Closing Remarks
Kicking Off the Next 20 Years!
Armand Boudreau
management Consultant and Healthcare Quality Improvement Advisor
For over four decades, Mr. Boudreau has been a health professional, manager, senior executive, and expert advisor in the field of healthcare and social services. His training is in social services and public administration.
After gaining experience in youth protection as a social worker, he spent over 25 years in senior management positions in the field of health and social services. This included time spent as executive director of the Régie régionale de la santé et des services sociaux de l’Outaouais. Since 2002, he has been working as a management advisor and as a health and social services improvement consultant. He has also participated in studies and in developing and implementing various projects in the field of the Canadian Francophonie. Notably, he served as the first executive director of Société Santé en français.
Mr. Boudreau works in close collaboration with Healthcare Excellence Canada as a consultant and training officer with senior management teams from health and social services involved in service improvement initiatives.
Dre Anne Leis
Chair of the SSF Board of Directors
Dr. Leis is a speech therapist, health psychologist, and epidemiologist. She is full professor and director of the Department of Public Health and Epidemiology in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Saskatchewan. Since the 2000s, she has been involved in French-language health as well as in research to improve access to French-language health services in Saskatchewan and elsewhere in Canada. She oversees the research component of the PHAC-funded Départ Santé-Healthy Start project. Dr. Leis has served as chair of the Réseau Santé en français de la Saskatchewan and is now the chair of the Société Santé en français board of directors. She strongly believes in helping the Francophone community flourish across Canada.
