Andrée Durieux-Smith is Professor and Vice-Dean, in the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Ottawa. She was the founding director of the Audiology department at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO) (1974), the founding director of the graduate program in Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology at the University of Ottawa and a founding member of the CHEO Research Institute. Since 1981, she has been carrying out externally funded research in the area of childhood hearing impairment. She is a past-president of CASLPA and has participated in numerous federal taskforces and working groups. Recently she was co-chair of the Canadian Working Group on Childhood Hearing (Public Health Agency of Canada). For her research, she has received awards from the American Auditory Society and the Canadian Association of Speech Language Pathologists and Audiologists (CASLPA).