Dr. Doris Howell is cross-appointed as a Professor at the University of Toronto’s Lawrence Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing. She earned her PhD at the Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, in 2003. She held appointments as the RBC Chair, Oncology Nursing Research for 15 years until 2019, as Associate Scientist at the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, University of Toronto and as Co-Director of the Ontario Patient-Reported Outcomes (PROs) Symptom and Toxicity (ON-PROST) Applied Research Unit. She has received the 2020 Canadian Association of Psychosocial Oncology (CAPO) Lifetime Achievement Award. Her research focuses on optimizing the quality of cancer care and empowering patients. Her research expertise includes qualitative and quantitative methods, with specific expertise in qualitative methods (hermeneutic phenomenology) and mixed-method study designs. She is an Emeritus Senior Scientist in the Division of Supportive Care, Princess Margaret Cancer Center Research Institute, and is also an Affiliate Scientist with the ELLICSR Health, Wellness and Cancer Survivorship Center, University Health Network, ON, Canada.