{{Short description|Canadian academic administrator}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Wendy Rheault | office = President of Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science | alma_mater = Queen's University at Kingston<br>University of Chicago | term_start = January 2019| term_end = November 2025<br> Interim: January 2019 – June 30, 2019
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'''Wendy Lee Rheault''' (born August 21, 1955) is a Canadian academic administrator specializing in psychometrics. She served as the seventh president of the Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science (RFU) from 2019 to November of 2025, when she became president emerita.<ref name=":3">{{Cite web |date=2025-11-18 |title=Rosalind Franklin president reflects on tenure upon retirement: ‘I … accomplished important goals’ |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/18/rosalind-franklin-university-president-2/ |access-date=2025-11-20 |website=Chicago Tribune |language=en-US}}</ref><ref name=":4">{{Cite web |date=2025-11-06 |title=President and CEO Dr. Wendy Rheault to Retire After Tenure Marked by Innovation and Community Impact |url=https://www.rosalindfranklin.edu/news/president-and-ceo-dr-wendy-rheault-to-retire-after-tenure-marked-by-innovation-and-community-impact/ |access-date=2025-11-20 |website=Rosalind Franklin University |language=en}}</ref> She is credited with developing a unique interprofessional model of collaborative care which requires RFU students in all six colleges of the university to take a common course in their first quarter aimed at training them to work across disciplines for the best care of patients, and credited with creating RFU's College of Nursing in 2022.<ref name=":3" /><ref name=":4" />
==Life== Rheault was born on August 21, 1955.<ref name=":2">{{Cite thesis |last=Hicks-Rheault |first=Wendy Lee |title=Learning Styles of Physical Therapy Students |date=1989 |degree=Ph.D. |publisher=University of Chicago |oclc=22176222}}</ref> She earned a B.S. in physical therapy from the Queen's University at Kingston.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Wendy Rheault, PT, PhD, FASAHP, FNAP, DipACLM |url=https://www.rosalindfranklin.edu/academics/faculty/wendy-rheault/ |access-date=2024-02-04 |website=Rosalind Franklin University |language=en}}</ref> She received a master's degree in curriculum and instruction and a Ph.D. in measurement, evaluation, and statistical analysis from the University of Chicago department of education.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |date=2019-07-24 |title=Wendy Rheault Is the New President of Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science |url=https://www.wiareport.com/2019/07/wendy-rheault-is-the-new-president-of-rosalind-franklin-university-of-medicine-and-science/ |access-date=2024-02-04 |website=Women In Academia Report}}</ref> Her dissertation was titled, ''Learning Styles of Physical Therapy Students''.<ref name=":2" /> Benjamin Drake Wright was Rheault's doctoral advisor.<ref name=":2" />
Using the Rasch model, Rheault conducts psychometric analyses of clinical and educational measurement instruments.<ref name=":0" /> At the Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science, she was the associate dean of the college of health professions for ten years before being promoted to dean from 2003 to 2014.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" /> In 2008, she was appointed vice president of academic affairs.<ref name=":0" /> She served as provost from 2014 to 2018.<ref name=":1" /> In January 2019, she became the interim president.<ref name=":1" /> She formally assumed the role on July 1, 2019.<ref name=":0" /> She is the first female president of the university.<ref name=":1" />
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