Sharon Wood-Dauphinee is Professor of Medicine; Physical and Occupational Therapy; and Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health at McGill University. For over 20 years she has conducted studies of people with stroke and has a particular interest in health-related quality of life as a therapeutic outcome and on the scientific evidence upon which the rehabilitation of those with stroke is based. Since 2000, she has been an investigator in the Canadian Stroke Network (NCE). Dr. Wood-Dauphinee holds appointments as a Board Member of the Health Assessment Laboratory in Boston, the McGill University Health Centre, the Reference Centre for Quality of Life in Oncology, Kiel, Germany, and the Foundation for the Advancement of International Medical Education and Research in Philadelphia.