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Awards & Recognition

ICES brings together the best and brightest scientific talent. Many of our scientists are internationally recognized in their fields and receive national and international awards and recognition for their important work.

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King Charles III Coronation Medal

2025: Awarded to Dr. Diane Lougheed by the Office of the Secretary for the Governor General of Canada.

Graham Farquaharson Knowledge Translation Fellowship

2022: Awarded to Dr. Imaan Bayoumi by the PSI Foundation. This fellowship provides salary support for a new investigator who has demonstrated the ability to successfully complete high impact knowledge translation research. Read more.

Kingston Health Sciences Centre Exceptional Healer Award

2018: Awarded to Dr. Maria Velez. The award honours health professionals who are innovative in their approaches to patient care and who consistently demonstrate patient and family-centred care in their practice by being approachable, empathetic, collaborative and respectful. Read more.

Health System Impact Fellowship

2017-2019: Awarded to Dr. Morgan Slater by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research for the project "Managing chronic pain in primary care – linking clinical and administrative data to identify opportunities for quality improvement."

Medical Staff Association Outstanding Clinician of the Year Award

2017: Awarded to Dr. Chris Simpson by the Hotel Dieu Hospital and Kingston General Hospital's Medical Staff Association. This award honours medical staff members in good standing with five or more years of service who demonstrate outstanding contributions to the medical community.

Walter Rosser Chair in Family Medicine Research

2017: Dr. Richard Birtwhistle was named to the Chair by Queen's University. The Chair is for a five-year appointment beginning January 1, 2017.

Mihran Basmajian Award for Excellence in Health Research

2016: Awarded to Dr. Amer Johri for having made the most meritorious contributions to health research during the previous year or several years.

2016-19 Early Researcher Award

2016-19: Early Researcher Award (ERA), Ministry of Research and Innovation, awarded to Dr. Amer Johri. The ERA supported the Vascular Imaging as a Barometer for Early Detection of Heart Disease (VIBE Program). The goal of the program was to validate the concept that vascular ultrasound can be used as an early warning “barometer” for vulnerable plaque.