Member of the Order of Canada

• Awarded on: May 7, 2015
• Invested on: February 12, 2016

For her contributions to advancing the standard of care for critically ill newborns in Canada and abroad.

Barbara Schmidt has made far-reaching advances in newborn medicine. She holds professorships at the University of Pennsylvania and McMaster University, and has worked tirelessly throughout her career to find ways to better treat premature infants. Notably, she has been the lead investigator of three major clinical trials that have changed how care is provided in neonatal intensive care units across North America. In addition, her novel approach to long-term patient follow-up has influenced the design of all studies involving newborns.