Dr. Pillai Riddell is the Tier 1 York Research Chair in Pain and Mental Health, a Full Professor, and Director of the Opportunities to Understand Childhood Hurt Laboratory (OUCH Lab; www.yorku.ca/ouchlab) in the Department of Psychology of York University in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She is also a registered clinical psychologist, focused on perinatal/parent mental health, infant mental health, and chronic pain. She is also involved extensively in supporting EDI initiatives in research ecosystems. She is the Nominated Principal Investigator for DIVERT Mental Health- a multi-million dollar CIHR-funded national training program in setting out to disrupt the Canadian mental health system by innovating curriculum for mental health trainees that focuses on more diverse knowledges and leverages technology to make services accessible to more Canadians (divertmentalhealth.ca). DIVERT Mental Health has partnered with more than 30 other academic, industry, health services, and NGO organizations across Canada. Pillai Riddell is a fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences and a member of the Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Scholars, Artists, and Scientists. She was also recently awarded the 2020 Canadian Pain Society’s Outstanding Mentorship Award and the 2019 American Pain Society’s Jeffrey Lawson Award for Advocacy in Children’s Pain.