Canadian Association for Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases

2012 Annual Conference – Award Winners

John G. FitzGerald CACMID Award – Outstanding Microbiologist (Inaugural)

Recipient: Dr. Judith Isaac-Renton (BCCDC)

** Update: Dr. Isaac-Renton was subsequently awarded the GEN-PROBE JOSEPH PUBLIC HEALTH AWARD LAUREATE at the 2013 ASM. Congratulations!!

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CACMID Poster Award:

Recipient: Chelsey Ellis

#SP13 “Detection of OXA-48 carbapenemase: Report of the First 2 Cases in Eastern Ontario

CACMID Poster Award:

Recipient: Jerome Leis

#SP33 “Severe Clostridium difficile Infection in Patients with Negative Results for tcdB by the Xpert® C. difficile assay

AMMI Canada Poster Award:

Recipient: Julie Okapuu

#SP28 “How Many Asthmatics Need to be Vaccinated to Prevent One Case of Invasive Pneumococcal Disease?

CCM Poster Award:

Recipient: Christopher Lowe

#SP42 “Evaluation and Implementation of the Bio-Rad VRE Select Chromogenic Agar at an Inner-city Tertiary Care Microbiology Laboratory

CCM Environmental Microbiology Poster Award:

Recipient: Devon Rule

#SP8 “The Effects of UV Light on the Antimicrobial Activities of Cave Actinomycetes

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