Dr. Melissa A. Forgie appointed Associate Dean, Undergraduate Medical Education
The Dean of Medicine, Dr. Jacques Bradwejn, is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Melissa A. Forgie as the Associate Dean, Undergraduate Medical Education, for the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Ottawa.
Dr. Forgie is a graduate of the University of Ottawa's medical school and has fellowships in Internal Medicine, in Hematology and in Thromboembolic Disorders. She has a Masters in Clinical Epidemiology, and is a clinician investigator with the Ottawa Hospital Health Research Institute, as well as Program Director for the University of Ottawa's Hematology Training Program. Her clinical practice specializes in thromboembolic diseases, haemoglobinopathies and transfusional iron overload.
Dr. Forgie holds the positions of Assistant Dean, Student Affairs, and Associate Professor at the Faculty of Medicine. She is the Association of Faculties of Medicine National Chair for Student Affairs. Dr. Forgie has received several teaching awards, most recently including two faculty awards of excellence in 2010, and teaches in both the Anglophone and Francophone streams of the undergraduate medical education program. She has also received numerous patient care awards and is a 2009 recipient of the Ottawa Hospital Physician Recognition Award.
She will begin her new role June 01, 2011.
The respective Boards of the institution are expected to give final approval for this nomination shortly.