We are proud to announce that Dr. Joan Embry is the winner of the 2022 Canadian Pediatric Alan Ross Award.
Founded in 1976, the Alan Ross Award is the most prestigious award given by the Canadian Pediatric Society. The award recognizes lifelong excellence in pediatric research, education, healthcare and advocacy.
Dr. Embry is a professor in both the Department of Pediatrics and Child Health and the Department of Medical Microbiology at Max Radi College of Medicine, University of Manitoba. She is a former head of the Department of Medical Microbiology and a former member of the Senate and Board of Governors of the University of Manitoba.
Dr. Embree’s research, clinical practice, and administrative roles in pediatrics are aimed at preventing infections in children and minimizing the effects of the disease on those who become infected. She is involved in a collaboration between the University of Manitoba and the University of Nairobi, research on HIV transmission. Interventions based on the results of these studies, which showed a high risk of HIV transmission in infants from infected mothers, contributed to reducing HIV transmission from mothers to their babies, thus significantly reducing the prevalence of AIDS in children.
Dr. Embry has been the Medical Guide to Infections, Prevention and Control at Children’s Hospital since 1990. In this role, she helps coordinate the hospital’s response to the threat of SARS in 2003, the H1N1 pandemic flu in 2009, and the Ebola virus. from 2014 to 2016 and more recently, COVID-19 from January 2020 onwards. She has also provided her experience in developing guidelines at the local, provincial and national levels through advisory committees for the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority, Manitoba Health, Canada Health and the Public Health Agency of Canada. She has been Chair of the 2017 Public Health Agency’s Infection Prevention and Control Expert Working Group.
Please join us in congratulating Dr. Embry on this outstanding achievement!
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