Sylvia Fedoruk Prize
During her 35 years of service, Dr. Fedoruk brought honour to her country, her home province, and the medical physics community, while maintaining a "down to earthness" which distinguishes her as a "people person". These qualities contributed to her receiving awards such as Saskatoon's Woman of the Year, The Order of Canada, and Saskatchewan's Award of Merit, all in 1986. That same year, she was elected Chancellor of the University of Saskatchewan, and in 1995 she completed a 5-1/2 year term as Saskatchewan's Lieutenant Governor. Dr. Fedoruk was inducted into the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame in 2008.
In 1986, the Saskatchewan Cancer Agency established the Sylvia Fedoruk Prize in Medical Physics to honour Dr. Fedoruk for 35 years of dedicated and distinguished service to Saskatchewan's cancer program. The prize was first awarded in 1988. Selection is made by an anonymous panel of judges appointed jointly by the Canadian College of Physicists in Medicine and the Canadian Organization of Medical Physics.
The prestigious Sylvia Fedoruk Prize is presented for the best paper on a subject falling within the field of medical physics, relating to work carried out wholly or mainly within a Canadian institution and published during the past calendar year. The Sylvia Fedoruk Prize selection process is a multi-stage complex procedure conducted by a panel of anonymous judges to ensure that the best work is chosen.
In the past, all Canadian manuscripts published in the journals of Medical Physics and Physics in Medicine and Biology were considered for the award. Additionally, other medical physics papers published in other journals could be nominated. As of 2018, the Sylvia Fedoruk Prize selection process is solely based on COMP member nominations.
Any COMP member can nominate a single Canadian medical physics paper, including one of their own. Nominations must be accompanied by a one-page (max) justification letter describing each of the Sylvia Fedoruk Prize criteria:
- Originality
- Clarity
- Science
- Quality
- Impact on the field.
The relationship between the nominator and the authors, such as close collaborators, members of the same committee, friends, family, etc., must also be declared in the nomination letter.
The award consists of a plaque and a $500 cash prize.
Nominations for the Fellow of COMP Award are being accepted through our online portal. Nominate someone here!
Deadline for submissions: 31 March 2025
2024 Sylvia Fedoruk Award Winners
Congratulations to:
Tyler Hornsby |
Past Sylvia Fedoruk Award Winners
Year | Winners | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Jesse Tanguay | Xenon-enhanced dual-energy tomosynthesis for functional imaging of respiratory disease—concept and phantom study |
| 2022 | Claire Keun Sun Park Jeffrey Scott Bax Lori Gardi Eric Knull Aaron Fenster | Development of a mechatronic guidance system for targeted ultrasound-guided biposy under high-resolution positron emission mammography localization |
| 2021 | Mark D'Souza Humza Nusrat Viktor Iakovenko Brian Keller Arjun Sahgal James Renaud Arman Safehnia | Water calorimetry in MR-linac: Direct measurement of absorbed dose and determination of chamber kQmag |
2020 | Patricia Oliver | Investigating energy deposition in glandular tissues for mammography using multi scale Monte Carlo simulations |
2019 | Luc Beaulieu | Intratumoral Injection of Low-Energy Photon-Emitting Gold Nanoparticles: A Microdosimetric Monte Carlo-Based Model |
2018 | Marc-Andre Renaud | On mixed electron-photon radiation therapy optimization using the column generation approach |
2017 | C. Burton | Energy subtraction angiography is comparable to digital subtraction angiography in terms of iodine Rose SNR |
2016 | Q. Matthews | Radiation Induced Glycogen Accumulation Detected by Single Cell Raman Spectroscopy Is Associated with Radioresistance that Can Be Reversed by Metformin |
2015 | M. Goulet | Novel, full 3D scintillation dosimetry using a staticplenoptic camera |
2014 | J. Renaud | Development of a graphite probe calorimeter for absolute clinical dosimetry |
2013 | M. Goulet | High resolution 2D dose measurement device based on a few long scintillating fibers and tomographic reconstruction |
2012 | A. Andreyev | Dual-isotope PET using positron-gamma emitters |
2011 | F. Tessier | Effective point of measurement of thimble ion chambers in megavoltage photon beams Medical Physics, Vol. 37, No. 1, January 2010 |
2010 | B.Gino Fallone | First MR images obtained during megavoltage photon irradiation from a prototype integrated linac-MR system |
2009 | Karl Otto | Volumetric modulated arc therapyIMRT in a single gantry arc |
2008 | Magdalena Bazalova | Correction of CT artifacts and its influence on Monte Carlo dose calculations |
2007 | Brian Nieman | Anatomical Phenotyping in the Brain and Skull of a Mutant Mouse by Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Computed Tomography |
2006 | Guy-Ann Turgeon | 2D-3D registration of coronary angiograms for cardiac procedure planning and guidance |
2005 | Paul Johns | Measurement of coherent x-ray scatter form factors for amorphous materials using diffractometers |
2004 | Abbas Samani | Measuring the elastic modulus of ex vivo small tissue samples |
2003 | J.H. Siewerdsen | A framework for noise-power spectrum analysis of multidimensional images |
2002 | Boyd McCurdy | Dosimetric investigation and portal dose image prediction using an amorphous silicon electronic portal imaging device |
2001 | Martin Lachaine | Monte Carlo Simulations of x-ray induced recombination in amorphous selenium |
2000 | Pratondo Busono | Algorithms for density and composition-discrimination imaging for fourth-generation CT systems |
1999 | Robin G. Kelly | Optical CT reconstruction of 3D dose distributions using the ferrous-benzoic-xylenol (FBX) gel dosimeter |
1998 | Corey E. Zankowski | Calibration of photon and electron beams with an extrapolation chamber |
1997 | C.J. Henri | Three-dimensional reconstruction of vascular trees: Theory and methodology |
1996 | Wei Zhao | X-ray imaging using amorphous selenium: Feasibility of a flat panel self-scanned detector for digital radiology |
1995 | R.M. Henkelman | Anisotropy of NMR properties of tissues |
1994 | J.M. Sabol | Mammographic scanning equalization radiography |
1993 | D.L.D. Mason | Ytterbium-169: Calculated Physical Properties of a New Radiation Source for Brachytherapy |
1992 | Qing-san Xiang | Motion artifact reduction with three-point ghost phase cancellation |
1991 | Alex Bielajew | On the technique of extrapolation to obtain wall correction factors for ion chambers irradiated by photon beams |
1990 | Duncan Galbraith | Low-energy imaging with high-energy bremsstrahlung beams |
1989 | T.R. Mackie | Generation of photon energy deposition kernels using the EGS Monte Carlo code |
1988 | Robert Nishikawa | Scanned Projection Digital Mammography |