Mireille Norris MD, FRCPC, MHSc

Biography

Dr. Mireille Norris is an Internist and Geriatrician at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto. She is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Toronto and Education Director for the Sunnybrook Hospitalist Training program which she created and implemented at Sunnybrook in 2005. Her interest in marginalized physician education has been enhanced by the experience of recruiting and mentoring international medical graduates for the hospitalist training program. Her own experience as a black female French speaking physician was instrumental in empowering her trainees who are now successfully practicing in many provinces, the United States and Europe. Dr Norris brings this experience to mentoring black and indigenous residents applying for residency positions in the Department of Medicine at the University of Toronto.

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.