Research Day Award Winners 2011


Eugenie Stuart Award $1,000 each
Faculty / Preceptors
Brian Feldman Excellence in Teaching
Vytas Mickevicius Excellence in Course / Program Development & Coordination
Angela M. Cheung Excellence in MSc/PhD Thesis Supervision
Audrey Laporte Excellence in MSc/PhD Thesis Supervision
Wolf Klassen Outstanding Faculty / Preceptor / Tutor

Thomas & Edna Naylor Memorial Award $1,000
MSc/PhD (HSR & CEHCR) Best Paper based on Thesis in Health Services and Health Care Research
Eric Benchimol "Outcomes of Pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease: Socioeconomic Status Disparity in a Universal-Access Healthcare System"

Claire Bombardier Award $1,000 each
MSc/PhD (CEHCR) Most promising students
Laura Park-Wyllie (PhD)
Simone Vigod (MSc)

Ted Goldberg Award $1,000
PhD (HSR) Academic excellence and promise in Health Services Research
Gustavo Mery "The determinants of the propensity to receive publicly supported Home Care Services for the Elderly in Canada: National and Provincial Analysis"

Harold Livergant Award $1,000
MHSc Outstanding Year 1 student in the field of Complex Continuing Care
Amber Curry

Maureen Dixon Memorial Award $500
MHSc/MHI/MMI /
MSc/PhD (HSR & CEHCR)
Best poster related to Community Based Care
Christopher Klinger "Resource Utilization and Costs of Integrated Palliative Care Service Provision: The Niagara West End-of-Life Care Project in Southern Ontario"

Robert Duff Barron Award $500
MHSc/MHI/MMI /
MSc/PhD (HSR & CEHCR)
Best poster related to Health Policy or Public Health Policy
Gladys Honein "Did the colon cancer check program reduce the disparities in the utilization of colorectal cancer screening in Ontario?"

G.B. Rosenfeld Poster Award $150
MHSc/MHI/MMI Best Poster - HPME Research Day
Serge Cinelli "A New Approach to Integrating Electronic Health Information"

HPME Poster Award $100
MHSc/MHI/MMI Second Best Poster - HPME Research Day
Andrea Thompson "Approaches and Challenges to Estimating Community Mental Health Program Costs Using Workload Information"

HPME GSU MSc Poster Award $150
MSc (Health Services Research) Best Poster - HPME Research Day
Stanley Yap "Do we continue to unnecessarily perform ipsilateral adrenalectomy at the time of radical nephrectomy? – A population-based study"

MSc Poster Award $100
MSc (HSR) Second Best Poster - HPME Research Day
M. Carolina Jimenez "eHealth Policy in Latin America and the Caribbean: a systematic review and content analysis"

Eugene Vayda Poster Award $150
PhD (HSR) Best Poster - HPME Research Day
Christopher Klinger "Resource Utilization and Costs of Integrated Palliative Care Service Provision: The Niagara West End-of-Life Care Project in Southern Ontario"

HPME GSU PhD Poster Award $100
PhD (HSR) Second Best Poster - HPME Research Day
Anna Durbin "The association between income source and met need among community mental health service users in Ontario, Canada"

MSc Poster Award $150
MSc (CEHCR) Best Poster - HPME Research Day
Michael Ordon "The Role of Ureteric Stents in Preventing Ureteral Complications in Renal Transplant Patients: A Retrospective Review"

MSc Poster Award $100
MSc (CEHCR) Second Best Poster - HPME Research Day
Sumit Gupta "Treatment-Related Mortality in Children with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia in Central America"

Gillian Hawker PhD Poster Award $150
PhD (CEHCR) Best Poster - HPME Research Day
Elinor Simons "How Does the Timing of Home Environmental Tobacco Smoke Exposure during Childhood Affect the Age of Asthma Development?

PhD Poster Award $100
PhD (CEHCR) Second Best Poster - HPME Research Day
Olga Gajic-Veljanoski "The Effects of Using Different Prior Distributions for Between-Study Variance on Outcomes in Bayesian Random-Effects Meta-Analysis"


Oral Presentation Awards $150 each
Tina Saryeddine "Moving patients across organizations: What makes the referral process effective and efficient?"
Eisar Al-Sukhni "Diagnostic accuracy of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for assessment of T-category, nodal metastases, and circumferential resection margin involvement in patients with rectal cancer: a meta-analysis"
Kimberly Ibarra "Exploring Ethicists' Perspectives of Healthcare Ethics Program Effectiveness"
Laura Park-Wyllie "Bisphosphonate Use and the Risk of Subtrochanteric or Femoral Shaft Fractures in Older Women"
Lakhbir Sandhu "Sources of Bias in Non-randomized Studies of Surgical Interventions"
Heather Burnett "Parents' Preferences for Drug Treatments in Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis: A Discrete Choice Experiment"