CMA awards Medal of Honour to David Patchell-Evans
| Ottawa - The Canadian Medical Association (CMA) presented the 2007 CMA Medal of Honour to David Patchell-Evans, founder of GoodLife Fitness Clubs.
“The CMA Medal of Honour recognizes personal contributions to advancing medical research and education,” said CMA president Dr. Colin McMillan. “David Patchell-Evans’ dedication to, and efforts on behalf of, helping scientists find a cause and cure for autism is nothing short of inspirational. He is a very worthy recipient of this award.” “I am incredibly humbled to be given this award. I believe that the medical profession is the most underappreciated, underpaid profession in this country. At the same time, it is the profession that has the highest expectations and the highest level of trust placed on them,” said Patchell-Evans. |
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When his daughter, Kilee, was diagnosed with autism, Patchell-Evans set into motion a unique research project that promises to have enormous ramifications for autism science and medicine. After meeting neuroscientist Dr. Derrick MacFabe and hearing his thoughts on a possible causal factor in autism, Patchell-Evans committed more than $1.5 million of his personal resources to fund autism research.
As a result, in 2004 the Kilee Patchell-Evans Autism Research Group was established at the University of Western Ontario. The university team now is collaborating with researchers at several major American institutions, as well as with the Canadian-American Autism Research Consortium and was recently awarded the Top 50 Scientific Discoveries in Canada by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada .
Patchell-Evans received the award at a ceremony at the Westin Bayshore Hotel in Vancouver, BC, on Aug. 22nd as part of the CMA’s 140th annual meeting.
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