Awards
Below is a highlight on most awards received by the physicians in the Department of Emergency Medicine.
Dr. Rami Ableman - Pediatric Emergency Medicine
PGME Excellence in Clinical Teaching Award
Dr. Huma Ali
Canadian Association of Thoracic Surgeons award
Dr. Michael Betzner
Recipient of the Long Term Education Contributions Award – Cumming School of Medicine
Dr. Ian Blanchard
Paramedic Association of Canada – Paramedic of the Year
Dr. Niklas Bobrovitz
Grant Innes Resident Research Award
CAEP QIPS Grant
Dr. Mark Bromley
Successful Candidate for the KidSONO Operational Lead
Dr. Haley Cochrane
CAEP Physician of the Year Prairies Urban
Dr. Kathryn Crowder
PGME Excellence in Clinical Teaching Award
Dr. Shawn Dowling
Successful Candidate Senior Medical Director for the Emergency Strategic Clinical Network
Acute Care Medical Lead for Program Improvement and Integration Networks (PINs) Leadership
PGME Excellence in Clinical Teaching Award
Dr. Cody Dunne
CAEP Resident Research Award
Dr. Christine East
CAMSS Advocacy Award
Dr. Mary Freymond
CAEP Resident Research Award
Dr. Margriet Greidanus
Recipient of the Guenter Award for International Health Award – Cumming School of Medicine
Dr. Jessalyn Holodinsky
Successful Candidate Director of AI & Data Education and Ethics (AIDEE)
Dr. Brian Holroyd
CAEP President's Award Recipient
Dr. Jonathan Lubin
PGME Excellence in Clinical Teaching Award
Dr. Keon Ma
Resident Research Abstract Award
Dr. Andrew McRae
Grant Award from the Canadian Institute of Health Research
Dr. Dennis Nesdoly
PGME Excellence in Clinical Teaching Award
Dr. Anjali Pandya
Successful Candidate FRCPC Program Director of Emergency Medicine
Dr. Catherine Patocka
Recipient of the Postgraduate Medical Education Award
EM Clinical Scientist
CAEP Special Merit Award Recipient
Successful Candidate for Department Head of Emergency Medicine
Dr. Kelsey Ragan
Successful Candidate FRCPC Assistant Program Director of Emergency Medicine
Dr. Melanie Sohn
Successful Candidate UME position as Director, Professional Role Course
Dr. Brittany Sunderani
Successful Candidate Deputy Head of Education of Emergency Medicine
Dr. Ian Walker
Director of the Pathways to Medicine Program
Dr. Joe Vipond
CMA Award for Political Advocacy
Dr. Fareen Zaver
Successful Candidate Associate Dean, Office of Faculty Development and Performance
Dr. Nancy Zuzic
Successful Candidate Medical Leader, Physician Relations & Planning
PGME Excellence in Clinical Teaching Award
Dr. Rami Ableman - Pediatric Emergency Medicine
Dr. Kathryn Crowder
Dr. Shawn Dowling
Dr. Jonathan Lubin
Dr. Dennis Nesdoly
Team Awards
Drs. Margaret McGillivray and Eddy Lang
Institute of Aging Prize: Yves Joanette Award of Excellence in Research in Aging
Dr. James Andruchow
Successful candidate for Deputy Department Head Emergency Medicine
Dr. Natasha Goumeniouk
CanVECTOR Junior Investigator Grant (CAEP annual grants competition)
Dr. Grant Innes
Honoured with Emeritus Status as Professor Emeritus of Emergency Medicine,
Family Medicine and Community Health Sciences.
Dr. Eddy Lang
CIHR Catalyst Grant: Towards Emergency Department Standards for Youth Requiring Access to Community Mental Health and Substance Use Care
Dr. Andrew McRae
O’Brien Institute Research Excellence Award
Dr. Anjali Pandya
PGME Awards of Excellence – Outstanding Commitment to Residency Education
Dr. Catherine Patocka
CSM Postgraduate Medical Education Award
Dr. Zoe Polsky
Resident Leadership Award (FRCPC) - CAEP
Madhavi Talasila
PGME Awards of Excellence – Service in Support of Residency
PGME Clinical Teaching Award:
Anker, Katie
Betzner, Mike
Cochrane, Haley
Fair, Sean
Francis, Marc
Fu, David
Huffman, James
Krook, Chase
Lee, Patricia
Lin, Katie
Mainprize, Dave
McNeil, Gord
Morris, Alyssa
Morris, Rick
Ness, Rhonda
Packer, Nick
Pandya, Anjali
Park, Hannah
Ragan, Kelsey
Ross, Marshall
Savage, Tyson
Shaw, Brett
Sherlock, Kelli
Su, Mike
Wang, Jessica
Wilkie, Ryan
Zaver, Fareen
Group Awards
Best Preceptor Award Winners
FR Coffee Award Winner: Dave Fu
CCFP-EM Coffee Award Winner: Braden Teitge
FR Best Emerg Junior Preceptor Award Winner: Kelsey Ragan
PEM Preceptor Award Winner: Gord McNeil
FR Preceptor of the year Award winner: James Huffman
CCFP-EM Emerg Preceptor of the year Award winner: Amanda Schreiner
Off service preceptor of the year award winner: Julie Kromm
Bryan Young Lifetime Achievement Award Winner: Mike Betzner
Gala Awards
MIKE HODSMAN LIFELONG LEARNING AWARD
Aaron Johnston
Shawn Dowling
DEPT OF EM HUMANITARIAN AWARD
Margriet Greidanus
Heather Patterson
ACH SITE AWARDS
Outstanding colleagues:
Ashlea Wilmott
Peggy Thomson
Dana Stys
Outstanding Rookies:
Robyn Buna
Karl Phillips
Nick Monfries
FMC SITE AWARDS
Outstanding colleagues:
Anjali Pandya
Steve Clark
Stuart Rose
Chris Hall
Outstanding Rookies:
Katie Lin
Haley Cochrane
Claire Acton
RGH SITE AWARDS
Outstanding Colleagues:
James Huffman
Tony Chad
Ayesha Khory
Outstanding Rookies:
Katie Anker
Ryan Wilkie
Sean Fair
PLC SITE AWARDS
Outstanding Colleague:
Amanda Schreiner
Jen Puddy
Peter Davids
Outstanding Rookie:
Geordan Avery-Cooper
Hilary Ambrose
Kelsey Ragan
SHC SITE AWARDS
Outstanding Colleagues:
Kathryn Crowder
Bryan Weber
Marge McGillivray
Outstanding Rookies:
Elizabeth Williams
Chase Krook
Jolene Bohne
Dr. Cody Dunne
Junior Investigator Award ($5,000), Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians (CAEP)
Dr. Natasha Goumeniouk and Dr. Eddy Lang
DEAR Fund Award ($8000) (Skeith L, Metcalfe A, King J, Le Gal G.)
Dr. Eddy Lang
Best Medical Student Abstract Award (Vorobeichik A, Yaphe H, Feldmann A)
Dr. Katie Lin
CFPC Resident Research Award, ED utilization of COVID-19 patients (Rudecki A)
ESCN Summer Studentship Award
Dr. Katie Lin and Dr. Andrew McRae
CAEP-CanVECTOR Research Abstract Award (Xu K, Daoust R, Taylor J, Rosychuk R, Hau J, Davis P, Clark G, Hohl C)
Dr. Fareen Zaver
Masters in Medical Education
Emirates Society of Emergency Medicine Conference 2022. Mentorship Program
Dr. Jason Elzinga and Dr. Scott Wakeham
Michael P. Spadafora Medical Toxicology Award
Dr. Mark Yarema
Behind the Scenes Award
Award Winners
Dr. Aaron Johnston
Postgraduate Clinical Education Award
Dr. Bryan Young
Long Term Education Award
Dr. Catherine Patocka
Recipient of an Award for Excellence in Postgraduate Medical Education
Dr. Neil Collins
MD of the Year at CAEP 2021
Dr. Scott Wakeham
Award Winning Oral Presentation ACH Resident Research Day
Dr. Arun Abbi
AMA Long-Service Awards
Dr. Marc Francis
Richard Kohn Memorial Award for Mentorship in Emergency Medicine
Dr. Ian Walker
CPSA Council Electee
Groups
Dr. Laurie- Ann Baker
Dr. Marta Broniewska
Dr. Ayesha Khory
Dr. Charles Wong
Star Educators
Dr. Cody Dunne
Dr. Jason Elzinga
Dr. Dana Stewart
Poster and Oral Presentations in ACH Annual Residents & Fellows Virtual Research Day
Dr. Christine East
RGH Charge RN Ken Mont
ED Treatment Plan Committee
Dr. James Andruchow
FMC Physician of the Year Award
Dr. Ryan Chung
Emergency Adult Knowledge Lead
Dr. Colin DelCastilho
participated in the annual Race to the Top stair challenge at South Health Campus in support of Heart Month. Watch the highlight video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_EFK1LyVtQ&feature=youtu.be
Dr. Shawn Dowling
ED Emergency Physician of the Year for the Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians – Urban Category
Dr. Stephen Freedman
APPETITE, AHS President's Award for Outstanding Achievement in Innovation & Research Excellence
Dr. Eddy Lang
Gold Star Award Class of 2020 Pre-clerkship Awards, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary
Dr. Gerald Lazarenko
Canadian Certified Physician Executive (CCPE) Credential
Drs. Meira Louis & Mark Scott
ARCH (Addiction Recovery & Community Health) Consultants
Dr. Sarah McPherson
Post Graduate Clinical Education Award for Clinical, Adjunct and Research Faculty
Dr. Andrew McRae
Ian Steill Researcher of the Year (CAEP)
Dr. Catherine Patocka
CAEP Research Grant Recipient & New FRCP Program Director
Dr. Marshall Ross
Top 40 Under 40 Award
Dr. Erik Saude
UME EM Clerkship Behind-the-Scenes Award
Dr. Jennifer Thull-Freedman
Commitment to Comfort QI Collaborative Team, AHS President's Award for Outstanding Achievement in Innovation & Research Excellence
Dr. Joe Vipond
Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians Alan Drummond Advocacy Award
Dr. Ashlea Wilmott
ACH ED Medical Informatics Lead / Connect Care Provincial Physician Trainer, EM Track
Dr. Charles Wong
CPoCUS Research Award for Staff Clinicians
Dr. Fareen Zaver
Top 40 Under 40 Award
CAEP Research Grant Recipient
Team Awards
Drs. Danny Peterson, Erik Saude, Amanda Schreiner
The Gold Star Award, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary
Dr. Shawn Dowling
Foothills Medical Center Clinician of the Year
Dr. Scott Farquharson and Dr. Pauline Head
Humanitarian Award
Dr. Eddy Lang
Faculty Appreciation Honour Roll, Dhole Award, Class of 2019 for Outstanding Teaching (2018)
Dr. Eddy Lang
1st Place I4H Award, 2018 Health Hack Competition
Dr. Andrew McRae
Ian Stiell Researcher of the Year Award at CAEP Conference
Dr. Shawn Dowling
Academic Gold Star Recipient, The University of Calgary Emergency Medicine Residency Program
Mentor Gold Star Recipient, The University of Calgary Emergency Medicine Residency Program
The Michael Hodsman Lifelong Learning Award. Department of Emergency Medicine Calgary
Top Research Poster Annual Scientific Assembly, Banff AB
Scott Lucyk
Department of Critical Care Medicine’s Off Service Preceptor of the Year award & the Department of Emergency Medicine Rookie of the Year award
Dr. Tim Souster
Departmental Humanitarian of the Year for his Volunteer Efforts in Mosul, Iraq
Dr. Aaron Johnston
PGME Award for Resident Mentorship
Dr. Nadim Lalani
Richard Kohn Memorial Award for Mentorship in EM
Dr. Stuart Rose
PGME Award for Outstanding Commitment to Residency Education
Dr. Andrew McRae
Grant Innes Award for Best Research Abstract/Presentation. Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians
Dr. Grant Innes
Finalist (one of 4), for Alberta Health Services ‘President’s Excellence Award for Distinguished Service
Dr. Shawn Dowling
Emergency Medicine (FRCP) Preceptor/Teacher of the Year Award
As voted by Emergency Medicine Residents
2013
Dr. Simon Berthelot
The Grant Innes Award from the Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians CAEP National Scientific Meeting
Dr. Eddy Lang
Hellbender Medical Teaching Award
2011
Dr. Grant Innes
Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians’ Presidents Award for Lifetime Achievement (presented in St. John’s, Newfoundland, June 2011)
2006
Dr. Grant Innes
3M National Healthcare Quality Award for Canada
2002
Dr. Grant Innes
Physician Achievement Award