2021 Award Winners & Fund Recipients
2021 Health Professions Educator Award
Dr. Azim Gangi
Dr. Azim Gangji is a Professor of Medicine at McMaster University and a leader in education. He is the inaugural Vice President of Education at SJH Hamilton. He has held leadership positions in UGME and PGME at McMaster including the inaugural Clerkship Director of Medical Specialties Selectives, Program Director of Nephrology, Fellowship Director of 4 fellowships including AFC Director of Solid Organ Transplantation. In these roles, he has been recognized nationally for innovation in education. Dr. Gangji has also been pivotal in redesigning how education in Medical Specialties is organized and delivered.
At a national level, Dr. Gangji is the Chair, Canadian Society of Transplant in Education and hold numerous leadership positions at the Royal College with a special interest in the area of AFCs.
Internationally, Dr. Gangji is also involved in the promotion and delivery of education in global health settings and has been instrumental in the development of clinical programs in Guyana in the provision of kidney care and in promoting medical training in Canada.
2021 Education Scholarship Fund
2021 Winners:
Dr. Oren Levine
Virtual strategies for teaching communication skills to residents for difficult conversations in oncology
Dr. Leslie Martin
How trainees use entrustable professional activities for learning: A cross-center comparison
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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)
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