CARO-CROF Pamela Catton Summer Studentship Award

2025 CARO-CROF Pamela Catton Summer Studentship Award Winners

Altay Baykan - University of Alberta

Natnaiel Dubale - Western University

Roberto Fedrigo - University of British Columbia

Kevin Nishimura - University of British Columbia

Yi Han Xia - University of British Columbia

Justin Yang - Western University

Cindy Zhang - University of Alberta

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We’re committed to supporting professional education in radiation medicine and to helping build Radiation Oncology capacity in the healthcare system. Towards this end, CARO has partnered with the Canadian Radiation Oncology Foundation to offer summer studentships that will provide Canadian medical students with Radiation Oncology clinical experience, research opportunities, mentoring, and career counselling.

The studentships, which take place in participating cancer programs across Canada, are open to any student in a Canadian medical school and may be held after completion of the first medical year and before graduation. There will be a competition for funded slots, with academic achievement as the major factor in the awarding of the studentship. CARO’s education committee adjudicates the process for student selection and residency allocation.

• Past Award Winners

  2024
  Kendrew Wong– University of British Columbia
  Margaret Dahn - Dalhousie University
  Alisiya Petrushkevich – Western University
  Katelyn Wang - University of Toronto
  David Chen – University of Toronto
  Jimin Lee - University of Toronto
  Alex Dhaliwal - University of Toronto
  Kate Kim - University of Toronto

  2023
  Sandy Lum-Wang – University of British Columbia
  Rod Parsa – McMaster University
  Giselle Tucker Belliveau – University of Alberta
  Erika Nakajima- University of Toronto
  Melissa Sam Soon – University of Ottawa
  Arjav Gupta – Northern Ontario School of Medicine
  Raphael Rezkallah – McGill University

  2022
  Ronald Chow – University of Toronto
  Victoria Anthes – University of Toronto
  Aaron Dou – University of Toronto
  Andrew Kokavec – Western University
  Saeha Shin – Western University
  Brandon Chai – University of British Columbia
  Benjamin Merrick – University of Alberta

  2021
  Emily O’Reilly – University of British Columbia
  Nilita Sood – Memorial University of Newfoundland
  Jim Li – University of British Columbia
  Andrea Vucetic – Western University
  Aquila Akingbade – Queen’s University
  Inhwa Kim – Dalhousie University
  Arash Algouneh – Western University
  Emma McDermott – Dalhousie University
  Maleeha Qazi – University of Toronto

  2020
  Salman Suranglwala – Queen’s University
  Emily O’Reilly – University of British Columbia
  Emma McDermott – Dalhousie University
  Owen Krystia – University of Toronto
  Inhwa Kim – Dalhousie University
  Astrid DeBoeck – University of Alberta
  Aquila Akingbade – Queens University

  2019
  Daniel Portnoy – University of Alberta
  Dickson Leung – University of Alberta
  Emily Evan – University of Toronto
  George JiaQi Li – University of Toronto
  Stella Kang – Dalhousie University
  Tina Kim – Dalhousie University
  Vivian Tan – Dalhousie University

  2018

  Kathleena Sarty – Dalhousie Medicine, Cross Cancer Institute
  Gagan Fervaha – Queen’s University
  Bryce Thomsen – University of Alberta, BC Cancer Agency
  Alexandre Riopel – University of Ottawa, McGill University
  Robert Stephens – University of Toronto, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
  Hsin-Pei Hu – Western University
  Adam Beswick – Western University

  2017

  Alexa Dang – Dalhousie University
  Ariel Yeheseki – University of Toronto
  Marissa Gale – BCCA
  Jason Jia – McGill University
  Paulina Pdogorny – Alberta Health Services
  Verma Ramita – University Of Alberta
  Gregory Paulin – Queen’s University

  2016

  A Prive – CHUM
  Sharon Feng – Alberta Health Services
  Armin Rahmani – University of Toronto
  Alexander Koven – University of Toronto
  Jordan Hill – University Of Alberta

  2015

  Kristie Wong – McGill University
  Katie McRae – University of Calgary
  Catherin Nicholson – BCCA
  Benjamin Royal-Preyra – Dalhousie University
  Joshua Bernik – University of Toronto
  Michael Tjong – University of Toronto

  2014

  Anthony DiCintio – B.C. Cancer Agency
  Che Hsuan David Wu – B.C. Cancer Agency
  Randi Woodbeck – Dalhousie University
  Benjamin Royal-Preyra – Dalhousie University

  2013

  Krista Lai – University Of Alberta
  Wei Ing – BC Cancer Agency
  Mark Corkum – Dalhousie University

Remembering a Cancer Trailblazer and Friend, Dr. Pamela Catton

To those who knew her best, Dr. Pamela Catton was much more than a visionary leader in the medical community. She was courageous and compassionate to those who needed help. She was devoted and fiercely loyal to anyone she considered family. She was outrageous, creative, and fun-loving. But above all, she was totally unique. She loved to go against the grain, she dared to be different, and she lived her life unapologetically true to herself. There could be no words that could properly express the profound sense of loss we feel at her passing.