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.

Thank you to this year’s esteemed panel of judges, Ted Freedman; Ross Baker, Professor, IHMPE, University of Toronto, Maggie Keresteci, Executive Director, CAHSPR, and Andy Smith, President & CEO of Sunnybrook Health Centre with Rebecca Hart, Publisher, Longwoods Publishing.   

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. 

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.