QBMA’s 2025 Gala: A strong comeback!
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🎓✨ OFFICIAL INVITATION – QBMA GALA 2025 ✨🎓
The Quebec Black Medical Association (QBMA) is honored to invite you to its annual Excellence Scholarship Gala, an evening dedicated to celebrating academic excellence, leadership, and community engagement.
📅 Date: Friday, October 3, 2025 🕔 Time: 5:00 PM
📍 Location: Université de Montréal – MIL Campus 1375 Thérèse-Lavoie-Rioux Avenue, Montreal (Outremont Metro)
Event Highlights:
🔹 Student research poster session
🔹 Inspiring guest speakers
🔹 Excellence scholarship ceremony
🔹 Cocktail reception
✨ A unique opportunity to honor outstanding students recognized for their academic achievements and their remarkable contributions to the community.
🎟️ Register here: https://forms.gle/NWW3KSHybngV5PZx8
We count on your strong presence! ✨
Complete schedule detailed below:
Scholarship Application 2025
*The deadline for submission of the applications is extended to September 12th, 2025 at 4:00 PM.*
Are you a student in the Medical field? Do you believe you are deserving of a scholarship? The QBMA invites you to apply for its 2025 Excellence Scholarship competition. These scholarships are awarded to students who have distinguished themselves through their outstanding academic and community achievements.
Please refer to the scholarship application form for eligibility criteria.
SAVE THE DATE! QBMA EXCELLENCE SCHOLARSHIP GALA 2025 Edition
You are cordially invited to the QBMA Excellence Scholarship Gala – 2025 Edition on Friday, October 3, 2025, starting at 5 p.m.
Join us at the Université de Montréal, MIL Campus Atrium (1375 Avenue Thérèse-Lavoie-Rioux, Montréal, QC, H2V 0B3), located near Métro Outremont, with paid parking accessible via rue Picard.
Event Highlights:
Invited guest speaker: “Well-being of Black Communities in Montréal: Issues, Needs, and Perspectives of Public Health Professionals”
— presented by Larissa Ouédraogo, Planning, Programming, and Research Agent, CIUSSS Centre-Sud de Montréal
– Awarding of Excellence Scholarships to students
– Student poster presentations
– Cocktail reception
– Closing ceremony
Please confirm your attendance before September 27, 2025, by completing the following Google form
We look forward to seeing many of you at this GALA evening, which promises to be full of wonderful surprises!
Gala 2024: Postponed
We are sorry to announce that the event of QBMA Annual Gala and Scholarship Awards has been cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances beyond our control. We regret any inconvenience this change may have caused.
A new deadline for scholarship application will be posted as soon as possible. We thank you in advance for your understanding.
Scholarship application 2024 QMBA
This scholarship is awarded annually to outstanding students for their academic and community efforts.
The winners will be announced at the QBMA’s annual Gala-Symposium on October 18, 2024.
If you have any questions, please email us at qbma.president@gmail.com.
QBMA 30th Anniversary Gala: One for the books
On the 21st of October 2022 the QBMA held its annual Gala and Banquet. This year’s gala marked 30 years of the association, a spectacular legacy indeed.
The event was held at the University of Montreal’s Jean Coutu Pavilion. Guests arrived as scholarship applicants presented their research on a healthcare topic relevant to the black community. Topics included but were not limited to:
- Skin bleaching practices among women in Canada
- Breast cancer
- Why representation in healthcare workers matters
- Strengths based nursing and its benefits to black communities in Canada
Guests settled into their seats to listen to three wonderful panelists, Dr. Nicolas Cadet, Kate Hooton and Dr. Jean-Michel Leduc, lead a conversation about the recent efforts made by major Montreal universities, McGill and University of Montreal, to combat underrepresentation of black students in their cohorts.
The award ceremony followed after a series of talks and presentations. QBMA scholarship recipients, pictured below, were honored for their outstanding achievements academically as well as in the black community in Quebec.
McGill Student
QBMA Award Funded by McGill University
Presented by Anita Hiba Elhaj
McGill Student
QBMA McGill Award Funded by McGill University
Presented by Kate
McGill Student
QBMA Award Funded by McGill University
Presented by Dr. Nana Graves
UdeM Student
QBMA Award Funded by UdeM
Presented by a Representative from UdeM
Presented by Aline
McGill Student
QBMA Elrie Tucker Award Funded by McGill University
Presented by: Drs. Horace Laryea with Dr. Esie Laryea
From CEGEP
QBMA Award Funded by Dr. Hakeem Sam
Presented by Dr. Nina Mombo
Pictured below are our wonderful keynote speakers
The atmosphere was joyful as as the president of the QBMA, Dr. Edouard Kouassi, cut the special made cake to kick-off the cocktail portion of the evening. It was truly a night to remember.
Rendez-vous inspirants | Diversity and Inclusion: Exceptional Careers in Health
As part of Black History Month, the Alumni and Donor Network, in collaboration with the faculties of Medicine, Pharmacy and Nursing Sciences of the Université de Montréal, presents “Rendez-vous inspirants”.
8th February 2023 at 12:00pm
Discover, during this virtual event, the inspiring journeys of three graduates working in the field of health.
🔹 Nadine Belony (Nursing Science 2016)
🔹 Edouard Kouassi (Pharmacy 1979, Pharmacology 1981 and 1985)
🔹 Agathe Tupula Kabola (Speech Therapy 2010)
Registration free, but compulsory: https://umontreal.zoom.us/…/WN_vIjfU_XJSNqRtUa_-wIrtw
UdeM launches their Action Plan to promote access into health professions for black communities
Read the article here!
Gala & Banquet 2022 QBMA 30th Anniversary
QBMA Gala and Banquet – Friday, 21st October 2022
The Gala and Award ceremony will be held at the University of Montreal from 5PM-10PM.
Address: Université de Montréal, Pavillon Jean Coutu, 2940 Chemin de Polytechnique,
Montréal, QC H3T 1J4
QBMA will present scholarship recipients with awards based on their academic achievements and their community outreach.
This year’s Gala will be one for the books as it coincides with the 30th anniversary of the QBMA.
April 10th 1992 marks the day of the Quebec Black Medical Association Inaugural Dinner, making this year the 30th anniversary of the organization.
