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CAME Mid-Career Achievement Award

CAME Mid-Career Achievement Award

CAME Mid-Career Achievement Award

CAME Mid-Career Achievement Award 2026

CAME Mid-Career Achievement Award, MD: This award recognizes a CAME member who is mid-career (i.e., 10-20 years since their first faculty appointment) and who demonstrates a continued pattern of meaningful contribution to health professions education. CAME is delighted to present the 2026 CAME Mid-Career Achievement Award, MD, to Dr. Lara Cooke, University of Calgary.

Dr. Cooke is a Professor of Neurology at the Cumming School of Medicine (Calgary, Canada). She completed her undergraduate degree and a Masters degree in physiology at The University of Western Ontario, before starting medical training and a Masters in Medical Education at the University of Calgary. She practices Headache Medicine and provides general, hospital-based and ambulatory neurology care at two Calgary hospitals and through outreach clinics designed to support to under-served populations in the inner city.

Outside of her clinical work, Dr. Cooke has been engaged in medical education, educational leadership, medical education research and innovation, and clinical leadership for the last twenty years. In January, she was appointed as the Associate Dean for Health Education Research and Innovation at the Cumming School of Medicine.

Dr. Cooke was a Clinician Educator at the RCPSC for over a decade where she co-authored early editions of the CanMEDS Communicator Role and policy papers that led to the advent of Competence by Design. In Calgary, she has served in a variety of educational and clinical leadership roles including residency program director, Assistant Dean of Faculty Development, and Associate Dean of CME, and Section Head of Neurology. In her new role, she has been tasked with building the Centre for Research and Innovation in Health Sciences Education (RIHSE). Her research, teaching, and educational and clinical leadership have been recognized locally, nationally, and internationally through awards from the Provincial Association of Residents of Alberta, numerous UME teaching awards and PGME mentorship awards, the Foothills Medical Staff Association Physician of the Year Award, the American Academy of Neurology AB Baker Award for residency education, the Nadia Mikhail award for contributions to medical education from the Canadian Association of Interns and Residents, the AFMC award for achievement in Faculty Development, and the Medical Council of Canada Outstanding Achievement in the Assessment of Clinical Competence.

CAME Mid-Career Achievement Award, PhD: This award recognizes a CAME member who is mid-career (i.e., 10-20 years since their first faculty appointment) and who demonstrates a continued pattern of meaningful contribution to Health Professions Education. CAME is delighted to present the 2026 CAME Mid-Career Achievement Award, PhD, to Dr. Rola Ajjawi, University of British Columbia.

Dr. Rola Ajjawi is a Medical Education Research Professor. She studied physiotherapy and became a clinical teacher before completing a PhD in health professions education examining how clinical reasoning is learned and communicated in practice. She leads several programs of research into feedback and workplace learning cultures, student failure and success, and latterly belonging and well-being in health professions education. Her research has attracted over $2.8 million in funding. Rola became Editor-in-chief of the journal Medical Education in 2026 and chairs the International Association for Health Professions Education (AMEE) Research Committee. She was awarded a Karolinska Institutet Fellowship in 2021 for excellence in medical education research. Dr. Ajjawi’s research seeks to create learning environments that support health professional trainees to succeed. She interested particularly in the messiness of practice and workplace learning, examining how supervision can be embedded into clinical practices, how feedback processes unfold, and how to create equitable assessment in the workplace. Her research is strongly theoretical and qualitative and highly relational as she strives to reveal the taken for granted assumptions about, and hidden complexities of, practice.

CAME Mid-Career Achievement Award

Thank you to everyone who submitted nominations for this year’s Mid-Career Achievement Award. The submission period is now closed. We appreciate the time and effort that went into each nomination. Our adjudication committee is looking forward to reading the award packages! 

The Award

This award recognizes a CAME member who is mid-career (i.e., 10-20 years since their first faculty appointment) and who demonstrates a continued pattern of meaningful contribution to medical education. This award is not intended to be a lifetime achievement award, but rather a recognition for those who consistently are working towards ensuring best practices in medical education across the continuum of training.

There are two categories for this award: one for PhDs (or equivalent), and one for MDs. Nominees are expected to demonstrate that throughout their careers, they have shown a commitment to working towards excellence in medical teaching and/or scholarship, through contributions including (but not restricted to) mentorship, publications, policy and guidelines documents, innovative approaches to instruction, assessment methods and tools, curriculum design, and/or development of learning resources.

The award will be presented at the CAME Awards Cocktail Reception on Thursday, April 16, 2026  during the International Congress on Academic Medicine (ICAM) in Ottawa, Ontario.

Nomination Requirements 
Nominees must be CAME members. The initial nomination must be made by a CAME
member. Members currently serving on the CAME Executive, CAME Board of Directors
or the CAME Awards Committee are not eligible as nominees. Nominations must be
formally resubmitted each year to be considered.

Eligibility criteria:

Nominees must be mid-career, defined as 10-20 years since their first faculty appointment. Nominees must be current members of CAME. Current members of the CAME Board/Executive are not eligible for this award during their term.

Selection criteria:

The CAME Awards Committee will evaluate candidates based on the following criteria. There should be an evident commitment to improving medical education through a variety of means. The nomination package should clearly provide evidence of how the nominee has demonstrated continuity and meaningfulness in their commitments to the advancement of medical education. Nomination packages should provide specific evidence of the impact of the nominee’s activities over time. The impact of these contributions should be documented at least at the national level.

Selection Criteria

The CAME Awards Committee will evaluate candidates based on:

  1. Teaching activities
    • Quantity, breadth, quality
  2. Educational innovations / learning resources for learners and/or educators.
    • Degree of innovation, breadth of the innovations, acting as a catalyst, etc.
  3. Research activities in medical education
    • Funding: quantity, funds received, quality
    • Scientific publications
    • Scientific presentations
  4. Overall impact of the candidate’s activities
  5. Leadership and administrative roles in medical education

Submission requirements

Submissions must include:

  1. One nomination letter from a CAME member that includes specific and compelling details about the nominee’s achievements, qualifications, and contributions -in each of the above criteria- showcasing why they are a worthy candidate for the award.
  2. A maximum of three letters of support each providing persuasive and relevant information that validates and amplifies the nominee’s qualifications, achievements, and impact on the field of medical education.
  3. The nominee’s complete curriculum vitae.
  4.  A current head shot of the nominee.
  5.  A short bio of the nominee which will be circulated to membership and on social media should they be chosen as the 2026 Mid-Career Achievement Award winner.

Nominees are encouraged to contact their local CAME representative for support in the application process.

Please submit nominees for the 2026 Mid-Career Achievement Award via the nomination form.

Past CAME Mid-Career Achievement Award Winners

CAME Mid-Career Achievement Award 2025

CAME Mid-Career Achievement Award, MD: This award recognizes a CAME member who is mid-career (i.e., 10-20 years since their first faculty appointment) and who demonstrates a continued pattern of meaningful contribution to medical education. CAME is delighted to present the 2025 CAME Mid-Career Achievement Award, MD, to Dr. Jerry Maniate, University of Ottawa.

Dr. Maniate is an Associate Professor of Medicine and inaugural Vice Chair of Member Support within the uOttawa Department of Medicine. He is an EDIA Advisor and Researcher at the Bruyere Research Institute, and the founder and Executive Director of the Equity in Health Systems Lab (www.eqhslab.com). Dr. Maniate is a respected, dynamic, and transformative health system leader and educator. He has received national recognition for his advocacy for medical learners through the Resident Doctors of Canada (RDoC), the Canadian Medical Association (CMA) and was named as a Culture Changer by the Canadian Federation of Medical Students (CFMS). He has been recognized by numerous organization for his excellence.

He has been recognized as a member of the Society for Academic Continuing Medical Education (SACME), accepted as a Fellow of the American College of Physicians (FACP), received his designation as a Canadian Certified Physician Executive (CCPE) from the Canadian Society of Physician Leaders, and received his Certified Professional in CPD (Healthcare) – CPC(HC) credential as a recognition as a leader in Continuing Professional Development in Canada.

Informed by his active clinical practice at The Ottawa Hospital, Dr. Maniate identifies challenges to the learning and work environment and effectively collaborates with others to address them. His goal is to create a safe and supportive health system that creates an authentic sense of belonging for our patients (and their loved ones), our people (including learners, staff, physicians, and volunteers) and our population that we serve, utilizing a lens based on equity, accessibility, and social justice.

Dr. Maniate is well regarded for his expertise in health professions education, his work in equity, diversity, inclusivity, and accessibility (EDIA), his collaborative and inclusive leadership style, and his ability to bring diverse voices together to explore challenges and identify opportunities through co-design and partnership.

CAME Mid-Career Achievement Award, PhD: This award recognizes a CAME member who is mid-career (i.e., 10-20 years since their first faculty appointment) and who demonstrates a continued pattern of meaningful contribution to medical education. CAME is delighted to present the 2025 CAME Mid-Career Achievement Award, PhD,  to Dr. Tim Dubé, Université de Sherbrooke.

Tim Dubé, PhD is an Associate Professor in the Department of Family and Emergency Medicine at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Université de Sherbrooke. His research focuses on educational transformations, integrating social accountability into health professions education curricula, and advancing the social accountability of faculties and training programs. Tim has previously served as an Assistant Professor at the Northern Ontario School of Medicine University and McGill University. He brings extensive experience in distributed, community-engaged learning and competency-based medical education. An active leader in fostering a supportive research community, Tim holds various leadership roles and serves on the editorial board of the Canadian Medical Education Journal.

2024 CAME Mid-Career Achievement Award Winner

CAME Mid-Career Achievement Award: This award recognizes a CAME member who is mid-career (i.e., 10-20 years since their first faculty appointment) and who demonstrates a continued pattern of meaningful contribution to medical education. CAME is delighted to present the inaugural CAME Mid-Career Achievement Award to Dr. Miriam Lacasse, Université Laval.

Dr. Miriam Lacasse is a family physician and full professor in the Department of Family Medicine and Emergency Medicine at Université Laval. A graduate of Université Laval with a doctorate in medicine and a master’s degree in experimental medicine (2005), she also completed her residency in family medicine at Université Laval (2007). Following that, she finished the Academic Fellowship program at the University of Toronto (2009). In addition to her clinical work as a family physician at the Neufchâtel University Family Medicine Group and Chauveau Hospital of the Integrated University Health and Social Services Center of the National Capital, she is actively involved in clinical teaching for family medicine residents.

Since June 2022, she has been the director of the externship in the Doctor of Medicine program at Université Laval. Previously, she served as the evaluation coordinator for the family medicine program at Université Laval (2007-2022) and co-held the Chair of Leadership in Teaching in Health Sciences Education AMC-MD (2016-2021).