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.

Mentoring 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

Related resources

Dr Ray Hader Award nomination form
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Dr Ray Hader Award nomination form

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