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won the national PhotoNews Canada Day photo competition in July 2025. His new book Discovering Wildlife in Toronto’s Don Valley is now available as well.
begins the Dental Assisting program at the University of Alberta in fall 2025.
received the Dr. Peter B. R. Allen Lifetime Achievement in Health Award from the Province of Alberta on July 24th, 2025. Dr. Pasieka is an endocrine surgeon based in Calgary.
started working as a clinical research coordinator for Axiom Real Time Metrics.
passed away on February 23, 2025, at the age of 77. He will be remembered fondly for his ability to captivate those around him with his stories, his love of reality TV, current events, history, and the stock market, as well as his unyielding dedication to his work, and his ever-present sly sense of humor and dry wit.
Paramvir Vassan, MPH’13, MPH’13
and family welcomed their first child, a baby boy on February 9, 2024.
passed away peacefully at his home in Kyle, Texas on April 15, 2024. Cles worked as a lighting technician at the Stork Club as a teenager, before pursuing his medical degree at Western.
published a book on the crisis of meaning in society amid several chaotic world issues.
Kent Floreani, DDS’87, MClD’92
celebrates being accepted to dental school 40 years ago. Kent is still working part-time and plans to ski and travel in 2024.
died in March 2023 in Hamilton, ON at the age of 97. Trained as a medic during World War Two and later specializing in ENT, Don worked at the Hamilton McGregor clinic from 1954-1981.
is hosting a 40th class reunion on Homecoming weekend, Sept. 27 to 29, 2024. Please contact ldferland@comcast.net and linda.sinnaeve@hotmail.com for more information.
and Brandon Harvey, MD’18, purchased their first home together in Carp, ON in November 2023.
and Brandon Harvey, MD’18, welcomed their son, Ellis, in July 2022.
Reshel Perera, BSc’16, MMASc’17, MPH’19
and Jason Knapp, BSc’17, MSc’19, met through Western University during a study-abroad semester in Uganda in 2017. Jason proposed on campus in September 2021 and they were married in March 2023.
became Chief Medical Officer for NuraLogix, an AI tech company which was recently featured on CNN’s The Next Frontier.
Sonia Palleck, DDS’93, MCID’99
has written and published a four-book series in 2023. Leave the Little Light On is a love story for humanity. Sonia painted the covers and narrated the audiobooks while working as a full-time orthodontist.
passed away in April 2023. Walter retired in 2019 after a long career in medicine, including 22 years working at Homewood Sanitarium and at a private practice in Guelph. Beloved by his family, he played tennis, golf and bridge, loved to travel and was an avid sailor.
started Prosper Media, a digital marketing agency.
published her second book, Glimpses: Sundown Manor, through Austin Macauley Publishing. Her third book is expected in 2024.
recently was married.
published a third graphic novel in the original series The Demonhuntress.
married Scott Burton, HBA’13 in March 2022.
Deryn Rizzi, GDipPA’18, Jody Becker, BA’96, LLB’99, Karen Chan, EMBA’10, Rebecca Kacaba, BA’03, Priscilla Luna, EMBA’19, Erica Nielsen, MBA’02, Karen Peesker, HBA’92, MBA’97, Eva Salem, HBA’93, Oricia Smith, HBA’95, MBA ‘98, Nitsa Staikos, BA’97, and Nurin Thawer, HBA’05, were selected by the Women’s Executive Network (WXN) as some of the 2022 Canada’s Most Powerful Women. Read more here.
participated in the 29th Annual International Conference on Tinnitus.
has been elected as the rector of the University of Chile.