2021 Knights of Distinction

The Windsor Central School District has announced that Dorothy Edwards, PH.D. and Dr. Robert Peterson, M.D., Ph.D., MPH are the 2021 Knights of Distinction.

The district is recognizing Dr. Edwards for her lifetime of work in intervention and violence prevention Dr. Peterson for his contribution to the field on Medicine.

Dr. Edwards grew up in the hills of West Windsor, graduating from Windsor Central High School in 1988. She earned her Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from the University of South Florida. Dr. Edwards then earned her Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology from Texas Woman’s University.  

In 2006, as the director of the University of Kentucky’s Violence Intervention and Prevention program, Dr. Edwards founded the Green Dot Bystander Intervention Program. The program focuses on implementing bystander intervention strategies to reduce sexual assault and domestic violence on college campuses.

A CDC-funded study evaluated Green Dot bystander intervention in 26 high schools over 5 years and confirms that Green Dot for High Schools reduces rates of sexual abuse, dating violence, stalking, and other interpersonal violence.  Through her business, Alteristic, Dr. Edwards has been able to train over 984 schools and 213 businesses, including the United States Department of Justice.  

Dr. Peterson graduated Windsor Central High School in 1964.  He then continued his education earning his degrees at Canisius College, Yale University of Medicine, Yale University Graduate School and Harvard School of Public Health.  

Dr. Peterson has been Director of the Section of Paediatric Clinical Pharmacology at the University of Colorado, Professor of Paediatrics and Pharmacology and Chairman of the Dept. of Paediatrics at the University of Ottawa Faculty of Medicine, and Director of the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute.

He has also served as the Director General of the Therapeutic Products Directorate at Health Canada from 2000 to 2005, before returning to the University of British Columbia as Clinical Professor of Paediatrics.

He was appointed to the Canadian Expert Drug Advisory Committee in 2005 and assumed the role of Chair in 2008.

Dr. Peterson was also a member of the United Nations World Health Organization’s Expert Advisory Panel on Drug Evaluation, and Chairman of the Regulations Advisory Board of the Centre for Medicines Research, International Institute for Regulatory Science.   

Dr. Peterson has also written 5 books and been published in over 100 abstracts, articles and editorials.

The district established the Knights of Distinction program to honor special individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the Windsor Central School District, or graduates who have attained outstanding high school or lifetime achievements. The district will permanently honor these graduates at Windsor Central High School.

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