Ivan Barry Pless

It is with sorrow that we note the death of Ivan Barry Pless. Barry was one of the world’s first paediatric epidemiologists. He was a pioneer in injury epidemiology and the founding editor of Injury Prevention, a BMJ journal. His devotion to Injury Prevention never waned; he continued to contribute to the journal through scientific manuscript reviews and editing until months before his death. He made important contributions in both research and advocacy in the area of child injury prevention, in Canada and internationally, and was a lifelong advocate for child health in Canada.Barry grew up in Toronto. He went to medical school at the University of Western Ontario, followed by a paediatrics residency at the Montreal Children’s Hospital (a McGill University teaching hospital), completing a bachelors degree by correspondence at the same time. He completed his training with research fellowships at Harvard Medical School and the London School of…
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