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Science and Research
Understanding the body and disease process

Basic science research (sometimes called bench research) comprises disciplines such as molecular biology, biochemistry, microbiology, physiology, and pharmacology and focuses on determining the causal mechanisms behind the functioning of the human body in health and illness.

Diagnosis, Treatment and Prevention
Improving health and patient outcomes

Excellence in patient care involves a wide variety of both medical and nonmedical factors including infrastructure, training, competence of personnel, efficiency of operational systems, patient engagement, access to care, clinical trials and collaboration – to name a few.

Pioneers, leaders, scholars and change makers
Building our health organizations and systems

Health care is a system comprising people, institutions & resources along with the training, policies, structure and organizational leadership that make it all happen.
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Understanding the body and disease process

Basic science research (sometimes called bench research) comprises disciplines such as molecular biology, biochemistry, microbiology, physiology, and pharmacology and focuses on determining the causal mechanisms behind the functioning of the human body in health and illness.

Improving health and patient outcomes

Excellence in patient care involves a wide variety of both medical and nonmedical factors including infrastructure, training, competence of personnel, efficiency of operational systems, patient engagement, access to care, clinical trials and collaboration – to name a few.

Building our health organizations and systems

Health care is a system comprising people, institutions & resources along with the training, policies, structure and organizational leadership that make it all happen.
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2026 Laureate Selection Committee

Inductees are selected by a committee of prominent health and medical professionals from both the national and international communities. Appointed by the CMHF Board of Directors, the committee completes their review at arm's length from the Board.

Paul Hebert Photo

Paul Hébert, MD MHSc FRCPC FCAHS

Committee Chair - President, Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Gatineau, QC

Tom Marrie

Tom Marrie, MD FRCPC FRSC

Former Dean of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta | Dean of Medicine, Dalhousie University, NS

meslin

Eric M. Meslin, PhD FRSC FCAHS

Health and Science Policy Consultant, Frederick, MD, USA

Catherine Mercier

Catherine Mercier, OT PhD

Professor, School of Rehabilitation Sciences, Université Laval | Scientific Director, Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Rehabilitation and Social Integration (Cirris), Québec, QC

O'Connor

Annette O'Connor, OC PhD FRSC FCAHS

2020 CMHF Laureate | Emeritus Professor/Distinguished University Professor, School of Nursing, University of Ottawa, ON

Lori West

Lori West, OC MD PhD FRSC FCAHS FRCPC

Professor of Pediatrics, Surgery, Medical Microbiology/Immunology and Laboratory Medicine/Pathology, University of Alberta | Director, Alberta Transplant Institute | Director, Canadian Donation and Transplantation Research Progra…

Jim Woodgett

Jim Woodgett, PhD

Senior Scientist, Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Toronto, ON