On February 20, 2007, Her Excellency the Right Honourable Michaëlle Jean, Governor General of Canada, announced 89 new appointments to the Order of Canada, among them, two prominent FCIHR members, as Officers (OC).

Member of the Board and former Board Secretary, Dr. Dorothy Pringle, RN, BScN, MS, PhD (Toronto, ON) is a professor in the Faculty of Nursing at the University of Toronto where she served two terms as Dean. Editor-in-Chief of the Canadian Journal of Nursing Leadership, Dr. Pringle is also Chair of the Advisory Board of the Institute of Healthy Aging of CIHR and Director, Nursing and Health Outcomes Project for the Ontario MOHLTC.

Recipient of Canada's highest nursing honour, the Jeanne Mance Award, in 2000, Dr. Pringle holds honorary doctorates from Laval, Laurentian and Lethbridge universities. She is recognized as a driving force behind the development of the Nurse Practitioner Program in Ontario.

Member Dr. Rémi Quirion is a Professor at McGill University and Scientific Director at the Douglas Hospital Research Centre. He is the inaugural Scientific Director of the Institute of Neurosciences, Mental Health and Addiction, one of the 13 virtual institutes of the CIHR created in 2000. Acknowledged as one of the most highly cited neuroscientists in the world, he is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and a "Chevalier" of the "Ordre national du Québec". In 2003 Dr. Quirion received the Médaille de l'Assemblée nationale du Québec followed in 2004 by the "Wilder-Penfield Award, Prix du Québec", the highest distinction in Biomedical Research in Québec.