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.
2019: Article of the Year awarded to Dr. Gina Agarwal. Dr. Agarwal led the winning article: Evaluation of a community paramedicine health promotion and lifestyle risk assessment program for older adults who live in social housing: a cluster randomized trial, published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal.
2019: Awarded to Dr. Jennifer Watt for the paper "Comparative risk of harm associated with trazodone or atypical antipsychotic use in older adults with dementia: a retrospective cohort study."
2019: Awarded to Dr. Jennifer Watt for the best paper based on thesis in health services and healthcare research at the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation.
2019 – 2022: Awarded to Dr. Karen Okrainec.
2019: Awarded to Dr. Rick Swartz. Clinician-scientist awardees have demonstrated a commitment to building an influential program of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular health research relevant to the foundation’s mission.
2019: Awarded to Dr. Manav Vyas for "The association between immigration status and ethnicity, and stroke incidence, care and outcomes."
2019: Awarded to Dr. Tzu-Fei Wang by The Ohio State University.
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.
2019: Awarded to Dr. Jonathan Zipursky for "Perinatal maternal opioid use: exploring prescribing trends, and the maternal and neonatal safety of postpartum opioids using administrative data"
2019: Awarded to Dr. Raed Joundi for "Long-term trends in acute stroke care and outcomes: a population-based study using administrative data from 2003-2018."