{"id":11571,"date":"2023-11-08T13:39:22","date_gmt":"2023-11-08T18:39:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/?page_id=11571"},"modified":"2025-10-10T10:58:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T14:58:15","slug":"dafydd-rhys-williams","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/dafydd-rhys-williams\/","title":{"rendered":"Dafydd Rhys Williams"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n Dafydd Rhys Williams\n <\/h1>\n \n \n <\/header>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n
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Dr. <\/span>Dave Williams <\/span>was<\/span> awarded the degree of Doctor of Science, <\/span>honoris <\/span>causa, <\/span>at the 4 <\/span>p.m. ceremony <\/span>on <\/span>Saturday, <\/span>November <\/span>12, \u201cin recognition <\/span>of his contributions to <\/span>space <\/span>medical research and <\/span>space exploration, <\/span>and his <\/span>leadership in promoting <\/span>and <\/span>enhancing <\/span>the health of astronauts.”<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Williams is an astronaut, aquanaut, <\/span>pilot, physician, <\/span>scientist, and CEO. He has flown to <\/span>space <\/span>twice, <\/span>once <\/span>on the <\/span>space <\/span>shuttle Columbia and once on <\/span>Endeavour, logging over <\/span>13,000,000 <\/span>km in space <\/span>and <\/span>over 17 <\/span>hours of <\/span>spacewalks. <\/span>He holds the Canadian <\/span>spacewalking <\/span>record and <\/span>was <\/span>the first Canadian to have lived and worked <\/span>on <\/span>the world\u2019s <\/span>only <\/span>undersea research habitat. He is the <\/span>recipient <\/span>of six <\/span>honorary degrees, <\/span>the Order of Canada and the Order of Ontario.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Williams <\/span>was an emergency physician <\/span>in Toronto <\/span>prior <\/span>to <\/span>being <\/span>selected <\/span>as an <\/span>astronaut <\/span>by <\/span>the Canadian <\/span>Space Agency in <\/span>1992. After his first <\/span>spaceflight in <\/span>1998, he <\/span>was <\/span>chosen to be the Director of the <\/span>Space <\/span>and Life Sciences Directorate at the Johnson <\/span>Space <\/span>Center <\/span>in <\/span>Houston, Texas, while <\/span>concurrently serving as <\/span>the <\/span>Deputy <\/span>Associate Administrator of the Office of <\/span>Spaceflight <\/span>at NASA <\/span>Headquarters. <\/span>After <\/span>retiring <\/span>from the <\/span>space program, <\/span>he became CEO at Southlake <\/span>Regional <\/span>Health Centre and is <\/span>now <\/span>the CEO of <\/span>Leap Biosystems.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A highly respected speaker <\/span>and consultant, Williams <\/span>regularly <\/span>shares <\/span>guidance <\/span>in the fields of <\/span>leadership, <\/span>teamwork, risk management, <\/span>organizational agility, <\/span>and resilience. He is a member of the Canadian Aviation Hall of Fame and is <\/span>on <\/span>the board of several <\/span>organizations, including <\/span>the Canadian <\/span>Warplane Heritage <\/span>Museum. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Williams is the author of <\/span>eight <\/span>books, <\/span>including <\/span>his memoir, <\/span>Defying <\/span>Limits, Lessons from the <\/span>Edge <\/span>of the Universe, <\/span>a highly <\/span>acclaimed <\/span>leadership <\/span>book entitled <\/span>Leadership <\/span>Moments From NASA, <\/span>Achieving <\/span>the <\/span>Impossible, <\/span>and his latest, <\/span>Why Am I <\/span>Taller? What <\/span>Happens <\/span>to an Astronaut\u2019s <\/span>Body <\/span>in <\/span>Space.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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WATCH THE AWARD CEREMONY of Dafydd Rhys Williams<\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dr. Dave Williams was awarded the degree of Doctor of Science, honoris causa, at the 4 p.m. ceremony on Saturday, November 12, \u201cin recognition of his contributions to space medical research and space exploration, and his leadership in promoting and enhancing the health of astronauts.” Williams is an astronaut, aquanaut, pilot, physician, scientist, and CEO. He […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cu_dining_location_slug":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_page_type":[],"class_list":["post-11571","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11571"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11980,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11571\/revisions\/11980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_page_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_page_type?post=11571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}