Dr Ray Hader Award for Pastoral Care

Named after Dr Ray Hader, this award promotes compassion and a focus on the welfare of anaesthetists, other colleagues, patients and the community.

Dr Ray Hader was a Victorian ANZCA trainee who died of an accidental drug overdose in 1998 after a long struggle with addiction. This award was established in his memory by his friend Dr Brandon Carp. In 2012, the criteria of the award was expanded to recognise the pastoral care element of trainee supervision.

The award is open to all ANZCA trainees and fellows residing in an ANZCA training region and takes the form of a certificate and grant of $A2000 for training or educational purposes.

Nomination process

Candidates must be nominated and seconded by accredited trainees or ANZCA fellows and supply the details of two additional referees (other than the nominator and seconder). They must reside in an ANZCA training region.

The nomination must include a cover letter written by one or both of the nominators explaining the rationale and justification for the nomination and be accompanied by the nominees’s CV. The cover letter and CV should provide the details on the candidate’s significant contribution to the pastoral care of trainees in the following categories:

Mentoring and influence: Extraordinary educational influence on trainees, fellows, or educational organisations.

Supporting and encouraging: This may have been directly or indirectly via educational or other strategies.

Welfare approach: This may be for trainees, colleagues, patients and the community.

Leadership: This may be in the form of promotions of welfare activity for trainees and or community.

Past recipients

Year

Name

Location

2022

Dr Vivian Liang

NZ

2021

Dr Sally Wharton

NSW

2020

Dr Christopher Sparks

NSW

2019 

Dr Susan Nicoll

NZ

2018 

Dr Joanna Sinclair

NZ

2017 

Dr Antoinette Brennan

Vic

2016 

Dr Ian Balson

Vic

2015 

Dr Louise Ellard

Vic

2014 

Dr Anna Hallett

Qld

2013 

Dr Catherine Purdy

NZ

2012 

Not awarded

2011 

Dr Katherine Jeffrey

NSW

2010 

Dr Kathryn Hagen

NZ

2009 

Not awarded

2008 

Dr Amanda Young

Vic

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