BIOGRAPHY: Linda is a former executive healthcare leader and Chief Nurse Executive who has worked locally, nationally, and internationally in healthcare over the last 35 years. Linda has worked clinically, in education, research, and administration, throughout the continuum of care in healthcare. Linda is an expert in quality improvement and performance measurement and has worked extensively in the quality and patient safety fields in healthcare. Linda is also a patient and lives with spinal stenosis, osteoarthritis, fibromyalgia, and degenerative disc disease and has lived with chronic pain for 20 years. Linda is a Patient Engagement Research Ambassador (PERA) for the Institute of Musculoskeletal Health and Arthritis with the Canadian Health Research Institutes (CIHR) and is a member of the Institute’s Advisory Board. She has co-developed online educational modules for patients/researchers about Patient Engagement in Research. Linda is a member of the Canadian Arthritis Patient Alliance (CAPA) and is a member of the Fibromyalgia Association of Canada. Linda states: “It is vital that the patient voice is respected, listened to, and incorporated into change in the delivery of health care services, including research. Patients are experts about their disease and the lived experience; it is imperative that they are included in the development of plans of what is researched and help bring that to the clinical world.” Linda is a Patient Co- Investigator for the Clinical Trails Training Platform research grant funded by CIHR called CANTRAIN and is the Nation Stream Coordinator for the Community Partners/Patient stream.