Thomas Hadjistavropoulos is Professor of Psychology, University of Regina and Past-President of the Canadian Psychological Association (CPA). He is internationally recognized as an authority on pain among seniors and on ethical issues in health care with his methodologies now being applied by researchers and clinicians all over the world. He has shown leadership in the promotion of the health sciences at the local, national and international level and has been honoured through a long list of prestigious awards and distinctions including a Canadian Pain Society Distinguished Career Award, the M. Powell Lawton Award for Distinguished Contributions to Clinical Geropsychology (Society for Clinical Geropsychology, American Psychological Association), a Saskatchewan Health Research Foundation Achievement Award and many others.