Previous Winners
ELSIE CRESSMAN AWARD
2020: Lisa Bishop
2019: Rebecca Weeks
2018: Natalie Wright
2017: Judy Rogers
Lifetime Achievement Award:
2020: Patricia (Patty) McNiven
2019: Carol Cameron
2017: Diane Parkin
2016: Christine Sternberg
2015: Karyn Kaufman
2014: (two recipients) Eileen Hutton & Vicki Van Wagner
Hospital Integration Award:
2020: North York General Hospital
2019: London Health Sciences Centre
2018: Collingwood General and Marine Hospital
2017: Temiskaming Hospital
2016: Michael Garron Hospital
2015: Hôpital Montfort
2014: Markham-Stouffville Hospital & Trillium Health Partners
Media Award:
2020: Chantal Braganza, "The uncertain future of midwifery in Ontario," TVO, Feb. 12, 2019.
2019: Denise Balkissoon; "In Ontario, midwives help with the rebirth of Indigenous pregnancy care," The Globe & Mail, July 22, 2018.
2018: Cathy Alex; "Ontario Restores 'Beautiful Ceremony' of Funding 6 Aboriginal Midwifery Programs," CBC Thunder Bay, February 2017.
2017: Dr. Brian Goldman, Dawna Dingwall, Jeff Goodes, "Into the Breech," White Coat, Black Art, CBC Radio.
2016: Ava Karvonen & Tihemme Gagnon, "Midwives," Chaos and Courage, APTN.
2015: Dr. Brian Goldman, Dawna Dingwall, Jeff Goodes, "Haves and Have Nots: Midwifery in Canada," White Coat, Black Art, CBC Radio.
2014: André Picard, "Midwives: Underused and misused assets in Canada," Globe and Mail, July 10, 2013.
2020: Eileen Hutton, Angela Reitsma, Julia Simioni, Ginny Brunton and Karen Kaufman; "Perinatal or neonatal mortality among women who intend at the onset of labour to give birth at home compared to women of low obstetrical risk who intend to give birth in hospital: A systematic review and meta-analyses," EClinicalMedicine, 2019.
2019: Elizabeth K. Darling, Karen Marie Olsen Lawford, Kathi Wilson, Michelle Kryzanauskas, Ivy Lynn Bourgeault; "Distance from Home Birth to Emergency Obstetric Services and Neonatal Outcomes: A Cohort Study."
2018: Samantha Krueger; "Labour Outcomes After Successful External Cephalic Version; J Obstet Gynaecol Can". August 2017.
2017: Eileen Hutton; "Outcomes Associated with Planned Place of Birth Among Women with Low-Risk Pregnancies".