Member of the Order of Canada

• Awarded on: May 12, 2016
• Invested on: September 23, 2016

For his contributions to veterinary medicine in Canada as an academic and administrator.

Ole Nielsen is a pioneer of veterinary education in Canada. As the former dean of both the Western College of Veterinary Medicine and the Ontario Veterinary College, he shaped the field’s curriculum and focus of research like no other. His early championing of the now commonly accepted “One Health” model placed our institutions at the vanguard of disease prevention by studying animal and human health together. He recently played a key role in establishing the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Calgary.