Longwoods Publishing, in cooperation with the Canadian Association for Health Services and Policy Research (CAHSPR), presents this award yearly for an ‘Innovation in Education’ program that advocates and enables education in health, health services or health management at a healthcare organization.

Next year's submissions will be open to all healthcare organizations. The award will recognize those individuals or organizations that inspire, advocate and enable education in health, health services and healthcare management. A representative from the winning organization will be recognized during the 2020 CAHSPR Conference.

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.

Click here to download the submission.

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. 

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.

Click here for the history of the Ted Freedman Award and its past winners.