Husam Abdel-Qadir MD PhD FRCPC

Department of Medicine and Division of Cardiology
Women’s College Hospital and Peter Munk Cardiac Centre
University Health Network

Health Science Research (HSR) Teaching Excellence Award

MD Program Awards

Husam Abdel-Qadir

Guestbook

  1. So very proud. Keep up the Excellence.
    Renée Beach
  2. Dear Dr. Abdel-Qadir, Most sincere congratulations! We were so delighted to have you as a next generation lead for the CCS Spotlight on the Next Generation series. Enjoy all of the accolades and wishes that come your way. Kind regards, Carolyn Gall Casey CCS - Director Guidelines & KT
    Carolyn Gall Casey - CCS
  3. Congratulations Husam!
    Heather MacNeill

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Biography

Husam Abdel-Qadir is a cardiologist at Women’s College Hospital and the University Health Network, and a scientist at Women’s College Research Institute, the Ted Rogers Centre for Heart Research, and ICES. He graduated from the University of Toronto’s medical school with the Silver Medal in 2007, followed by residencies in Internal Medicine and Cardiology, and a PhD in Clinical Epidemiology and Health Care Research at the Institute for Health Policy, Management, and Evaluation. His research is supported by a Heart and Stroke National New Investigator Award and a Chair in Heart and Brain Health from the Heart and Stroke Foundation and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. He has received the 2017 European Society of Cardiology Young Investigator Award, the inaugural Young Investigator Competition at the 2017 Global Cardio-Oncology Summit, the 2018 Polanyi prize in Medicine/ Physiology and the 2020 Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada National New Investigator Award.

I am honored by the nomination for this teaching award. In fact, this award is a testament to the energy and curiosity of my trainees, who fuel my passion for teaching. Clinical medicine and the practice of research takes its toll on clinician-scientists, as evidenced by high rates of burnout and low quality of life scores. I find that teaching medical students is the perfect antidote, since their wide-eyed enthusiasm, energy, optimism, idealism and hunger for knowledge remind me of how I felt when I was in their shoes and reinvigorate my passion and sense of purpose. So I would like to use this moment to express my thanks to the students that nominated me, and the larger pool of students who continue to motivate me.

About the Award

The HSR Teaching Excellence Award recognizes individual tutors in the Health Science Research component in the MD Program whose teaching practice is exemplary and inspiring.