Administrative Committee
As the Executive Committee of the APRUO, the Administrative Committee (AC) oversees the business of the Association and manages its ongoing projects, policies, finances, and membership. The Committee consists of ten members, as well as the past President, and it elects from its ranks the Society’s officers: President, Vice-President, Secretary, and Treasurer. The other members of the AC are assigned specific areas of responsibility related to the Association’s current priorities.
The AC reports on its work to the Association’s membership at the Annual General Meeting, usually held in late May. We welcome volunteers who wish to serve on the AC or help organize Association activities.
The current members of the CA, with their photos, are listed below. For information about committee members, click on the grey “eye” icon below the individual’s photo. To contact a committee member, click on the mail icon, which will open a form for you to submit your message.
Douglas Angus,until his retirement in June 2016, was a Full Professor in the Telfer School of Management with expertise in health economics and health policy. He was the Director of the PhD Program in Population Health from 2003 to 2010. Previously, he was Vice Dean and Associate Dean in the School from 1999-2002, and Director of the MHA Program from 1997-2001. From 2001 until 2007, Professor Angus also served as a member of the University of Ottawa’s Board of Governors.
Richard Clément holds a doctorate in social psychology from Western University, Ontario. Retired after more than 40 years of service, he has been since 2018 Emeritus Professor at the School of Psychology and at the Institute of Official Languages and Bilingualism of the University of Ottawa.
He has been treasurer of the association since Fall 2019.
Richard Clément's current mandate as member of the Administrative Committee ends in 2022.
A career social worker (Ph.D. in Social Work, Université Laval), Marie Drolet was a full professor at the School of Social Work for almost 25 years. Still an adjunct professor, she is a member of the Commission on Accreditation of the Canadian Association for Social Work Education. She retired in 2018. Her current mandate as member of the Administrative Committee ends in 2025.
Andrée Durieux-Smith is a professor Emeritus of the Faculty of Health Sciences. Her area of expertise is pediatric audiology and more specifically the early identification of hearing loss in infants and children.
In 1993 she became the founding director of the Audiology and Speech Language-Pathology program. In 1997 she became Director of the new School of Rehabilitation Sciences and also subsequently occupied the positions of Vice-Dean research and Vice-Dean of professoral affairs.
She is a fellow emeritus of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences.
Emeritus Professor, Department of Linguistics, Faculty of Arts.
André Lapierre retired in 2011 and was elected to the APRUO Administrative Committee in 2017.
He represents APRUO on the Board of Directors of CURAC (College and University Retiree Associations of Canada).
The current mandate of André Lapierre as a member of the Administrative Committee ends in 2023.
Sylvie Lauzon (B.Sc. et M.Sc. Université de Montréal; Ph.D. Case Western Reserve University) started her professional career as a nurse, namely in Northern Québec, then as a professor at Université de Montréal (1988-2002). In 2002, she joined the University of Ottawa where she held the positions of Director of the School of Nursing, Associate Vice-President Academic and Interim Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences.
Sylvie Lauzon retired in 2014.
As President, Sylvie Lauzon represents the APRUO in its relations with the University administration, the APUO, and our sister association ASRA.
Sylvie Lauzon's current mandate as member of the Administrative Committee ends in 2023.
Dr. Raymond LeBlanc's teaching field is special education; socio-cultural approach and differential teaching. His research and scholarly activities are in autism Spectrum Disorder, developmental disabilities, learning styles, language and communication, learning disabilities, qualitative methodologies, cultural psychology and quality of life. He is co-director of a collection in neuropsychology and special education that has published 26 books. Dr. Leblanc represented the Autism Spectrum Disorders’ sector on the Minister’s Advisory Council on Special Education for many years and served as a member of the Ministers’ Autism Spectrum Disorders Reference Group.
