Dr. Denise Campbell-Scherer is a Professor in the Department of Family Medicine, and the Associate Dean of the Office of Lifelong Learning and Physician Learning Program at the University of Alberta. She completed a Bachelors in Engineering at the Royal Military College of Canada, and a PhD in Pathology at Queen's University prior to studying Medicine at the University of Toronto, graduating in 2000. She completed residency in family medicine at McMaster University in 2002. She has worked in rural Northern Canada, the University of Michigan, and the University of Alberta as a family physician, with extensive experience in residency education and evidence-based medicine. As co-lead of the Physician Learning Program Dr. Campbell-Scherer’s team focuses on crossing the quality chasm by creating clinically actionable information and engaging with physicians, teams, partners, and patients to co-create sustainable solutions to advance practice (albertaplp.ca). She heads interdisciplinary research teams, The 5As Team (5AsT) Program (https://obesitycanada.ca/5as-team) and The Illuminate Lab. 5AsT aims to improve the primary care of patients living with obesity, and has culminated in Dr Campbell-Scherer serving on the executive of the 2020 Canadian Adult Obesity Guidelines. Most recently, she co-lead with Dr Yvonne Chiu of the Multicultural Health brokers Co-operative, the Illuminate Project which sought to understand and mitigate the entangled impacts of COVID-19 on people in vulnerable circumstances in ethnocultural communities. In addition, she has been an active co-lead and co-investigator on several large national and provincial research grants including BETTER, BETTER2, and BETTERWISE projects (www.better-program.ca) that are seeking to transform primary prevention and screening of multiple conditions in diverse regions of Canada.