Steve Shadowitz

Biography

Steven Shadowitz obtained his medical degree from McGill University in 1989, and trained in internal medicine at the University of Toronto from 1990 to 1994, his last year as the Chief Medical Resident at St. Michael's Hospital. He completed fellowship training in General Internal Medicine at the University of Toronto in 1996, and completed a Masters of Science in Clinical Epidemiology at the University of Toronto in 2004.

He joined the medical staff at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in 1996. He supervised the medical clerkship rotation from 1998 to 2001. In July of 2001 Dr. Shadowitz became the site program director for the core internal medicine residency program. He held this position until July of 2013. He became head of the division of GIM and Deputy Physician-in-Chief at Sunnybrook in 2007, and held these positions for 13 years, until Oct 2020. He is currently the program Chief of the Integrated Community Program at Sunnybrook. In addition to his local administrative roles, Steven is the Ontario representative to the Canadian Society of Internal Medicine Council, and is the secretary treasurer. He has been a member of the examination board of internal medicine at the royal college of physicians and surgeons of Canada for the last 15 years.

Steven has been previously recognized for teaching excellence. He has received awards from the SHSC Department of Medicine, the Peters Boyd Academy, the University of Toronto Department of Medicine, and the University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine. He received the Canadian Society of Internal Medicine Osler Award in 2018, in recognition of excellence in the field of GIM.