DR. VERHOEF holds Canada’s only Research Chair in Complementary Medicine at the University of Calgary. She has been a driving force behind the establishment of several Canadian networks promoting and enabling partnerships among those interested in complementary, alternative and integrative medicine. The most well-known of these is the IN-CAM network, a virtual organization sparking collaboration among Dr. Marja Verhoef, Calgary, Alberta researchers and practitioners in Canada, North America and internationally. She was the first President of the International Society of Complementary Medicine Research. She has been a tireless advocate of appropriate research methods for the often multi-faceted approaches that fall under the umbrella of complementary and alternative medicine.

The purpose of the Dr. Rogers Prize is to highlight the important contributions of Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) to health care by rewarding the pioneers who have made significant contributions in the field. The Dr. Rogers Prize is sponsored by the Lotte and John Hecht Memorial Foundation, Vancouver, BC.