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Ottawa Academic Health Network

At the leading edge of more effective health-care delivery.

Who we are

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The Ottawa Academic Health Network (OAHN) brings together longstanding partners, including the teaching and research hospitals affiliated with the University of Ottawa. This network fosters collaborative research, strengthens the University of Ottawa’s reputation as a hub of excellence in health-care research and supports the teaching ecosystem.

Combining scientific discovery with clinical practice, OAHN ensures advances in health-care research are turned more quickly into the best care, the best training and the best results for patients.

Our mission

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Amplify collaborations across our academic hospitals, research institutes, and the University of Ottawa to transform excellence in research and education into improved population health.

Our Vision

Create a world-leading, bilingual health education and research ecosystem in Canada's Capital to shape the future of care.

$258.3 million

Research expenditures

$512.6 million

uOttawa research revenue

Marie-Eve Sylvestre
OAHN positions the University of Ottawa and its partner hospitals and affiliated research institutes as an essential health care and life sciences research and training hub, both in Canada and internationally.

Marie-Eve Sylvestre

— President and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ottawa and Co-Chair of the OAHN

Our members

Dominic Giroux
Joining forces, we offer our patients more personalized and innovative care, better adapted to their realities. Together, we turn research into results that change lives.

Dominic Giroux

— President and CEO of Montfort Hospital and Co-Chair of the OAHN

Our objectives

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Research and innovation

Encouraging strategic collaboration to increase research and innovation capacity and spinoffs in health care and biomedicine, while strengthening the University of Ottawa’s reputation as a hub of excellence in life sciences.

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Education

Creating an inclusive, bilingual, collaborative and dynamic learning environment within OAHN hospitals where research-backed education, interprofessional learning and clinical integration contribute to the University of Ottawa’s excellence and extended reach.

Contact us

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Lisa Drouillard

OAHN Director
Office of the Vice-President, Research and Innovation
550 Cumberland Street
Ottawa ON  K1N 6N5 Canada

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Cédric Maurer

Lead Executive Assistant
Office of the Vice-President, Research and Innovation
550 Cumberland Street
Ottawa ON  K1N 6N5 Canada