Celebrating excellence: How the Medical Post Awards recognize doctors’ amazing work
Since their inception in 2022, the Medical Post Awards have served as a platform for recognizing the excellent work by Canadian doctors. Judged by panels of physician juries, these awards honour the powerful voices in media, community contributions and practice innovations.
As we accept nominations for next year’s awards, we caught up with some past recipients to see how this recognition has influenced their professional journeys. For many, the award was more than just a trophy; it was a catalyst for growth.
Whether you want to nominate a colleague who inspires you or put your own practice forward, the process starts now.
- Deadline: May 22, 2026
- Where to enter: TheMedicalPostAwards.ca
Dr. Richard Baverstock of the Alberta Bladder Centre
Dr. Richard Baverstock is the owner and director of the Alberta Bladder Centre and winner of the Interprofessional Team Award 2023.
Q: Tell us how your Medical Post Awards recognition opened new opportunities?
This validated the hard work our team constantly strives to achieve. We were honoured to receive the Specialist of The Year award in 2025 from the department of family medicine at the University of Calgary. The Medical Post Award highlighted how important a great team is and we made our team better and stronger after that.
Q: What else should we know about?
The Alberta Bladder Centre team is more than a group of coworkers; we are a tight-knit family dedicated to providing exemplary patient care within an overworked and understaffed healthcare system. This award serves as positive reinforcement of the supportive work environment we strive to maintain. Every once in a while it's nice to get recognition from our peers that we are on the right track. The Medical Post Award did that for us.
Dr. Shannon Fraser of the C4 Command Centre
Dr. Shannon Fraser is chief of general surgery at the Jewish General Hospital and medical director of the C4 Command Center within CIUSSS West-Central Montreal. In 2022, the C4 Command Centre Team received the Medical Post Interprofessional Team Award.
Q: Tell us about the C4 Command Centre?
The C4 was created during the COVID-19 pandemic to coordinate care across our healthcare network and improve patient flow so patients receive the right care, in the right place, at the right time. The initiative is built on strong interprofessional collaboration. Our founding team included André Poitras and Serge Cloutier (nursing), Mary Lattas (rehabilitation directorate), Carol Viegas (patient flow), Joanne Coté and Erin Cook (quality directorate), Suzette Chung (operational manager), and assistant executive eirector Dan Gabay, working together with physicians and frontline teams across the network.
Q: Tell us how your Medical Post Awards recognition opened new opportunities?
Receiving the Medical Post Interprofessional Team Award increased awareness of the C4 model and created opportunities to share our approach with health systems across Quebec and Canada. The recognition helped validate the importance of data transparency, daily interdisciplinary coordination and shared accountability in improving patient flow and access to care.
Following the award, we were invited to present the C4 model to provincial leaders, health networks and academic partners. It also contributed to securing a provincial innovation grant to study and further develop the command centre approach.
Most importantly, the award highlighted how interprofessional teams can break down traditional silos and drive meaningful healthcare transformation.
Q: What else should we know?
Innovative work is happening every day across our healthcare system, often quietly and without recognition. I encourage physicians to take the time to nominate a colleague, a team or themselves. Recognizing excellence not only celebrates the people behind these efforts—it also helps share ideas that can improve care for patients everywhere.