Director of Pharmacy

Ariane Blanc is a Canadian bilingual hospital pharmacy leader with more than 24 years of extensive academic, professional, research and mentorship experience in adult and pediatric hospitals and pharmacy community settings in Ottawa, Montreal and Paris (France). She is the Director of Pharmacy at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO), CHEO Research Institute research investigator and University of Ottawa School of Pharmaceuticals Science adjunct professor. She also works as a casual hospital pharmacist at North West Telepharmacy. Ariane is volunteering at the Canadian Society of Hospital Pharmacists (CSHP) Ontario Branch as Past-President – Vision Portfolio, at the Canadian Association of Pharmacy for the Environment (CAPhE), as the Director of Research and Quality Improvement and at the Women’s Health Coalition National Leadership Council. She is the founder and chair of the Canadian Pediatric Hospital Pharmacy Leadership group (CPHPL). Ariane also volunteers as a redaction committee member of the Journal de Pharmacie Clinique since 2015, and as an ad-hoc reviewer for the Canadian Journal of Hospital Pharmacy. Ariane has published in various peer-reviewed journals and a tertiary literature. She won the CSHP Residency Award in 2003, the CSHP Excellence in Pharmacy Practice -Leadership Award in 2023, the CSHP OB Scott Walker Research Award in 2024, the CSHP Excellence in Pharmacy Practice – Patient Care Award in 2025, the CHEO Kick the Carbon Award in 2023 and 2024. She was nominated for the CHEO RI Outstanding Research Mentor Award in 2023 and the Rhonda Correll Leadership Award in 2024.