The Bultz Best Student Poster Award* ($100 prize)
The Bultz Best Student Oral Presentation Award* ($100 prize)
The Donald Mayer Student Award ($1,000 travel/accommodation reimbursement to attend the conference PLUS a complimentary registration to attend the conference)
The purpose of this award is to recognize a student member of the Canadian Association of Psychosocial Oncology, for a poster presentation of a research project demonstrating excellence in psychosocial oncology research in Canada.
The award will be presented at the annual CAPO conference.
The project can be completed or the student can present data from ongoing research.
CAPO members are informed of the competition at the time of call for abstracts and asked to request consideration of their submitted abstracts. Scientists will judge all submitted poster presentations at the conference to select the “best” poster according to pre-specified criteria.
The student must attend the conference to be eligible.
This award is presented annually. There can only be one winner for this award per year.
To be eligible for this award, the student must indicate eligibility when completing the call for abstract submissions form.
Winner is asked to submit a letter acknowledging receipt of the award and the impact on winning will have on their career.
Amount: $100.00
Winner 2021: Elise Wouterloot – "Returning to Work After Breast Cancer: Careers Impacted by COVID-19"
Winner 2020: Marissa Maheu – "Coping patterns and post-traumatic growth in young adults with cancer: A YACPRIME Study"
Winner 2019: Brooke Russell, University of Calgary
Winner 2018: Cynthia Wan, University of Ottawa
Winner 2017: Laura Hallward
Winner 2016: Gilla Shapiro
Winner 2015: Samara Perez
Winner 2014: Anne- Josee Guimond
Winner 2013: Caroline Desautels & Shannon Groff
Winner 2012: Claudia Trudel-Fitzgerald
Winner 2011: Ajit Auluck
Winner 2010: Emily Murray
Winner 2009: Andrea Krawczyk
Winner 2008: Lauren Walker
Winner 2007: Fiona Schulte
Winner 2006: Sebastian Simard
Winner 2005: Sarah Harington
Winner 2004: Larissa Vikela
The purpose of this award is to recognize a student member of the Canadian Association of Psychosocial Oncology for an oral research presentation demonstrating excellence in psychosocial oncology research in Canada.
The award will be presented at the annual CAPO conference.
The presentation can be completed or the student can present data from ongoing research. CAPO members are informed of the competition at the time of call for abstracts and asked to request consideration of their submitted abstracts. Scientists will judge all submitted oral abstracts and presentations at the conference with pre-specified criteria, in order to select the “best” oral presentation.
The student must attend the conference to be eligible.
This award is presented annually. There can only be one winner for this award per year.
To be eligible for this award, the student must indicate eligibility when completing the call for abstract submissions form.
Winner is asked to submit a letter acknowledging receipt of the award and the impact on winning will have on their career.
Amount: $100.00
Winner 2021: Perri Tutelman – "Pain and Sensory Abnormalities in Survivors of Childhood Cancer: A Quantitative Sensory Testing Study"
Winner 2020: Caitlyn Forbes – "COVID-19 and of childhood cancer survivorship: Investigating the health beliefs and psychosocial impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on survivors of childhood"
Winner 2019: Gilla Shapiro, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
Winner 2018: Molly McCarthy, York University
Winner 2017: Amanda Wurz
Winner 2016: Beth Edwards
Winner 2015: Cybelle Abate
Winner 2014: Laura Capozzi
Winner 2013: Sreenath Madathail & Sara Beattie
Winner 2012: Lauren Walker
Winner 2011: Jennifer Brunet
Winner 2010: Allison Pederson
Winner 2009: Andree Castonguay
Winner 2008: Bejoy Thomas
Winner 2007: Helen Wong
Winner 2006: Arielle Warner
Winner 2005: Sophie Lebel
Winner 2004: Virginia Lee
The Donald Mayer Student Award has been developed to honour a CAPO student member who has demonstrated excellence in his/her/their submission of an original paper. This award is open to clinicians and researchers and the focus of the manuscript can include one (or more) of the following: research, clinical or educational.
This award will be given annually to coincide with CAPO’s Annual Conference, which this year will be a joint World Congress with IPOS held in Toronto.
The recipient of the award will receive $1,000 CDN to provide financial assistance for travel to the Congress. The winner will be asked to present the paper at the congress and registration fees will be waived.
Procedures and How to submit:
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2022 Donald Mayer Student Award Recipient
We are pleased to announce that the 2021 winner is Perri Tutelman, BHSc. (Hons)
Perri Tutelman is a PhD Candidate in Clinical Psychology at Dalhousie University and the IWK Health Centre under the mentorship of Dr. Christine Chambers and a Pre-Doctoral Resident in Pediatric and Child Clinical Psychology at the Alberta Children’s Hospital. Perri’s doctoral work focused on examining the experience of pain in childhood cancer survivors and its relationship with fear of cancer recurrence using qualitative and experimental pain methods. Perri is passionate about the engagement of patients as partners in health research and is a 2021 recipient of the inaugural Research Impact Canada Engaged Scholarship Award for her work to increase awareness outside academia and change stakeholder practices and guidelines in the area of pain and childhood cancer. Her research has been published in leading journals including PAIN, Psycho-Oncology, and Cancer and has been supported by several provincial and national funding bodies including the CIHR Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship program, Research Nova Scotia, and the Killam Trusts.
We are pleased to announce that the 2021 winner is Lauren R. Squires, BSc (Hons)
Lauren completed her undergraduate degree in psychology at Memorial University in St. John’s, NL, and is currently completing her Master of Science in Experimental Psychology under the supervision of Dr. Sheila Garland in the Sleep, Health, and Wellness Lab at Memorial University. Her thesis research is focused on the efficacy of cognitive behavioural therapy for insomnia (CBT-I) in those diagnosed with cancer. She is also involved in projects assessing the psychosocial needs and experiences of transgender and gender-diverse people diagnosed with cancer, as well as sleep and cognitive impairments in women with breast cancer. Lauren’s varied experiences in the Sleep, Health, and Wellness Lab have allowed her to shape her research interests, and have given her the tools to pursue a doctorate in Social and Behavioural Health Sciences at the University of Toronto beginning this fall.
Breanna Lane, BA (Hons)