Distinguished Community Paediatrician Award
The Community Paediatrics Section established the Distinguished Community Paediatrician Award in 1999 to recognize colleague(s) who has demonstrated a significant contribution to the field of community paediatrics. The section hosts a dinner in honour of the award recipient at the CPS Annual Conference.
Nomination requirements
The successful candidate:
- is a paediatrician who is primarily community-based.
- provides exemplary paediatric care in the community.
- is involved in community paediatrics outside his/her office perhaps in a community of special needs such as street youth, drug rehabilitation, promoting healthy living within the school environment etc.
- devotes some of his/her time and energy promoting community paediatrics either through involvement in local or national community paediatric groups or through involvement with government agencies to promote the health and welfare of children and adolescents in the community setting.
- is involved in the academic aspects of community paediatrics, either through teaching, research or involvement in a university department of paediatrics.
- is of a calibre that his/her colleagues recognize, in this recipient, a role model for a community paediatrician.
Current section executives are not eligible for nomination and cannot nominate candidates while serving their terms.
Submission requirements
- A letter from a member of the Community Paediatrics Section describing the nominee's contribution to community paediatrics, emphasizing this person's contribution to the welfare of children in the community, is critical to the nomination.
- A copy of the nominee's updated curriculum vitae should be provided.
- Submit your nominations using the online form or by mail.
Presentation
The award is presented during the CPS Annual Conference and the recipient receives a commemorative award at a dinner in their honour.
This award is sponsored by the Community Paediatrics Section.
Past recipients:
2011 Dr. Denis Leduc
2010 Dr. Moshe Ipp & Dr. Gary Smith
2008 Dr. Andrew Lynk
2006 Dr. Umesh Rayar
2004 Dr. Allen Ciastko
2002 Dr. Barrett Adams
2000 Dr. Bill James, Dr. Lee Stickles
Last updated: June 2011
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