Mary Law is Professor, Associate Dean (Health Sciences) and Director of the School of Rehabilitation Science at McMaster University. She holds the John and Margaret Lillie Chair in Childhood Disability Research and is currently Co-Director of CanChild Centre for Childhood Disability Research. Her current interests include development and validation of client-centered outcome measures, evaluation of occupational therapy interventions with children, the effect of environmental factors on the participation of children with disabilities in day to day activities, and transfer of research knowledge into practice. The author of 9 books, 33 book chapters, 88 articles, and over 290 presentations, she has also been Chair of the USA NIH Rehabilitation Research Committee and is co-editor of Physical and Occupational Therapy in Pediatrics. Dr. Law has received many honours including the Muriel Driver Lectureship, the top award in Canadian Occupational Therapy, the Whittaker Award for pediatric rehabilitation research and election to the American Occupational Therapy Foundation Academy of Research.