2024 Award Winners & Fund Recipients
2024 Health Professions Educator Award
Dr. Suzanne Archie, MD, FRCPC
Dr. Suzanne Archie, MD, FRCPC, is a Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences and a psychiatrist at the East Region Mental Health Clinic. She is the Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Director for the Post Graduate Medical Education at McMaster University and is Chair of the Anti-Black Racism Task Force for the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Sciences. She has published on different aspects of early intervention, including substance abuse, program evaluation, and ethnic diversity in pathways to care for a first episode of psychosis. Her research has been supported by the Canadian Institute of Health Research, Peter Boris Centre for Cannabis Research, and the Mental Health Commission of Canada. Currently, Dr. Archie is engaged in knowledge translation projects involving video game technology educate youth about cannabis and psychosis, particularly those from Black African and Caribbean communities. She is also conducting a program evaluation of an educational module designed to advance the mental health of Black children and youth.
2024 Education Scholarship Fund
Danielle Brewer-Deluce
(Department of Pathology & Molecular Medicine)
FOAL study – Feature Optimization for Anatomy Learning
Collaborators: Bruce Wainman, Alex Cen, Ryan Phan, Nyssa Rousta, Linda Wu, Jessica Gu
Renate Kahlke
(Department of Medicine)
When the White Coat Only Comes in One Size: An Intersectional Qualitative Study of Anti-Fat Bias in Medical Education
Collaborators: Kori LaDonna, Daniel Brandt Vegas, Maria Nicula, O.G Thorne, Jessica Ostrega and Sandra Monteiro
The Education Scholarship Fund is to promote and support scholarship (research and innovation) in health sciences education in the Faculty of Health Sciences (FHS), McMaster University.
Past Award Winners & Fund Recipients
Health Professions Educator Award
The award is designed to encourage and reward the continued excellence of health professions education and scholarship within McMaster University. Nominees will be senior faculty and leaders in their respective educational schools that have made substantial contributions to education in the Faculty of Health Sciences including teaching, mentorship, educational scholarship, or research, throughout their careers.
Past Winners:
2017: Sue Baptiste (School of Rehabilitation Science)
2018: Rob Whyte (Undergraduate Medical Education)
2019: Janet Landeen (School of Nursing)
2020: Sarah Wojkowski (School of Rehabilitation Science, Program for Interprofessional Practice, Education & Research)
2021: Azim Gangji (Department of Medicine)
2022: Elizabeth Shaw (Department of Family Medicine)
2023: Kristen Burrows (McMaster Physician Assistant Education Program (PAEP)
Education Scholarship Fund
The Education Scholarship Fund is to promote and support scholarship (research and innovation) in health sciences education in the Faculty of Health Sciences (FHS), McMaster University.
Past Winners:
Anthony Levinson
Crowd-sourcing Practice Questions and Test Enhanced Learning: Capacity building strategies and randomized trial
Edward Matsumoto
Evaluation of new techniques for objective technical skills assessment for competency-based evaluation of surgical residents
Bernice Downey
Indigenous Health Initiative
Lawrence Grierson
Observational analyses of the associations between the geographical disposition of McMaster-graduated physicians before medical school, in training, and eventual practice
Noori Ahktar Danesh
Q-Methodology: A Revolutionary Approach to Course Evaluation
Oren Levine
Virtual strategies for teaching communication skills to residents for difficult conversations in oncology
Leslie Martin
How trainees use entrustable professional activities for learning: A cross-center comparison
Patricia Farrugia
Innovative undergraduate electives curriculum in Indigenous Health Needs Assessment
Matthew Sibbald
Developing an identity as a health professional in the era of #selfobsessed and #allaboutme: insights from social and transformational learning
Illana Bayaer & Teresa Chan
Taking Health Professions Education into the Metaverse... A design-based research study to design and evaluate a virtual emergency department
Irena Rebalka
Comparison of three visual modalities for the assessment of anatomy knowledge