CAEP Awards

CAEP President's Award
Honorary Life Membership
CAEP Special Merit Award
Dr. Helen Karounis Memorial Award for Professionalism in Emergency Medicine
The Penelope Gray-Allan Memorial CJEM Writing Award
Dr. Alan Drummond Advocacy Award
CAEP Award for Medical Journalism

CAEP President's Award

The CAEP Presidents award recognizes a CAEP member who has made a significant contribution to CAEP and its members. The individual will have demonstrated a commitment to the organization through activities that have had a direct impact on CAEP. Activities may include but are not limited to:

Board activities
Committee work
Involvement with working groups
Advocacy
Research
CME activities
International work

To be eligible the individual must:

Be a current member of CAEP
Have made a significant contribution to CAEP and its members
Has demonstrated a long term commitment to CAEP
Current CAEP Board Members and Officers are not eligible for the award

The CAEP Board of Directors review the nominations and select an individual for the award. The President's Award will be presented at the Annual Conference each year. A plaque, travel, conference registration, and accommodations for 2 nights will be provided to the recipient. The award will be presented at CAEP 2012 Award Ceremony. The nomination is to be submitted in writing with the signatures of three (3) CAEP members to the Head Office. Electronic signatures are accepted. The award is a lifetime award and as such a recipient may receive the award only once.

Deadline: March 1, 2012

Past Recipients
2011 - Grant D. Innes, MD, FRCPC, CCFP, ABEM
2010 - James Ducharme, MD, FRCPC, ABEM
2009 - Andrew Affleck, MD, CCFP(EM)
2008 - Timothy Allen, MD, FRCPC & Brian Rowe, MD, CCFP(EM)
2007 - Terry Sosnowski, MD, FRCPC
2006 (inaugural year) - Alan J. Drummond, MD, CCFP(EM)

Honorary Life Membership

In recognition of outstanding contributions and dedicated service to Emergency Medicine in Canada.

Past Recipients
David Walker, MD, FRCPC
Ronald Stewart, MD
Marilyn Li, MD, FRCPC (Peds)

CAEP Special Merit Award

In recognition of outstanding contributions and dedicated service to Emergency Medicine in Canada.

Past Recipients
Robert Johnston, MD, FRCPC

Dr. Helen Karounis Memorial Award for Professionalism in Emergency Medicine

In recognition of a physician, resident or staff, who upholds the highest standards of professionalism in Emergency Medicine. Qualities include but are not limited to: Altruism; integrity, honesty, and ethical conduct; caring and compassion; competence and knowledge of one’s limits; openness; responsibility to the profession and society; ability to work within a team; an excellent role model, inspiring others to also uphold the highest standards of Professionalism; an excellent, patient, and responsive teacher; demonstrates a thoughtful approach to career-life balance while encouraging others to do so as well.

Nominations will consist of a letter from a colleague or learner (who is a CAEP member), outlining the characteristics of the nominee that make them worthy of the award. Examples and details are encouraged. Multiple nomination letters for the same individual are acceptable.

The award recipient will receive a plaque, travel to the CAEP conference, complimentary conference registration, and 3 nights' of hotel accommodations. The award will be presented at CAEP 2012 Award Ceremony.

Deadline: March 1, 2012

Past Recipients
2011 - Norman Bartlett, MD, CCFP(EM)
2010 (inaugural year) - Luella Smith, MD, CCFP(EM), CCFP

The Penelope Gray-Allan Memorial CJEM Writing Award

This writing award is open to any FRCPC or CCFP Emergency Medicine resident in Canada and the prize will be awarded for a Humanities in Emergency Medicine article submitted to CJEM by a resident. The paper should be no more than two finished pages. All of the submissions will be judged by either the CJEM Senior Editorial Board (SEB), or a committee established by the SEB.

The winning paper will be published in the CAEP Annual Conference edition of CJEM. The author of the winning paper will receive a plaque, travel to the CAEP conference, complimentary conference registration, and 3 nights' of hotel accommodations. The award will be presented at CAEP 2012 Award Ceremony.

Papers may be submitted at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com:80/cjem

Deadline: January 1, 2012. Please address any questions to cjem@rogers.com

Past Recipients
2011 (inaugural year) - Michelle Tousignant, MD, CCFP

Dr. Alan Drummond Advocacy Award

The Dr. Alan Drummond Advocacy Award will be presented to a CAEP member who has demonstrated exemplary leadership, commitment and dedication to the cause of advancing the discipline at the regional, national or international level through advocacy efforts.

Award Criteria

CAEP shall be under no obligation to present the award annually; it may be awarded to more than one person in a given year.
Any possibility that an individual or organization could exploit winning a CAEP award for personal profit or commercial advantage will be taken into consideration.
Any CAEP member currently sitting as an elected officer, a member of the Board of Directors or the Public Affairs Committee is not eligible for nomination unless under exceptional circumstances.
Nominations may be submitted, accompanied by suitable documentation, by any CAEP member. Self-nomination is ineligible. Documentation will consist of a detailed letter of nomination with descriptions of advocacy activities accompanied by two letters of support and the nominee’s curriculum vitae. Nominations submitted electronically (e.g., fax or email) will be considered so long as the origin of the documentation can be verified. Handwritten submissions will not be accepted.
A nomination may be re-submitted in a subsequent year.

The Public Affairs Committee will evaluate all entries and make a recommendation to the CAEP Board of Directors.

The award shall take the form of an inscribed commemoration presented at the CAEP annual conference. Travel to the CAEP conference, complimentary conference registration, and accommodations for two nights will also be provided.

Deadline: March 1, 2012

Past Recipients
2011 (inaugural year) - Paul Parks, MD, FRCPC & Raj Sherman, MD, CCFP, CCFP(EM)

CAEP Award for Medical Journalism

The following guidelines and criteria will be the basis for judging submissions. CAEP reserves the right to withhold an award in any year if the judges determine that submissions are not of a sufficiently high standard in meeting the established criteria.

The primary focus of any submission must be emergency medicine. All entries will be judged on how well they tell an emergency medicine related story based on the following specific criteria:

Fairness and balance (capturing multiple viewpoints, quality and depth of research, accuracy)Timeliness (first on the story, immediacy, relevance to audience)
Insight (imparting clear perceptions of a complex situation; creativity in approach; human context or implications)
Impact (contribution to society and to public understanding of issue)
Quality of the writing and/or production (clear, compelling and interesting narrative; conciseness; accessibility; use of visuals and sound)

Reports from any journalistic media including print, TV, and Radio are eligible. The competition is open to journalists working for Canadian newspapers, magazines, television stations, radio stations, wire services and networks with the exception of specialty/trade publications. The competition is also open to freelance journalists whose submitted work has been published or broadcast in Canada.

The work must have been published or aired within the twelve months preceding the date of the CAEP annual conference when the award is presented.
The work must have been published, distributed, produced or aired by a Canadian media outlet.
The subject matter of entries must be focused on emergency medicine/emergency services.
Entries originally written, broadcast or produced in languages other than French or English are welcome. A transcript in either official language must accompany the submission.
Work appearing in specialty or trade publications is not eligible for submission.
Work must be aimed at the general public.
Teams or individuals may submit work.
The organizers reserve the right to disqualify any submission that is incomplete or that constitutes a real or apparent conflict of interest.

The Public Affairs Committee will evaluate all entries and make a recommendation to the CAEP Board of Directors.

Deadline: March 1, 2012

Past Recipients
2011 (inaugural year) - Jodie Sinnema