The Pediatric Complex Care Achievement Awards celebrate individuals who dedicate their lives—through commitment and work—to serving children with medical complexity. The awards honor those who have made exceptional, long-lasting contributions to help children with medical complexity in many areas, including clinical care delivery, advocacy, policy, administration, research, and education/training. The awards also honor lived experience incorporated into any of these areas.
Lifetime Achievement Awards
Carolyn Allshouse
Carolyn is the past Executive Director of Family Voices of Minnesota, a state-wide, non-profit organization, and the Family Voices state affiliate organization and member of the Parent-to-Parent USA alliance. Family Voices of Minnesota provides families support, information and tools to navigate the health care system, make informed decisions, and build partnerships.
Lauren Agoratus
Lauren’s experience in education and secondary-transition includes appointment by the Governor to the State Interagency Coordinating Council and Board of Education to the State Special Education Advisory Council simultaneously. She served as the co-leader of her district’s Special Education Parent Advisory Group for ten years. More recently, Lauren developed the curriculum for the Special Education Volunteer-Advocates project.
Mid-Career Achievement Award
Eyal Cohen
Dr. Eyal Cohen received academic training at the University of Toronto (medicine) and McMaster University (health research methodology), and clinical training at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) and the Children’s Hospital at Westmead in Sydney, Australia. Dr. Cohen co-founded the Complex Care Program with his colleagues in the Division of Pediatric Medicine at SickKids. He is currently the Program Head of Child Health Evaluative Sciences at SickKids Research Institute and Co-Executive Director of the Edwin S.H. Leong Centre for Healthy Children.