Current and Previous Winners

 Year Award Winner Title of Paper University
2023/2024 M. Abdullah Shafiq Mental Health and Heart Failure: Updating Guidelines to Improve Patient Outcomes University of Saskatchewan
2022/2023 Eva Gajic Distortions of Self-Concept as the Root of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder? Exploring the Therapeutic Potential of a Buddhist-Informed Lens in Treating OCD Western University
2021/2022 Elizabeth Rowe

Mental Illness and the Prison System: Current Challenges and Proposed Solutions Through Therapeutic Jurisprudence and Rehabilitative Models Memorial University of Newfoundland
2020/2021 Gali Katznelson Reproductive Psychiatry: An Exciting New Field University of Western Ontario
2019/2020 Eva Davenport Magical Realism: a Literary Approach to Empathy and the Marginalized Experience Memorial University of Newfoundland
2018/2019 Mirna Hennawy
Trauma-informed care: navigating trauma in medicine University of British Columbia
2017/2018 Danusha Vinoraj Needs Assessment of Pediatric Dual Diagnosed Populations: Knowledge Translation and Practical Implications for Management. University of Ottawa
2016/2017 Dmitriy Matveychuk
A Review of Ketamine’s Antidepressant Mechanisms University of Calgary
2015/2016 Joseph Emerson Marinas Physician-Assisted Death and the Medical and Philosophical Considerations for Psychiatry McMaster University
2014/2015 Ms. Natasha Fernandes Dignity Therapy within a Mood In-Patient Population University of Ottawa
2013 Ratika Srivastava Dissociative Identities as Allies and Enemies: The Development of Dissociative Identity Disorder in Childhood Trauma Victims
2011 Derrick Tam A meta-analysis of agomelatine versus placebo for the treatment of major depressive disorder Queen’s University
2010 Gregory Costain The Genetics of Schizophyrenia: A guide for Mental Healthcare Profiders, Patients and Relatives

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