Welcome to the Faculty of Medicine’s Post-Doctoral Association!
We represent all post-doctoral fellows/assistants in the Faculty of Medicine and its affiliated research institutes. Our aim is to facilitate your experience during your years among us. Please browse the website for information on Social, Professional, and Administrative issues. Remember that the Association exists FOR YOU and is coordinated BY YOU, so get involved!
We hope that we can enrich the post-doc training experience here at the University of Ottawa and help in preparing post-docs for their long-term careers. Please feel free to contact the association if you have any questions, concerns or are not receiving group emails from us.
We wish you much success with your research at the University of Ottawa!
A brief history of the association
The Faculty of Medicine’s Post-Doctoral Association was formed on the initiative of Dr. Jacquie Vanderluit (former post-doctoral fellow in Dr. Ruth Slack’s lab). A small group of post-docs spent much time with her, planning the mandate of the association and tried to bolster interest in post-doc affairs in the Faculty.
Following Dr. Vanderluit’s departure in 2006, Dr. Ziad Chaar (former post-doctoral fellow in Dr. Catherine Tsilfidis’ lab) took over as association president. The association’s membership increased and the executive committed focused on updating the mandate, generating welcome packages for incoming post-docs, sought to include post-doc representatives on several important faculty committees and promoted teaching opportunities.
In 2007, Dr. Angela Crawley and Dr. Erin Seifert (post-docs in Dr. Jonathan Angel and Dr. Mary-Ellen Harper's labs respectively) took over as co-chairs and continued to improve the association’s visibility with the help of an excellent executive committee! The focused on dealing with the changing taxation issues at that time and implementing the postdoc academic program. Dr. Lilia Antanova and Dr. Jean-Simon Diallo continued to improve the post-doc association.
Currently, the post-doc association's members are listed here on the "Committee Membership" page.
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The Faculty of Medicine Postdoctoral Association (PDA) 12th Annual Postdoctoral Research day was a huge success!!!
A big thank you to everyone who participated!
The FoM PDA 12th Annual Postdoctoral Research Day on Feb 21st, 2020 was a big success! The event was well attended by FoM as well as research associates, faculty and students. Dr. Chantal Pileggi won the best oral presentation prize with runners up Dr. Emily O'Connor and Dr. Daniel Serrano. The event also included an outstanding poster session, a networking lunch, and workshops. Congratulations to all of our poster prize winners as well and a sincere thank you to the senior and junior judges that took the time to help judge the posters and provide valuable feedback.
The keynote address was given by Dr. Connie Eaves, Professor of Medical Genetics at the University of British Columbia and Distinguished Scientist at the Terry Fox Laboratory of the British Columbia Cancer Agency. Her presentation, titled, “Making Human Cancer De Novo: A New Frontier”, was very interesting, highly informative, and a pleasure to listen to.
For this 12th Annual Postdoctoral Research Day, the FoM PDA invited two uOttawa workshop speakers to discuss topics important to postdocs. Dr. Lemuel J. Racacho, CCMG Molecular Fellow-in-Training at CHEO, Genomics Specialist and Newborn Screening Ontario discussed specialized training with the CCMG program. Dr. Catherine Tsilfidis, Senior Scientist and Neuroscience Program Director in the Office of Equity, Diversity and Gender Issues at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa discussed Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI). Both of these workshops were very well received from the attending postdocs with lots of follow up questions being asked!
We would like to thank: Drs. Connie Eaves, Lemuel J. Racacho, and Catherine Tsilfidis, for their excellent talks; all of the participants who attended; Karen Littlejohn, Louise Lemay and the FoM PDA executive team for organizing the event; and lastly the Faculty of Medicine, Research Office, the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario’s Research Institute, the Ottawa Institute of Systems Biology and uOttawa Office of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies for their generous support.
