Dr. Judy Watt-Watson is a Professor Emerita at the University of Toronto Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing and was Inaugural Executive Director of their Centre for Advanced Studies in Professional Practice. She is President of the Canadian Pain Society, a member of the UofT Centre for the Study of Pain Executive Committee, a Faculty Associate at University Health Network Hospital, and an Associate Scientific Staff member of Department of Medicine, Mount Sinai Hospital. She is a member of the IASP Pain Education Initiatives Working group, chair of their interprofessional pain curriculum sub group, and coordinator of the IASP uniprofessional pain curricula revisions. She led the work to include pain in the Canadian Council on Health Services Accreditation Standards. She was the inaugural chair of the UofT Centre for the Study of Pain Interfaculty Pain Curriculum involving six Health Science Faculties. Her research has focused on a) establishing pain prevalence and related risk factors, particularly for cardiac surgical patients and b) interventions involving health professionals and patients with funding from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and The Heart & Stroke Foundation.