Director of Pharmacy
The Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario - Ottawa Children's Treatment Centre (CHEO), Canada
Ariane Blanc, PharmD, MSc, MBA, RPEBC, RPh, is the Director of Pharmacy and Chief Clinical Pharmacist at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario – Ottawa Children’s Treatment Centre (CHEO), research investigator at the CHEO Research Institute and adjunct professor at the University of Ottawa School of Pharmaceutical Science. She is a bilingual hospital pharmacy leader with more than 20 years of extensive academic, professional, research and mentorship experience in adult and pediatric hospitals and pharmacy community settings in Ottawa, Montreal and Paris (France).
Ariane graduated from a B.Pharm. (2002), M.Sc.; residency program (2003) and the Certificat 2e cycle pratique pharmaceutique de 1ère ligne; Pharm.D (2023) at the Université de Montréal (Canada). She obtained her MBA with Excellent and International publicizing Award at Tongji University (Shanghai;China;2014). She received the Canadian Foundation for the International Space University Scholarship to complete the Summer Space Program in 2014. In 2022, Ariane founded, and has been chairing the Canadian Pediatric of Hospital Pharmacy Leaders group. She volunteers at the Canadian Society of Hospital Pharmacists (CSHP) – Ontario Branch, as the President Elect (Vision Portfolio) since 2023. Ariane has been volunteering in the CSHP Sustainability Task Force, and as the co-lead for the Research and Quality Improvement of the Canadian Association of Pharmacy for the Environment since 2023. She is a Journal de Pharmacie Clinique redaction committee member since 2015, and ad-hoc reviewer for the Canadian Journal of Hospital Pharmacy. Ariane has published in peer-reviewed journals and a tertiary literature. She won the CSHP Residency Award (2003), the CSHP Excellence in Pharmacy Practice leadership Award (2023) and the CHEO Kick the Carbon Award (2023; 2024). She was nominated for the CHEO RI Outstanding Research Mentor Award (2023). Since 2022, she has been collaborating with Migraine Canada and pediatric neurologists on developing therapeutic management tool in pediatric.