Michael Lepawsky '59 was awarded the Lucia R. Briggs Distinguished Achievement Award. Michael Lepawsky is the former medical director of the hyperbaric unit at Vancouver General Hospital in British Columbia. While at Vancouver General Hospital, he helped develop a state-of-the-art hyperbaric chamber for patients needing hyperbaric oxygen therapy, setting the benchmark for hyperbaric medicine in North America. For more than 30 years, Lepawsky worked with the diving community to improve safety, creating a guide that established standards and protocols for those training for underwater diving. His efforts were recognized in 2004 with the Third Ocean Pioneer Award from the Underwater Council of British Columbia. A respected scholar, he has published more than 150 articles in publications ranging from Diver magazine to the American Journal of Surgery.
Lawrence Today magazine, Summer 2009
