Michel Weber Education Award
Established in 2008, the Michel Weber Education Award recognizes a CPS member whose work in medical and/or inter-professional education has had a significant and positive impact on learners in child and youth health.
Recipients receive both a commemorative plaque and a cash award of $1,000 to be presented at the CPS Annual Conference. The recipient will have all appropriate travel expenses and conference registration covered and will receive complimentary CPS membership for one year.
Current recipient(s): Dr. Nicole Johnson
Dr. Nicole Johnson is receiving this Michael Weber Education Award because she personifies the values and skills it seeks to honour. Her exceptional mentorship and teaching skills have inspired learners and colleagues well beyond the clinical sphere. A professor of paediatrics at the University of Calgary, Dr. Johnson is a proud representative of future medicine.
First among Dr. Johnson’s many teaching skills is a gift for integrating theory and deep expertise on complex clinical topics with real-world applications and cases. Her guidance exemplifies health care team skills like communication, inclusion, empowerment and collaboration. In complex care settings, her teaching promotes empathy, shared decision-making and family-centred care.
Dr. Johnson has championed faculty education in anti-racism curriculum and teaching. She is leading research to develop an anti-racism curriculum in the Canadian context, and is a primary investigator on a project to advance health care equity by documenting basic social determinants of health in patient electronic records. She incorporated the concept of health equity into interviews for MD admissions at her institution and led development on a new mentorship program to address gaps in representation and support for Black medical students. She is also a part of this initiative at a national level as a race concordant mentor for residents across disciplines.
As a steadfast mentor and advocate for learner equity and well-being, Dr. Johnson fosters a culture of mutual respect and compassion. She empowers trainees to advocate for themselves and others, and mentors high school students who are interested in medicine. Her ability to integrate critical social issues into her work speaks volumes about her vision for a more inclusive and equitable health care system, especially in paediatrics.
About Dr. Michel Weber
Dr. Michel Weber was a passionate paediatric educator. His teaching focused not only on the needs of his students, but reflected his desire to teach in a relaxed atmosphere based on mutual respect of educator and learner.
Dr. Weber completed his paediatric residency at the Université de Montréal. In 1973 he began practicing paediatrics at le CHU Sainte-Justine. He quickly ascended the academic ranks to become assistant professor in 1979 and full professor in 1988. He sat on the Université de Montréal medical education committee for 18 years. As an educator, Dr. Weber believed in the value of teaching with case reports. He touched many different aspects of teaching including the pre-clinic phase of medical education, residency training and continuing medical education and wrote many books to help fill a void when there was a lack of French resource books.
Dr. Weber received many awards throughout his life in recognition of his important contribution to teaching.
Nominations
Candidates must:
- Be CPS members who are paediatricians or paediatric subspecialists.
- Be a Canadian resident.
- Have a long history of involvement in paediatric educational initiatives that may include teaching, curriculum development, evaluation, innovation, educational administration/leadership, publication of educational research, scholarly articles on education, development of educational policy, etc.
- Have a significant impact (national and/or international) in the delivery of education in paediatrics, and/or
- Have made an innovative educational contribution to paediatric education, and/or
- Have demonstrated sustained excellence in teaching.
Nominations must be resubmitted each year for consideration. Current CPS board and Awards Committee members are not eligible for nomination and cannot nominate candidates while serving their terms.
Submissions
Submissions must include the following:
- Letters of support from the nominator and seconder, both of which are CPS members, describing how the nominee meets the above criteria. The seconder must have been a recipient of the nominee’s educational contributions. Please note that the committee relies heavily on the nomination letters to make their decision.
- An updated, condensed curriculum vitae (maximum 20 pages).
Submit your nominations using the Submit Nomination button.
This award is sponsored by the University of Montreal’s Department of Pediatrics.
Past recipients
Dr. Tara Baron
Dr. Jennifer McLean
Dr. Karen Forbes
Dr. Olivier Jamoulle
Dr. Adelle Atkinson
Dr. Mia Lang
Dr. Susan Bannister
Dr. Élisabeth Rousseau
Dr. Mona Jabbour
Dr. Jean-François Lemay
Dr. Sarah E. Lawrence
Dr. Robert Hilliard
Dr. Jonathan Kronick
Dr. Anna Jarvis
Dr. Wade Watson
Last updated: May 21, 2025