2024 Jack Boan Student Essay Competition now open
The submission deadline is Friday, February 23, 2024. Winners are recognized at the annual Canadian Health Services and Policy Research (CAHSPR) conference (https://cahspr.ca/events/cahspr-2024/).
Veuillez soumettre votre dissertation vendredi le 23 février 2024. Nous annoncerons les gagnants du concours lors de la conférence de Conférence annuelle de l’Association canadienne pour la recherche sur les services et les politiques de la santé (ACRSPS) (https://cahspr.ca/fr/evenements/acrsps-2024/).
NEWS
2023 HALL LAUREATE AND JACK BOAN ESSAY AWARD WINNERS ANNNOUNCED
Congratulations to Dr. Pat Armstrong, the 2023 Hall Laureate, and student essay award winners: Rebecca Chau (undergraduate), Camilla Goldstein-Fridman (master’s) and Nisha Ravichandiran (doctoral).
2022 Hall Laureate
Congratulations to Dr. Colleen Flood (@ColleenFlood2), the 2022 Hall Laureate who delivered the Hall Lecture on June 1st at the annual @CAHSPR conference. The Hall Laureate is awarded on the basis of outstanding contributions to the health ideals articulated by Justice Emmett Hall: equity, fairness,justice and efficiency.
2022 Jack Born Student Essay Competition Award Winners
Congratulations to the 2022 Jack Boan Student Essay Competition Winners for 2022. Jillian Ottmann from the College of Nursing, University of Saskatchewan won the undergraduate award for her essay “Prenatal Care Accessibility: The Power of the Nurse-Patient Relationship to Reduce Alcohol-Exposed Pregnancies”. Majd Radhaa from Western Univeristy won the masters student award for his paper “Accessibility of Obstetric Care for Indigenous People in Rural and Remote Canada”. Evgenia Gatov from the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation at the University of Toronto won the doctoral award for her essay “Virtual Mental Health Care in Canada: Can it Close the Treatment Gap?”. Congratulations to the winners! Thanks to all the applicants. Please note that the launch of the 2022 student essay competition will be in the fall 2022 - please look for communication from the Hall Foundation soon.
2021 JACK BOAN STUDENT ESSAY COMPETITION AWARD WINNERS ANNOUNCED
The Justice Emmett Hall Memorial Foundation is pleased to announce the winners of the 2021 Jack Boan Student Essay Competition. Winnie Ma from the University of Regina won the master’s student award for her essay entitled “Improving Accessibility to Outpatient Prescription Drugs: Reforming Pharmaceutical Policy Post-Pandemic”. Daniel Tingskou from McMaster University won the doctoral student award for his essay entitled “Income Splitting, Interprovincial Physician Migration in Canada, and Health Care Accessibility”. Congratulations! Thanks to all the applicants. Please note that the launch of the 2022 student essay competition will be in the fall 2021 - please look for communication from the Hall Foundation soon.
2021 Hall Lecture at virtually cahspr
Dr. Jeffrey Turnbull, the 2020 Hall Lecture, delivered his Hall Lecture entitled “Health inequity: how Canada’s health care system is failing our most disadvantaged” at the 2021 virtual CAHSPR conference on 20 May 2021. Check out the video of Dr. Turnbull’s lecture here: http://www.hallfoundation.ca/2020-jeffrey-turnbull
2020 MacNaught-Taillon Leadership Award Winner Announced
The Justice Emmett Hall Memorial Foundation, in association with CAHSPR and CHLNet, is pleased to announce the 2020 recipient of the MacNaught-Taillon Leadership Award. It is Jennifer Zelmer PhD, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Canadian Foundation for Healthcare Improvement (CFHI). Established in 2008, this award honours the outstanding and lasting contributions of Don MacNaught and Serge Taillon to the Canadian health care system. For more information, please see that attached press releases in English and French.
2020 JACK BOAN STUDENT ESSAY COMPETITION AWARD WINNERS ANNOUNCED
The Justice Emmett Hall Memorial Foundation is pleased to announce the winners of the 2020 Jack Boan Student Essay Competition. Jacob Yuriy from the Max Rady College of Medicine at the University of Manitoba won the undergraduate student award for his essay entitled “Access to Healthcare and Wellness in Rural Saskatchewan". Kelly Thai from the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto won the master’s student award for her essay entitled “The Pursuit of Equity - Enabling Artificial Intelligence to Inform Public Health”. And Kate McLeod from the School of Population and Public Health at the University of British Columbia won the doctoral student award for her essay entitled “Healthcare Services in Canada’s Prisons: the Need for Integration and Alternative Models of Governance”. Congratulations! Thanks to all the applicants. Please note that the launch of the 2021 student essay competition will be earlier than in past years - please look for communication from the Hall Foundation in the early fall 2020.
2020 HALL LECTURE POSTPONED
The Justice Emmett Hall Memorial Lecture has traditionally been presented at the Canadian Association of Health Services and Policy Research (CAHSPR) Annual Conference. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the in-person CAHSPR conference (intended to be held in Saskatoon in May 2020) has been replaced by a virtual conference. Thus, the Hall Foundation Board, in discussion with Dr. Jeffrey Turnbull (our 2020 Hall Laureate), has made the decision to postpone the delivery of his Hall Lecture to the 2021 in person CAHSPR conference. Given this unprecedented situation for the Foundation, a new Hall Laureate will not be selected until 2022.
2020 HALL LAUREATE - DR. JEFFREY TURNBULL
The Hall Foundation is pleased to announce that Dr. Jeffrey Turnbull has been selected as the 2020 Hall Laureate.
In addition to a BSc (University of Toronto) and a Masters Degree in Education (University of Western Ontario), Dr. Turnbull received his Doctorate in Medicine at Queen's University and later achieved specialty certification in Internal Medicine through the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada in 1982.
Dr. Turnbull has been the Vice Dean of Medical Education at the University of Ottawa (1996-2001), the President of the Medical Council of Canada (1998-2001), the President of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario (2006-2007) and the President of the Canadian Medical Association (2010-2011).
Dr. Turnbull was the Department Chair of Medicine from (2001-2008), the Chief of Staff at The Ottawa Hospital (2008-2017), and Chief, Clinical Quality for Health Quality Ontario (2014-2017), where he also held the position of Health Equity Clinical Lead. He also served as Senior Medical Officer for Correction Services Canada (2011-2014).
He remains committed as a medical educator with special interests in “Poverty and Health Equity” and associated health policy.
Dr. Turnbull has pursued an interest in poverty and its effect on health nationally and internationally. He is one of the founders and is currently the Medical Director of Ottawa Inner City Health for the homeless which works to improve the health of people who are chronically homeless. He is the recipient of several national and international grants and awards, including the Order of Canada, the Order of Ontario, the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal and an Honorary Degree of Law from Carleton University.
2020 MacNaught-Taillon Award Nominations
Nominations for the 2020 MacNaught-Taillon Award are being accepted now. For details, please review the call for nominations and the nomination form.
2019 HALL LAUREATE - Dr. SteveN G. Morgan
The Hall Foundation is pleased to announce that Dr. Steven Morgan is the 2019 Hall Laureate.
Dr. Morgan is a tenured Professor in the School of Population and Public Health at the University of British Columbia. He is Canada’s leading expert on universal pharmacare whose research has sparked national debate about how to achieve access to appropriately prescribed, affordably priced, and equitably financed prescription drugs for all Canadians. A regular media commentator on health policy, Dr. Morgan has published more than 150 peer-reviewed research papers. He also regularly provides policy advice to governments and has twice represented Canada on high-level committees of the World Health Organization. Dr. Morgan has won numerous awards for his work, including the Bruce Squires Award, the top research award from the Canadian Medical Association Journal, as well as awards from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the Commonwealth Fund, the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research, and others. Dr. Morgan received degrees in economics from the University of Western Ontario, Queen’s University, and the University of British Columbia, and post-doctoral training in health policy at McMaster University.
Dr. Morgan’s Emmett Hall Memorial Lecture:
At long last? Fulfilling Justice Hall’s vision for universal pharmacare in Canada
Universal pharmacare has been recommended by government reports and commissions dating back to the 1940s, but to no avail. It is now “back on the table” as the leading health care agenda item in the 2019 federal election. In his Emmett Hall Memorial Lecture, Dr. Morgan will review the evidence-base for universal pharmacare, lessons from our past and from comparable countries, and challenges Canada will face moving forward. Please join us at the CAHSPR conference in Halifax at the end of May 2019 for Dr. Morgan’s Hall Lecture.
REMEMBERING DR. JACK BOAN
The Hall Foundation was saddened to learn of Dr. Jack Boan’s passing (see Jack’s obituary here). Jack was a pillar of the health services and policy community in Canada, and played an instrumental role in helping create Canada’s Medicare program. Jack was the Honorary President of the Justice Emmett Hall Memorial Foundation and we are proud to have named our annual student essay competition after him. We offer our deepest condolences to Jack’s family and collectively cherish our many memories of working with him.
2018 Hall Laureate
The Hall Foundation is pleased to announce that Dr. Robyn Tamblyn is the 2018 Hall Laureate. Dr. Tamblyn is a Professor in the Department of Medicine and the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at McGill University. She is a James McGill Chair, a Medical Scientist at the McGill University Health Center Research Institute, and the Scientific Director of the Clinical and Health Informatics Research Group at McGill University. Since 2011, she has also held the position of Scientific Director of the Institute of Health Services and Policy Research at the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. Dr. Tamblyn has made many contributions to the health ideals articulated by Justice Hall. Dr. Tamblyn will deliver the Hall Lectureship at the upcoming CAHSPR meeting in Montreal at the end of May 2018.
Dr Tamblyn's ground-breaking research on educational outcomes has elucidated important relationships between health professional training, licensure and practice that have subsequently guided credentialing policies. Her work on prescription drug use, its determinants, and computerized interventions to improve drug safety (MOXXI) have been recognized internationally. She leads a CIHR-funded team to investigate the use of e-health technologies to support integrated care for chronic disease, and co-leads a Canadian Foundation for Innovation Informatics Laboratory to create advanced technologies to monitor adverse events in populations and create new tools to improve the safety and effectiveness of health care. Her work is published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, the Annals of Internal Medicine, the British Medical Journal, Medical Care, and Health Services Research among others. She has been awarded the CHSRF KT award for her research in improving the use of medication as well as the ACFAS Bombardier award for innovation in the development of a computerized drug management system.
The Canadian Medical Hall of Fame announces 2017 inductees
LONDON, ON, Oct. 11, 2016 /CNW/ - Dr. Bryce Taylor, Chair of the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame (CMHF) announced today that Dr. Michel G. Bergeron, Dr. Michel Chrétien, Dr. Richard B. Goldbloom, the late Justice Emmett Hall, Dr. Michael R. Hayden and Dr. F. Estelle R. Simons have been selected for induction into the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame.
"The Canadian Medical Hall of Fame is proud to welcome these six individuals whose outstanding contributions to health have made Canada, and the world, a better place," said Dr. Taylor. "Their impact is well documented and they have earned their place alongside the current 119 Laureates of the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame."
These Canadian and international leaders will celebrate this important recognition at a ceremony held in association with Université Laval, Faculty of Medicine on May 4, 2017 at Centre des congrès de Québec in Québec City.
It is a tremendous honour for Université Laval and our Faculty of Medicine to be hosting such a prestigious ceremony in Québec City," said Dr. Rénald Bergeron, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine of Université Laval. "We look forward to paying a lively tribute to these health science heroes, who have made outstanding contributions to the improvement of health care in Canada and the world, and who are an inspiration to our future health leaders."
Canadian Medical Hall of Fame Laureates are individuals whose contributions to medicine and the health sciences have led to extraordinary improvements in human health. Their work may be a single meritorious contribution or a lifetime of superior accomplishments. Pioneers in their field, they are role models for Canadians and an inspiration to our youth to pursue careers in the health sciences.
Dr. Michel G. Bergeron, CM OQ MD FRCPC FCAHS FIDSA (Québec, QC)
Dr. Michel Chrétien, OC OQ OLH MD FRS (Montréal, QC)
Dr. Richard B. Goldbloom, OC MDCM FRCPC(Halifax, NS)
The late Justice Emmett Hall, CC QC LLB (Saskatoon, SK)
Dr. Michael R. Hayden, CM OBC MB ChB PhD FRCP(C) FRSC (Vancouver, BC)
Dr. F. Estelle R. Simons, MD FRCPC FAAP FACAAI FAAAAI FCAHS FRSC(Winnipeg, MB)
BIOS BELOW, PHOTOS AVAILABLE AT http://cdnmedhall.org/induction-ceremony
ABOUT THE CANADIAN MEDICAL HALL OF FAME
Established in 1994, the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame (CMHF) is a national charitable organization that fosters future generations of health professionals through the celebration of our country's rich medical history, scholarship program, award program for medical students and the delivery of both local and nationwide education programs for youth. Each year, up to six individuals are recognized for their extraordinary contribution to improving the health of Canadians and people world-wide. The stories of the laureates are showcased on the web www.cdnmedhall.org and in a portrait gallery, exhibit hall and media theatre located in downtown London, ON.
ABOUT LAVAL UNIVERSITY
Laval University, located in the world heritage city of Québec, is the first French-language university in North America. It is one of Canada's top research universities, ranking 6th among the country's institutions of higher learning with a research budget of $325 millionlast year. Laval University boasts more than 42,500 students, more than a quarter of whom are enrolled in graduate studies. In 2015 Laval University became Canada's first voluntarily carbon neutral university. The university currently has more than 277,000 alumni. The Faculty of Medicine of Laval University graduates more than 900 health professionals annually and offers nearly 100 training programs, including 47 specialized medicine programs. It has the largest clinical teaching network in Québec and, built on an interprofessional forward thinking approach, it is focused on social responsibility and sustainable health.
SOURCE Canadian Medical Hall of Fame