CSHT Lifetime Membership Award

CSHT honours select members of our association with a Lifetime Membership Award. The award acknowledges the outstanding contributions of a longstanding CSHT member in the following areas of hand therapy science:

  • clinical practice
  • research
  • professional development
  • teaching


Lifetime Membership recipients are exemplary leaders in the Canadian hand therapy profession. Recipients are nominated by their fellow CSHT members, selected by the current Executive Board and announced at the Annual CSHT Conference. The award was created in 2016. 

To nominate a CSHT member for the award or receive more information, email the CSHT President at president@csht.org

Year Recipient
2023 Barbara Shankland
2022 Marie Eason Klatt
2021 Karen Landry
2020 Dr. Joy MacDermid
2019 Lynne Feehan
2017 Pat McKee
2016 Shrikant Chinchalkar
*Inaugural Recipient


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