Réjean Hébert is Professor of Family Medicine and Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences at the Université de Sherbrooke. He was the founding Director of the Research Centre on Aging at Sherbrooke and the Quebec Research Network on Aging (FRSQ). He was also the founding Scientific Director of the CIHR Institute of Aging. His research has focused on the maintenance of autonomy in the elderly. In 2005, Dr. Hébert was awarded the joint prize of the Canadian and Quebec Associations of Occupational Therapists.