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Faculty & Staff Awards

Sophie Vaillancourt was named to the Faculty Honour List for Educational Excellence for 2019-2020.

Dr. Nicole Li-Jessen received the 2018 Principal's Prize for Excellence in Teaching (Assistant Professor Category).

Kelly Root was named to the Faculty Honour List for Educational Excellence for 2018-2019.

Kelly Root at the Faculty Honour List Ceremony - third person from right. Credit: Owen Egan

Dr. Susan Rvachew was awarded the 2018 Editor's Award - Speech-Language and Audiology Canada for "Development of a Tool to Screen Risk of Literacy Delays in French-Speaking Children: PHOPHLO" (with Phaedra Royle, Laura Gonnerman, Brigitte Stanké, Alexandra Marquis & Alexandre Herbay). The award recognizes the best paper published in the Canadian Journal of Speech-Langauge Pathology and Audiology in the previous calendar year.

Dr. Nicole Li-Jessen received the 2017 Rosemary Wedderburn Brown Prize from the Faculty of Medicine.

Dr. Elin Thordardottir was awarded the 2017 Editor's Award - Speech-Language and Audiology Canada (SAC-OAC) for her article "Long versus short language samples: A clinical procedure for French language samples. Canadian Journal of Speech Language Pathology and Audiology, 40, 176-197". The award recognizes the best paper published in the Canadian Journal of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology in the previous calendar year.

Dr. Nicole Li-Jessen received the Canada Research Chair (tier 2) in Personalized Medicine of Voice Disorders (2016-2021).

Dr. Nicole Li-Jessen was awarded the 2014 Hamden International Presentation Award - The best Paper of the Year - at the Voice Foundation 43th Annual Symposium in Philadelphia, USA.

Dr. Susan Rvachew was awarded the 2014 Eve Kassirer Award for Outstanding Professional Achievement - Speech-Language and Audiology Canada.

Karen Cavanagh received a 2013 Outstanding Service Award, presented by Dr. Marc Pell at the SCSD 50th Anniversary Gala Dinner.

Dr. Aparna Nadig received the 2013 Rosemary Wedderburn Brown Prize from the Faculty of Medicine.

Dr. Marc Pell was awarded a James McGill Professor Award in recognition of his outstanding research contributions by McGill University (2012-2019).

Dr. Susan Rvachew was awarded a by the American Speech-Language and Hearing Association in 2012. Fellowship is one of the highest honours bestowed by the Association on ASHA members, in recognition of outstanding contributions to the discipline of communications sciences and disorders.

Dr. Marc Pell has been awarded a Chercheur-boursier 'Senior' award from the FRSQ (2010-14).

Professor Karsten Steinhauer's "Canada Research Chair in Neurocognition of Language" was renewed for a second 5-year term by the federal Canada Research Program (2008-2013) to support his electrophysiological investigations of the brain's temporal dynamics in language acquisition and processing.

Dr. Marc Pell has been awarded a Chercheur-boursier Junior 2 career award by the FRSQ in 2007.

SCSD Adminstrative Secretary Antoinette Sommer has been recognized by the MUHC Department of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology for all she does each fall to make teaching duties at the School run smoothly for our part time teaching staff. A celebration luncheon will be held at the MGH in May, 2005, as part of Speech and Hearing month celebrations.

Professor Marc D. Pell has been named a New Investigator by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Institute for Aging (2002-2007).

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