Temerty Awards for Excellence in Professional Values / en Students, faculty recognized with Temerty Awards for Excellence in Professional Values /celebrates/students-faculty-recognized-temerty-awards-excellence-professional-values <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Students, faculty recognized with Temerty Awards for Excellence in Professional Values</span> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-type field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-type/community" hreflang="en">Community</a></div> </div> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>lanthierj</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden"><time datetime="2021-08-20T14:08:24-04:00" title="Friday, August 20, 2021 - 14:08" class="datetime">Fri, 08/20/2021 - 14:08</time> </span> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-people field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-people/faculty" hreflang="en">Faculty</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-people/students" hreflang="en">Students</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-campus field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-campus/st-george" hreflang="en">St. George</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/department-physical-therapy" hreflang="en">Department of Physical Therapy</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/rehabilitation-sciences-institute" hreflang="en">Rehabilitation Sciences Institute</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/st-michael-s-hospital-0" hreflang="en">St. Michael’s Hospital</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/sunnybrook-health-sciences-centre" hreflang="en">Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/temerty-awards-excellence-professional-values" hreflang="en">Temerty Awards for Excellence in Professional Values</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/temerty-faculty-medicine" hreflang="en">Temerty Faculty of Medicine</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/unity-health" hreflang="en">Unity Health</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/women-stem" hreflang="en">Women in STEM</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-image-orientation field--type-list-string field--label-hidden field__item">landscape</div> <div class="field field--name-field-image field--type-image field--label-hidden field__item"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/2023-05/temerty-group-crop.jpg" width="750" height="500" alt="(L-R): Lindsay Beavers, Mena Gewarges, Helen Yang, Reena Pattani, Samira Omar"> </div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-field-cutline-long field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field__item"><p>(L-R): Lindsay Beavers, Mena Gewarges, Helen Yang, Reena Pattani, Samira Omar</p> </div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p><strong>Lindsay Beavers</strong>, <strong>Mena Gewarges</strong>, <strong>Samira Omar</strong>, <strong>Reena Pattani</strong> and <strong>Helen Yang</strong> of the University of Toronto’s Temerty Faculty of Medicine are the inaugural recipients&nbsp;of <a href="https://temertymedicine.utoronto.ca/temerty-awards-excellence-professional-values">the Temerty Awards for Excellence in Professional Values</a>.</p> <p>Supported by <strong>James and Louise Temerty</strong> and the Temerty Foundation, the awards recognize learners and faculty members who champion collaboration, health and well-being, diversity and inclusion, excellence through equity, and sustainability.</p> <p>An assistant professor in the department of physical therapy and manager of Unity Health Toronto’s simulation program, Beavers was cited for her “tireless efforts to ensure psychologically, culturally and physically safe learning environments” and her leadership in designing and delivering a new approach to curriculum development on sex and gender.</p> <p>Gewarges is a cardiology resident at TV and chief cardiology resident at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre. Nominators praised the physician for her kindness, respect and civility towards patients, their families, and her colleagues – and for co-founding a resident-led mentorship group that introduces Black and Indigenous students to cardiology.</p> <p>A doctoral candidate in the Rehabilitation Sciences Institute, Omar previously served as co-chair of the student Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Accessibility (IDEA) Committee and was lauded for leading conversations around rehabilitation science and co-facilitating an anti-Black racism workshop for the Centre for Faculty Development.</p> <p>Pattani is a clinician-educator in the department of medicine, the director of learner experience for the Temerty Faculty of Medicine and a staff physician at Unity Health Toronto’s St. Michael’s Hospital. She served on the department’s Mentorship, Equity and Diversity Committee and was praised for her “exceptional kindness, humility, collegiality and commitment to learner wellness.”</p> <p>Master of science student Yang studies geriatric oncology in the Institute of Medical Science. A student representative on the Temerty Faculty of Medicine Faculty Council, nominators described Yang as “embodying advocacy-centered professionalism.”</p> <h3><a href="https://temertymedicine.utoronto.ca/news/inaugural-recipients-temerty-awards-excellence-professional-values-named">Read the Temerty Faculty of Medicine story&nbsp;</a></h3> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-source field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">Temerty Faculty of Medicine</div> <div class="field field--name-field-top-story-hub-page- field--type-boolean field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Top Story (Hub page)</div> <div class="field__item">Off</div> </div> Fri, 20 Aug 2021 18:08:24 +0000 lanthierj 170066 at