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Recognition and Awards

ANNUAL AWARD WINNERS

SACME members are eligible to receive various awards and grants. The winners of these awards and grants are listed on this page.  For more information, including selection criteria or application procedures, visit the SACME Grants or Committees.


Phil R. Manning Research Award in Continuing Professional Development

This grant is made in the name of Phil R. Manning, MD, Paul Ingalls Hoagland Hastings Professor of Continuing Medical Education and Professor of Medicine Emeritus at the Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California. Dr. Manning was the founding president of the Society for Academic Continuing Medical Education, formerly the Society of Medical College Directors of Continuing Medical Education. He was a governor, regent, and vice president of the American College of Physicians and served on several educational committees of the American College of Cardiology. Dr. Manning was co-editor of Medicine: Preserving the Passion in the 21st Century and authored many peer-reviewed publications. Read more here.

Mazmanian Research Fellowship Award

The Society for Academic Continuing Medical Education (SACME) is committed to promoting value in patient care and health of the public through scholarship that advances the theory, delivery, and evaluation of continuing medical and interprofessional education. To support this mission, SACME has created the Paul E. Mazmanian, PhD Research Fellowship Award for Early Career Investigators (hereafter the Mazmanian Research Fellowship Award). Read more here.


Distinguished Service in Continuing Medical Education

Given to a SACME member who has made outstanding contributions to continuing medical education over an extended period (fifteen years or more is the suggested guide), or who has developed an outstanding innovation in continuing medical education representing an important advance in CME.


2025: Betsy Williams, PhD, MPH, FSACME
2024: Todd Dorman, MD, FCCM, FSACME

2023: Gabrielle Kane, MB, EdD, FRPCE

2022: Don Moore, PhD

2021: Mary Turco, EdD

2020: Joyce Fried
2019: Julie White, MS, CHCP
2018: David Price, MD
2017: Curtis Olson, PhD 
2016: Moss Blachman, PhD
2015:  Nancy Davis, PhD
2014:  Barbara Barnes, MD, MS
2013:  Leanne Andreasen, MBA
2012:  no recipient named
2011:  Jack R. Kues, PhD
2010:  Paul Mazmanian, PhD
2009:  Dave Davis, MD
2008:  R. Van Harrison, PhD
2007:  Dale Dauphinee, MD
2006:  Gloria Allington, MSEd
2005:  Nancy Bennett, PhD
2004:  Dennis Wentz, MD
2003:  Robert J. Cullen, PhD
2002:  Ruth M. Glotzer, MEd
1997-2001:  no recipients named
1996:  George T. Smith, MD, MS
1995:  Martin D. Shickman, MD
1994:  Julian S. ("Dutch") Reinschmidt, MD
1993:  Phil R. Manning, MD
1992:  Malcolm S.M. Watts, MD



Dave Davis Research in Continuing Medical Education Award

This award is given to a SACME member who has made outstanding contributions to research in continuing medical education.


2025: Tanya Horsley, PhD, MBA
2024: Ajit Sachdeva, MD, FACS, FRCSC, FSACME

2023: Sophie Soklaridis, PhD

2022: David Wiljer, PhD

2021: Sanjeev Sockalingam, MD, MHPE

2020: Suzanne Murray
2019: Vernon Curran, PhD

2018: Ronald Cervero, MA, PhD
2017: Betsy White Williams, PhD, MPH
2016: Craig Campbell, MD
2015:  no recipient named
2014:  Curtis Olson, PhD
2013:  David A. Davis, MD
2012:  no recipient named
2011:  Don Moore, PhD
2010:  Ed Dellert, MBA and CHEST
2009:  Joan Sargeant, PhD
2008:  Jacqueline Wakefield, MD
2007:  no recipient named
2006:  Paul Mazmanian, PhD
2005:  Karen Mann, MD
2004:  Linda Casebeer, PhD
2003:  R. Van Harrison, PhD
2002:  John T. Parboosingh, MD
1996-2001:  no recipients named
1995:  Jocelyn M. Lockyer, PhD
1994:  Robert D. Fox, EdD
1993:  David A. Davis, MD
1992:  no recipient named

EXCELLENCE IN SERVICE TO SACME AWARD

This award is given to a SACME member who has significant and sustained contributions to the organization over an extended period, including leadership roles, committee work, or other forms of active participation that have had a lasting impact on SACME. This award was created in 2025 to celebrate the first annual Healthcare Continuing Education Professionals Day.


2025: Tymothi Peters


Barbara Barnes Keynote Speakers

March 17, 2025
Advocacy in Leadership:  Speaking Truth to Power!
Constance LeBlanc, CCFP(EM), MAEd, CCPE, MBA

March 11, 2024

Expanding the CPD Ecosystem through Equity and Inclusion

Sophie Soklaridis, PhD


March 15, 2023

If You Do What You’ve Always Done, You’ll Always Get What You’ve Always Got: Toward More Purposeful, Intentional and Collaborative Alignment of CPD in Health Care Enterprises

David Price, MD, FAAFP, FACEHP, FSACME


February 21, 2022

Black Butterfly Theorem: From Childhood Trauma to a Transcendent Healthful Self

Michele Harper, MD


February 24, 2021

Health Professions Education at the Crossroads

Julio Frenk, MD, MPH, PhD


February 20, 2020

Performance Improvement/Teaching/Faculty Development

Brian Hodges, MD, PhD, FRCPC


February 28, 2019

Continuum of Medical Education and Its Relevance to Faculty Development

Alison Whelan, MD


April 27, 2018

Advances in Interprofessional CPD:  Can we get it right?

Jeffrey Gold, MD, FACS


May 19, 2017

Towards a New Continuing Professional Development: Aligning CPD with Societal and Professional Needs

George E. Thibault, MD


2016

World Congress (no lecture)


April 30, 2015

Leading and Managing Change in CME/CPD

Deborah Sutherland, PhD


May 1, 2014

Evolution and Adaption in Education: Surviving the Impact of the Comet Headed Our Way

George C. Mejicano, MD, MS, FACP


April 11, 2013

The Future of CEHP:  Implications of the Shift to Improving Patient Care

Curtis Olson, PhD


March 31, 2012

New Perspectives on Safety and Better Practice

Matthew Weinger, MD



Paul Mazmanian Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions Award for Excellence in Research

The Paul Mazmanian Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions (JCEHP) Award for Excellence in Research recognizes outstanding original research contributions to the field of continuing professional development (CPD). This award has been named after Dr. Mazmanian for his influential contributions as a CPD scholar, and exceptional leadership as Editor-in-Chief of JCEHP (2000–2010).



2023    
Marie Loiselle, Carla Brown, Frederick Travis, Gregory Gruener, Maxwell Rainforth, and Sanford Nidich, “Effects of Transcendental Meditation on Academic Physician Burnout and Depression:  A Mixed Methods Randomized Controlled Trial”

2022
Banan Mukhalatati, Ahmed Awaisu, Sara Elshami, Bridget Paravattil, Monica Zolezzi, Abu-Hijeh, Marwan; Moslih-Almoslih, Ayad; Carr, Alison; Bawadi, Hiba; Romanowski, Michael; Almahasneh, Randa; and Bacha, Rasha, “Assessment of Educational Needs and Design of a Preceptor Development Program for Health Professional Education Programs in Qatar.”

2021
Janet Alexanian, Ian Fraser, Orla Smith, and Simon Kitto, “Defining and Redefining Family Involvement in Practice: An Implementation Trial of a Locally Adaptable Patient-Centered Professional Development Tool in Two Ontario Intensive Care Units.”

2020
Heather Armson, Stefanie Order, Jacqueline Wakefield, and Kevin W. Eva, “Toward Practice-Based Continuing Education Protocols: Using Testing to Help Physicians Update their Knowledge.”

2015
Lisa Cicutto, RN, PhD, ACNP (Cert), CAE; Meg B. Dingae, MHSA, CCMEP; and Esther L. Langmack, MD, FCCP, CCMEP for their article Improving Asthma Care in Rural Primary Care Practices: A Performance Improvement Project.

2014
Cicutto, L, Dingae, MB, Langmack, EL Improving Asthma Care in Rural Primary Care Practices: A Performance Improvement Project

2013
Durning, SJ, Ratcliffe T, Artino AR Jr., et al How is clinical reasoning developed, maintained, and objectively assessed? Views from expert internists and internal medicine interns

2012
Jane Belland Karwoski, Revisiting the educationally influential physician: Development of a simplified nomination form

2011
Timothy Shaw, Andrea Long, Sanjiv Chopra, and Price B. Kerfoot, Impact on clinical behavior of face-to-face continuing medical education blended with online spaced education: a randomized controlled trial

2010
Joan Sargeant, Tanya Hill, and Lynn Breau, Development and Testing of a Scale to Assess Interprofessional Education (IPE) Facilitation Skills

2009
Réjean Laprise, Robert Thivierge, Gilbert Gosselin, Maja Bujas-Bobanovic, Sylvie Vandal, Daniel Paquette, Micheline Luneau, Pierre Julien, Serge Goulet, Jean Desaulniers, and Paule Maltais, Improved cardiovascular prevention using best CME practices: a randomized trial

2008: no recipient named

2007
Kane GM. Step-by-step: a model for practice-based learning. J Contin Educ Health Prof 2007 Fall;27(4):220-6.  Full Text

2006
Harrison RV, Standiford C, Green L, Bernstein S. Integrating education into primary care quality and cost improvement at an academic medical center. J Contin Educ Health Prof 2006;26(4):268–284.  Full Text

2005
Lockyer JM, Fidler H, Hogan DB, Pereles L, Wright B, Lebeuf C, Gerritsen C.Assessing outcomes through congruence of course objectives and reflective work. JCEHP 2005; 25(2):76-86.  Full Text 

2004
White MI, Grzybowski S, Broudo M. Commitment to change instrument enhances program planning, implementation, and evaluation. JCEHP. 2004Summer;24(3):153-62.  Full Text

2003
Wakefield J, Herbert CP, Maclure M, Dormuth C, Wright JM, Legare J, Brett-MacLean P, Premi J. Commitment to change statements can predict actual change in practice. JCEHP. 2003;23(2):81-93.  Full Text 

2002
Casebeer L, Bennett N, Kristofco R, Carillo A, Centor R. Physician Internet medical information seeking and on-line continuing education use patterns.JCEHP. 2002(1);22:33-42.  Full Text 

2001
Tipping J, Donahue J, Hannah E. Value of unstructured time (breaks) during formal continuing medical education events. JCEHP 2001;21(2):90-96.  Full Text

2000
Grzybowski S, Lirenman D, White MI. Identifying educational influentials for formal and informal continuing medical education in the province of British Columbia. JCEHP 2000(2);20:85-90.  Full Text

1999
Campbell C, Parboosingh J, Gondocz T, Babitskaya G, Pham B. Study of the factors influencing the stimulus to learning recorded by physicians keeping a learning portfolio. JCEHP 1999;19(1):16-24.  Full Text 

1998
Broclain D, Nivet-Carre D, Barbot J, Nory F, Bardelay G. Quasi-experimental study on the effectiveness of the readers' test in the medical journal La Revue Prescrire. JCEHP 1998;18(1):47-57.  Full Text

1997
Toews J, Lockyer J, Warnica W, Morgan J, Dawson J, Churchill-Smith T. A model continuing medical education program on congestive heart failure: An analysis. JCEHP 1997;17(2):106-113.  Full Text 

1996
Mann KV, Lindsay EA, Putnam RW, Davis DA. Increasing physician involvement in cholesterol-lowering practices. JCEHP 1996;16(4):225-240.  Full Text 

1995
Jennett PA, Scott SM, Atkinson MA, Crutcher RA, Hogan DB, Elford RW, MacCannell KL, Baumber JS. Patient charts and physician office management decisions: chart audit and chart stimulated recall. JCEHP 1995;15(1):31-39.   Full Text 


Fox Award for (Best) Research Presentation

The Fox Award honors the research of Dr. Robert D. Fox, University of Oklahoma, who has contributed greatly to the literature in the field of professional continuing education. Established in 2001, the Fox Award is presented for the best RICME presentation and is judged with respect to its methodology and impact or relevance to the advancement of the field of CME/CPD.


2025: Eleftherios Soleas
2024: Martin Tremblay and Morag Paton

2023: Morag Paton and Sanjeev Sockalingam

2022: Sophie Soklaridis

2021: Sharisse Arnold Rehring

2020: Meron Teferra

2015: Curt Olson and Sanjeev Sockalingam
2014: Tanya Horsley and William Rayburn 
2013: Betsy Williams and Harold Kessler
2012: Heather MacNeill
2010-2011: no recipients named
2009: Michael Allen
2008: Jocelyn Lockyer
2007: Todd Dorman
2006: Craig Campbell
2005: Joan Sargeant
2004: Tara Kennedy
2003: Michael Fordis
2002: Jacqueline Wakefield
2001: Michael Allen

SACME Award for Best Early Career Researcher

The SACME Award for Best Early Career Researcher is presented to the individual whose RICME presentation at a SACME Meeting is judged the best with respect to its methodology and impact or relevance to the advancement of the field of CME/CPD. Definition of early career: 1. Trainees of any kind (e.g., health professionals, MDs, Masters, PhDs); and 2. Those within 5 years of completing a terminal degree.

2025: Miranda McDaniel
2024: Shaheen Darani

2023: Kenya Costa-Dookhan

2022: Juliamaria Cormac-Medrano
2021: Morag Paton
2020: Dillon Welindt


SACME AWARD FOR BEST ORAL PRESENTATION

This award is presented for the outstanding oral presentation in the categories of program evaluation, evidence-informed perspectives and best practice at the annual meeting and is judged with respect to its contribution and impact on advancing continuing professional development.


2025: Martin Tremblay for "Advancing Healthcare Innovation: The Strategic Role of CPD"
2024: Holly Harris for "Co-producing Health Education Research: Working Equitably in a Hierarchical System"

2023: Melissa Kelly for "Multimodal Approach to Equipping Pathologists for a New Era of HER2 Classification in Breast Cancer"

2022: Sanjeev Sockalingam for “Adapting the Deteriorating Patient Simulation Method: Notes on the feasibility and acceptability of a virtual mental health simulation”

2021: David Wiljer for “Accelerating the Appropriate Adoption of AI in Healthcare through Building New Knowledge, Skills, and Capacities in the Canadian Healthcare Professions”

2020: Ruth Adewuya for “Assessment and Evaluation Session – Debrief Meetings? Ain’t Nobody Got Time for that Stuff”

SACME AWARD FOR BEST ORAL PRESENTATION/EARLY CAREER EDUCATOR

Introduced in 2023, this award is presented to the individual whose oral presentation in the categories of program evaluation, evidence-informed perspectives, and best practices at a SACME meeting is judged the best with respect to its contribution and impact on advancing continuing professional development. Definition of early career: (1) Training of any kind (e.g., health professionals, MDs, Masters, PhDs) and (2) Those within five years of completing a terminal degree.


2025: Victoria Bond for "Leading Wellness: How a virtual community of practice is supporting healthcare professionals who are developing and leading wellness initiatives"
2024: Zahra Hasan for "Promoting Compassion in Healthcare Ethics Consultation Education: A Framework to Approach Structural Stigma in Mental Health and Substance Use Health"

2023: Inaara Karsan and Tharshini Jeyakumar for “Design and Implementation of a CPD Education Intervention Toolkit for the ACCME”

SACME AWARD FOR BEST POSTER PRESENTATION

This award is presented to the individual whose poster presentation is judged best with respect to its impact or relevance to the advancement of the field of CME/CPD.

2025: Eleftherios Soleas for "Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare: A Self-Assessment Driven Approach to the Fundamentals"
2024: Shawna Novak for "Empathy, Equity, and Ultrasound: Enhancing CPD through Point-of-Care Training in Resource Limited and Conflict-Affected Regions"

2023: Mary Turco for "The Dartmouth Scholarship Enhancement in Academic Medicine (SEAM Awards: Igniting Health Professionals' Engagement and Professional Development through Investment in Academic "Dreams"

2022: Alison Freeland for “Efficacy and Success of Transition to Online eLearning of an Integrated Medical Psychiatry Collaborative Care Training Program” and James Macaskill for “Assessing Outcomes of Saskatchewan’s Practice Enhancement Program”

2021: Shaheen Darani for “Award -Training Corrections Officers to Better Meet the Mental Health Needs of Inmates”

2020: Melissa A. Kelly and Joseph Kim for “Integrating Systems-level Quality Improvements into a Longitudinal Immuno-oncology (I-O) Educational Strategy”

SACME AWARD FOR BEST POSTER PRESENTATION FOR EARLY CAREER EDUCATOR

This award is presented to an early career educator whose poster presentation was judged best with its impact or relevance to the advancement of the field of CME/CPD. Definition of early career: (1) Trainees of any kind (e.g., health professionals, MDs, Masters, PhDs); and (2) Those within 5 years of completing a terminal degree.

2025: Christina Kratlian for "The Power of Many: A Collaborative Approach to Advocacy in Pediatric Primary Care"
2024: Natalie Sanfratello for “Overcoming Barriers in Effective Treatment and Enrollment in Clinical Trials for Black and Underserved Patients with Multiple Myeloma – Incorporating the Patient Voice through Focus Groups”

OTHER AWARDS

2025: President's Meritorious Service Award presented to Laura Werts, Edeline Mitton, Branka Agic, and Martin Tremblay
2024: President's Meritorious Service Award presented to Robert D'Antuono, Morag Paton, and Vjeko Hlede. Special Strategic Advisor to the Society President: Joyce Fried

2023: President's Meritorious Service Award presented to Jennifer Reino and Edeline Mitton

2022: President's Meritorious Service Award presented to Karen Vu-Nguyen and Nathaniel Williams

2021: President's Meritorious Service Award presented to Tym Peters and Asha Maharaj

2016: President's Meritorious Service Award presented to Deborah Samuel and Ginny Jacobs

2016: Unsung Hero Award presented to Tym Peters and Greg Vannette

2015: President's Meritorious Service Award presented to Mila Kostic

2015: Unsung Hero Award presented to Joyce Fried and Pam McFadden

2014: President's Meritorious Service Award presented to Edeline Mitton and Moss Blachman

2012: President's Meritorious Service Award presented to Lois Colburn


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