Grants & Awards (since 2014)

(2023) CIHR-IMHA Inclusive Research Excellence Prizes – Team Award. Integrating people marginalized by structural inequities in chronic pain research and clinical care: lessons from a long-standing multi-disciplinary team. $25,000
Principal Investigator: Fiona Webster
Co-Applicants: Abhimanyu Sud, Andrew Pinto, Craig Dale, Joel Katz, Kathleen Rice, Laura Connoy, Ross Upshur, Therese Lane

(2023 – 2025) Faculty Scholar Award, Western University Faculty of Health Sciences. $30,000.

(2022 – 2027) Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Partnership grant. Toward democratization of health: a sociological exploration of patient engagement in pain research. $2.4 million plus $800,000 in partnered funding.
Principal Investigator: Fiona Webster
Partner organizations: Pain BC, Association québécoise de la douleur chronique, Chronic Pain Network, Global Alliance of Partners for Pain Advocacy, McGill University, Michael G DeGroote Institute for Pain Research and Care, Quebec Pain Research Network, Solutions for Kids in Pain
Co-applicants: C. Susana Caxaj, Marilyn Ford-Gilboe, Abhimanyu Sud, Craig Dale, Daniel Buchman, Eric Mykhalovskiy, Joel Katz, Kathleen Rice, Kathryn Birnie, Mehmoona Moosa-Mitha
Collaborators: Anna Zajacova, Helene Berman, Anaïs Lacasse, Andrew Pinto, Antoine Boivin, David Buckley, Jeanette Gass, Jennifer Hanson, Leigh Chapman, Manon Choinière, Paula Rowland

(2021 – 2023) Canadian Institutes for Health Research (CIHR), Project Grant. Chronic pain, poverty, addiction and mental health in a time of pandemic. $160,000
Principal Investigator: Fiona Webster
Co-Investigators: Joel Katz, Kathleen Rice, Ross Upshur, Abhimanyu Sud, Andrew Pinto, Craig Dale

(2019-2023) Canadian Institutes for Health Research (CIHR), Project Grant. Understanding the social determinants of health from the standpoint of patients: an institutional ethnography of mental health, addictions and poverty in the lives of people with chronic pain. $344,252
Principal Investigator: Fiona Webster
Co-Investigators: Joel Katz, Kathleen Rice, Ross Upshur, Abhimanyu Sud, Andrew Pinto, Craig Dale, Onil Bhattacharyya, David Juurlink, France Légaré

(2014-2018) Canadian Institutes for Health Research, Operating Grant. An institutional ethnography of chronic pain management in family medicine (COPE). $238,578
Principal Investigator: Fiona Webster
Co-Investigators: Onil Bhattacharyya, Davis D, Rick Glazier, Joel Katz, Krueger P, Kathleen Rice, Ross Upshur,  Yee A, Wilson L.

(2014-2015) Canadian Institutes for Health Research (CIHR), Bridge Grant. An institutional ethnography of chronic pain management in family medicine (COPE). $100,000.

(2014 – 2019) Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) New Investigator Award. $300,000.

Teaching Awards

(2018) Eugenie Stuart Award for Excellence in Thesis Supervision. Institute for Health Policy Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto.

(2013) Helen P. Batty Faculty Development Award – Innovation in Program Development and Design (Group Award). Centre for Faculty Development, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto

(2013) Graduate Teaching Award – Early Career Excellence (Runner-Up). Graduate Life Sciences and Education, University of Toronto

Professional Awards

(2013) Excellence in Research in Professional Development, Professional Development Program Award. Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Toronto.

Other Awards

(2022) Best Scientific Paper. Canadian Society of Plastic Surgeons.
Retrouvey H, Zhong T, Gagliardi AR, Baxter NN, Webster F. (2020). How Ineffective Interprofessional Collaboration Affects Delivery of Breast Reconstruction to Breast Cancer Patients: A Qualitative Study. Ann Surg Oncol. Jul;27(7). Senior author.

(2019) Distinguished Paper Award (Nomination) – Ranked in Top 10 of 300. North American Primary Care Research Group (NAPCRG) Annual Meeting 2019.
Webster, F., Rice, K., & Sud, A. (2020). A critical content analysis of media reporting on opioids: The social construction of an epidemic. Social Science & Medicine, 244, Article 112642. Principal author.

(2016) Scientific Session Top Paper Award. Association of Women Surgeons, Washington, DC.
Webster, F., Rice, K., Christian, J., Seemann, N., Baxter, N., Moulton, C. A., & Cil, T. (2016). The erasure of gender. American Journal ofSurgery, 212(4), 559-565. Principal author.

(2016) Pearl Award – 1 of 5 Best Papers of the Year. Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Toronto.
Webster, F., Rice, K., Dainty, K., Zwarenstein, M., Durant, S., & Kuper, A. (2015). Failure to cope: The hidden curriculum of emergency department wait times and the implications for clinical training. Academic Medicine, 90(1), 56-62. Principal author.

(2014) Research Ambassadors Knowledge Translation Award. Institute of Musculoskeletal Health and Arthritis (IMHA), Canadian Institutes of Health

(2014) Excellence in Research. Department of Family and Community Medicine Annual Awards (out of over 1,300 faculty).