POGO Recognition Awards
The POGO Recognition Awards Program began in 1999 and today acknowledges significant contributions of Ontarians to the field of childhood cancer care in Ontario and beyond. They were reimagined in 2023, for POGO’s 40th anniversary, to ensure alignment with the breadth and scope of POGO’s current work.
POGO Champion Award
The POGO Champion Award acknowledges
excellence, leadership, innovation and collaboration in the field of childhood
cancer care by an individual over the course of a career. Recipients have a
strong history of participating in POGO initiatives, programs or services in a
POGO partner hospital. They have demonstrated an exceptional commitment to
achieving the best childhood cancer care system through their work within
Ontario, for the benefit of children and youth with cancer, survivors, and/or
their families in Ontario or in Ontario and beyond. Recipients are recognized
for a career achievement rather than a single contribution.
POGO Visionary Award (Individual or Team)
The POGO Visionary Award
acknowledges an individual or team for an outstanding specific/single
contribution to advancing the childhood cancer care system in Ontario for the
benefit of children and youth with cancer, survivors, and/or their families.
Recipients are agents of change whose work, as part of a POGO initiative,
program or service in a POGO partner hospital, exemplifies the visionary
efforts that led to POGO’s creation in 1983.
POGO Nursing Leadership Award
This award recognizes an individual
in the field of pediatric oncology nursing who demonstrates passion, vision
and energy for childhood cancer care, and a commitment to a
patient-family-survivor-centred approach. Recipients show leadership in
ensuring the nursing perspective informs various aspects of childhood cancer
care, which may include service delivery, system planning, quality
improvement, knowledge transfer, professional development and/or research.
Recipients have participated in POGO initiatives, programs or services, and/or
work in a POGO partner hospital. They are well respected by hospital
healthcare teams, patients, families, survivors and administrative leaders.
POGO Early Career Professional Award
The POGO Early Career
Professional Award recognizes an early-career professional (up to eight years
in their first staff role) of any discipline who has demonstrated outstanding
dedication, commitment and leadership as part of a multidisciplinary team
caring for children and youth with cancer, survivors, and/or their families.
Recipients work in a POGO partner hospital and also go above and beyond to
exemplify POGO’s commitment to achieving an excellent childhood cancer care
system by contributing their expertise in a voluntary capacity, e.g. advisory
body, POGO committee, community-based initiative, etc.
POGO Community Partner Impact Award (Individual or Group of
Individuals)
Selected by POGO
The POGO Community Partner
Impact Award recognizes outstanding philanthropic contributions to POGO at a
community, regional and/or provincial level to advance POGO’s mission and
vision. Recipients (individuals, organizations, corporations, groups,
families) demonstrate a commitment to charitable responsibility. Additionally,
their altruism and leadership may have inspired others to give back to POGO,
perhaps through charitable donations or other charitable acts in support of
children and youth with cancer, survivors, and/or their families
Date
November 19-21, 2026
Location
Hamilton Convention Centre
1 Summers Ln,
Hamilton, ON
L8P 4Y2