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. Tara Baron
Dr. Tara Baron’s career combining teaching with advocacy makes her a more than deserving recipient of the Michel Weber Education Award. She is a community paediatrician in Sudbury, Ontario, and a professor at the Northern Ontario School of Medicine University, where she has worked and taught since NOSM’s first students began their medical journey in 2005.
As director of a unique, innovative paediatric residency program and Associate Dean of CEPD, Dr. Baron developed and built on synergies between undergrad and postgrad training for a continuum of learners over many years. NOSMU’s program provides hand-on experience in outpatient consulting paediatrics, child mental health and behavioural management, developmental paeds, and caring for underserviced and marginalized populations, specifically Indigenous children on and off remote northern reserve communities. The academic half-day, virtual, and simulation curriculums she’s designed focus on social paediatrics: helping residents to become doctors who advocate not only for their own patients, but for children and youth across communities.
Dr. Baron has outreach clinics on Manitoulin Island, and worked with a local principal to start a school-based clinic at a local elementary school that now includes three schools. These clinics serve high-risk children and remove many barriers to care.
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.
- Have a long history of involvement in paediatric educational initiatives that may include teaching, curriculum development, evaluation, 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.
- An updated curriculum vitae for the candidate
Submit your nominations using the Submit Nomination button.
This award is sponsored by the University of Montreal’s Department of Pediatrics.
Past recipients
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 24, 2024