Recognition & Awards

Donald W. Seldin Distinguised Award

The Donald W. Seldin Award was established to recognize excellence in clinical nephrology in the tradition of one of the foremost teachers and researchers in the field, Dr. Donald W. Seldin. The 2013 award recipient is Joanne M. Bargman, MD, FRCPC.

Joanne Bargman is a staff nephrologist at the University Health Network and Professor of Medicine at the University of Toronto. She received her MD cum laude from the University of Toronto. She was an exchange fellow in Melbourne for her senior medical residency year, and then pursued nephrology training at Stanford University. Her research focused on renal physiology and micropuncture. Upon returning to Toronto, she was recruited to the Toronto Western Hospital where she trained in peritoneal dialysis under DimitriosOreopoulos. She has more than 550 invited lectures internationally, on subjects as diverse as peritoneal dialysis, glomerulonephritis, and management of systemic lupus erythematosus. She is Director of Peritoneal Dialysis for the University Health Network in Toronto, and co-director of the Combined Renal-Rheumatology Lupus Clinic for the University Health Network.

She has won the "Silver Shovel", given by the graduating medical class of the University of Toronto to the best lecturer in the undergraduate years. She has also won the University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine Postgraduate Teaching Award, given to the best teacher in the postgraduate program. Recently she was chosen as the 12th Robert Collins Visiting Lecturer in dialysis at the University of Colorado in Denver. Dr. Bargman is co-author of the chapter "Chronic Kidney Disease" in the 17th and 18th edition of Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, and is currently serving as president of the International Society for Peritoneal Dialysis.

Past Donald W. Seldin Award Recipients:

2012 Gerald B. Appel, MD
2011 Sharon Adler, MD
2010 Fredric L. Coe, MD, FACP, FASN
2009 William F. Keane, MD
2008 Thomas D. DubBose, Jr., MD
2007 L. Lee Hamm, MD, FACP
2006 Heini Murer, PhD and Bernard S. Rossier, MD
2005 Roland C. Blantz, MD
2004 Gerhard H. Giebisch, MD
2003 William M. Bennett, MD
2002 Professor Carl Erik Mogensen
2001 Friedrich K. Port, MD, MS, FACP
2000 Tilman B. Drüeke, MD
1999 Shaul G. Massry, MD
1998 Alan R. Hull, MD
1997 Thomas F. Parker, III, MD
1996 Floyd C. Rector, MD
1995 Barry M. Brenner, MD
1994 Manuel Martinez-Maldonado, MD