POWER Award
2019: Awarded to Dr. Catherine Birken for excellence in post-graduate teaching at the Hospital for Sick Children.
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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.
Pediatric Award of Excellence
2019: Awarded to Kimberley Widger by the Canadian Network of Palliative Care for Children and Canadian Hospice Palliative Care Association (CHPCA). The award recognizes the outstanding national contribution of a CHPCA member who exemplifies professional and personal commitment and achievement in the field of pediatric hospice palliative care within Canada.
CIHR Institute of Health Services and Policy Research Rising Star Award
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."
Thomas & Edna Naylor Memorial Award
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.
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.
American Academy of Pediatrics Special Achievement Award
2018: Ontario pediatrician of the year awarded to Dr. Jonathon Maguire for his exemplary leadership and service in studying novel approaches to children's health issues.
Harold A. Kaminetzky Prize Paper Award
2017: Awarded to Dr. Giulia Muraca by the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists to recognize the best article from a non‐U.S. researcher each year for the article “Factors underlying the temporal increase in maternal mortality in the United States,” which explained the rise in maternal mortality in the United States.
Journal of Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology: 1 of 20 most downloaded articles
2018: Dr. Sonia Grandi had one of the 20 most downloaded articles in the last two years in the Journal of Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology, "Hypertensive disorders in pregnancy and the risk of incident cardiovascular disease".
Faculty Teaching Award
2018: Awarded to Dr. Janice Tijssen by the Department of Paediatrics, Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, Western University.
CIHR Postdoctoral Fellowship
2018-2021: Awarded to Dr. Rachel Savage for "Growing old: Optimizing health and aging in immigrants with health services research"