2024-2025 Graduate Faculty Teaching Award Recipients

The Office of the Vice Dean, Research and Health Science Education (RHSE) has announced Monika Molnar, Riyana Babul-Hirji and Nancy Salbach as this year’s recipients of the Temerty Faculty of Medicine Graduate Faculty Teaching Awards.

These awards honour the outstanding contributions of Temerty Medicine faculty members to graduate education. Each year, graduate units nominate their most impressive faculty members who teach in doctoral stream or professional graduate programs. Nominees must demonstrate excellence across a wide range of domains, including commitment, communication, subject mastery, organization, teaching and mentorship.

In the category of Early Career Excellence in Graduate Teaching and Mentorship, the award went to Molnar, a professor of Speech-Language Pathology and lead of the Bilingual and Multilingual Development research group in the Rehabilitation Sciences Institute.  

Professor of Molecular Genetics, assistant program director of the MSc in Genetic Counselling and a genetic counsellor at the Hospital for Sick Children, Babul-Hirji is one of two recipients of a Sustained Excellence in Graduate Teaching and Mentorship award.

The second recipient of a Sustained Excellence in Graduate Teaching and Mentorship award is Salbach who is a professor in the departments of Physical Therapy and the Rehabilitation Sciences Institute.

On behalf of RHSE, congratulations to our three, very deserving recipients!