Valorie Crooks at Simon Fraser University in Canada was thrilled to hear that CBC radio reporter Debbie Wilson won a major national award for a three-part series on medical tourism. Wilson’s one-year investigation into the impact of medical tourism on Canadian consumers drew on research and information from SFU’s Medical Tourism Research Group, headed by Crooks. The series won the 2014 Dave Rogers, Association of Electronic Journalists (RTNDA) long feature award. The series highlighted the SFU group’s analysis of how medical tourism can prey on Canadians desperately seeking quick and economical quality-of-life operations such as hip replacements in foreign countries. In British Colombia patients can wait years for such an operation. Valerie Crooks says, “Debbie reviewed all of our published work for her stories. She was particularly interested in a Canadian Institutes for Health Research funded study my team led that examined Canadians’ decision-making around going abroad for medical tourism and another study examining the health equity impacts of medical tourism. Her interest in the research also shows that people outside the research community care about the group’s findings. The radio stories have had a direct impact on getting Canadians talking about medical tourism. This type of media coverage is incredibly important as it gets people thinking about why everyone needs to care about medical tourism and the complex ways in which this global practice is impacting so many Canadians in direct and indirect ways.”