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ANNE SCLATER
BSc ’72
D
r. Anne Sclater is a
geriatrician with Windsor
Regional Hospital’s Geriatric
Assessment Program. She is
also the former chair and chief
of medicine at Newfoundland’s
Memorial University.
Sclater studied biological
sciences at UWindsor, then earned
a graduate degree and studied
medicine at Memorial.
“I have always been proud of
the excellent education I received at the University of Windsor,”
says Sclater.
The alumna was a research fellow in medicine at the Division
on Aging at Harvard Medical School. She was awarded her
Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Canada in Internal
Medicine in 1991 and her Certificate of Competence in
Geriatrics from the College in 1993.
A highly regarded lecturer, Sclater taught medicine in
Ontario, California and Alberta before returning to Memorial as
chair of Medicine.
Dr. Sclater has authored an extensive list of publications
and presentations in geriatrics. Her particular research interests
among the elderly are wide ranging.They include diabetes,
health outcomes and systems research, and elder abuse.
JANET DAVIDSON
BScN ’71, LLD ’09
J
anet Davidson is one of the most
respected and accomplished health
care administrators in Canada. In
June 2013, the UWindsor alumna
was named the official administrator
of Alberta Health Services, a
$13-billion health care organization
that is the largest employer in Alberta
and fifth-largest in Canada.
Prior, she served as president and
CEO of Trillium Health Centre in
Mississauga, Ont., where she led a
successful merger with the Credit Valley Hospital to create the
largest community academic hospital in Canada. Under Davidson’s
supervision, Trillium has become the first multi-site hospital in the
world, and only the third organization internationally to achieve
ISO 14001 registration. Trillium has been the recipient of the
Canada Award for Excellence.
Davidson has held executive management roles in Alberta and
British Columbia hospitals, spending two years as an assistant
deputy minister with Alberta Health, COO for the former
provincial mental health board, and co-leading the provincial
breast-screening program.
The alumna co-led the development of the Western Canadian
Pediatric Program and several Ontario initiatives including the
SARS response. She co-chaired British Columbia’s collective
bargaining with nurses and achieved the first successful voluntary
collective agreement in more than a decade.
Davidson herself has received numerous awards and
recognition from women’s, health, business and service
organizations as well as universities, including an honorary
doctorate from her alma mater in 2009 and the Alumni Award of
Merit in 2011.
“I have come to realize that it was at Windsor where I
discovered my life-long love for learning and sharing new
knowledge with others,” she says. “Here, I learned both how to
make a living and a life.”
