Recipient institutions
| Royal Ottawa Hospital – Research Chair in Suicide Prevention | $100,000 | |
| Royal Ottawa Hospital – Prize for Mental Health Research | $100,000 | |
| The Ottawa Hospital– From the Military to the Healthcare Front Line | $42,128 | |
| Dr. Wayne Quan Award – Journal of Psychiatry & Neuroscience | $5,000 | |
| Carleton University – 2023 Challenge Conference | $10,000 | |
| Universities | ||
| Memorial University of Newfoundland | 6 | $27,000 |
| Dalhousie University | 5 | $25,000 |
| Université Laval | 7 | $27,500 |
| Université de Sherbrooke | 14 | $21,667 |
| Université de Montréal | 5 | $27,500 |
| McGill University | 8 | $25,600 |
| University of Ottawa | 5 | $27,500 |
| Queen’s University | 5 | $27,500 |
| University of Toronto | 10 | $27,500 |
| McMaster University | 6 | $27,500 |
| University of Western Ontario | 6 | $27,500 |
| Northern Ontario School of Medicine University | 4 | $25,300 |
| University of Saskatchewan | 4 | $25,276 |
| University of Alberta | 5 | $22,000 |
| University of Calgary | 5 | $27,500 |
| University of British Columbia | 10 | $27,500 |
| Total student grants (to 12 May 2023) | 105 | $420,766 |
Student recipients
Memorial University of Newfoundland
| Student | Title of research project | Faculty advisor |
| Shayan Azher | Small-molecule inhibitors for functional imaging of PD-L1 | Dr. Jeffrey Flemming |
| Justin Billard | Non-pharmacological interventions to support coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) patient recovery following discharge: a scoping review | Dr. Gillian Sheppard |
| Alicia Follett | Water vs air insufflation during colonoscopy: a randomized trial | Dr. David Pace |
| Katie Healey | Lower limb amputation in the general and diabetes populations: incidence, trends and mortality – a closer look at the true burden | Dr. Zaina Albalawi |
| Darian McCabe | Characteristics of children/youth in care receiving emergency mental health services | Dr. Robert Porter |
| Kyron Power | Induction of tTA-cfos transgenes by intracerebral injections of adeno-associated virus | Dr. Qi Yuan |
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Dalhousie University
| Student | Title of research project | Faculty advisor(s) |
| Laura Burge | Assessment of the stress reduction aspect of a multifaceted intervention to improve mental health and quality of life among prostate cancer survivors | Dr. Gabriela Ilie |
| Loukman Ghouti | Retrospective cohort analysis assessing hemodynamic changes in patients pre- and post-transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) using balloon-expanding valves (BEV) | Dr. Osama ElKhateeb |
| Andrew Harding | Reasons for and outcomes of pediatric cardiology referrals in Nova Scotia: an update | Dr. Andrew Warren |
| Olivia Piccolo | A population-based analysis of the social determinants of health and outcomes of pediatric patients with solid abdominal tumours in Canada: a report from CYP-C | Dr. Craig Erker Dr. Rodrigo Romao |
| Marika Schenkels | Ready, set, rehab! Cardio-oncology rehabilitation for pediatric xancer aurvivors | Dr. Scott Grandy |
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Université Laval
| Student | Title of research project | Faculty advisor |
| Karine Fortier | BIOCaPPE – GRéPEC: Étude de la relation entre biomarqueurs, facteurs environnementaux modifiables et cancer de la prostate | Dr. Vincent Fradet |
| Clara Guilbault | Revue de curriculums en douleur liée au cancer | Dr. Jean S. Bussieres |
| Johnny Hanna | ERG profile of patients with onset psychiatric diseases | Dr. Michael Maziade |
| Georges Kalloghlian | Identification de biomarqueurs de la progression du cancer de la prostate | Dr. Frederic Pouliot |
| Florence Paquet | SCICV: Un registre clinique canadien pour l’étude des pratiques de soins du cancer de la vessie | Dr. Michèle Lodde |
| Hubert Racine | Impact de la prise d’antibiotiques sur le microbiote intestinal et la réponse au BCG | Dr. Yves Fradet |
| Juliette Valois | SCICV : Un outil pour étudier la prise en charge du cancer infiltrant au Canada | Dr. Alain Bergeron |
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Université de Sherbrooke
| Student | Title of research project | Faculty advisor |
| Karl Bouchard-Locat | Évaluation de la qualité de l’acte: rétrospectif sur les éffets de la réhabilitation cardiaque post infarctus | Dr. Warner Mampuva Dr. Paul Farand |
| Jeremy Deschenes | Évaluation de la qualité de l’acte: rétrospectif sur les éffets de la réhabilitation cardiaque post infarctus | Dr. Warner Mampuva Dr. Paul Farand |
| Justine Desmarais | Mise à jour de la banque de données du Canadian Kidney Cancer Information System (CKCis) | Dr. Patrick Richard |
| Antoine Dupuis | Effect of digital PET imaging on the captation of pumonary nodules | Dr. Etienne Rosseau |
| Alexanne Dyotte | Evaluation of the quality of the procedure: retrospective on the effects of post-infarction cardiac rehabilitation | Dr. Warner Mampuva Dr. Paul Farand |
| Stephanie Faucher | Analyse des données COVID sur la santé psychologique des femmes enceintes au sein de l’étude MYRNA (Santé psychologique en grossesse et neurodéveloppement des enfants) | Dr. Annie Ouellet Dr. Larissa Takser |
| Eve Gauthier | Évaluation de la prise en charge des infarctus du myocarde avec élévation du segment ST au CIUSSSE-Fleurimont en 2022 | Dr. Simon Ferube |
| Alexandrine Germain | Faire toujours plus avec moins: comprendre la (sur)charge | Dr. France St-Hilaire |
| Justin Gervais | Correlation between clinical and histological margins during excision of melanoma or melanoma in situ and prognostic impact on patients | Dr. Elio Kechichian Dr. Carolina Lucena Fernandes |
| Imane Labzagui | Impact d’un guide pratique sur l’observance aux traitements locaux en eczéma chez une population pédiatrique | Dr. Elio Kechichian Dr. Carolina Lucena Fernandes |
| Hannah Dong-Khanh Nguyen | Painful ulcerative nodules with linear spreading | Dr. Elio Kechichian Dr. Carolina Lucena Fernandes |
| Polina Oliynyk | Mise à jour de la banque de données du Canadian Kidney Cancer Information System (CKCis) | Dr. Patrick Richard |
| Maude Philibert | L’étude CAN-B vise à évaluer l’impact de l’exposition prénatale au cannabis sur le neurodéveloppement fœtal des enfants jusqu’à 2 ans | Dr. Larissa Takser Dr. Annie Ouellet |
| Amanda Vignone | Emotional lexicon and chronic pain in adolescents | Dr. Sylvie Lafrenaye |
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Université de Montréal
| Student | Title of research project | Faculty advisor |
| Eloise Fortin-LaTour | Risque de suicide chez les patients LGTTq à l’urgence psychiatrique | Dr. Stephane Guay Dr. Robert-Paul Juster |
| Hugo Gelinas | Understanding the roles of myosin and septin in cytokinasis | Dr. Gilles Hickson |
| Matis Laliberte | Characterising the impact of senescent cells on cancer development | Dr. Francis Rodier |
| Etienne Plante | Mutation anslysis using circulating DNA in pediatric oncology | Dr. Vincent-Philippe Lavallee |
| Heloise-Mira Schurch | Différences sexuelles dans le syndrome de Gilles de la tourette | Dr. Marc Lavoie |
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McGill University
| Student | Title of research project | Faculty advisor |
| Liliane Amoura | Measuring and operationalizing youth service needs in integrated youth service models: a scoping review | Dr. Jai Shah |
| Lucy An | Evaluating the efficacy of Shp2 inhibitors in combination with MAPK inhibitors in Class 1 BRAF mutant tumours | Dr. April Rose |
| Abdullatif Hassan | Bioelectrical impedance analysis as a diagnostic and prognostic marker for LVSD | Dr. Jonathan Afilalo |
| Amir Razaghizad | Cluster analysis of CV phenotypes and SGLT2 inhibition in patients with T2D and CVD | Dr. Abhinav Sharma |
| Alba Sanchez-Allakhverdieva | Descriptive analysis on youth mental health services in ACCESS open minds hubs | Dr. Jai Shah |
| Priya Sarwal | Investigating the effects of adiponectin on macrophage polarization from macrophages in the unstable atherosclerotic diseased state | Dr. Stella S. Daskalopoulou |
| Shana Theodore | Perinatal maternal metal health during the COVID-19 pandemic | Dr. Eszter Szekely |
| Malick Turenne | Developing and implementing a core set of equity indicators to improve access to care in oncology | Dr. Melissa Henry |
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University of Ottawa
| Student | Title of research project | Faculty advisor |
| Sandra Bojic | Lipidomic markers of remote ischemic pre-conditioning in vasular cognitive impairment (TRIC-VCI) | Dr. Steffany A.L. Bennett |
| Lisa He | Preventing sedentary lifestyles among children born with congenital heart defects: feasibility study of physical activity after heart repair | Dr. Patricia Longmuir |
| Erica Shligold | Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on provision, quality and survival outcomes for in-hospital cardiac arrest resuscitation | Dr. Christian Vaillancourt |
| Harmy Thakar | Re-evaluating the ISTH definitions of major bleeding and clinically relevant non-major bleeding | Dr. Lana Castellucci |
| Teresa A. Gawargy | 99mTC pyrophosphate (PYP) imaging for diagnosis of transthyretin (ATTR) cardiac amyloidosis and prediction of outcomes | Dr. Katey Rayner |
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Queen’s University
| Student | Title of research project | Faculty advisor |
| Haya Abuzuluf | Real-world outcomes associated with immune checkpoint inhibitors in patients with metastatic head and neck cancer | Dr. Andrea Fung |
| Nilah Ahimsadasan | Effectiveness of a novel comprehensive training module for training cardiologists on the use of carotid point-of-care ulrasound (POCU) and on plaque detection and scoring | Dr. Amer Johri |
| Farzan Ansari | The impact of bedside automated external defibrillators on time to defibrillation in in-hospital cardiac arrests: a systematic review and meta analysis | Dr. Steven Brooks |
| Aditya Rao | Utility of artificial intelligence as a collaborative tool in the diagnosis of skin cancers | Dr. Fabio Ynoe de Moraes |
| Alexander Taylor | AED Safari: developing a comprehensive data collection tool to evaluate public access defibrillator installations | Dr. Steven Brooks Dr. Melanie Walker |
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University of Toronto
| Student | Title of research project | Faculty advisor |
| Philopateer Ataala | Compendium of results head and neck (CORE-HN) | Dr. Antoine Eskander |
| Monique Botros | Improving cancer screening amongst chronic stay patients with severe mental illness in specialized mental health settings | Dr. Tania Tajirian |
| Maryfrances Carton | Descriptive analysis of adults referred to the ANCL service | Dr. Natasha Fernandes |
| Justine Chang | Clinician attitudes and readiness towards using aI-based interventions in psychiatry | Dr. Andrea Waddell |
| Hillary Chan | Psychotherapy for ketamine’s enhanced durability in chronic neuropathic pain | Dr. Akash Goel |
| Omar Elbardisy | Novel ECG markers of electrical dyssynchrony to improve patient selection for cardiac resynchronization therapy | Dr. Vijay Chauhan |
| David Kim | Increasing goals of care discussion and documentation at a Canadian mental health hospital | Dr. Cristina De Lasa |
| Michal Moshkovich | Understanding the clinical implications of MLH1 methylation in endometrial cancer | Dr. Rachel S.Kim |
| Oishika Tarafdar | Fertility-sparing treatment for atypical hyperplasia and grade 1 cancer of he endometrium using progestin therapy: assessment of oncologic and reproductive outcomes | Dr. Sarah Ferguson |
| Elliot Wong | Transition from paediatric to adult care for youth with chronic, physical, developmental mental health condiitions: a national concensus-building multi-stakeholder initiative | Dr. Usa Charrette |
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McMaster University
| Student | Title of research project | Faculty advisor |
| Ahmed Aldarraji | Systematic review and meta-analysis of RCTs of GLP-1 receptor agonists | Dr. Filipe Cirne |
| Catherine Andary | Determining causative roles of the gut microbiome in unhealthy aging and frailty | Dr. Dawn Bowdish |
| Lloyd Fan | Methylation score for early onset coronary artery disease | Dr. Guillaume Pare |
| Jigish Khamar | Image-guided tumour ablation: five-year experience from a community hospital in Ontario | Dr. Sriharsha Athreya |
| Tahmina Shamsheri | Systematic review and meta-analysis of RCTs of GLP-1 receptor agonists | Dr. Filipe Cirne |
| Andrew Yang | Characterizing regions where glioma subtpes arise according to the WHO 2021 brain tumor classification system | Dr. James MacKillop |
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University of Western Ontario
| Student | Title of research project | Faculty advisor |
| Abiram Chandiramohan | Mechanisms of resistance to chemotherapy and radiation in HPV-positive head and neck cancer | Dr. Anthony Nichols |
| Jennifer Davis | Transcriptomic analysis of epithelial ovarian cancer using patient-derived three-dimensonal culture models of advanced disease | Dr. Trevor Sheperd |
| Hanna Hronyecz | Integrating harm reduction strategies into hospital setting for people who use methamphetamines | Dr. Cheryl Forchuk |
| Sajuran Pushpanathan | Head and neck cancer radiation treatment planning peer review quality assurance outcome in Windsor, Ontario: a single institution experience | Dr. Ming Pan |
| Neya Ramanan | Investigate clinical significance of grade in triple negative breast cancer | Dr. Caroline Hamm |
| Jeffrey Thevaranjan | Natural language processing of echocardiography reports to enrich administrative databases for clinical research | Dr. Pavel Roshanov |
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Northern Ontario School of Medicine University
| Student | Title of research project | Faculty advisor |
| Del John Houle | Substance use stigma among first responders and emergency department staff in a northern Ontario community: raising awareness and understanding barriers | Dr. Valerie Primeau |
| Alexandra Klem | Investigating the immunotherapy potential of PARP inhibitors | Dr. Hoang-thanh Le |
| Alyssa Labelle | Words still matter: embracing “PLEX” shouldn’t be this comPLEX in spinal cord injury | Dr. James Crispo |
| Mateo Newbery-Orrantia | Assessing implementation and effectiveness of community of practice ketamine-assisted therapy (CpP-KaT) to address healthcare worker burnout in rural Northern Ontario | Dr. Ryan Patchett-Marble |
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University of Saskatchewan
| Student | Title of research project | Faculty advisor |
| Chase Ellingson | Alcohol use and cardiovascular disease: knowledge translation and public health messaging | Dr. Payam Dehghani |
| Thomas Lowe | Incidence and predictors of left ventricular systolic dysfunction following acute coronary syndrome treated with perculaneous coronary intervention | Dr. Jay Shavadia |
| Carl Pinter | Outcomes of elderly patients with node positive colon cancer – a population based study | Dr. Shuhid Ahmed |
| Nima Toussi | Do rural patients with gall bladder cancer have a delay in diagnosis | Dr. Shahid Ahmed |
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University of Alberta
| Student | Title of research project | Faculty advisor |
| Mira Ahmad | Hypnosis to address suffering in women with chronic pelvic pain | Dr. Catherine Flood |
| Kyle Chankasingh | Improving response rates and psychological safety for medical student wellbeing surveys | Dr. Melanie Lewis |
| Reid Collins | Testing the validity of the updated sepsis definition in the Alberta population | Dr. Kimberly Macala |
| Brody Jackson | Predicting re-interventions in repaired aortic coarctation | Dr. Anoop Mathew |
| Tal Tanne | Impact of sex and transition to adult care on outcomes in patients with coarctation of the aorta | Dr. Anoop Mathew Dr. Vonder Muhli |
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University of Calgary
| Student | Title of research project | Faculty advisor |
| Mao Ding | Evaluation of competency in prostate cancer contouring for MR-guided radiotherapy using contouring training modules | Dr. Sangjune Lee |
| Whitney Ereyi-Osas | The association between adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and eating disorders: a meta-analysis | Dr. Sheri Madigan |
| Breanna Fang | Acute toxicity outcomes from salvage high-dose-rate brachytherapy for locally recurrent prostate cancer after prior radiotherapy | Dr. Kevin Martell |
| Brett Lavender | MBD patient database | Dr. Michael Monument |
| Katarina Zuwalt | Comparison of paediatric emergency department visits for eating disorders prior to and during the COVID-19 pandemic: a systematic review and meta-analysis | Dr. Sheri Madigan |
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University of British Columbia
| Student | Title of research project | Faculty advisor |
| Callahan Brebner | Intraosseous vascular access sites and outcomes | Dr. Brian Brunau |
| Quentin Michalchuk | Comparing transrectal and transperineal biopsies at VGH | Dr. Mannas Miles |
| Joshua Paterson | Improving community engagement of people who use drugs | Dr. M. Eugenia Socias |
| Laura Samson | An evaluation of the usage of Internet resources by patients with thyroid cancer and quality of YouTube videos on radioactive iodine therapy | Dr. Paris-Ann Ingledew |
| Elsie Jaixi Wang | FASD in BC – Caregiver expeiences in obtaining resources one-year post-diagnosis | Dr. Mandeep Mahal |
| Kelly (Xin) Wei | Creation of a p56 vulvar biopsy educational dataset to improve the detection of DVIN | Dr. L. Hoang |
| Chenille Wong | Metabolites in heart failure with preserved ejection fraction: a systematic review and meta-analysis | Dr. Simon Rabkin |
| Julia Handra | AI prediction of cardiac scarring from electrocardiogram | Dr. Roger Tam |
| Elaine Hu | Improving access to substance use care and supports: an overdose outreach team | Dr. Nadia Fairbairn |
| Gurpreet Sohi | Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder in BC – caregiver experiences in obtaining resources and supports for their child in the first year post-diagnosis | Dr. Burpreet Salh |
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