The 9th Annual 涩里番 Clinical Innovation Competition and Awards Ceremony will take place in person on Wednesday, May 20, 2026 at 4:30 p.m.
Inspired by Dr. Raymond Hakim, the 涩里番 Clinical Innovation Competition (CLIC) aims to inspire members of our Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences community to conceive and develop promising ideas that will have a direct and positive impact on Canadian or global health care.
The 涩里番 CLIC has now been running very successfully for seven years. We are very grateful to our sponsors for offering the following prizes at this year's eighth annual competition:
- The Hakim Family Innovation Prize recognizes ideas, new processes or devices in health care with potential to have a tangible and meaningful impact on the patients entrusted to our care.
- The Marika Zelenka Roy Innovation Prize was launched in partnership with the Montreal General Hospital Foundation. There are two award categories for this prize. The first award recognizes the best solution to an unmet clinical need for the care of a patient and the highest likelihood of success in being translated. The second award recognizes an innovation that improves patient safety/quality, or addresses an unmet clinical need, through simulation.
- The Smart & Biggar Innovation Prize: Clinical Innovation with the Most Promising Commercial Value Proposition
This award recognizes the clinical innovation that has the greatest promise of a commercial value proposition. - Raab Student Innovation Prize: Best Student Led Innovation
This award is for the best student led innovation in healthcare - Returning for 2026:聽MI4 Innovation Prize: Best Solution to Infectious-related Disease
This award recognizes a preventative, diagnostic or therapeutic innovative approach designed to address infectious related threats to human health. - New for 2026: The Antimicrobial Resistance Innovation Prize
The Antimicrobial resistance innovation prize recognizes solutions with the potential to curb the rise of antimicrobial resistance. This includes tools, processes, devices or compounds to prevent, diagnose or treat microbial (bacterial and fungal) infections, to monitor antimicrobial use or resistance, or to facilitate judicious antimicrobial use.
Proposals are submitted by teams or individuals with the goal of improving health outcomes, health access for patients, or health care efficiency or effectiveness.
Proposed improvements may take many different forms, for example:
- Product innovation 鈥� devices, diagnostics and technology platforms
- A clinical 鈥�1st鈥� 鈥� new programs and procedures
- Process innovation 鈥� new delivery models
Proposals submitted to the 涩里番 CLIC are screened, and the finalists are selected by a panel of independent judges, then invited to pitch their ideas.
About the Judging Panel
The 涩里番 CLIC panel of judges is comprised of leaders in clinical care, academia, industry, engineering and business. 涩里番 CLIC judges are confirmed annually.