Mireille Norris endows award for Black MD students

Mar 13, 2024 For Mireille Norris (PGME Geriatric Medicine 1999), supporting learners at the University of Toronto’s Temerty Faculty of Medicine provides an opportunity to recognize the strength of her ties to the Faculty – all while paying it forward to new generations of physicians. Norris is an assistant professor of medicine at U of T and an internist and geriatrician at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, where she served as the site lead for postgraduate geriatric medicine until 2023. In 2005, she founded the Sunnybrook Hospitalist Training program, which provides family and internal medicine physicians with additional expertise in managing complex medical cases. Her passion for learners has led her to take on the inaugural role of faculty lead for Black and Indigenous medical students in 2020, as well as role of Black Health Theme lead at Temerty Medicine in 2023. In addition to her professional contributions, Norris also recently made a philanthropic gift to establish the Mireille Aarons Norris Award for Black Medical Students at Temerty Medicine. The endowed award will support medical students with financial need. “I really believe in paying it forward,” Norris says. “What animates me is the strong belief that we don’t get where we...