Meet Destination Halifax's Newest Ambassador Honoree - Louis Brill
Posted by: Jennifer Hitchcock
Date Posted: 05/11/2010
The Halifax Ambassador Award Program is an alliance of individuals who have a great pride in Halifax and who work hard promoting it to their friends and colleagues whether they are from across the country or from around the world. There efforts are helping to make Halifax one of the premier conference destinations in Canada.
On Thursday, April 29th, with delegates of the Canadian Respiratory Conference present, Destination Halifax representative, Catherine Porter, acknowledged an individual who fully embodies all the qualities of a Halifax Ambassador. President and CEO of the Lung Association of Nova Scotia, Louis Brill, was instrumental in bringing this annual national conference to Halifax and therefore bestowed with the Halifax Ambassador Award, designed by NovaScotian Crystal.
Members of the Ambassador Program, because of their pride in Halifax and Nova Scotia, have invited conferences such as the Canadian Respiratory Conference to our great city. They have used their skills of ingenuity, planning, promotion, as well as given much of their personal time to ensure the conference was hosted here and to ensure an enjoyable experience for all while visiting with us. In other words they are champions; these individuals who initiate the ideas and then work with a group to make it all happen.
The Canadian Respiratory Conference is a scientific program featuring plenary sessions with renowned speakers presenting leading-edge concepts and current research from a variety of perspectives. It is a joint meeting of the CanadianThoracic Society, Canadian Respiratory Health Professionals, Canadian COPD Alliance, and The Lung Association, attracting over 500 member and non-member delegates to Halifax. The organizers' vision is to make this conference the premiere national educational and scientific meeting for the respiratory community in Canada – and what could make this easier than with the east coast acting as a backdrop to this year’s meeting.
It was only in 2008 when the four groups held their first joint meeting in Montreal, therefore marking the 2010 event in Halifax first time the conference has been held here. We hope to see them back!
Congratulations Louis Brill and the team who made it happen!
