Hani Amad MD, FRCPC, FACC

Biography

Dr. Hani Amad is an invasive Cardiologist at the University Health Network and is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine, University of Toronto. He graduated from the University of Alberta Medical School in 2002. He then completed his residency training in Internal Medicine and Adult Cardiology at the University of Toronto in 2008. Following that he completed a fellowship in Interventional Cardiology at the Peter Munk Cardiac Centre (PMCC).

Dr. Amad is passionate about medical education with multiple leadership roles in education. He is Co-lead for the Cardiology Block of the Foundations Curriculum for first year medical students. He is the Cardiac Catheterization Rotation Co-ordinator at PMCC and is a member of the Adult Cardiology Residency Program Education/Examination Committee. He is also a Royal College Examiner for Adult Cardiology.

From the Nomination

“Dr. Amad has shown an unwavering commitment to teaching at the undergraduate level. …His dedication to teaching and to his students is significant, and is provided despite limited protected time away from clinical work and his clinical administrative responsibilities.”

“Despite having an extremely busy schedule he always made time to provide us with well thought-out feedback which he delivered with lots of kindness. This helped us improve our clinical skills while also ensuring that we stayed in high spirits”

“Dr. Amad exemplifies the consummate, caring and skilled Clinician and Teacher that we all strive to be.”

“His ability to effectively teach at such different levels, with different learners, and from basic clinical skills to advanced cardiac procedures is unique and, I believe, is testimony to his tremendous skill at building rapport and trust with all those who learn from him.”

About the Award

These awards are named after William Thomas Aikins, the first Dean of the Faculty of Medicine after its reorganization in1887. They are the Faculty’s most prestigious awards in the MD Program. They were established to recognize and formally reward outstanding teachers in the areas of Individual Teaching Performance (Foundations and Clerkship), Development and Use of Educational Innovations, and Course / Program Development and Coordination. Recipients of these awards have significantly contributed to high-quality undergraduate teaching by establishing and integrating new and effective methods of instruction into the curriculum.