Honours and Awards

Gillian Hawker Recipient of Premier's Research Excellence Award

Dr. Gillian Hawker, HPME Associate Professor, is one of 34 Ontario researchers to earn a Premier's Research Excellence Award (PREA). Thirty of the awards went to University of Toronto faculty members. PREA recipients secure up to $100,000 from the province and a grant of up to $50,000 from their university.

Dr. Hawker's research interests include clinical epidemiology, health services research, and health promotion on osteoporosis, rheumatology, osteoarthritis, total joint replacement, disability and musculoskeletal disorders.

She recently published a clinical prediction rule to identify premenopausal women with low bone mass [Osteoporos Int. 2002; 13(5): 400-6.] and a qualitative study on elderly arthritis patients' unwillingness to consider total joint arthroplasty surgery [Med Decis Making 2002; 22(3): 272-8.].

In May 2002, Dr. Hawker was honoured with the Eugenie Stuart Award for Best Instructor (jointly, with Mary Hannah) based on student evaluations and contribution to the HPME teaching program as assessed by the Department's Curriculum Committee.

HPME Researcher Funding Announced in 2001-2002

(* denotes HPME faculty including core faculty, and cross-appointed and status-only members)

Canadian Health Services Research Foundation

• Malcolm Anderson, Karen Parent*. The Team Approach to Hospice/Palliative Care: Integration of Formal and Informal Care at End-of-Life.
• Georgina Feldberg, Peter C. Coyte*. Cross sectoral accountability for chronic patients.
• Denise Guerriere*, Peter C. Coyte*. Determinants and outcomes of privately and publicly financed home-based nursing.
• Thomas Rathwell, Raisa Deber*. Building a public dialogue framework for defining the Medicare basket.
• Linda O'Brien-Pallas*, Gail Tomblin Murphy. Health human resource modeling: challenging the past, creating the future.
• Colleen Flood*, Carolyn Tuohy. Defining the Medicare basket.

Canadian Institutes of Health Research

• Ungar W.* Pharmaceutical cost-sharing and health outcomes in children with asthma (career award).
• Brien J, Bocking A, Koren G, Matthews S, Reynolds J, Rovet J, Ungar W*. Fetal alcohol syndrome: Oxidative stress and innovative therapies (new emerging team award).
• Leslie L. Roos, Raisa Deber*. Exploring alternative funding models for Canadian health care.
• Geoffrey M. Anderson*, Susan E. Bronskill*. A methodological framework for improving the measurement of hospital outcomes.
• Susan J. Bondy, Veronique Benk*, Lawrence Paszat*, Rebecca Wong et al. A prospective study of intervals and delays in the diagnosis of cancer.
• Ian G. Naglie*, Murray D. Krahn* et al. Canadian Alzheimer's Disease quality of life study.
• Ann Elizabeth Tourangeau, Linda O'Brien Pallas*, Jack Tu* et al. Nursing and other determinants of hospital level outcome such as 30-day mortality and readmission rates.
• Lorelei A. Lingard, G. Ross Baker*, John M. Bohnen* et al. Team talk: An intervention to structure information sharing and promote patient safety in the operating room.
• G. Ross Baker*, Peter Norton. Adverse events in Canadian hospitals. [CIHI/CIHR]
• The Government of Canada established the Canada Research Chairs (CRC) Program in 2000 - providing it with $900 million to support the establishment of 2,000 Canada Research Chair positions at universities across the country by 2005. The following Graduate Department of HPME faculty received Canada Research Chairs in the November 29, 2001 announcement.

  Tier 1 Canada Research Chairs:
  Claire Bombardier* - Health Services Research
  Alex Jadad* - eHealth Innovation

  Tier 2 Canada Research Chairs:
  Brian Feldman* - Childhood Arthritis

• Peter C. Coyte* (Department of HPME) and Patricia McKeever (Faculty of Nursing) were awarded a Strategic Research Training Grant by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. The Health Care, Technology, and Place Program will offer talented doctoral and post-doctoral trainees from HPME and other departments the opportunity to develop transdisciplinary research skills and knowledge.
• Sharon Straus (PI), Dave Davis*, Michael Evans, Vivek Goel*, Andreas Laupacis*, Jack Tu*. Randomized trial of an internet-based evidence-based medicine continuing education intervention.
• Ian Tannock. Strategies to improve the effects of chemotherapy for solid tumours.
• Veronique Benk*, Lawrence Paszat*, Rebecca Wong* et al. Delays in radiation therapy for cancer: A prospective study.
• Murray Krahn* (PI), Shabbir Alibhai, Eric Holowaty, Marilyn Irvine, Neil Klar, Audrey Laporte*, Muhammad Mamdani, Gary Naglie*, Paul Ritvo, John Trachtenberg. Population-based estimates of cost and quality of life in prostate cancer.
• Paula Rochon*. Pharmacological Management of Chronic Diseases in Older Adults.
• Paula Rochon* (PI), Geoff Anderson*, Peter Austin, Susan Bronskill*, Jerry Gurwitz, Barbara Liu, Muhammad Mamdani. A comparison of adverse drug events associated with atypical and typical neuroleptic therapy in long-term care.
• Carolyn Dewa* (PI), Paula Goering*, Jeffrey Hoch. The impacts of drug benefit copayment on the guideline recommended use of antidepressants.
• Raisa Deber* (PI), Owen Adams, Glenn Brimacombe, Molly Verrier. Public and private in financing and delivery: Trends in private delivery of health care services in key sectors, and its relationship to that sector's market structures and financing.
• Mary Hannah*. The early external cephalic version trial.

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