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December 15, 2009:
Clinical Pharmacology welcomes our latest subspecialty Resident - Dr. Connie Mackenzie. Please welcome Connie who is
in a joint residency program, Clinical Pharmacology and Respirology (3 year program).
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October 28, 2009:
Dr. Shiew-Mei Huang, Deputy Director of the Office of Clinical Pharmacology at the FDA will be presenting at Clinical
Pharmacology Grand Rounds (Auditorium C at University Hospital, 4:00 PM). She will talk about "Application of
Pharmacogenetics in Drug Development, Regulatory Review and Clinical Practice" Be sure to attend
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October 23 2009:
Congratulations to Wendy Teft (post-doctoral fellow) and Inna Gong (PhD candidate) from Dr. Richard Kim’s laboratory.
Wendy won second place (in the Post-doctoral Fellow category )and Inna won 3rd place (in the Graduate Student category)
at the 2009 International Society for the Study
of Xenobiotics (ISSX) conference
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September 12, 2009:
The Annual Division Picnic will take place on Saturday Sept 12. This is event will be hosted by Dr and Mrs. Richard Kim at
their home. Invitations will go out early August. For more information, contact Julie Brown (julie.brown@lhsc.on.ca).
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July 15, 2009:
Congratulations to Inna Gong and Colin Suen. Both are recipients of Frederick Banting and Charles Best Canada Graduate
Scholarships from CIHR. Inna’s [supervisor Richard Kim] research topic is ”Warfarin interindividual variability in
clinical drug response: R/S-warfarin and vitamin K level as determinants of maintenance dose”.
Colin’s supervisor Richard Kim) research topic is "Polymorphic profiling of intestinal folate uptake by the
proton-coupled folate transporter’
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July 4, 2009:
Congratulations to Marianne DeGorter and Ute Schwarz for passing the PhD comprehensive and Vishal Patel and Bandar
Al-Judaibi for passing the Royal College Internal Medicine Exams!
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July 1, 2009:
Please welcome Daniel Ovakim. Dan is our latest Clinical Pharmacology resident (PGY-4). He is enrolled in a Clinical
Pharmacology/Critical Care dual subspecialty training program (3 year).
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June 1, 2009:
Recent Research Funding Success for Clin Pharm Faculty
Drs. Richard Kim (Co-PI), Kathy Myers (Co-PI), and George Dresser
-AMOSO AFP Innovation Fund Research Award
Dr. Dan Hackam
-PSI Foundation Research Grant
-CIHR Knowledge Synthesis Grant
Dave Knoppert
-Children’s Health Research Institute Internal Research Grant
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May 27, 2009:
Division Faculty Meeting at 4:30 PM in Aud C at University Hospital. If you are a faculty member in the Divsion,
be sure to attend this faculty meeting. Updates regarding our Division, Training Program, and research success to
be outlined by our Division Chair, Dr. Richard B. Kim
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May 22, 2009:
Vishal Patel (PGY4), our Clinical Pharmacology subspecialty resident won a "best Poster" award at the Department of
Medicine Research Day (May 21, 2009). Congratulations Vishal!
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May 20, 2009:
Congratulations to Inna Gong (Dr. Richard Kim’s Masters student) and Mike Knauer (Dr. Tirona’s PhD student) for being
awarded the Ontario Graduate Scholarship and CIHR Graduate Scholarship respectively. Well done!
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May 15, 2009:
Congratulations to Mike Knauer (PhD student) for passing his comprehensive exam. Only 3 more years to go!
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April 30, 2009:
Congratulations to our PhD student Marianne DeGorter (Supervisors Drs. Richard B. Kim and Rommel G. Tirona)
who was awarded the prestigious Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship. Marianne is one of 6 students from Western
and the only one from Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry to receive this Award.
See http://www.vanier.gc.ca/nr-co/nr-co-20090430-eng.shtml
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April 15, 2009:
Drug Therapy Day 2009 sponsored by our Division will be held at the Lamplighter Inn on April 15, 2009. Online or faxed
registration for Drug Therapy Day will be accepted until Monday, April 3. Be sure to mark this date on your calendar.
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April 2, 2009:
Congratulations to Michael Knauer, graduate student (supervisor: Dr. Rommel Tirona), who won a best
poster award at the recent Moffat Research Day (Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry) competition. Well done.
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March 15, 2009:
Please welcome Cameron Ross (research assistant) the latest addition to Dr. Richard Kim’s laboratory.
Cameron will help to conduct various genotyping and drug level analysis assays for the group.
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March 2, 2009:
Our Clin Pharm/GI resident Vishal Patel (PGY4) just returned from a GI conference (CDDW) in Banff and
won a ’Best Poster Presentation’ prize for his research on an intestinal drug/folate transporter.
Congratulations Vishal!
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February 1, 2009:
We would like to welcome Wendy Teft to Dr. Richard Kim’s laboratory.
Wendy will begin her post-doctoral fellowship training this month. Be
sure to say hi when you see her.
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