2023 Award Winners & Fund Recipients
2023 Health Professions Educator Award
Dr. Kristen Burrows
Dr. Kristen Burrows is the Assistant Dean of the McMaster Physician Assistant Education Program (PAEP) and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine. As a graduate of McMaster's inaugural PA class, Dr. Kristen Burrows has been privileged to work in internal medicine and clinical dermatology. Before becoming a PA, Dr. Kristen Burrows was a clinical epidemiologist and infection control practitioner until she traded travel for life in Hamilton with her partner and children. Dr. Kristen Burrows holds a BSc in Biomedical Sciences from the University of Guelph, MSc in Epidemiology & Population Medicine from the Ontario Veterinary College, BHSc(PA) in Physician Assistant Studies and PhD in Health Research Methodology from McMaster University. Dr. Kristen Burrows's medical education interests focus on the alignment of professional competencies with health human resource needs, role integration of physician extenders, and student mentorship.
2023 Education Scholarship Fund
2023 Winners:
Ilana Bayer (Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine) and Teresa Chan (Department of Medicine)
Taking Health Professions Education into the Metaverse... A design-based research study to design and evaluate a virtual emergency department
Irena Rebalka (Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine)
Comparison of three visual modalities for the assessment of anatomy knowledge
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)
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