Convocation Speaker Abe Oudshoorn Monday, June 17, 2024, 10:00 a.m.
Arthur Labatt Family Chair in Nursing Leadership in Health Equity. He has held administrative roles as the Year 3-4 Faculty Lead, is currently the Associate Director (Graduate Programs) and will be the Acting Associate Dean Research for the 2024-2025 academic year. Western has recognized his work with the Western Humanitarian Award in 2016, a Legacy 2020 Centenary Award of Distinction , and a Faculty Scholar award for 2024-2026. Outside of Western University, Professor Oudshoorn is the co-founder and current Managing Editor of the International Journal on Homelessness . He has been on the Mayor’s New Year’s Honours list municipally (2021), was honoured by a provincial MPP in 2022, and by a federal MP in 2019. In 2018 he received one of the Canada 150 Medals as part of Canada’s sesquicentennial celebrations. In 2022 he was awarded the Gold Roof Award for Housing Research Excellence by the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, which overseas Canada’s National Housing Strategy. Professor Oudshoorn is a prolific researcher with 84 journal publications, 51 graduate students supported via supervision or committee work, and has held or participated on granted research projects worth over $15,000,000.
A lifelong Londoner, Abe Oudshoorn is a 2004 graduate from Western’s BScN program, fast- tracked the MScN, and is a 2011 graduate from Western’s PhD in Nursing program with a specialization in Health Promotion. His clinical practice was in primary care at the London InterCommunity Health Centre (LIHC), a multi- program community health centre located at Dundas and Adelaide. He worked front-line for five years at LIHC, including in the ‘Health Outreach for the Homeless Program.’ Professor Oudshoorn’s PhD research on caregiving experiences in working with people experiencing homelessness was highly awarded, for which he received both Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) and Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) funding, as well as the Jan Metcalfe Award , the AstraZeneca Urban Scholarship , and the Louise Rickwood PhD in Nursing Scholarship . Joining Western’s Nursing faculty full-time in 2009, Professor Oudshoorn moved into a tenure-track position in 2017 and was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in 2021. He is currently the
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