Sylvie Cloutier, PhD

Dr. Sylvie Cloutier is an Associate Director of Assessment at the Canadian Council on Animal Care. She previously researched applied ethology and welfare at Washington State University, pioneering the use of tickling for laboratory rat handling. She taught a course on human-animal bond/interaction and guest lectured on behaviour, welfare, and ethics. She serves on the Canadian Veterinary Medical Association Welfare Committee. She was co-editor-in-chief of the journal AABS (2015–2020), co-edited the book Animal-Centric Care and Management—Enhancing Refinement in Biomedical Research (2021), and authored the rat chapter in the book Behavioural Biology of Laboratory Animals (2022).