The Royal College is pleased to announce this year’s recipients of our National Awards and Honorary Fellowship. The Awards Committee selects recipients based on a thorough review process, with exemplary recipients named each year.   

Please join us in congratulating the 2025 award recipients and Honorary Fellow. In the coming weeks, we’ll share stories about the exceptional contributions that led to this well-deserved recognition. The next call for nominations opens in May. 

Royal College/AMS Donald Richards Wilson Award for CanMEDS Integration

Sacha Agrawal, MD, FRCPC, MSc, is the recipient of the 2025 Royal College/AMS Donald Richards Wilson Award for CanMEDS Integration. Dr. Agrawal is associate professor in the Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, and a staff psychiatrist and clinician educator at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH). 

This award recognizes a medical educator or individual leader of a team, program or department who has demonstrated excellence in integrating the CanMEDS roles into a Royal College or other health-related training program.

Duncan Graham Award for Outstanding Contribution to Medical Education

Donald Boudreau, MD, FRCPC, CSPQ, is the recipient of the 2025 Duncan Graham Award for Outstanding Contribution to Medical Education. Dr. Boudreau, a pulmonary specialist, is associate professor and scholar in the Institute of Health Sciences Education at McGill University. 

This award recognizes an individual who has made a lifelong contribution to medical education.

Early Career Leadership Award

Julie Kromm, MD, FRCPC, BMSc, is the recipient of the 2025 Royal College Award for Early Career Leadership in Medical Education/Continuing Professional Development. Dr. Kromm is a clinical associate professor at the University of Calgary, and an intensivist and neurologist at the Foothills Medical Centre, Rockyview General Hospital, and South Health Campus.

Puneet Kapur, MD, FRCPC, MSc, is the recipient of the 2025 Royal College Award for Early Career Leadership in Health Policy/Health Systems. Dr. Kapur is an emergency physician with the Saskatchewan Health Authority and assistant professor with the College of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan.

Anas Manouzi, MD, FRCPC, is the recipient of the 2025 Royal College Award for Early Career Leadership in Professional Practice/Patient Care. Dr. Manouzi is a pediatric emergency physician at the BC Children’s Hospital.

This award honours new Royal College Fellows (with seven or fewer years of post-training full-time practice) who have shown outstanding leadership, initiative, service and/or innovation in areas aligned with one of three key areas of the Royal College mandate:

1. Medical education and/or continuing professional development
2. Health policy/health systems
3. Professional practice/patient care

Dr. Thomas Dignan Indigenous Health Award

Ryan Giroux, MD, FRCPC, is the recipient of the 2025 Dr. Thomas Dignan Indigenous Health Award. Dr. Giroux is a Métis general pediatrician at St. Michael’s Hospital and Inner City Health Associates in Toronto, and an Indigenous Educator at the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada.

This award acknowledges and celebrates Indigenous physicians or physicians-in-training, Elders or Knowledge Keepers who epitomize a zeal and devotion to Canadian Indigenous rights and the dogged pursuit of justice for Indigenous Peoples in Canada.

Teasdale-Corti Humanitarian Award

Michael Rekart, MD, FRCPC, MHSc, is the recipient of the 2025 Teasdale-Corti Humanitarian Award. Dr. Rekart is a clinical professor at the University of British Columbia’s School of Population and Public Health and a clinic physician with the Provincial Tuberculosis Control Program at the British Columbia Centre for Disease Control (BCCDC).

This award acknowledges and celebrates Canadian physicians who go beyond the accepted norms of routine practice in providing health care. Recipients exemplify altruism, integrity, courage and perseverance in the alleviation of human suffering.

Honorary Fellow

Timothy Caulfield, CM, FRSC, FCAHS, is named 2025 Honorary Fellow of the Royal College. Professor Caulfield is a professor in the Faculty of Law and the School of Public Health and research director of the Health Law Institute at the University of Alberta.

This recognition is bestowed upon exceptional physicians, surgeons and lay persons who are not eligible for Royal College Fellowship and have demonstrated outstanding performance in a particular vocation or a specific area of professional activity directly or indirectly related to the field of medicine.