Victor Marchessault Advocacy Award Recipient 2010
The CPS established the Victor Marchessault Advocacy Award to honour individuals or organizations who have made outstanding contributions to Canada’s children and youth at the local, provincial, or national level. This year’s recipient is Dr. Natalie Yanchar, for her contributions to injury prevention legislation and guidelines.
“Dr. Yanchar exemplifies the type of advocate for child health for which [this] award was created,” said Drs. Scott Halperin and Jonathan Kronick in their nomination.
Dr. Yanchar is an associate professor of surgery and emergency medicine at Dalhousie University and the medical director at IWK Trauma Care in Halifax. She joined the IWK Health Centre in 2000, after a residency in paediatric surgery at the University of Ottawa.
She helped influence the adoption of legislation in Nova Scotia to protect children and youth from injury and decrease the use of all-terrain vehicles by young children.
President and founding member of Injury Free Nova Scotia, Dr. Yanchar chairs several national committees including the CPS Injury Prevention Committee. Even with a full research and clinical caseload, she is a tireless and outspoken advocate for injury prevention.
She is noted for her ability to objectively provide facts and data in a way that can influence a broad audience including health practitioners, politicians and the public in the Maritimes.
Thanks to the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario Foundation for sponsoring this award.
Posted: June 2010
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