Born in Canora in 1927 and educated at the University of Saskatchewan, Sylvia Fedoruk has had a distinguished career in medical physics, specializing in the use of radiation in the
diagnosis and treatment of cancer. For thirty five years Dr. Fedoruk was associated with the
Saskatoon Cancer Clinic, where she served as Chief Medical Physicist, and with the Saskatchewan Cancer Foundation, where she was Director of Physics Services. Dr. Fedoruk has
also held the positions of Professor of Oncology and Associate Member in Physics at the
University of Saskatchewan. At the end of 1986 she took early retirement from the university.
Sylvia Fedoruk was involved in the development of the world's first Cobalt 60 unit and one of the first nuclear medicine scanning machines. She served for fifteen years as a member of the Atomic Energy Control Board of Canada and has also served as a consultant in nuclear
medicine to the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna.
An avid curler, Sylvia Fedoruk was inducted into the Canadian Curling Hall of Fame in 1986. In the same year she was voted Y.W.C.A. Woman of the Year and made a member of the
Saskatchewan Order of Merit - the province's highest honour. In 1987 she was named an
Officer of the Order of Canada and received an honorary doctorate of science from the
University of Windsor. She was also Vice-Chairman of the National Forum on Post-Secondary
Education held in Saskatoon that year.
Dr. Fedoruk has been Chancellor of the University of Saskatchewan since 1986. Until her vice-regal appointment as Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan, September 7,1988 she
was a member of the Saskatchewan Commission on Direction in Health Care.
Regina Leader Post, February 13, 1952.
The Growth of Nuclear Medicine by S. Fedoruk, at the Special Symposium 50 Years of Nuclear Fission in Review held by the Canadian Nuclear Society, June 1989
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