CANADIAN GERIATRICS SOCIETY2023 AWARD WINNERS
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B. Lynn Beattie Award |
Barb Liu |
| Peter McCracken Award | Jasneet Parmar |
| Ronald Cape Distinguished Service Award | Melissa Andrew |
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Réjean Hébert Canadian Institutes of Health Research -Institute on Aging Prize |
Jenna MacDonald |
| Edmund V Cowdry Award | Christina Reppas-Rindlisbacher |
| Dr. Jack and Dr. Asa Award | Guillaume Lim Fat |
| Willard and Phoebe Thompson Award | Geemitha Ratnayake Mudiyanselage |
| 1st Place Poster | Guilherme Moraes Balbim |
| 2nd Place Poster | Khushbu J Pate |
| 3rd Place Poster | Yu Qing (Jenny) Huang |
2022 AWARD WINNERS
| 2022 Pfizer Continence Research Award |
Anthony Anugom |
| 2022 Honorable Mention | Janet Kow & Heidi Schmaltz |
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Dr. Jack and Dr. Asa Award |
Alana Miller |
| Edmund V Cowdry Award | Christina Reppas-Rindlisbacher |
| Willard and Phoebe Thompson Award | Aileen Liang |
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Réjean Hébert Canadian Institutes of Health Research -Institute on Aging Prize |
Peter Hoang |
| 1st Place Poster | Maha Rehman |
| 2nd Place Poster | Nazila Hassanabadi |
| 3rd Place Poster |
Lauren Cuthbertson |
2021 AWARD WINNERS:
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2020 Award Winners:
| 2020 Ronald Cape Distinguished Service Award | Maria (Marisa) Zorzitto |
| 2020 Peter McCracken Physician Innovator in Education Award | Sharon Marr |
| 2020 Pfizer Continence Research Award |
Christina Shaw |
2019 Award Winners:
| 2019 Ronald Cape Distinguished Service Award | Roger Wong |
| 2019 Peter McCracken Physician Innovator in Education Award | Barbara Power |
| 2019 CFPC/CGS Award of Distinction in Health Care of the Elderly | Vivian Ewa |
2018 AWARD WINNERS:
| 2018 Ronald Cape Distinguished Service Award | Christopher Frank |
| 2018 Peter McCracken Physician Innovator in Education Award | Laura Diachun & Martin Moran |
| 2018 CFPC/CGS Award of Distinction in Health Care of the Elderly | Henry Grant McKercher |
| 2018 Pfizer Continence Research Award |
Sameea Quereshi |
| 2018 CGS NGIG Leadership Award | Bonnie Cheung |
2017 Award Winners:
| 2017 Ronald Cape Distinguished Service Award | Alexandra Papaioannou |
| 2017 CFPC/CGS Award of Distinction in Health Care of the Elderly | John Sloan |
| 2017 CGS NGIG Leadership Award |
Jasmin Mah |
2016 Award Winners:
| 2016 CFPC/CGS Award of Distinction in Health Care of the Elderly | Roger Butler |
2022 Ronald Cape Distinguished Service Award Winner
Dr. Janet E. McElhaney
Janet E. McElhaney, MD, September 29, 1954 – October 21, 2021
Dr. McElhaney’s career was built upon recognizing and empathizing with the devastating health effects of socially constructed inequities. She made it her mission to serve the most vulnerable in society. Dr. McElhaney held many academic appointments over her career including as Associate Professor at Eastern Virginia Medical School (1998-2003), Professor and Division Head of Geriatric Medicine at the University of British Columbia (2005-2011), and Professor at the Northern Ontario School of Medicine and the Scientific Director and Health Sciences North Volunteer Association Research Chair in Healthy Aging at HSNRI (2012-2021). Her research focused on immunization-preventable diseases in older adults and her work advanced the knowledge of influenza outcomes in older adults, impact of frailty of immunity, and vaccine efficacy in shingles and influenza among older adults. She amassed over 150 peer-reviewed publications and secured millions of dollars in grants. Even in her final months of her terminal illness, she was giving media interviews to combat COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy to empower older adults with the information to promote vaccine uptake. Dr. McElhaney also founded the care process, “48/5”, which is an interprofessional collaborative care process that starts within 48 hours of hospital admission and focuses on evidence informed decisions about five domains in older adults: cognition/delirium, appropriate medications, functional mobility, nutrition/hydration, and bowel/bladder. In 2017, Dr. McElhaney was appointed to the CIHR Institute Advisory Board on Indigenous Peoples' Health. Her partnership with Indigenous elders was not just at a research and policy level, but also through geriatric medicine clinic outreach trips to remote Indigenous communities along the James Bay Coast where she mentored many health care providers, geriatricians, and care of the elderly physicians. Dr. McElhaney saw each older adult as a valued individual deserving of quality care. Her legacy has also been recognized at NOSM with the Dr. Janet E. McElhaney Memorial Award, which will support medical students showing a willingness to confront the many challenges faced by older adults interacting with our health care system today.
2022 Peter McCracken Physician Innovator in Education Award Winner
Dr. Joanne Ho
Dr. Joanne Ho is an internist, geriatrician and clinical pharmacologist. She attended the University of British Columbia for her medical undergraduate degree and then completed residencies in internal medicine, geriatric medicine and clinical pharmacology at the University of Toronto. Her Masters of Science was completed at the Institute for Health Policy, Management and Evaluation during which time she participated in the Department of Medicine Eliot Phillipson Clinician Scientist Training Program at the University of Toronto. Dr. Ho completed a research fellowship with the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute through the University Of Toronto Division Of Geriatric Medicine. She is Vice-Chair for the examinations committee and examiner with the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada for Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology. Dr. Ho is head of service for geriatric medicine and an active medical staff member of Grand River Hospital and St. Mary’s General Hospital in Kitchener, ON where she provides inpatient geriatric medicine, internal medicine and clinical pharmacology consultation services. She is Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine, Divisions of Geriatric Medicine, Clinical Pharmacology&Toxicology, and Education&Innovation at McMaster University and Schlegel Chair in Geriatric Pharmacotherapy. Dr. Ho is the founder of GeriMedRisk, and serves as Co-Executive Director and consultant geriatrician and clinical pharmacologist.