Dr. Paul Kubes Named Canada's Health Researcher of the Year
November 16, 2011 - Congratulations to Dr Paul Kubes for being selected to receive the prestigious '2011 Canada’s Health Researcher of the Year' award from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR). The CIHR’s Canadian Researcher of the Year Prize is the CIHR's most prestigious prize in its annual Canadian Health Research Awards. For more information on Dr. Kube's achievement, please visit the following link.

CAG Receives RCPSC Innovation Award
September 2011 - CAG was recently selected to receive a 2011 Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada (RCPSC) Accredited CPD Provider Innovation Award for its practice audit program “Quality Program in Endoscopy (QP-E: colonoscopy)”. The review committee was impressed with CAG’s submission and the innovative educational tool developed which not only enhances life-long learning strategies of gastroenterologists but also contributes to the improvement of patient outcomes by addressing the issue of patient wait times. On behalf of the CAG and the QP-E Committee, Dr. David Armstrong received the award at the Royal College’s CPD Accreditation meeting in September. The award is a tribute to the work of many from the Practice Audit and Quality Groups over the last 10 years. Data from this initiative was published in the January issue of the Canadian Journal of Gastroenterology.

Dr. John Wallace Selected to Receive the "William Harvey Outstanding Contribution to Science Award"
April 2011 - Congratulations to Dr John Wallace for being selected to receive the "William Harvey Outstanding Contribution to Science Award", to be awarded during the William Harvey Research Institute’s 25th Anniversary Celebrations in London, UK, July 11-12, 2011.

Dr. Philip Sherman has been awarded the 2010 Shwachman Award
September 2010 - Congratulation to Dr. Philip Sherman (The Hospital for Sick Children) for being the recipient of the Shwachman award. The Shwachman Award is given by the North American Society for Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition (NASPGHAN) to a person who has made major, lifelong scientific or educational contributions to the field of pediatric gastroenterology, hepatology or nutrition in North America

CIHR announces 5-year funding for Upper GI and IBD Cochrane Groups
July 2010 - The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) recently announced $9.6 million in funding (http://www.cihr-irsc.gc.ca/e/41767.html) over the next five years to Cochrane Canada to help fulfill its mission of cultivating evidence-based health decision-making by promoting the use and accessibility of Cochrane Reviews. Two of the four Cochrane GI groups are located in Canada; the Upper GI & Pancreatic Diseases Group (http://fhs.mcmaster.ca/ugpd/index.html) coordinated by Dr. Paul Moayyedi and the IBD & Functional Bowel Disorder Group and the (http://www.cochrane.uottawa.ca/ibd/) coordinated by Dr. Brian Feagan.

Dr. David Armstrong & the CAG Quality Program in Endoscopy Group – Receive a Clinical Research Award from the American College of Gastroenterology (ACG)!
March 2010 - Congratulations to Dr. David Armstrong for submitting a successful application on behalf of the CAG Quality Program in Endoscopy Group (Alan Barkun, Catherine Dubé, Rob Enns, Don MacIntosh) to the ACG and receiving funding towards the project “A Pilot Study to Develop and Evaluate a Multifaceted Educational Tool for Use in a Prospective, Cluster-Randomized Trial of Practice Audit and Targeted Education for Endoscopy Quality Improvement”.

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