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Anna Jarvis Paediatric Emergency Medicine Teaching Award

The Paediatric Emergency Medicine Section established the Anna Jarvis Paediatric Emergency Medicine Teaching Award in 2010 to recognize an individual in the field of paediatric emergency medicine who has been identified as an exceptional educator at all levels - undergraduate, postgraduate, continuing education.

The award is presented during the CPS Annual Conference during the section’s programming and the recipient receives a commemorative plaque and a cash award of $500.

Awarded every other year, the next award will be presented in 2024.

Current recipient(s): Dr. Ilana Bank

Dr. Ilana Bank

Ilana Bank, MDCM, is an associate professor of pediatrics at McGill University, attending physician in the Pediatric Emergency Department at the Montreal Children’s Hospital, member at the Institute for Health Sciences, Chair of MMI Committee (McGill Faculty of Medicine Admissions Committee), and director of the Institute for Pediatric Simulation at the Montreal Children’s Hospital.

Dr. Bank has effectively leveraged the educational value of the simulations she developed to improve patient safety and quality of care. Participants of her simulation exercises learn about the content of the simulation, the impact of simulation exercises on quality improvement and participate in debrief sessions following her simulation exercises to identify changes needed to improve patient care. Her disaster simulation exercises led to important changes to the disaster algorithm at the Montreal Children’s Hospital. The simulations she developed on the theme of “arrival to disposition”, following a critical patient’s arrival to the ED and their trajectory through the hospital to the various care areas until their final disposition, highlighted the problems associated with transitions and led to improvements in care trajectories. The impact of Dr. Bank’s work is multi-fold, leading to improvements in care algorithms and policies that improve patient care and teaching participants valuable lessons about the multiple benefits of simulation. She has continued to run simulation workshops virtually during the pandemic.

Dr. Bank created and ran the first large simulation event in North America to include a decontamination component in which 63 simulated patients and parents required decontamination and family reunification. These experiences and simulations all have real impact on care algorithms and policies that will improve patient care, and taught participants valuable lessons.

About Dr. Anna Jarvis

Dr. Anna Jarvis has trained and worked across Ontario for most of her career. She has held a succession of academic appointments at the University of Toronto over more than 30 years, and clinical positions at hospitals including The Hospital for Sick Children and Credit Valley Hospital. In the last ten years, she has begun assuming a more active role in student development at the Faculty of Medicine, where she has been associate dean since 2006. She was an active member of the national task force that led to the accreditation of paediatric emergency medicine (PEM) at the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada; she also took part in the development of PEM as an independent subspecialty.

Dr. Jarvis has received a host of teaching awards, with trainees now working on all continents as leaders in their departments, divisions or research fields.

Nominations

The candidate must:

  • Be recognized by trainees of all levels (medical student, residents and fellows) to be an excellent educator.
  • Be recognized by colleagues as an excellent educator.
  • Have taught in a spectrum of different learning environments (e.g. divisional lectures, conference based workshops, simulation, outreach PALS/APLS courses, plenary lectures at large conferences, etc.).
  • Have shown excellence in education at the local, provincial and national level by being a sought after speaker for conferences and CME events.
  • Have shown excellence in education at the international level by speaking at multiple international conferences/meetings.

Current section executives are not eligible for nomination and cannot nominate candidates while serving their terms.

Submissions

Submissions must include:

  • Three letters of support (Maximum 2 pages each) from:
    • A current paediatric emergency medicine colleague who is a CPS member.
    • A current non-paediatric emergency medicine colleague (e.g. family physician, adult emergency physician).
    • Former trainees – medical students, resident, fellows.
  • A copy of the nominee’s updated curriculum vitae. Maximum 3 pages.

Submit your nominations using the Submit Nomination button.

This award is sponsored by the Paediatric Emergency Medicine Section.

Past recipients

2020

Dr. Jonathan Pirie

2018

Dr. Marilyn Li

2016

Dr. Vincent Grant

2014

Dr. Gina Neto

2012

Dr. David McGillivray

Last updated: Sep 20, 2022