Research supervisor wins Student Choice Award

Katrine Milner, Holland MSK Program research supervisor, has won the University of Toronto Scarborough Arts & Science Co-op Student Choice Award.

The award recognizes a co-op employer who provides excellent guidance and direction, opportunities for skills development and more for students while on placement. Tharnya Gengathata, a health studies student who is on a work term at Sunnybrook, nominated Milner.

"At Sunnybrook, we are given great respect and are provided room to grow as individuals over the course of our work term," Gengathata wrote in the nomination. "Though we are students, our supervisor and colleagues are very understanding and helpful, and ensure that our needs are met."

Mliner said the award is an honour. In her acceptance speech, she gave kudos to the co-op students who come to Sunnybrook from University of Toronto, and the co-op program staff. The co-op relationship with University of Toronto Scarborough started in January 2011. The Holland MSK research program welcomes five to seven students each year from that campus.

"The students are intelligent, hard-working, and each student brings new talents, abilities and a fresh point of view," Milner said.

She also shared the honour with her colleagues.

"We have a very hard-working team in the Holland Musculoskeletal Program and Research program at Sunnybrook and the Holland Centre and I'm very proud of what they do," she said. "It's wonderful to be recognized."