Announcement of Recipients of Diabetes Action Canada Awards (2017-18)

1. Training and Mentorship Group Mentorship and Fellowship Awards 2017-2018
2. Knowledge Translation Group Scholarships Awards 2017-2018

Training and Mentorship Group Mentorship and Fellowship Awards 2017-2018

This year, the Diabetes Action Canada Training and Mentoring Group will be granting four Mentorship Awards of $10,000 for a period of one year and one Post-doctoral Fellowship Award, peer-reviewed by Diabetes Canada, of $50,000/year for a period of two years.

We are pleased to announce the successful recipients of the 2017-18 Patient-Oriented Research Early Career Investigator Mentorship Awards and the Post-doctoral Fellowship Award and their affiliations:

 Mentorship Awardees

1- Laura Desveaux – Institute for Health System Solutions and Virtual Care, Women’s College Hospital

2- Martin Sénéchal – Faculty of Kinesiology, University of New Brunswick

3- Marie-Claude Tremblay – Faculté de médecine, Université Laval

4- Xiaolin Wei – Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto

Post-doctoral Fellowship Awardee

1- Priska Stahel – Toronto General Hospital Research Institute

Knowledge Translation Group Scholarships Awards 2017-2018

This year, the Diabetes Action Canada Knowledge Translation Group will be granting four scholarships awards for a period of one year.

We are pleased to announce the awardees for the scholarships awards for graduate students and post-doctoral fellows 2017-2018.

DAC KT scholarships Award recipients are:

 Graduate students

1-      Selena Davis – School of Health Information Science, University of Victoria

Supervisor: Abdul Roudsari

2-      Ghazal Fazli – Institute of Health Policy Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto

Supervisor: Gillian L. Booth

Post-doctoral fellows

1-      Ruth Ndjaboue – Faculté de médecine, Université Laval

Supervisor: Holly O. Witteman

2-      Séraphin-Guy Balla Ndegue – Faculté de médecine, Université Laval

Supervisors : Maman Joyce Dogba/Monika Kastner

Congratulations and best of luck to all awardees of Diabetes Action Canada Awards 2017-2018!