Celebrating CRIR’s 25th Anniversary: A Memorable Evening | November 27, 2025
An evening filled with smiles, memories, and friendship: that’s what marked CRIR’s 25th anniversary.
On November 27, more than 80 people gathered at the Institut de réadaptation Gingras-Lindsay-de-Montréal for the 29th Annual General Meeting and a get-together evening to celebrate our 25th anniversary.
What a joy to reconnect with members, partners, and colleagues past and present to share and celebrate this important milestone for CRIR!
This warm evening featured the presentation of the six towers of the exhibition ‘Together for an Inclusive Future’, alongside researcher and student mediators, as well as the announcement of CRIR’s new historical page. Presented as a timeline, this page retraces the major stages of our transformation and highlights the key moments that have shaped our identity.
Participants were delighted to hear the memories shared by some of CRIR’s founders (Robert Forget, CRIR Scientific Director from 2000 to 2009, and Alain Lefebvre, Executive Director of the Lucie-Bruneau Rehabilitation Center), who spoke with emotion about what motivated them, at the turn of the 2000s, to create a rehabilitation research center.
Our sincere thanks to:
✨ Robert Forget (2000-2009)
✨ Eva Kehayia (2000-2020)
✨ Bonnie Swaine (2009-2020)
✨ Philippe Archambault (2020-present)
✨ Claudine Auger (2020-present)
Forget-Bélanger INNOVATION SUPPORT Scholarship
Geneviève Lamoureux
PhD Candidate, Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology Sciences, Université de Montréal
Student Member of CRIR-IURDPM
Geneviève Lamoureux is the first recipient of the Forget-Bélanger Innovation Support Award, thanks to an outstanding application and proposal. This award was granted to her because she embodies the excellence and innovation we strive to foster within our community.
With this award, Geneviève will develop training tools to help journalists, screenwriters, directors, and other media professionals better represent stuttering and include people who stutter in front of the camera and microphone. The content of these tools is based on her participatory doctoral research conducted in collaboration with the media industry and people who stutter.
An evening finale full of laughter and memories thanks to the photo booth
After the exchanges and highlights of the event, the evening ended on a joyful and spontaneous note. In front of the photo booth backdrop, participants had fun striking playful poses, laughing out loud, and creating unforgettable memories. These moments of togetherness marked the close of the gathering, leaving behind snapshots full of life and emotion.
THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU!
Thanks to you, CRIR shines!
Your commitment, your interdisciplinary initiatives, the strength of our partnerships, and the continuous evolution of our governance structures are pillars that allow us to go further—together. These assets inspire us to push the boundaries of rehabilitation research to improve the quality of life for people living with physical disabilities.
Finally, we warmly thank Cloé Rodrigue, Co-Chair of CRIR’s Governance Committee and Director of Research and Innovation at CISSS de la Montérégie-Centre and the Institut Nazareth et Louis-Braille, for her dynamic and warm hosting that brought this memorable evening to life, as well as our financial partners for making this event possible: CIUSSS du Centre-Sud-de-l’Île-de-Montréal, Université de Montréal and McGill University.
The CRIR Direction and Administrative Team
📷 Event Highlights | A Memorable get-together Evening – November 27, 2025
Photo credits: Anthony Demeter, Graphic Designer & Videographer
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