Meritorious Service Medal
Awarded on: 2000-05-09
Invested on: 2000-09-15
Leslie Shanks, M.S.M., Barrie, Ont.
Meritorious Service Medal (civil division)
In 1994, Leslie Shanks supervised a medical distribution and relief program for Doctors without Borders Canada in the former Yugoslavia and in the cholera camp in Katale, Zaire. Throughout her assignment to this crisis situation, Dr. Shanks displayed outstanding professionalism and composure while ably providing comfort to those in need. She has also been active in Canada doing interviews and writing articles to raise public awareness of the medical aid provided by Doctors without Borders. Dr. Shanks’ devoted humanitarian efforts have brought credit to herself and honour to Canada.