Durhane Wong-Rieger, PhD, is President, Institute for Optimizing Health Outcomes; President; Canadian Organization for Rare Disorders; Chair, Consumer Advocare Network; Past-Chair, International Alliance of Patient Organizations; Co-Chair, HTAi Patient / Citizen Involvement IG; Board, DIA International; Advisory Board, Canadian Institutes of Health Research Institute of Genetics. Durhane has a PhD in psychology from McGill and was professor at University of Windsor, Canada.