2022
Annette O’Connor

Nursing (’72)
Professor emerita, University of Ottawa

Dr. O’Connor is a professor emerita and distinguished university professor at the University of Ottawa. She is an internationally-recognized pioneer in shared decision-making, an approach that facilitates patients’ engagement in their own treatment and care. She has developed many decision-making resources for patients and their family members, and her research has informed the development of U.S. legislation, as well as health services and policies throughout North America, the U.K. and Australia. 
 

2021 
Jean François Ménard

BHSc (’05), MA (’17)
President and founder — mental performance expert
Kambio Performance Inc.

Jean François Ménard received this award for his leadership in the field of performance psychology. With an exceptional career, he has worked with Cirque du Soleil performers, Olympic medallists, National Hockey League stars, surgeons, musicians and other high-performance athletes. He has made a significant impact in his field.
 

2020 
Pierre-Marc Dion

BScN (’13), BHK (’20)
Registered nurse, emergency and critical care, Montfort Hospital

Pierre -Marc Dion is a registered nurse who works in the emergency department and intensive care unit at Montfort Hospital. He is also a simulation instructor at the Institut du Savoir Montfort, where he teaches advanced cardiac and pediatric resuscitation. Prior to this, he served as a flight nurse in the Canadian Armed Forces. Dion is deeply passionate about health care and completed his university studies in nursing and human kinetics at the University of Ottawa.
 

2019 
Emily Paterson

BHSc (’09)
Director, Approaches to Community Wellbeing, Sioux Lookout First Nations Health Authority

Emily Paterson is a graduate of the Interdisciplinary School of Health Sciences. She has done impressive work in overseeing the transition and implementation of public health services for Sioux Lookout First Nations Health Authority and the 31 First Nations served by the Approaches to Community Wellbeing system.

2022 
Fondation Franco-ontarienne

Founded in 1986 by the Association canadienne-française de l'Ontario (ACFO), the Fondation franco-ontarienne provides financial support for initiatives that ensure the vitality of the Franco-Ontarian community. It fosters the growth and dynamism of Ontario’s francophones.

2021 
Harmonize for Speech

Harmonize for Speech has raised over $5 million to date to provide funding for communication-related projects, including supporting speech-language pathology and audiology students at the University of Ottawa and other Canadian universities. The Barbershoppers quartet visits our speech-language pathology and audiology program each year to entertain with its beautiful harmonies and present excellence awards to selected second-year students and textbooks to all our first-year students — definitely a highlight of the year. Harmonize for Speech also provides bursaries to students in our programs in financial need.

2020 
CNFS

The Consortium national de formation en santé (CNFS) team is a good friend of the Faculty, making a major contribution to training a large number French-language minority students through its significant program support. The CNFS administrative and health-care team led by Nicole Lavoie has long shown its support for the Faculty. In particular, it has provided regular, longstanding assistance on major files affecting the hands-on, clinical training in our accredited programs, as well as in developing our future health-care professionals’ skills in interprofessional collaboration, leadership and research.

2019 
Marie des Anges Loyer Da Silva

Most of Dr. Marie des Anges Loyer’s career has been dedicated to nursing education, leadership and administration. After 29 years of service at the University of Ottawa as a professor, dean and director of the School of Nursing, and  associate dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences, she retired in 1994. In 2006, the University of Ottawa established the Loyer-DaSilva Research Chair in Community and Public Health Nursing, the first personally-endowed research chair in this field in Canada. The chair provides infrastructure to expand the body of knowledge in the field of community and public health nursing care and to disseminate it by implementing responsible practices within underprivileged or marginalized groups and communities.