PGS Welcomes New Executive Director
Welcome from PGS President, Dr. Michael Dworkind
When Dr. Dale Dewer offered to take on the position of Executive Director, the Board and I were delighted and excited by the offer of having a physician activist as E.D.
Dale’s vast experience and significant talents and commitment to peace and social justice issues were felt as tremendous assets for PGS. It was felt that her role as Executive Director will move the organizaiton ahead with leadership and work for the eradication of nuclear weapons and the promotion of world peace as mandated in our mision statement.
As Dale started on November 1st, she has already taken on her Executive Director role on multiple levels and we will continue to see her creativity and energy in our future activities nationally and internationally making PGS synonymous with the voice of physicians for peace, sustainability, and social justice in Canada.
Dr. Dale Dewar is a prominent Wynyard doctor and international human rights activist.
Dr. Dewar is a Past President of Physicians for Global Survival, She has worked with the International Physicians for Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW) and is active with ICAN, the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons. She is the Chair of the International Committee of the Society of Rural Physicians of Canada and has been involved in medical education in Iraq, Pakistan and the southern Philippines and has worked extensively with Aboriginal peoples in Canada. She is Past Chair of the Rural and regional Committee of the Saskatchewan Medical Association and presented a position paper to the Uranium Development Partnership on behalf of the Association. She is also a medical columnist on CBC radio and, along with her husband Bill Curry, is the recipient of the SCIC Global Citizen Award for 2008. Dale was privileged to serve as Clerk of Canadian Yearly Meeting (Quakers) 2007 – 2009 and continues as Mentoring Clerk.
In her spare time, she rides horses with her neighbour, Skylar Johnson, hikes, bikes, in-line skates, and cross-country skis. She loves her husband, her children and her siblings – and the prairie sky.
