Dr. Don McKenzie

Was recently awarded the Meritorious Service Medal at Rideau Hall in Ottawa by Her Excellency the Right Honourable Adrienne Clarkson, Governor General of Canada.

Donald C. Mckenzie, a professor in the UBC Faculty of Medicine and the School of Kinetics, has won the Faculty Citation Community Service Award. The Award is given to faculty members who have rendered outstanding service to the community in other than teaching or research.

Donald is responsible for the launch of the unique Abreast in a Boat program of breast cancer rehabilitation and information awareness. He has served as president of the Canadian Society of Exercise Physiology and was vice president of the Sports Medicine Council of Canada. Donald received the Rick Hansen Sports Medicine Award in 1995 and the School of Human Kinetics Outstanding Scholar Award in 1992. He has more than 80 peer reviewed publications, and more than 160 published abstracts. Dr. Don McKenzie discovered that dragon boat paddling provided both mental and physical benefits in the recovery of breast cancer.