a group of recipients of promotions in 2025 at the University of Ottawa Faculty of Medicine
Photo: Mélanie Provencher
The Faculty of Medicine formally recognized its 2025–2026 professorial promotions this week via a ceremony at Roger Guindon Hall.

The Faculty of Medicine formally recognized its 2025–2026 professorial promotions during a ceremony at Roger Guindon Hall on Thursday, March 26, 2026.

The Professorial Promotions Ceremony honours faculty members who have been promoted in their academic ranks as a result of demonstrating excellence in their respective fields and contributing to life at the Faculty, and officially acknowledges them with the presentation of a certificate.

Congratulations to all!

Those formally recognized included the following:
 

Associate Professor

Department of Emergency Medicine
Kuan-Chin Chen
Eric Clark
Andy Pan
James Worrall

Department of Family Medicine
Michelle Anawati

Department of Medicine
Arif Awan
Dominick Bossé
Daniel Kobewka
Terry Ng

Department of Ophthalmology
Rustum Karanjia

Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Melanie Beaulieu-Bergeron
David Colantonio

Department of Pediatrics
Lesleigh Abbott
Tobey Audcent
Marie-Eve Robinson
Allan Shefrin

Department of Psychiatry
Saumil Dholakia
Caroline Gérin-Lajoie

Department of Radiology, Radiation Oncology and Medical Physics
Hamid Bayanati
Nader Zakhari

Department of Surgery
Isabelle Raiche

Associate Professor with Tenure

Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology
Shawn Beug

Full Professor 

Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology
Emilio Alarcon
Marceline Côté
Carolina Solange Ilkow

Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine
Dylan Burger
Michael Downey

Department of Emergency Medicine
Andrew Hall

Department of Family Medicine
Douglas Archibald
Hugues Loemba

Department of Medicine 
Christina Addison
Lana Castellucci
Jolanta Karpinski
Lauralyn McIntyre
Tiago Mestre
Scott Millington
Michel Shamy
Heather Tulloch

Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Innie Chen

Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Shahidul Islam

Department of Pediatrics
Anna McCormick
Gregory Moore
Julie Richer

Department of Surgery 
Kyle Cowan
Guillaume Martel
Joel Werier
Yvonne Ying