Carol Pearl Herbert

Career Herbert joined the full-time faculty in the UBC Department of Family Practice in 1982 and co-founded the Sexual Assault Service for Vancouver. She was eventually appointed the founding Head of the department from 1988 to 1998. While serving in this role, she was the recipient of the 2007 YMCA of London Women of Excellence Award in Health, Science and Technology and the North American Primary Care Research Group's Lifetime Achievement Award. As a result of her research, Herbert was named to the provincial panel on fertility treatment and adoption 12-member panel which was expected to recommend ways to help make both fertility treatment and adoption more accessible and affordable. The following year, Herbert was again recognized with an election to the Institute of Medicine (now the National Academy of Medicine). She eventually stepped down as the dean of the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry in 2010 and was replaced by Michael J. Strong.

Upon stepping down, Herbert was praised for her contributions to the field of medicine and to UWO. She won the 2010 W. Victor Johnston Medal for lifetime contribution to the College of Family Physicians of Canada and the Ian McWhinney Award for Family Medicine Education. A few years later, in 2015, Herbert was elected president of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences for two years, until 2017. As president, Herbert was also recognized as part of the College of Family Physicians of Canada's Top 20 Pioneers of Family Medicine Research in Canada. She was specifically recognized for "being among the first female family physician-researchers to promote family medicine research as Dean of a Canadian medical school."

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Herbert was named to the Order of Canada for her "contributions to the fields of clinical and academic medicine, as a family physician, medical educator, researcher and administrator."

Personal life Carol Herbert (née Chertkow) married Alan Herbert, also known as Larry, in December 1968. Together, they had three children: Jason, Alisa and Keren. They also had four grandchildren. Despite their divorce, she maintained a cordial relationship with her former husband. In 1993, Carol married Fred Swartz, with whom she shares three stepchildren and six step-grandchildren.