Dr. Karen Saperson, academic head of geriatric psychiatry at McMaster University, received the Paul Patterson Innovation in Education Leadership Award for her many educational innovations. Provincially, she has championed anti-racism and cultural competence policy and standards in Ontario medicine. As chair of the Royal College geriatric psychiatry specialty committee, she has helped lead the nationwide implementation of Competence by Design for geriatric psychiatry. Early on during the COVID-19 pandemic, she also developed a widely circulated resource library to address physician wellness.

Dr. Paula Ravitz from Toronto, Ontario, was awarded the Paul Patterson Innovation in Education Leadership Award for her leadership in delivering accessible and culturally sensitive psychotherapy education. Her “Psychotherapy Essentials to Go” curricular series disseminates evidence-supported psychotherapy practices and is a resource for capacity‐building with interprofessional front‐line providers that has been licensed to over 10,000 internationally. Her Interpersonal Psychotherapy curricular materials have been culturally adapted and translated for the training of over 500 primary care nurses in Ethiopia.

Dr. Paul Dagg for his steadfast dedication to educational innovation and excellence that has culminated in an exemplary record of impact in psychiatric education at UBC and across Canada.

Dr. Cheryl Murphy for developing innovative medical education initiatives, mentorship and creative approaches to faculty development.

Dr. Nadiya Sunderji received the Paul Patterson Innovation in Education Leadership Award. Dr. Nadiya Sunderji was recognized by the CPA for implementing novel training in integrated mental health care for psychiatry residents at the University of Toronto. This training is recognized across Canada and is founded on a national study led by Dr. Sunderji. The study developed expert consensus on the core competencies needed by psychiatrists to practice collaborative care. An essential aspect of the program is its varied clinical settings, such as homeless shelters and child protections services, which allow residents to reflect on how to embed community service within their individual career. Through this program, residents provide service in settings where psychiatric care was previously unavailable.

Dr. Sagar Parikh was recognized for his innovation and creativity in generating visibility for the CAN-BIND research program, a multi-university enterprise devoted to research and the transformation of depression. He has made major contributions to both continuing professional education and public education aimed at the dissemination of the latest advances in depression research and treatment.

Dr. Bruce Ballon was recognized for his innovation and creativity that he used to educate patients, families and other members of the public reflect the high standards of Paul Patterson Award winners. His work on advancing the use of simulation for mental health education and developing the next generation of simulationists deserves recognition.

Dr. Mark Rapoport from Toronto, Ontario, was recognized for his creative and innovative leadership in developing and implementing an annual online and in-person geriatric psychiatry national review course, designed to prepare both Canadian Academy of Geriatric Psychiatry members and subspecialty trainees for their Royal College subspecialty exam.

Dr. Anthony Levinson from Hamilton, Ontario, was recognized for his creative and innovative leadership in developing a breadth of sophisticated e-learning initiatives that adopt cutting-edge technology to advance medical and psychiatric education from the MD curriculum to public education, reaching beyond traditional university borders to a broad audience.

Dr. John Langley was recognized for his creative and innovative leadership in developing the new subspecialty training program in child and adolescent psychiatry at the University of Toronto, one of the first programs accredited in Canada. Only very recently have child and adolescent, geriatric and forensic psychiatry been recognized by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada as formal psychiatric subspecialties. Dr. Langley has piloted a variety of innovative learning and performance assessment tools in support of this curriculum and has advised McGill, McMaster and the University of Ottawa to develop their accredited subspecialty programs.

Dr. Priyanthy Weerasekera is well known for developing an internationally recognized, evidence-based, competency-based psychotherapy training program, with a curriculum that provides a standardized approach to teaching and supervising psychotherapy. She received this award in recognition of the latest evolution of her innovative work, a web based psychotherapy program called PTeR —or the Psychotherapy Training e-Resources program. PTeR contains e-modules for ten different psychotherapies and employs a combination of Powerpoint presentations, references, seventy clinical vignettes to demonstrate specific techniques, and a “virtual therapist” which uses interactive patient simulations to assess clinical competence. PTeR has been adopted by many psychiatric training programs in Canada and internationally, including the College of Psychiatrists in Ireland.

Dr. Stanley Kutcher is an innovative and passionate educator who is known provincially, nationally and internationally for his innovative education initiatives in child and adolescent mental health. In Nova Scotia, Dr. Stanley Kutcher and his team developed a high school curriculum guide for mental health complete with modules to train educators. Resources include virtual classrooms which use technological tools such as social networking, chat room, blogs, podcasts and more, allowing teachers to incorporate today’s technologies along with evidence-based knowledge. This curriculum guide is now in use in many parts of Canada and has been adapted by other countries such as China, Portugal, Brazil and Africa.

Dr. David Robinson has made important contributions in curriculum development and evaluation procedures. As Residency Training Director at the University of Western Ontario, he single-handedly created a curriculum to instill the depth and scope of psychiatry in first-year psychiatry residents and this has become a model for other training programs. Dr. Robinson also created a comprehensive training and examination program to prepare residents for the final Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada specialty exam.

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Dr. Thomas Edward Ungar developed the Mental Health Minute program, an innovative, multi-media approach to public education. These minutes are designed with a focus on patients and the broader public. They provide easily accessible, credible, evidence-based and consumer-friendly information on topics from workplace mental health and depression to agoraphobia and how to talk to your care provider. Housed on a website, they offer in a multitude of online learning formats including teleseminars, podcasts and Youtube video minutes. These minutes use a non-traditional infotainment approach to connect with people’s everyday lives.

Dr. Paul Mulzer was recognized for his innovative educational films and workbooks which sensitize both the public and those who work in aboriginal mental health about the issues of mood disorders, alcohol dependency, suicide, racism and resilience in the aboriginal community and does so in a culturally sensitive and relevant manner. His films have opened dialogue and are building bridges between patients, the community and mental health providers.

Dr. Marc Sasseville was recognized for his innovative contributions to postgraduate education in psychiatry. Since the 1990s Dr. Sasseville has been the principal mover of a visionary and innovative project to develop remote psychiatry rotations for medical students.

Dr. Susan Abbey led the redesign of the CPA’s Annual Meeting Program Committee from 1998 to 2004 which led to unprecedented growth in terms of numbers of attendees and the range of programs offered at the conference. As Chair of the CPA’s Continuing Education Committee she also significantly influenced the CPA’s continued professional development work, chairing the 2005-2006 organizing committee for the innovative Shared Care forums.

Dr. Pierre Zwiebel created OmniPsy, the first Internet site offering scientific information on psychiatry aimed at family doctors in Quebec. OmniPsy is a resource for all francophones who deliver mental health services in multidisciplinary settings. It delivers continued medical education programs online, a permanent and evolving scientific databank, video conferencing and Quebecois psychiatric literature.

Dr. Jodi Lofchy was recognized for creative and innovative initiatives in undergraduate education including work with the internationally lauded Psychiatry Institute for Medical Students, a weeklong program that introduces medical students from across Ontario to current psychiatric practice and research.

Dr. Elliot Goldner was recognized for innovative work in postgraduate education, notably the foundation of a division of Mental Health Policy and Services in the University of British Columbia’s psychiatry department and for assembling a team of educators to establish a national training program in mental health services research.

Dr. Arthur Propst was recognized for innovation in developing a single-step RCPSC comprehensive objective examination in psychiatry aligned to the CanMed roles and competencies.

Dr. Heather Milliken was recognized for her work in schizophrenia education where she played a pivotal role in establishing and implementing the Dalhousie early psychosis mentorship program.

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Dr. Lili Kopala worked to develop the educational components of The Early Psychosis Program for Nova Scotia and the Atlantic Region.

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