Education Excellence Award

The CAG Education Excellence Award is awarded to a member of the CAG who is a health professional and has made an outstanding contribution to education on a national or international basis. The contribution may be in the areas of direct teaching, research in education or development of educational programs.

2023 Award Recipient

Adriana Lazarescu, University of Alberta

Edmonton, AB

Application Process

Step One: Nomination - Deadline is August 31 11:59 PM ET

Please note that any submissions received after the deadline will be considered for the following year.

Nominators and Nominees must be CAG members in good standing for at least 3 years. Nominators are required to submit an online nomination form.

Submission Tips

PLEASE NOTE that you must submit the online application form INCLUDING uploading all required documents (in .pdf format), in one single step; you are not able to save your application and return to it at a future date, rather it must be completed all at one time.

During your completion of the nomination form, you will be asked to upload required documentation; you must have these .pdf documents prepared, finalized, and ready to upload when you begin the online form.
1. Letter of Support
2. CV of the Nominee

Upon successful submission, you will be redirected to a webpage that confirms the successful submission and within a short period of time, you will receive an email from the CAG National Office confirming receipt of your submission. If this does not occur, please contact the CAG National Office immediately.

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Submit Nomination

Step Two: Review

The CAG Education Affairs Committee will review the nominations and make recommendations to the executive, who will make the final decision regarding recipients. Selection will be based on the education records of candidates.

Step Three: Approval

Only the award recipient will be notified via email. The award is presented at CDDW™.

Previous Award Recipients


Year	Name	Location
2022	Maitreyi Raman	University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta
2021	Brian Yan	Western University, London, Ontario
2020	Jean-Eric Ghia	University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba
2019	Elena Verdu	McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario
2018	Catharine Walsh	University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario
2016	Alaa Rostom	University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario
2015	Sander Veldhuyzen van Zanten	University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta
2014	Nathalie Vergnolle	University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario
2013	Sylvain Coderre	University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta
2012	Connie Switzer	University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta
2011	Eldon Shaffer	University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta
2010	Norman Marcon	University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario
2009	David Armstrong	McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario
2008	Desmond Leddin	Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia
2007	Alan Thomson	University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta
2006	Lloyd Sutherland	University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta
2005	Kursheed Jeejeebhoy	University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario
2004	Ivan Beck	Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario
2003	Claude Roy	Université de Montréal, Montréal, Québec