Past Award of Clinical Excellence recipients:

• 2022 Recipient: Dr. Madeline Li (ON)

• 2017 Recipient: Dr. Steven Simpson (BC)

• 2016 Recipient: Sarah Sample (BC)

• 2015 Recipient: Sheila Damore-Petingola (ON)

• 2014 Recipient: Dr. Marc Hamel (QC)

• 2012 Recipient: Dr. Michael Speca (AB)

• 2011 Recipient: Dr. Maru Barrera (ON)

• 2010 Recipient: Dr. John Robinson (AB)

This award shall be made to recognize a CAPO member who, in the opinion of the Awards Committee and the Board of Directors of the association, have made a significant contribution to education and training in psychosocial oncology in Canada. The recipient of this award must meet the following criteria:

1. Whose influence on psychosocial education and training has been exercised through excellence and/or leadership as a teacher;

2. Whose work as a teacher, supervisor and/or administrator has influenced the methods and settings utilised in education and training, in ways of significant benefit to psychosocial oncology;

3. Whose scholarship or accomplishments in education and/or training has brought about changes or enhanced the knowledge base in these areas.

4. Award recipients must register and attend the annual CAPO conference (in person or virtually) in order to be eligible.

In whatever form the individual’s contributions are regarded as distinguished, the impact of the work shall have been on education and training in psychosocial oncology in Canada.

The 2024 CAPO Award Recipient for Education Excellence is Andréa Maria Laizner, RN, PhD

Andréa Maria Laizner, RN, PhD is a Nursing Practice Consultant for Research in the Nursing Directorate of the McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. She is an Assistant Professor (part-time) in the Ingram School of Nursing, McGill University as well as is an Associate Investigator in the Cancer Research Program of the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre. Her vast career in nursing, both in academic hospital settings and in the community, sparked a life-long interest in psychosocial oncology, clinical practice, education, administration and research. As a result, she mentors students, nurses and other clinicians in research related activities and knowledge translation. Believing in networks, her collaborations focused on family functioning, comfort and symptom management in vulnerable populations, using different interventions such as providing information and/ or stress reduction strategies either in-person, via information booklets or via web-based applications or the Opal patient-facing app.

Dr. Laizner’s contributions included volunteer work with a support group for parents with cancer and their school-aged children. This led to being a co-author on the Canadian Association for Psychosocial Oncology’s Start the Talk Modules for health care workers and teachers. Subsequently, she ensured that these modules were adapted for patients and their families in English and French. She collaborated with community organizations such as Leucan, and currently with Cedars CanSupport at the McGill University Health Centre, as well as with the Canadian Association of Nurses in Oncology and Canadian Association of Psychosocial Oncology. These endeavors have led to numerous conference presentations and publications.

Past Award of Education Excellence recipients:

4. CAPO Award for Research Excellence

This award supported by CAPO shall be made to recognize a member who, in the opinion of the Awards Committee and the Board of Directors of the association, has made a significant research contribution to Psychosocial Oncology. The recipient of this award must meet the following criteria:

1. Whose research has substantially enhanced the knowledge base of psychosocial oncology;

2. Whose research demonstrates originality and innovative contributions to the field, or to the research method;

3. Whose research has been supported by national research funding agencies, and has been frequently published in peer-reviewed journals;

4. Who demonstrates evidence of dissemination at national and/or international conferences.

5. The nomination will be strengthened by one or more of the following:

6. The recipient of the award has

   • served on provincial, national, or international research committees;

   • served as a grants reviewer and/or panel chair for provincial and national research funding agencies;

   • served as a peer reviewer of research manuscripts for oncology journals; and

   • assisted in the organization of research conferences by serving as a conference chair, member of the scientific committee, and/or abstract reviewer.

   • Award recipients must register and attend the annual CAPO conference (in person or virtually) in order to be eligible.

The 2024 CAPO Award Recipient for Research Excellence is Dr. Sylvie Lambert

Sylvie Lambert, RN, PhD is Associate Professor and Associate Director of Research at the Ingram School of Nursing, McGill University; and Scientist at the St. Mary’s Research Centre, Montreal. Sylvie is also the recipient of a CIHR Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) in self-care and illness self-management support interventions. In this position, the objectives of her research programs include: 1) developing and evaluating low-cost self-care and illness self-management interventions that are sustainable to enhance translation in practice, 2) implementing real-world patient-reported outcome (PRO) and caregiver-reported outcome (CRO) screening programs, 3) adapting evidence-based self-management interventions to the needs of patients from a culturally and linguistically diverse background and their caregivers, and 4) using advanced psychometric approaches for improving the precision and efficiency of outcome evaluations. One of Dr Lambert’s key study is TEMPO, which stands for a tailored web-based self-management and physical activity program for men with prostate cancer and their caregivers. A pan-canadian trial of TEMPO was recently funded by CIHR. She is also leading e-IMPAQc for the electronic implementation of patient-reported outcomes across the cancer continuum in Quebec. Sylvie has received national and international recognition of her work in the form of several awards and prizes.

Past Award of Research Excellence recipients:

• 2023 Recipient: Dr Sophie Lebel (ON)
• 2022 Recipient: Dr. Fiona Schulte (AB)

• 2021 Recipient: Dr. Shane Sinclair (AB)

• 2020 Recipient: Dr. Jennifer Jones (ON)

• 2019 Recipient: Dr. S. Nicole Culos-Reed (AB)

• 2018 Recipient: Dr. Doris Howell (ON)

• 2017 Recipient: Dr. Gary Rodin (ON)

• 2015 Recipient: Dr. John Oliffe (BC)

• 2014 Recipient: Dr. Tom Hack (MB)

• 2013 Recipient: Dr. Keith Wilson (ON)

• 2012 Recipient: Dr. Kerry Courneya (AB)

• 2011 Recipient: Dr. Elizabeth Maunsell (QC)

• 2010 Recipient: Dr. Linda Carlson (AB)