CREMS and Chair's Award Winners Announced

We are pleased to announce the winners of the Chair’s Summer Student Awards and the CREMS Summer Research Program Awards! We received a number of interesting and wide-reaching research project proposals from our faculty members and are pleased to see so much interest in expanding research at our department.

Our faculty did incredibly well with this year’s CREMS Awards from the UofT MD Program, with 13 out of the 49 grants being awarded to our department’s faculty members. That’s 27% of the total CREMS awards!

Thirteen more faculty members received the Chair’s Summer Student Award, providing wonderful research opportunities for our trainees!

Below are the names of the award winners (listed alphabetically) and the titles of their research projects. Congratulations to all!

CHAIR’S AWARD WINNERS

• Dr. Janet Bodley - Gossip and Psychological Safety in the medical learning environment
• Dr. Genevieve Bouchard-Fortier - Predictors of Anastomotic Leak in Ovarian Cancer Patients
• Dr. Rohan D’Souza - TBA
• Dr. Liat Hogen - Venous thromboembolic events in ovarian clear cell carcinoma: Incidence, risk factors and effects on survival when compared with different epithelial ovarian cancer subtypes
• Dr. Rose Kung - Laser vaginal treatment for Stress Urinary Incontinence: a randomized controlled trial
• Dr. Noor Ladhani - TBA
• Dr. Patricia Lee - Does Laser vaginal therapy improve Menopause Symptoms?
• Dr. Ann Kinga Malinowski - Risk Factors for postnatal SCD-related maternal complications in women with Sickle Cell Disease
• Dr. Stefania Ronzoni - Accuracy and acceptability of Universal cervical length screening and its impact on prediction of preterm birth in a tertiary level centre
• Dr. Amanda Selk - Podcasts and social media: creating and assessing a new learning tool for vulvovaginal disease education
• Dr. Lindsay Shirreff - Greater Toronto Area Surgical Gynaecology Quality Scorecard
• Dr. Eliane Shore - Minimizing OR Cancellations, Maximizing OR Utilization: A Pilot Study
• Dr. Mark Yudin - Barriers to Successful  Resident Research: A Mixed-Methods Analysis

CREMS AWARD WINNERS

• Dr. May Alarab -Long-term experience of modified McCall culdoplasty in women undergoing vaginal hysterectomy for pelvic organ prolapse - a 10 year follow up
• Dr. Anne Berndl - Pregnancy Outcomes in Women with Spina Bifida
• Dr. Crystal Chan - Evaluation of DNA fragmentation index as a predictor of pregnancy outcome in intrauterine insemination cycles
• Dr. Lilian Gien - Management of Malignant Bowel Obstruction in Patients with Advanced Gynecologic Malignancies
• Dr. Ellen Greenblatt - Blastocyst mitochondrial DNA copy number as a marker for reproductive outcome
• Dr. Claire Jones - Reducing Unnecessary Day 3 Bloodwork and Ultrasound for Intercourse and IUI Treatment Cycles
• Dr. Nucelio Lemos - The impact of gabapentin-baclofen suppositories on chronic pelvic pain - a pilot prospective cohort
• Dr. Colleen McDermott - The Efficacy of Antibiotic Prophylaxis for Urodynamic Testing in Women in the Prevention of Urinary Tract Infections
• Dr. Nir Melamed - The Predictive Value of Sonographic Placental Study for Placental Complications in Women with Chronic Kidney Disease
• Dr. Sarah Sinasac - The Burden of Obesity and Metabolic Disease in Gynecologic Oncology Patients
• Dr. John Snelgrove - Does preimplantation genetic testing (PGT) affect clinical measures of placental dysfunction in IVF pregnancies
• Dr. Wendy Whittle - Intrapartum fetal blood lactate sampling to reduce caesarean sections - A feasibility study
• Dr. Rhonda Zwingerman - The impact of preimplantation genetic testing for aneuploidy on prenatal screening patterns and results

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