Canadian Centre for Nuclear Innovation to be named after Sylvia Fedoruk

Canadian Centre for Nuclear Innovation to be named after Sylvia Fedoruk: http://ccni.nu/news/news-releases/canadian-centre-for-nuclear-innovation-to-be-named-after-sylvia-fedoruk.php "The CCNI is being renamed in honour of Dr. Sylvia Fedoruk, pioneering nuclear medicine researcher who helped develop cobalt-60 radiation therapy to treat cancer (photo, left), and served as the first female Lieutenant-Governor of Saskatchewan (photo, right).
Premier Brad Wall today announced that the Canadian Centre for Nuclear Innovation (CCNI) located at the University of Saskatchewan (U of S) will be renamed in tribute to Dr. Sylvia Fedoruk who passed away September 26. It will be renamed the Sylvia Fedoruk Canadian Centre for Nuclear Innovation.
As a medical physicist, Dr. Fedoruk was the sole female member of the U of S team that first successfully treated a cancer patient with Cobalt-60 radiation therapy in 1951. The device and techniques Dr. Fedoruk helped develop are used to this day to treat cancers around the world. Daily, more than 45,000 radiation treatments are delivered in more than 80 countries.
“Few individuals can say that they touched the lives of millions of people, but that is the case with Dr. Fedoruk,” Wall said. “According to the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame, her groundbreaking research in cobalt radiation has helped more than 70 million people worldwide. It is only fitting that we honour her by renaming the facility after her legacy.
“Dr. Fedoruk had many firsts in her lifetime – the first woman to be chancellor at the U of S, the first woman to be the lieutenant governor of Saskatchewan, the first woman member of the Atomic Energy Control Board of Canada. She excelled at everything she did.”
“Sylvia Fedoruk was one of Canada’s nuclear medicine and science policy leaders, as well as a trailblazer in public service,” U of S President Ilene Busch-Vishniac said. “As part of the U of S team that developed the world’s first successful cobalt-60 radiation treatment, her ground-breaking research has had global impact, helping to save the lives of millions of cancer patients around the world and laying the foundation for U of S leadership in nuclear research, training and innovation.”"

More on remembering Sylvia Fedoruk: http://www.nuclearsafety.gc.ca/eng/about/past/remembering.cfm

Also see: http://www.cdnmedhall.org/dr-sylvia-o-fedoruk 

Also http://media.cns-snc.ca/history/fifty_years/fedoruk.html 

This is the link to the official announcement: http://www.gov.sk.ca/news?newsId=865ca1a9-602e-43e1-af05-b510a5da7ba8 

A great clip on CBC about Fedoruk, a must watch: http://www.cbc.ca/player/News/ID/2285281539/ 

This is Leaderpost tribute to her: http://www.leaderpost.com/health/Sylvia+Fedoruk+dies/7308658/story.html 

More on Cobalt therapy: http://curriculum.cna.ca/curriculum/cna_nuc_tech/cobalt60-eng.asp?bc=cobalt-60%2520therapy%2520unit&pid=cobalt-60%2520therapy%2520unit 

And in case you didn't know it is all made in Canada! http://www.didyouknowcanada.ca/2011/09/canadian-invention-cobalt-therapy.html 

Also see: http://www.mysteriesofcanada.com/Saskatchewan/SylviaFedoruk.htm