In 2000 the Ted Freedman Award for Innovation in Education was created.
Ted Freedman was the surprised honoree of an annual award launched by Healthcare Quarterly in cooperation with Agilent Technologies. The award recognizes those people who inspire, advocate and enable education in healthcare. The winners are honoured with a self-portrait in bronze of the artist as a patient recovering from brain surgery by award-winning sculptor Amy Switzer of Barrie, Ontario.

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Award Winners:

Congratulations to Pierrette Price Arsenault, Tricia Beath, Tasleen Adatia, Lisa Bitonti-Bengert and Dr. Timothy Jackson from Ontario Health (Quality) for winning the 2020 Ted Freedman Award for Innovation in Education in recognition of their program:  The Ontario Surgical Quality Improvement Network Community of Practice - Improving Surgical Care in Ontario. 

The judges congratulate this program on having such a strong impact in a short time on the healthcare community and continuing support of hospitals plus its further potential for growth.

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2019 Winner:

Congratulations to the Ontario College of Family Physicians for winning the 2019 Ted Freedman Award for Innovation in Education in recognition of their program: Collaborative Mentoring Networks (CMN). The award was presented at CAHSPR 2019 in Halifax and accepted by Dr. Arun Radhakrishnan.

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Thank you to this year’s esteemed panel of judges, Ted Freedman; Matthew Anderson, President  & CEO of Lakeridge Health; Rhonda Cockerill, Acting Director of The Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation at the University of Toronto; and Rebecca Hart, Publisher, Longwoods Publishing. 

2018 Winner: 

The 2018 Ted Freedman Award was awarded to the Baycrest Centre for Learning, Research and Innovation in Long-Term Care. In recognition of: SOS Educational App for Healthcare: Improved Clinical Reasoning through Simulation & Game-Based Learning. The award was presented at CAHSPR 2018 in Montreal and accepted by Raquel Meyer (Shown here with Ted Freedman). 

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Thank you to the 2018 esteemed panel of judges, Ted Freedman; Matthew Anderson, President  & CEO of Lakeridge Health; Rhonda Cockerill, Acting Director of The Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation at the University of Toronto; Frank Markel, Executive Director, Canadian Association for Health Services and Policy Research; and Rebecca Hart, Publisher, Longwoods Publishing. 

The 2017 Award had Two Winners

The first 2017 Ted Freedman Award was awarded to the Department of General Internal Medicine, University of Toronto and, Department of General Internal Medicine, Mount Sinai Hospital. In recognition of: ‘Just-In-Time’ Procedural Simulation Program. The award was presented at CAHSPR 2017 in Toronto and accepted by Dr. Eric Kaplovitch. Click here to download the submission.  

The second 2017 Ted Freedman Award was awarded to the Association of Faculties of Medicine (AFMC), Association of Faculties of Pharmacy (AFPC), Canadian Association of Schools of Nursing (CASN) and Canada Health Infoway (Infoway). In recognition of: Digital Health Faculty Associations Content & Training Solutions. The award was presented at CAHSPR 2017 in Toronto and accepted by Anne Fazzalari. Click here to download the submission.  

An Honourable Mention goes to Silvia Lizett Olivares Olivares, Mildred Vanessa López Cabrera, Martha Ruth Loyola Segura, and Jorge Eugenio Valdez García at the School of Medicine at Tecnólogico de Monterrey. In recognition of: Competency-based Faculty Development Program for Clinical Educators. Click here to download the submission..

The 2013 Ted Freedman Award was awarded to Mount Sinai Hospital - Dr. Robert Maunder and Dr. William Lancee. In recognition of: The Stress Vaccine – Hospital Edition. Click here to download the submission.

The 2012 Ted Freedman Award was awarded to the Australasian College of Health Service Management, La Trobe University -School of Public Health and Human Biosciences, and Australian Centre for Leadership Development for their submission  - Clinical Leadership in Quality and Safety (CLiQS)

The 2011 Ted Freedman Award was awarded to the Canadian Patient Safety Institute and Canadian Health Services Research Foundation, (CHSRF) for their joint submission on Workshops for Effective Governance for Quality and Patient Safety.

2010 Ted Freedman Award for Innovation in Education - Sponsored by Accenture.
UBC's Distributed Medical Education Program as it addressed and continues to address the shortages of medical doctors in underserved regions and underserved populations. Using a Distributed Medical Education Program the program succeeded and in the process produces doctors educated in British Columbia who stay in British Columbia.
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2009 Ted Freedman Award for Innovation in Education - Sponsored by HP Canada.
The Project Steering Committee Leaders for the University of Toronto Council of Health Sciences & Toronto Academic Health Sciences Network for the Catalyzing and Sustaining Communities of Collaboration Around Interprofessional Care Project.
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2008 Ted Freedman Award for Innovation in Education - Sponsored by HP Canada.
Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre (TBRHSC) won for their submission, The Multi-site Telemedicine Cardiac Rehabilitation Program for Residents of Northwestern Ontario.

2007 Ted Freedman Award for Innovation in Education - Sponsored by Philips Medical Systems.
Provincial Health Services Authority of British Columbia (BC) and the University of BC School of Nursing won for their submission, A Collaborative Model to Introduce Healthcare Quality and Safety to Nursing Students.

2006 Ted Freedman Award for Innovation in Education - Sponsored by Accenture.
Co-Winners: The GTA Rehab Network and its partners, the Arthritis Society and the Total Joint Network, and the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO).
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2005 Ted Freedman Award for Innovation in Education - Sponsored by Compass Canada.
The NORTH Network for Technology-Enabled Distance Education for Health Professional : The North Way
Submitted by Lorraine Carter, Lisa Sarsfield, Lisa Ferraro, and Bob Lester in recognition of the development of NORTH Network

2004 Ted Freedman Award for Innovation in Education - Sponsored by Compass Canada.
"Accountability Agreement Simulation Exercise", Frank Markel, Adjunct Faculty in HPME and Executive Director of the Joint Policy and Planning Committee (JPPC); Dr. Brian Golden, Professor in the Rotman School of Management and cross-appointed to HPME; and Experience Point Consulting

2003 Ted Freedman Award for Innovation in Education - Sponsored by Microsoft.
The Dorothy M. Wylie Nursing Leadership Institute.

2002 the Ted Freedman Award for Innovation in Education - Sponsored by Philips Medical Systems.
Atlantic Health Sciences Corporation. In recognition of the development and provision of e-learning as an integral component of their Intranet
2002 Certificate of Excellence winners:
Saint Elizabeth Health Care for their project, “Personalized Health Education and Care Management”
Victorian Order of Nurses, Grey-Bruce Health Unit Saugeen First Nations for their project, “Integrated Health Promotion, Education, Screening and Primary and Secondary Prevention for Women in Rural Grey-Bruce Related to Cardiovascular and Cerebral Vascular Diseases.”

2001 the inaugural Ted Freedman Award for Innovation in Education:
"K.O.A.L.A.™ Computerized Obstetrics and Gynaecology Auto-mated Learning Analysis." Development Team: Dr. Michael Fung Kee Fung, Dr. Karen Fung Kee Fung, Dr. Mark Walker, Sergio Miguel, Chantal Lacasse.
2001 Certificate of Excellence Award: London Health Sciences Centre"s Multi-Organ Transplant Program "One Life…Many Gifts, a health education program."