Dawn Stacey is an internationally renowned researcher enabling impact on practice and policy through advancing the science of supporting patients' involvement in making healthcare decisions. She leads national and international initiatives to synthesize evidence and develop standards for translating scientific knowledge into patient decision-aids, and has created innovative implementation resources including decision coaching protocols and online training programs. Her evidence-based knowledge tools and learning activities are publicly available, used in clinical practice and for continuing education of healthcare professionals, and have directly influenced health policy in Canada, the United States, Australia, Denmark, and Norway.