the University’s mission.
Professor Shelly Dev
2024 W. T. Aikins Award for Excellence in Individual Teaching Performance – Foundations
Temerty Faculty of Medicine
The W. T. Aikins Awards are named after Dr. W.T. Aikins, the first Dean of the University of Toronto, Temerty Faculty of Medicine after it was reorganized in 1887. These awards are the Faculty's most prestigious awards for sustained commitment to and excellence in undergraduate teaching.
Professor Helena Dhamko and Nicholas Blanchette
2024 W. T. Aikins Award for Excellence in Individual Teaching Performance – Clerkship
Temerty Faculty of Medicine
The W. T. Aikins Awards are named after Dr. W.T. Aikins, the first Dean of the University of Toronto, Temerty Faculty of Medicine after it was reorganized in 1887. These awards are the Faculty's most prestigious awards for sustained commitment to and excellence in undergraduate teaching.
Professor Peter Gill
2025 Temerty Medicine Research Excellence Awards.
Temerty Faculty of Medicine
These awards celebrate research excellence and innovation of early to mid-career researchers in basic and clinical sciences and are made possible by a transformational gift from Jim and Louise Temerty and the Temerty Foundation.
Professor Daphna Grossman
2024 Excellence in Community-Based Teaching (Community Hospital)
Temerty Faculty of Medicine
This award recognizes excellence in teaching at a community hospital.
Professor Zoe Hilton
2025 President's Impact Award
University of Toronto
These awards celebrate and honour faculty members and teams of faculty whose research has led to significant impact beyond academia. They recognize contributions that emerge from academic scholarship and have fully realized, demonstrable impacts on any domain of society, whether through a single influential contribution or through an ongoing commitment to research translation. Professor Hilton is recognized for the creation and translation of data-driven domestic violence risk assessment tools, impacting criminal legal decisions and victim safety across Canada and the US.
Professors Yayi Huang, Yonah Krakowsky and Mark Wheatcroft
2023 Atkins Award for Individual Teaching Performance in Clerkship
Temerty Faculty of Medicine
University Professor David Jenkins
2024 President's Impact Award
University of Toronto
These awards celebrate and honour faculty members and teams of faculty whose research has led to significant impact beyond academia. They recognize contributions that emerge from academic scholarship and have fully realized, demonstrable impacts on any domain of society, whether through a single influential contribution or through an ongoing commitment to research translation. Prof. Jenkins is honoured for his studies on the health effects of food that have changed how the world makes healthy dietary choices.
University Professor David Jenkins
2024 MD Program Teaching Award for Excellence
Temerty Faculty of Medicine
The MD Program Teaching Award for Excellence recognizes faculty, residents, graduate student teachers and clinicians in the MD Program who have attained exceptional Teaching Evaluation Scores in one or more of the teaching activities to which they have contributed.
Professors Ahmed Kayssi, Elliot Lass and Brian Wong and Dalia Karol
2023 Excellence in Resource Stewardship Teaching Award in the MD Program
Temerty Faculty of Medicine
Professor Nohjin Kee
2024 Sustained Excellence and Innovation in Life Sciences Education
Temerty Faculty of Medicine
The purpose of these awards is to honour excellence and sustained contributions by faculty members in undergraduate Arts and Science teaching and the undergraduate experience in life sciences.
Professor Marcus Law
2025 President's Teaching Award
University of Toronto
The President’s Teaching Award recognizes excellence and innovation in teaching, classroom integration, and research in pedagogy and is the university’s highest honour for teaching excellence, educational innovation and educational leadership. Recipients of the President’s Teaching Award are also designated as members of the Teaching Academy for a five year period.
Professor Kimberly Lazare
2024 Excellence in Community-Based Teaching (Clinic/Office/Practice)
Temerty Faculty of Medicine
This award recognizes excellence in teaching at a community-based physician office/clinic.
Professors Jerome Leis and Geetha Mukerji
Excellence in Resource Stewardship Teaching Award
Temerty Faculty of Medicine
The Excellence in Resource Stewardship Teaching Award was established in 2021. The award recognizes faculty members and postgraduate trainees (residents and fellows) who effectively mentor learners in concepts of resource stewardship and demonstrate exemplary resource stewardship in their own clinical practices.
Professor Andres Lozano
2023 Norman Rosenblum Award for Excellence in Mentorship in the MD/PhD Program
Temerty Faculty of Medicine
Professor Stephanie Lurch
2023 Award for Excellence in Community-Based Teaching (Rehabilitation Sciences)
Temerty Faculty of Medicine
Professor Karen Maxwell
2025 Temerty Medicine Research Excellence Awards.
Temerty Faculty of Medicine
These awards celebrate research excellence and innovation of early to mid-career researchers in basic and clinical sciences and are made possible by a transformational gift from Jim and Louise Temerty and the Temerty Foundation.
Professor Anne McLeod
2023 Atkins Award for Excellence in Course Development/Program Coordination
Temerty Faculty of Medicine
Professor Chase McMurren
2024 Miriam Rossi Award for Health Equity in Undergraduate Medical Education
Temerty Faculty of Medicine
The Miriam Rossi Award for Health Equity in Undergraduate Medical Education aims to recognize University of Toronto MD Program faculty (individual or group) and administrative staff (individual or group) members for their commitment to diversity and health equity in undergraduate medical education.
Professors Helen Miliotis, Jastaran Singh and Martina Steiner
2024 Early Career Excellence in Graduate Teaching and Mentorship
Temerty Faculty of Medicine
This award is restricted to Faculty in the early stages of their career within 8 years of their initial SGS membership (including graduate memberships elsewhere) as of December of application year.
Professors Barbara-Ann Millar and Yvonne Chan (co-winners)
Colin Woolf Longterm Contributions to Continuing Professional Development Award
Temerty Faculty of Medicine, Continuing Professional Development
This award recognizes excellence in teaching, subject mastery and the ability to engage learners.
NEAL Team, Program Director: Cate Creede-Desmarais
2025 Colin Woolf Award for Excellence in Program Development and Coordination
Temerty Faculty of Medicine, Continuing Professional Development
The Colin Woolf Award for Excellence in Program Development and Coordination recognizes excellence in program/conference development
Professor Thierry Mallevaey
Mid Career Excellence in Graduate Teaching and Mentorship
Temerty Faculty of Medicine, Graduate and Life Sciences Education
Professors Sarah Munce and Alison Novak
RSI Faculty Service Awards
Rehabilitation Sciences Institute
This award is to recognize an outstanding service contribution to vision and mission of RSI through dedicated service contribution.
Professor Emily Nalder
2023 Dr. Patty Rigby Award for Early Career Excellence in Supervision and Mentorship
Rehabilitation Sciences Institute
This award is to recognize RSI faculty members who have demonstrated outstanding contributions to the training and experience of graduate students at RSI.
Professor Steven Narod
2025 President's Impact Award
University of Toronto
These awards celebrate and honour faculty members and teams of faculty whose research has led to significant impact beyond academia. They recognize contributions that emerge from academic scholarship and have fully realized, demonstrable impacts on any domain of society, whether through a single influential contribution or through an ongoing commitment to research translation. Professor Narod is recognized for shaping current policies assessing cancer risk that have expanded genetic testing and reduced mortality among carriers of BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations.
Professor Abigail Ortiz
2024 Paul E. Garfinkel Award to the Best Clinical Supervisor
Temerty Faculty of Medicine
This is a competitive annual award to the best fellowship supervisor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto.
Professors James Owen and Luke Devine
2024 W. T. Aikins Award for Course/Program Development and Coordination
Temerty Faculty of Medicine
The W. T. Aikins Awards are named after Dr. W.T. Aikins, the first Dean of the University of Toronto, Temerty Faculty of Medicine after it was reorganized in 1887. These awards are the Faculty's most prestigious awards for sustained commitment to and excellence in undergraduate teaching.
Professor Raj Rasasingham
2025 Excellence in Interprofessional CPD Award
Temerty Faculty of Medicine, Continuing Professional Development
Excellence in Interprofessional CPD Award recognizes excellence in CPD activities designed to enhance interprofessional team practice and improve healthcare delivery.
Professor Nick Reed
2023 Dina Brooks Award for Continuing/Sustained Excellence in Graduate Student Supervision and Mentorship
Rehabilitation Sciences Institute
This award is to recognize RSI faculty members who have demonstrated outstanding contributions to the training and experience of graduate students at RSI.
Professor Emeritus Reinhart Reithmeier
2025 Vivek Goel Faculty Citizenship Award
University of Toronto
This award recognizes a faculty member who has served the University of Toronto with distinction in multiple leadership capacities in diverse spheres over many years.
Dr. Amir Salamat
Excellence in Community-Based Teaching (Clinic/Office/Practice)
Temerty Faculty of Medicine
This award acknowledges the significant contribution of of community-based teachers in community-based physicians offices or clinics to the learning of students and trainees at the University of Toronto.
Professor Jasty Singh
2023-24 Cheryl Regehr Early Career Teaching Award
University of Toronto
The Cheryl Regehr Early Career Teaching Award recognizes faculty members who demonstrate an exceptional commitment to student learning, pedagogical engagement and teaching innovation.
Professor Barathi Rajasri Sreenivasan
2023 Aikins Award for Individual Teaching Performance in Foundations
Temerty Faculty of Medicine
Professor Sharon Switzer-McIntyre
2023 President’s Teaching Award
University of Toronto
Professor Karen Wang
2025 David Fear Fellowship
Temerty Faculty of Medicine, Continuing Professional Development
The David Fear Fellowship supports faculty members who wish to develop or enhance their competence or skills in CPD, their scholarship or their professional development.
Professor Rosalie Wang
2023 RSI Teaching Award
Rehabilitation Sciences Institute
This award is to recognize RSI faculty members who have demonstrated outstanding contributions to teaching of the required or elective courses solely or jointly administered by RSI.
Professor David Wheler
2024 Sustained Excellence in Community-Based Teaching
Temerty Faculty of Medicine
This award recognizes sustained (normally 10 years) excellence in community-based teaching, and may include mentorship, the integration of scholarship in teaching, interprofessional collaboration, etc.
Professor Brian Wong
2024 Charles Mickle Fellowship Award
Temerty Faculty of Medicine
This award is given annually to a medical educator who has contributed to one or more areas of the medical education continuum at U of T and recognizes an individual who, within the preceding 10 years, has contributed to the advancement and promotion of sound knowledge of a practical kind in medical art or science.
Professor Cindy Woodland
Sustained Excellence in Teaching Mentorship in Graduate Education
Temerty Faculty of Medicine
The purpose is to honour and celebrate outstanding contributions to graduate education by faculty in Temerty Medicine who teach in doctoral stream or professional graduate programs.
Professor Stephanie Zhou
2023 Miriam Rossi Award for Health Equity in Undergraduate Medical Education
Temerty Faculty of Medicine
Staff Awards
Mark Bennett
2023 TDC Ezhishin Scholarship Award
Type Directors Club
Named after the Ojibwe word for “s/he leaves a mark,” this annual scholarship was established by the Type Directors Club and Google for First Nation and Native American people in Canada and the U.S. who exemplify a creative practice that explores typography, type design or relevant linguistic work.