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The Board of Directors is honored to announce the introduction of the Adelene N.T. Gaw Young Professional’s Service Award, established in memory of a highly admired and respected CRPA member and past chair of the International Liaison Committee, who sadly passed away in June 2023. Adelene left behind a legacy of dedication, commitment to service, and promoting education in radiation safety in Canada and internationally.
The award will be presented to a CRPA member who has demonstrated exemplary service within the Association. Eligible nominees for the Adelene N.T. Gaw Young Professional’s Award must:
1) Be under the age of 35,
2) Have been a CRPA member for a minimum of two years,
3) Have made demonstrable contributions to a CRPA Committee or Local Organizing Conference Committee, and
4) Not hold a current position on the Board of Directors.
The Richard V. Osborne Founders’ Award honours CRPA’s first Founders’ Award recipient and founding president, Dr. Richard V. Osborne. The award is presented for outstanding contributions toward the enhancement of the Association. Recipients of this award must have voluntarily carried out activities in one or more of the following areas that:
1) Enhance the reputation of the Association nationally and internationally,
2) Encourage the participation in Association activities,
3) Advance the role and stature of the Association as an important organisation in radiation protection, or,
4) Promote the merits of membership in the Association to others who can contribute to, or benefit from the Association’s activities in keeping its objectives.
The Raymond G. Ilson Leadership Award honours past CRPA Founders’ Award recipient and past president, Raymond G. Ilson. The award is presented to honour a Radiation Protection professional who is a CRPA member in good standing that:
1) Has demonstrated or shows promise of leadership in the radiation protection profession or in the Association, and
2) Has gone above and beyond contributing to the profession
The Meritorious Service Award will be made on the basis of significant services provided either to the Association or to the radiation protection community in general.
The Distinguished Achievement Award is presented for outstanding contributions in the field of radiation protection. Recipients of this award must have received recognition from peers either nationally or internationally for accomplishments of major significance to the knowledge, practice or advancement of the radiation protection profession.
Any member or past member of the Association is eligible for awards except present members of the Board of Directors or as described above.
At least two members of the Association must nominate a given individual. Nominations will be accepted until March 15, 2024
The winners will be announced at the Banquet and Awards Ceremony at the 2024 CRPA Conference in Edmonton, Alberta on June 5, 2024.
SUPPORTING DOCUMENTATION
A short biographical resume must be provided of the candidate’s career and reasons why the candidate is being nominated. Reports, references etc., should be submitted as supporting material for the candidate’s nomination in line with the objectives of the award. Nominations can be emailed to the Secretariat at secretariat@crpa-acrp.ca.
For more information on the nomination process, please contact the CRPA Secretariat at secretariat@crpa-acrp.ca
The CRPA congratulates the recipients of the 2023 CRPA Honorary Awards. The awards were announced at the CRPA Banquet on May 17, 2023 in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
The Founder’s Award was renamed the Richard V. Osborne Founder’s Award in 2016. The Raymond G. Ilson Leadership Award was created in 2016.
| Year/ Année | Distinguished Achievement Award/Prix d’accomplissement distingué | Richard V. Osborne Founder’s Award/Prix commémoratif des fondateur(-trice)s Richard V. Osborne | Meritorious Service Award/Prix de services méritoires | Raymond G. Ilson Leadership Award/Prix commémoratif de leadership Raymond G. Ilson |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | - | - | Dr. Ed Waller | - |
| 2021 | - | - | Jeff Fleming & Carole Savoie | - |
| 2020 | - | Jeff Sandeman | Daniel Lapkoff & Bryan McIntosh | - |
| 2019 | Anthony Waker | Dr. Jing Chen | Joe Cortese | Ali Shoushtarian |
| 2018 | Dr. Chunsheng Li | - | Debbie Frattinger | Trevor Beniston |
| 2017 | Dr. Ed Waller | Jeff Dovyak | - | - |
| 2016 | Dave Tucker | Ralph Bose | Nathalie Ritchot | Sandu Sonoc |
| 2015 | - | Chris Clement | Leah Shuparski-Miller | - |
| 2014 | Nick Priest | - | Petra Dupuis | - |
| 2013 | - | Steve Webster | Tanya Vlaskalin & Dave Niven | - |
| 2012 | Jing Chen | Gary Wilson | Nick Sion | - |
| 2011 | Chris Clement | Wayne Tiefenback | Roger Hugron | - |
| 2010 | Mike Grey | Stéphane Jean-François | Robert Bradley | - |
| 2009 | Douglas Boreham | Pauline Jones | Leona Page- | - |
| 2008 | Kevin Bunday | Raymond Ilson | Michèle Légaré | - |
| 2007 | - | Stuart Hunt | David Richard Morley | - |
| 2006 | - | Bliss Tracy | - | - |
| 2005 | - | Harry Johnston | Steve Webster | - |
| 2004 | Bill Prestwich | Michel Rheaume | Geoff Byford | - |
| 2003 | - | Jan Burnham | Stéphane Jean-François | - |
| 2002 | Roger Eaton | Claude Dufour | Curt Nelson | - |
| 2001 | Gary Kramer | Din Lal | - | - |
| 2000 | Phillipe Duport | - | Robi Chatterjee | - |
| 1999 | - | Sunil Choubal | - | - |
| 1998 | Karin Gordon | John Tai-Pow | - | - |
| 1997 | Mary Measures | Jean-Pierre Gauvin | - | - |
| 1996 | Richard Osborne | Chris Pomroy & John Cody | - | - |
| 1995 | - | - | - | - |
| 1994 | Ernie Letourneau | Denis Brown | - | - |
| 1993 | George Cowper | Wayne Greene | - | - |
| 1992 | Dave Myers | Roch Desrochers | - | - |
| 1991 | Rob Wilson- | Art Marko | - | - |
| 1990 | Art Marko | Tony MacKay | - | - |
| 1989 | John Johnson | Richard Osborne | - | - |
| 1988 | Jan Muller & Gordon Butler | - | - | - |