Niagara community leader and Brock University Trustee Dr. Robin Williams — who served for six years as Ontario’s Associate Chief and Chief Medical Officer of Health — will be in the spotlight June 22 when she receives the Lifetime Achievement Award, sponsored by Walker Industries and presented by the Greater Niagara Chamber of Commerce.

Dr. Robin Williams

The award recognizes an individual who has demonstrated an enduring commitment to their profession and to the community.

A pediatrician in the region for more than 30 years, she remains a Special Advisor to Ontario’s Ministry of Health and Long Term Care.

Williams also served as Niagara’s Medical officer of Health for 16 years, until 2011. Her numerous legacies include securing a 1990s Niagara Region bylaw to ban smoking from many public spaces and eventually all workplaces, years before the Ontario government introduced similar provincial legislation.

Williams, who was awarded the Order of Canada in 2013 for her contributions as a public health leader, was first appointed to Brock’s Board of Trustees in 2014, and later this month is to be re-apppointed for a second three-year term to the board.