CJG Mackenzie Prize for Excellence in Teaching awarded

Congratulations to this year’s winners of the CJG Mackenzie Prize for Excellence in Teaching.

The recipient of the 2014 CJG Mackenzie Prize for Excellence in Teaching, for teaching an elective course is:

Dr. Stirling Bryan
Stirling taught the elective SPPH 581Q, Advanced Economic Evaluation in Health Care. He is a trained economist with a career-long specialization in the economics of health care. A full professor here in the School, Stirling is also the Director of the Centre for Clinical Epidemiology & Evaluation (C2E2).

The recipient of the 2014 CJG Mackenzie Prize for Excellence in Teaching, for teaching a core course is:

Dr. Chris Lovato

Chris won this prize for teaching SPPH 540, Program Planning and Evaluation. She is a full Professor whose primary areas of expertise are health promotion, population health and program evaluation. Chris is the Founding Director of the Evaluation Studies Unit in UBC’s Faculty of Medicine, and is so proficient at this, that a team of SPPH students she guided, placed first at the Canadian Evaluation Society (CES) Annual Student Case Competition earlier this year.

CJG Mackenzie Prize for Excellence in Teaching
This prize is named for Dr. Cortlandt John Gordon (C.J.G.) Mackenzie. Dr. Mackenzie received his MD from Queen’s University in 1951. He moved to B.C. that year and began private practice. In 1954 he joined the provincial Ministry of Health: first as Director of the Peace River Health Unit, later of the West Kootenay, Selkirk, and Central Vancouver Island units. In 1963 he joined the Faculty of Medicine at UBC. He was well known as a humourous, entertaining, fair, yet demanding teacher.

He became the Acting Chairman of the Department of Health Care and Epidemiology 1969 to 1973. He was Head of the Department from 1973 to 1980. He became a Professor Emeritus in 1986, and in 2000 was awarded a Golden Jubilee Medal from the UBC Faculty of Medicine. Dr. Mackenzie passed away in 2013.