Richard Riopelle is Professor and Chair of Neurology and Neurosurgery at McGill University. His basic biomedical research and intellectual property development have centred on structure activity relationships of neurotrophin systems. He has held leadership positions in research networks, professional bodies, and voluntary health organizations, and serves on advisory committees to the Ministries of Health in Ontario and Quebec. Over the past decade, he has accumulated a significant body of communities-of-interest knowledge mobilization experience for stakeholder needs-driven, client-focused regional health systems innovations for chronic disorders.