Engagement Award: Stephen Wolinksy
The CPCRC would like to congratulate Stephen Wolinsky for receiving the 2025 Engagement Award from the Canadian Primary Care Research Network (CPCRN).
The Engagement Award recognizes the exceptional contributions of an engaged patient, community member or clinician. As Co-Chair of the CPCRN Patient Council, Steve has participated as a facilitator, innovator and leader. His resilience and dedication, along with his wisdom, have helped to change the role of the patient in patient-oriented research and embrace relational equity.
In the past two years alone, Steve has made outstanding contributions across a wide range of projects and committees in his role as a patient partner at North York General Hospital. As a key member of the NYG Accreditation Steering Committee, he supported the hospital in achieving Exemplary Standing-a testament to its culture of quality and safety. He improved patient dignity and safety through the Morgue Area Security Policy Review and enhanced processes for safeguarding patient property via the Patient Belongings and Valuables Project.
Steve ensured that patient perspectives informed executive decisions during the CEO Recruitment Process, and he contributed to the Emergency Department (ED) Rezoning Project and the ED Green Zone Kaizen initiative to improve patient flow and experience.
His ability to co-create and sustain meaningful relationships has helped embed patient voices in governance and national program design. Stephen Wolinsky embodies the spirit of engagement and partnership that the CPCRN Engagement Award aims to honour.
Onil Bhattacharyya, Steve Wolinsky, and Sabrina Wong
Mentor Award: Catherine Hudon
The CPCRC would like to congratulate Dr. Catherine Hudon for receiving the 2025 Mentor Award from the Canadian Primary Care Research Network (CPCRN). This award recognizes outstanding mentorship within the CPCRN.
Catherine’s exceptional commitment to students and emerging researchers is reflected in the quality of her teaching spanning more than 27 years at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences at the Université de Sherbrooke, where she has supervised the research projects of more than 30 family medicine residents. The numbers of graduate students (both Masters and PhD), post doctoral fellows and summer interns she has supervised and mentored is endless, with so many going on to achieve great things in the form of scholarships, publications, presentations and even faculty positions in universities.
Her Canada Research Chair in the Implementation of Integrated Care for People with Complex Needs contributes to mentorship by mobilizing resources and networks to support, train, and promote emerging scholars while fostering an equitable, collaborative, and innovative environment.
Her mentorship also extends beyond institutional boundaries through her leadership roles at both national (CPCRN) and international (Groupe francophone international de soins primaires) levels. She plays a pivotal role in knowledge mobilization and interprovincial and international collaboration, reinforcing her status as an influential and inspiring mentor in primary care research in Canada.
Professor Hudon embodies a vision of mentorship that the CPCRN Mentor Award aims to honor, one grounded in trust, the development of autonomy, and a strong sensitivity to inclusion and equity toward her mentees.
Onil Bhattacharyya and Mylaine Breton, holding a photo of Catherine Hudon
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