Dale Dewar

Dr. Dale Dewar is a rural doctor from Wynyard, Saskatchewan (Canada) and international human rights activist.

She is the Executive Director of Physicians for Global Survival and chair of the International Committee of the Society of Rural Physicians of Canada.  Dale 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, her siblings - and the prairie sky.