Pharmacology Graduate Students Association (PGSA)
Welcome! We are the Pharmacology Graduate Students’ Association (PGSA). We are a student-run association that organizes philanthropic, research-related, and social events throughout the year. Our events are a great way to connect with graduate students and faculty within the department.
Events
We host a number of events each year including our annual Pharmaology BBQ, student-faculty softball game, student-faculty debate, philanthropic drives and the Visions in Pharmacology (VIP) annual research day. We also organize pub nights, games nights, escape room excursions, tickets to sport games, and other events.
Visions in Pharmacology (VIP): VIP is our largest event, which features a keynote speech from a prominent pharmacologist and gives students the opportunity to present their work to the department, with awards to the best presentations. Please see our list of past VIP keynote speakers:
- 1995 John Polanyi
S Poon & L Dwoskin
- 1996 Daniel Nebert
- 1997 Lee Limbird
- 1998 Frank Gonzalez
- 1999 Ferid Murad
- 2000 Marc Caron
- 2001 Karen Duff
- 2002 Ronald Estabrook
- 2003 Donald Ingram
- 2004 Etienne-Emile Baulieu
- 2005 Lee Limbird
- 2006 Richard Weinshilboum
- 2007 Edward Morgan
- 2008 Michael Salter
- 2009 Christopher Bradfield
- 2010 Sue Piper Duckles
- 2011 Richard Aster
- 2012 Roger Sunahara
- 2013 Henry Kranzler
- 2014 J. Steven Leeder
- 2015 Linda Dwoskin
- 2016 Terry Kenakin
- 2017 Peter Van Loo
- 2018 Edyth London
PGSA Christmas Shoebox Drive:
The Christmas Shoebox drive was the philanthropic event for 2017. Donations were made to Operation Christmas Child Canada. This organization distributes shoeboxes full of goodies for children in need - within Canada and around the world - aged 2 to 14 years old during the holidays. Students and faculty were asked to donate either cash or items to fill the shoeboxes. Thanks to the outstanding contributions of our students and faculty, we raised $623 in monetary donations and many in-kind donations. Our goal was 20 shoeboxes, but we were able to pack 30 shoeboxes! Thanks to everyone for making this fundraiswer a huge success.
The PGSA 201718.pdf (4.45 MB)President: Melissa Russo
Vice-Presidents: Laurie Lam (Academic) ; Sophia Attwells (Finance);
Kathy Lee (Social)
Director of Philanthropy & Fundraising: Marlaina Stocco
Director of Internal: Daniela Solomon
1st Year Research-Stream Representative: Mehnaz Ahmed
1st Year Applied Clinical Pharmacology-Stream Rep: Sarah Kleiboer
2nd Year Representatives: Kevin Galido, Dana Wu
GEC Representtive: Martino Gabra
Social Representative: Daniel Shonibare
GSU Representative: Daniel Hana
Site Representative for SickKids: Tasneem Ezzy
External Representative: Celina Liu
The following are the PGSA Executive for the 2016-17 academic year:
Co-Presidents: Tim Balvers, Linlei Ye
Co-Vice-Presidents: Setauesh Yazdani, Laurie Lam
Social Director: Marigrace Goroscope
Director of Communications: Chris Adanty
Treasurer: Admad Shakeri
2nd Year Representatives: Kevin Galido, Dana Wu
Contact us:
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Email: pgsa.toronto@gmail.com