Thank you: 2025 Gallie Day & Gordon Murray Banquet

Dear Colleagues,

On behalf of the University of Toronto Department of Surgery, I would like to thank everyone who participated in and supported our 2025 Gallie Day and Gordon Murray Banquet held on May 2^nd.

Our 2025 Gallie Day brought members of the U of T Surgery community together to celebrate the incredible impact of our research and education initiatives.

The 2025 Gordon Murray Lecture was delivered by Dr. Liane Feldman, Edward W. Archibald Professor and Chair of the Department of Surgery at McGill University and Surgeon-in-chief at the McGill University Health Centre. Her talk, titled “Getting to mastery: The promise (and pitfalls) of Video based analytics in surgery” was both, inspirational and enlightening.
We are very grateful to Dr. Feldman for sharing with our community her insight and aspirations regarding the integration of modern technologies in the surgical field.

During the evening, our community members got together for the 51^st Gordon Murray Banquet and awards ceremony to celebrate the recipients of our Department of Surgery excellence awards. You can see this year’s recipients listed below, and on our Gallie Day page.

Please enjoy the photos of both, the day and evening events, as well as the Gallie Day recording which is now available for viewing on our YouTube channel.
(If you can't view the photos via the above SharePoint link and/or if you don't have a UTORid, please use this link or contact us at surgery.admin@utoronto.ca.) 

The 2025 Awardees list:

• Tovee Postgraduate Teaching Prize: Kyle Wanzel  (PS)
• Tovee Undergraduate Teaching Prize : Danielle Bentley (Anatomy)
• Surgical Skills Centre DH Gales Outstanding Educator Award: Anne O’Neill (PS)      
• Surgical Foundations Teaching Award: Shane Shapera (GS) and Sarah Ward (OS) 
• Bernard Langer Surgeon-Scientist Award: Kim Tsoi (OS)
• George-Armstrong Peters Prize for Early Career Research Achievement: Anna Dare (GS)
• Lavina Lickley Award for Lifetime Contributions to the Department of Surgery: Tirone David (CS)         
• Charles Tator Award for SSTP Mentoring: Andres Lozano (NS) 
• Lister Prize for Sustained Research Achievement: Jay Wunder (OS)    
• Bryce Taylor Award for Mentorship of Junior Faculty: Tom Waddell (TS)          
• D.R. Wilson Award for Teaching of Undergraduate Students by a Resident: Shaishav Datta (PS)
• Zane Cohen Clinical Fellowship Achievement Award: Catherine Sarre (GS)
• Shafie Fazel Award Resident Achievement Award: Kevin An (CS)         
• Innovation in Surgery Award (Inaugural year): Dale Podolsky (PS)
• Oral Presentations: Gallie-Bateman category
  • Armaan K Malhotra (SSTP, NS) - Supervisors: Jefferson Wilson
  • Jethro C.C. Kwong (SSTP, Urology) - Supervisor: Girish Kulkarni
  • Whitney Quong (SSTP, PS) - Supervisor: Joel Fish
• Oral Presentations: McMurrich category
  • Grace S Lee (CS) - Supervisor: Stephen E Fremes
  • Zhaoxun "Lorenz" Liu (GS) - Supervisor: Amin Madani
  • Abby McCaig (TS) - Supervisors: Mingyao Liu and Andrew Sage
• Oral Presentations: Translational Research category
  • Karim Mithani (SSTP, NS) - Supervisor: George Ibrahim
• e-Posters: Gallie-Bateman category
  • Adom Bondzi-Simpson (SSTP, GS) - Supervisors: Julie Hallet & Natalie Coburn
  • Chloe R. Wong (SSTP, PS) - Supervisor: Heather L. Baltzer
  • Yosef Ellenbogen (SSTP, NS) - Supervisor: Gelareh Zadeh
• e-Posters: McMurrich category
  • Neha Shah (PS) - Supervisor: Kathleen Armstrong
  • Gabriel Siebiger (TS) - Supervisor: Marcelo Cypel
  • Giulia Di Nardo (GS) - Supervisors: Ali Dolatabadi & Amin Madani
• e-Posters: Translational Research category
  • Leeor S. Yefet (SSTP, NS) - Supervisor: Gelareh Zadeh
  • Fei Yu Gao (TS) - Supervisor: Marcelo Cypel

We would love to get your feedback so we can enhance your experience at our upcoming Gallie Day events, so if you haven't provided your feedback yet, feel free to fill out this survey. The survey offers an option for you to respond anonymously if you prefer to.

Congratulations to all our awardees on their well-deserved recognition, and thank you to everyone who joined us for this special yearly event.

Sincerely,

Carol Swallow
R.S. McLaughlin Professor and Chair
Department of Surgery, Temerty Faculty of Medicine
University of Toronto