2008 IHSPR/CAHSPR Student Poster Competition Prize Winners

Each year at the Canadian Association for Health Services and Policy Research (CAHSPR) conference IHSPR sponsors a Student Poster Competition to recognize outstanding health services and policy research conducted by graduate students with posters accepted to the CAHSPR conference. Prizes are awarded to the three top-ranked posters in the amounts of $1200, $800 and $600 for first, second and third prize, respectively. Posters are reviewed by a team of expert reviewers who each devote the better portion of the day to conducting their reviews. This year witnessed the highest number of student posters ever, all of which were interesting, relevant and of high quality.

IHSPR congratulates the 2008 Student Poster Competition prize winners:

• Jennifer Thornhill for her first prize poster on "Wait times in the news: An analysis of Atlantic Canadian daily newspaper coverage of patient wait times."

• Gillian Hanley for her second prize poster on horizontal equity in pharmaceutical financing under income-based prescription drug coverage in British Columbia.

• Roxane Borgès Da Silva for her third prize poster on "Physician practice configurations according to organizational and geographical context."

Congratulations!

IHSPR wishes to extend its sincere thanks and appreciation to the following seven student poster reviewers: Dr. Jean-Louis Denis; Dr. Michael Law (first prize winner of last year's student poster competition); Ms. Dale McMurchy; Dr. Sam Sheps; Dr. Diane Watson; Dr. Marie-Pascale Pomey and Mr. Steeve Vigneault.