Harry Richardson Award

The Laboratory Medicine Residency Training Program is proud to be the recipient of funds which allow us the opportunity to offer the Harry Richardson Award for Excellence in Quality Assurance. This award will be given yearly for approximately seven years beginning in 2008. Submissions must be in by May 15th of each year. Judges will meet in June to select a winner.

Please read the Terms of Reference (.pdf file).

Submissions are accepted year round. Those received after the 15th of each May will be considered for the following year.

Send your submission to:
Harry Richardson Award - Submission
C/O Laboratory Medicine Residency Training Program
HSC-2N22B
1200 Main St. W.
Hamilton, ON L8N 3Z5

Congratulations to the 2009 winner, Dr. Abdelbaset Belhaj from Medical Microbiology.
Congratulations to the 2008 winner, Dr. Maha Alawi from Medical Microbiology.

History

The Harry Richardson Quality Management Award for Medical Microbiology

Dr Harold ("Harry") Richardson, MD (1939 - 2007) was a founding member of the Faculty of Health Sciences at McMaster University and established the medical microbiology program for the medical school. He made important contributions to education and service both locally and nationally, serving as Director of Microbiology for the Hamilton Regional Laboratory Medicine Program, Director of Post-graduate Education for FHS, and president of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. After his early retirement from McMaster in 1998, he was the director of the Laboratory Proficiency Testing Program for the OMA and was responsible for its evolution into a Quality Management Program (QMP-LS).

Recognizing Dr Richardson's efforts to promote education, his widow, Mary Richardson and his family established an award in his name to support excellence in residency training in quality management in microbiology.