Michel Weber Education Award

Established in 2008, the Michel Weber Education Award recognizes a CPS member whose work in medical and/or inter-professional education has had a significant and positive impact on learners in child and youth health.

Recipients receive both a commemorative plaque and a cash award of $1,000 to be presented at the CPS Annual Conference. The recipient will have all appropriate travel expenses and conference registration covered and will receive complimentary CPS membership for one year. 

Current recipient(s): Dr. Jennifer McLean

Dr. McLean is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Western University's Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry. She recently retired from clinical practice and Professional Practice Lead for paediatrics at the Child and Parent Resource Institute (CPRI) but she continues to work as a Developmental Pediatrics consultant at Thames Valley Children's Center.

Following the completion of her MD and Neuro-Developmental Pediatrics subspecialty training at McMaster University, Dr. McLean went on to hold posts at Western University, the University of Ottawa, and Dalhousie University. Throughout her career, Dr. McLean has been actively involved in teaching, curriculum development, and mentoring of colleagues, students, and trainees. Her passion lies in helping learners understand differential diagnoses and collaboratively managing developmental challenges with children, youth, and families.

She has also engaged in advocacy work provincially through the Physicians of Ontario Neurodevelopmental Advocacy steering committee. Dr. McLean has been involved in Medical School admissions, Medical Council of Canada interviews, and developing practice OSCEs for developmental pediatrics. She also created a one-year learning experience for international students interested in a fellowship in Developmental Pediatrics at Western University.

She is recognized as a Founder of the Developmental Pediatrics specialty by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada and has been a long-standing member of the Specialty Committee, serving in various roles, including Quality Examiner for the annual exam. She is also involved in developing standards and EPAs with the RCPSC working group for Developmental Pediatrics.

About Dr. Michel Weber

Dr. Michel Weber was a passionate paediatric educator. His teaching focused not only on the needs of his students, but reflected his desire to teach in a relaxed atmosphere based on mutual respect of educator and learner.

Dr. Weber completed his paediatric residency at the Université de Montréal. In 1973 he began practicing paediatrics at le CHU Sainte-Justine. He quickly ascended the academic ranks to become assistant professor in 1979 and full professor in 1988. He sat on the Université de Montréal medical education committee for 18 years. As an educator, Dr. Weber believed in the value of teaching with case reports. He touched many different aspects of teaching including the pre-clinic phase of medical education, residency training and continuing medical education and wrote many books to help fill a void when there was a lack of French resource books.

Dr. Weber received many awards throughout his life in recognition of his important contribution to teaching.

Nominations

Candidates must:

• Be CPS members who are paediatricians or paediatric subspecialists.
• Have a long history of involvement in paediatric educational initiatives that may include teaching, curriculum development, evaluation, educational administration/leadership, publication of educational research, scholarly articles on education, development of educational policy, etc.
• Have a significant impact (national and/or international) in the delivery of education in paediatrics, and/or
• Have made an innovative educational contribution to paediatric education, and/or
• Have demonstrated sustained excellence in teaching.

Nominations must be resubmitted each year for consideration. Current CPS board and Awards Committee members are not eligible for nomination and cannot nominate candidates while serving their terms.

Submissions

Submissions must include the following:

• Letters of support from the nominator and seconder, both of which are CPS members, describing how the nominee meets the above criteria. The seconder must have been a recipient of the nominee’s educational contributions.
• An updated curriculum vitae for the candidate

Submit your nominations using the Submit Nomination button.

This award is sponsored by the University of Montreal’s Department of Pediatrics.

Past recipients