Canadian Medical Association / en Mohammad Asadi-Lari recognized with Posthumous Singular Award of Merit /celebrates/mohammad-asadi-lari-recognized-posthumous-singular-award-merit <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Mohammad Asadi-Lari recognized with Posthumous Singular Award of Merit </span> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-type field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-type/community" hreflang="en">Community</a></div> </div> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>lanthierj</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden"><time datetime="2020-12-18T13:31:34-05:00" title="Friday, December 18, 2020 - 13:31" class="datetime">Fri, 12/18/2020 - 13:31</time> </span> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-people field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-people/students" hreflang="en">Students</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-campus field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-campus/st-george" hreflang="en">St. George</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/temerty-faculty-medicine" hreflang="en">Temerty Faculty of Medicine</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/posthumous-singular-award-merit" hreflang="en">Posthumous Singular Award of Merit</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/canadian-medical-association" hreflang="en">Canadian Medical Association</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-image-orientation field--type-list-string field--label-hidden field__item">landscape</div> <div class="field field--name-field-image field--type-image field--label-hidden field__item"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/media/Mohammad%20Asadi%20Lari.jpg" width="500" height="750" alt="Mohammad Asadi Lari"> </div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p><strong>Mohammad Asadi-Lari</strong> has been given the Posthumous Singular Award of Merit by the Canadian Medical Association (CMA) in recognition of his “exemplary leadership, initiative and commitment to making a difference at the local, provincial/territorial or national level.”</p> <p>Asadi-Lari and his sister <strong>Zeynab&nbsp;Asadi-Lari</strong> were among the members of the University of Toronto community killed when Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 was shot down over Iran on Jan. 8, 2020.</p> <p>The CMA described the second-year U of T MD/PhD student as an exceptional young leader with a passion for population health, science education and innovation in health care. As an undergrad, he co-founded STEM Fellowship: a youth-led not-for-profit that uses mentorship and experiential learning to expand science, tech, engineering and math education in high school. In 2019, he co-founded Physician Innovator (PI) Canada, a national network for physicians interested in using innovation to transform health care.</p> <p>“Mohammad had big ideas and an incredible ability to action them quickly and in collaboration with others,”&nbsp;says Dr. Alexandra T. Greenhill, a former mentor of Asadi-Lari and chair of PI Canada. "He balanced his obligations to patients with a drive to innovate and advocate for improving the health of society overall.</p> <p>“He exemplified the type of clinician he strove to be in everything he did.”</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <div class="media_embed" height="422px" width="750px"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen frameborder="0" height="422px" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/gWA0eb6Eb6Q" width="750px"></iframe></div> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h3><a href="https://www.cma.ca/posthumous-singular-award-merit">Read the CMA story</a></h3> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-source field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">UTC</div> <div class="field field--name-field-top-story-hub-page- field--type-boolean field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Top Story (Hub page)</div> <div class="field__item">Off</div> </div> Fri, 18 Dec 2020 18:31:34 +0000 lanthierj 167888 at