Barry Pless is a Professor of Paediatrics, Epidemiology and Biostatistics at McGill University and is Director of the Injury Prevention Program at the Montreal Children’s Hospital. Dr. Pless is a former President of the Ambulatory Paediatric Association and a Recipient of that Association’s Armstrong Award and Research Award. He is a former member of the Population Health Program of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research: and former Chairperson of the Board of the Canadian Institute of Child Health. Dr. Pless has made pioneering contributions to ambulatory (social) pediatrics; chronic illness; and injury prevention, and was the first Canadian President of the Ambulatory Pediatric Association. Dr. Pless introduced the non-categorical approach to the research and care of children with chronic disorders and has been a force behind the growth of injury prevention in Canada. His work in establishing the CHIRPP surveillance system is seminal. In 1994 he founded the journal, Injury Prevention, and remains its editor. Dr. Pless was appointed as a member of the Order of Canada in 1993.