Dr. Anne-Marie Zajdlik is a Family Physician and regional HIV specialist. She is the founder of ARCH clinic Guelph and Waterloo, two provincially funded HIV/AIDS clinics. Dr. Zajdlik is the founder of Bracelet of Hope, a charitable community-based organization that raises awareness of the HIV/AIDS pandemic in sub-Saharan Africa and funds for HIV/AIDS relief in Lesotho, Africa. She is a previous board member of the Ontario Hospital Association’s OHAfrica project and member of the OHAfrica Canadian Medical Team that helped open the first HIV/AIDS clinic in Lesotho in 2004. Bracelet of Hope’s efforts are now focused on the care of 49 AIDS orphans and vulnerable children in six foster homes and the implementation of health care in remote areas of Lesotho through mobile health units that provide primary and HIV care. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Zajdlik shared relevant medical information through her blog and Facebook page to 40,000 followers. She was a member of The Guelph-Wellington-Dufferin Public Health Unit’s Physician Advisory Committee that helped inform the region’s COVID-19 response. Dr. Zajdlik is a recipient of the YMCA’s Women of Distinction Lifetime Achievement Award, Rotary International’s Paul Harris Fellow, an Honorary Doctors of Law, Medicine from the University of Guelph, an Honorary Doctor of Science from McMaster University, and the Guelph Mercury’s Female Newsmaker of the year in 2005. She was inducted into the McMaster University Alumnae Gallery in 2011. She is the recipient of the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal in 2012, the Governor General's Meritorious Service Medal in 2016 and the Order of Ontario in 2010.