PAUL ALLARD
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Paul Allard was born in
Hawkesbury, Ontario, Canada in 1952. He received his B.A.Sc. from the
University of Ottawa in 1975 in mechanical engineering and his M.A.Sc.
from the University of Toronto in 1977. After working two years as a
research assistant at the École Polytechnique de Montréal, he obtained
his Ph.D. in 1982 from the same institution. He worked as an Assistant
Professor at the School of Physical and Occupational Therapy (McGill
University) from 1982-1985 and at the department of Kinesiology at the
University of Montreal (1985-1988); he was promoted to Associate
Professor in 1988 and then to the rank of Professor in 1994. He
holds a cross appointment as Professor of Surgery at the Faculty of
Medicine at the same university. Since 1979, he is the Director of the
Laboratoire d’Étude du Mouvement at the Research Center of
Sainte-Justine Hospital. In 1992, he received a Certificate of Merit
from Canada Awards for his invention of a three-dimensional flexible
keel foot prosthesis. The following year he was elected Chevalier de la
Confrérie des Tir-Douzil, Marigny-Brizay, France, and in 1998 he was
granted a NATO Senior Guest Scientist Award (France). He co-founded the
first North American Congress on Biomechanics (NACOB) in 1986 and the
first International Symposium on Three-Dimensional Analysis of Human
Movement in 1991. He is the author/co-author of five books on
biomechanics and more than 100 reviewed papers on posture and standing
stability of patients with idiopathic scoliosis and on pathological
gait.
In 2008, the society established the "Whitaker-Allard
Innovation Award" in recognition of Paul Allard's and Tom
Whitaker's contributions to the group and the world of biomechanics.
This award was introduced to recognize and compliment the best
presentation of the symposium.
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