Liz Crocker MEd

Liz Crocker, MEd, is a businesswoman, writer, teacher, and environmentalist. Liz is known as an innovator, child advocate, and supporter of the arts. Liz has worked as a Simulated Patient and Clinical Teaching Associate with the Dalhousie School of Medicine. She is one of the founding owners of Woozles, the oldest children's bookstore in North America, co-founder of Frog Hollow Books (sold in 1987) and co-founder of a network of environmental stores called P'lovers (sold in 2014).

Liz established the Child Life Program at the IWK Children's Hospital which developed an international reputation of excellence, and was the first chair of the IWK Children's Miracle Network Telethon. She was the founding Co-Chair of the Discovery Centre (an interactive science centre) and the first President of the NS Advisory Council on the Status of Women. Liz also developed a hospital board game which originally sold under the label of Fantasy International until the production rights were sold to a U.S. company. A life-long strong and vocal advocate for children and youth, Liz has worked as a teacher. She has also served as Chair of the Canadian Institute of Child Health, President of the Association for the Care of Children's Health, and Coordinator of the Future Quest program at the Centre for Entrepreneurship Education and Development. Liz is Vice-Chair and Board Member of the Institute for Patient- and Family-Centered Care (IPFCC) and an Honorary Trustee of the IWK Hospital Foundation. Liz is deeply committed to improving the quality and safety of health care interactions and was appointed as a Board Member to the Health Quality Council for the Province of Saskatchewan in the spring of 2013.