Eva Kehayia and Bonnie Swaine Recognition Awards
Eva Kehayia Recognition Award | Promising Young Investigator
This award is a distinction created by the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Rehabilitation of Greater Montreal (CRIR) in 2021, in honour of Eva Kehayia, scientific co-director of CRIR 2000-2020. During her years as Scientific Director, she distinguished herself by her human qualities, her outstanding commitment to the CRIR and its members, her invaluable leadership, and her ability to act as a mentor to young researchers.
This prize is awarded to a CRIR researcher who has contributed to the development of adaptation-rehabilitation research and to CRIR’s mission during thefirst seven years of their career.
Objectives
- To recognize the contribution of young researchers towards the development and promotion of CRIR’s research mission.
- To promote research in adaptation-rehabilitation science.
recipients:
2025
Frédérique Poncet, erg., Ph.D.
Institutional Researcher, Lethbridge-Layton-Mackay Rehabilitation Centre (LLMRC), CIUSSS West-Central Montreal (CWCM);
Assistant Professor, School of Physical and Occupational Therapy, McGill University;
Adjunct Professor, School of Optometry, Université de Montréal;
Regular Researcher, CRIR—LLMRC, CWCM.
Read : Announcement of the recipient
2024
Marika Demers, Ph.D.
Researcher, CRIR – Institut universitaire sur la réadaptation en déficience physique de Montréal (IURDPM)
CIUSSS du Centre-Sud-de-l’Île-de-Montréal
Read : Announcement of the recipient
2023
Tatiana Ogourtsova, Ph.D., OT
Researcher at CRIR – Jewish Rehabilitation Hospital (JRH)
CISSS de Laval
Read : Announcement of the recipient
2022
Anne Hudon, pht, Ph.D.
Researcher at CRIR – Institut universitaire sur la réadaptation en déficience physique de Montréal (IURDPM)
CIUSSS du Centre-Sud-de-l’Île-de-Montréal
Read : Announcement of the recipient
2021
Stefano Rezzonico, Ph.D.
Researcher at CRIR – Institut universitaire sur la réadaptation en déficience physique de Montréal (IURDPM)
CIUSSS du Centre-Sud-de-l’Île-de-Montréal
Read : Announcement of the recipient
The Bonnie Swaine Recognition Awards | Partnership and Knowledge Mobilization – for Clinicians/Healthcare professionals
These awards is a distinction created by the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Rehabilitation of Greater Montreal (CRIR) in 2021, in honor of Bonnie Swaine, CRIR’s scientific co-director from 2010 to 2020. She has empowered numerous clinicians and healthcare professionals in the field of clinical research. She does this by supervising projects that emerge from relevant inquiries or by engaging in action-research embedded in innovative practices. Throughout her tenure at CRIR, she provided tangible solutions and collaborated with teams and clinicians and healthcare professionals, including staff and managers, to ensure that the research culture gained its true significance within our partner institutions.
The Bonnie Swaine Recognition Awards | Partnership and Knowledge Mobilization are awarded to clinicians and healthcare professionals members of CRIR who have made outstanding contributions to the field. to partnerships and knowledge mobilization as part of CRIR’s mission over the past five years.
Objectives
- To recognize the contribution of Clinician/Healthcare Professionals in the development of partnerships and the reasization of the CRIR’s research mission.
- To promote the outreach of partnership research and the participation of Clinician /Healthcare Professionals in the mobilization of knowledge.*
* Knowledge mobilization encompasses a continuum of sharing-dissemination-implementation (Nilsen, 2015). Knowledge mobilization involves capturing and exchanging the right information with the right people, in the right format and at the right time, in order to support the decision-making process of users, their families, caregivers and stakeholders.
Launch – The 2025 Bonnie Swaine Recognition Award | Partnership and Knowledge Mobilization – for Clinicians and Healthcare Professionals member
recipients:
2025
Mathieu Carignan, erg., M.Sc.
Occupational Therapist, Montréal-Laval Senior Program, Disability Programs Department (ID, ASD, PD, and DV)
Institut Nazareth et Louis-Braille
CISSS de la Montérégie-Centre
Véronique Gilbert, erg.
Occupational Therapist, Professional Coordinator
Institut universitaire sur la réadaptation en déficience physique de Montréal (IURDPM)
CIUSSS du Centre-Sud-de-l’Île-de-Montréal
Élise Jobin, erg., LL.M.
Clinical Coordinator, Technical Aid Service
Lethbridge-Layton-Mackay Rehabilitation Center- Constance-Lethbridge and Mackay site
CIUSSS of the West-Central Montreal
Paola Mazzone, pht.
Physiotherapist, Out patient Neuro CVA program
Jewish Rehabilitation Hospital
CISSS de Laval
Read: Annoncement of the 2025 recipients
2024
Hana Boxerman, M.Sc., SRDV
Specialist in visual impairment rehabilitation and certified Low Vision Therapist
Lethbridge-Layton-Mackay Rehabilitation Centre (LLMRC)
CIUSSS West-Central Montreal
Julie Dufour, M.O.A.
Audiologist, Deafblindness Program
Institut universitaire sur la réadaptation en déficience physique de Montréal (IURDPM)
CIUSSS du Centre-Sud-de-l’Île-de-Montréal
Vincent Moore, O.D. FAAO
Optometrist, Low Vision Service
Institut Nazareth et Louis-Braille (INLB)
CISSS de la Montérégie-Centre
Kimberley Singerman, pht.
Program Manager Stroke and Neurology
Jewish Rehabilitation Hospital (JRH)
CISSS de Laval
Read : Announcement of the 2024 recipients
2023
Elizabeth Dannenbaum, pht, M.Sc.
Physical Therapist
CRIR – Jewish Rehabilitation Hospital (JRH)
CISSS de Laval
Brigitte Lachance, pht, B.A. danse, M.Sc. Réadaptation
Physiothérapeute clinicienne
CRIR – Institut universitaire sur la réadaptation en déficience physique de Montréal (IURDPM)
Conceptrice du programme de danse-thérapie en déficience physique
CIUSSS du Centre-Sud-de-l’Île-de-Montréal
Marie-Claude Lavoie, M.Sc.
Mobility Orientation Specialist
CRIR – Institut Nazareth et Louis-Braille (INLB)
CISSS de la Montérégie-Centre
Minh-Thy Truong, erg., M.Sc.
Occupational therapist
CRIR – Lethbridge-Layton-Mackay Rehabilitation Centre (LLMR)
CIUSSS West-Central Montreal
Read : Announcement of the 2023 recipients
2021
Frécdéric Loiselle, M.Sc |
Clinical Occupational Therapist
CRIR – Institut universitaire sur la réadaptation en déficience physique de Montréal (IURDPM)
CIUSSS du Centre-Sud-de-l’Île-de-Montréal
