Fok-Han Leung MD CCFP FCFP MHSc

Biography

Dr. Leung is an Associate Professor with the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto. He is a Family Physician practicing general family medicine and inner city health out of St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto and the Director of the Health in Community curriculum for the MD program, focusing on the formation of future physicians as contributing members of society. He is also Associate Program Director – Assessment and Evaluation for the University of Toronto Family Medicine Residency program. He was the previous Physician Lead of the St. Michael's Health Centre at 80 Bond and helped to build, staff and establish the clinic.

Quote from the Winner

This award is a great honour. My work in medical education is fueled with accounts of students who have followed career paths in service of others. I am grateful to play a small part in their formation. The heart of medicine is service, and this must be informed by equity and justice.

About the Award

The Miriam Rossi Award for Health Equity in Undergraduate Medical Education aims to recognize University of Toronto MD Program faculty members for their commitment to diversity and health equity in undergraduate medical education. The award is named after Dr. Miriam Rossi, a pediatrician, teaching faculty, and former Associate Dean of Student Affairs in the Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, and a strong advocate and mentor for minorities. It was established in 2017 in recognition of Dr. Rossi’s outstanding contributions to health equity in medical education. Dr. Rossi led several initiatives to improve diversity in the U of T medical school, in particular the creation of the Summer Mentorship Program (SMP), established to encourage young Black and Aboriginal students, who are under-represented in medicine, to pursue careers in the health sciences. Like many of her contributions, the SMP was developed to help improve equity in the field of medicine, healthcare and society as a whole.