The Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research is pleased to open nominations for the third annual Aubrey J. Tingle Prize and Lecture.

This prize is given to a British Columbia clinician scientist or scholar practitioner whose work in health research is internationally recognized and has significant impact on advancing clinical or health services and policy research – as well as its uptake – to improve health and the health system in BC and globally. The prize winner will present at an MSFHR event to be scheduled later in 2012.

The Award

The award is valued at $10,000.

Eligibility Criteria

• A British Columbia-based clinician scientist or scholar practitioner who is actively engaged in and is notable for his/her contribution to clinical or health services and policy research and its translation to improve health and the health system.
• The research should be recognizable internationally as novel, original, and of the highest calibre.
• The individual should have a significant mentorship record and serve as a role model to students and investigators in his/her field.

Nomination and Review Process

Nominations will be accepted until March 15. The complete nomination package will consist of:

• Letters from two sponsors: the first from the person proposing the candidate, outlining the rationale for this nomination and addressing the eligibility criteria; the second from an individual willing to endorse the nomination.
• The nominee’s curriculum vitae, including a list of publications in the past 10 years and a description of his/her five most significant contributions.
• Two of the nominee’s best publications.

Review and selection of the candidates will be made by a volunteer external senior panel, and their recommendation will be forwarded to the MSFHR Board of Directors for ratification.

Please e-mail nomination packages to Rebecca Ng, Executive Assistant to the President and CEO: rng@msfhr.org  

Background 

The Aubrey J. Tingle Prize was created to honour the important role that Dr. Tingle played as founding President and CEO of the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research from 2001 to his retirement in June 2008.

A pediatrician and an immunologist, Dr. Tingle was a clinician researcher who has maintained a lifelong interest in the role of viruses in disease, with particular interest in rubella arthritis and the possible viral causes of juvenile diabetes.

Past Recipients
2010: Dr. Julio Montaner
2011: Dr. Michael Hayden

 

Last updated: February 6, 2012