 McEwen also served as Chairman of the Board of Directors of the ALS Society of British Columbia.As a result, 'in recognition of outstanding community service', he was honoured with a British Columbia Community Achievement Award and the William Fraser Leadership Development Award from the ALS Society of Canada.Currently, he is President of Western Clinical Engineering Ltd., a biomedical engineering research and development company that he founded, and he is a director of Delfi Medical Innovations Inc., a company he founded to commercialize some results of that research and development.