The Office of the Vice-Dean, Education and Community Engagement, is pleased to announce the five projects selected for the inaugural Education Impact Awards, which recognize exceptional and innovative contributions helping to meet the educational needs of the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences’ Schools and programs.
“We received 20 outstanding submissions,” said Beth Ann Cummings, Vice-Dean, Education and Community Engagement. “We are grateful for the amazing work being done to advance education across the FMHS, work that would not be possible without the contributions of the many collaborators and administrative team members. Thanks, too, to the members of the selection committee for your dedication and time.”
The winning projects (in alphabetical order) are:
Project: Anti-oppressive documentation practices for occupational therapists and healthcare providers
Recipient: Marie-Lyne Grenier
Project: Implementing a Model of Excellence for Interprofessional Primary Care NP Clinical Education
Recipients: Irene Sarasua, Jacqueline Bocking, Nadia Doiron, Rosanna Zappavigna, Dalila Benhaberou-Brun, Emmanuelle Catanèse, Michèle Desmarais, Diana Dima, Marie-Andrée Gaudreau, Maggie Ghaleb, Michel Godin, Marie-Claude Goyer, Beverley-Tracey John, Elise Lagarde, Jérôme Ouellet, Patricia Robitaille, Serena Slater, Kelley Kilpatrick.
Project: The McGill Summer Institutes in Global Health: A Decade of Scalable, Hybrid, and Equity-Centred Educational Innovation
Recipients: Madhukar Pai and Guadalupe Cruz-Orozco
Project: The McGill Healthcare-Management Case Competition (MHCC)
Recipients: Juliette Begin, Saad Razzaq, Arielle Grossman, Arianne Racine, Fiona Howse, Denia Hamidi, Amely Popescu, Pritesh Rathod, Laurence Robert, Lucy An, Sophie Andrée Vinet, Laurie H. Plotnick, Robert Primavesi, Anali Maneshi, Bernard Unger, Rosetta Antonacci, Dr. Khashayar Rafat-Zand, Leslie Breitner, Tanya Di Genova, Lucie Opatrny, Adrian B. Dancea, Greg Clark
Project: Research Management and Faculty Track (RMFT) Program, AKA ‘PI School’
Recipients: Natalie Zeytuni, Annick Guyot, Amélie Bourdiec, Martin Schmeing, Huy Bui, Joseph Deering, Lia Paim, Nivine Srour, Omid Gholamalamdari, Adriana Angarita Fonseca, Huong Nguyen
Congratulations to all!
Please stay tuned for stories on each project in upcoming editions of Health e-News!
Related:
FMHS Education Impact Award: Next call for submissions will take place in Fall 2026