Dr. Dort is a head and neck surgeon and professor in the departments of Surgery, Oncology and Community Health Sciences at the University of Calgary Cumming School of Medicine. He serves as the Executive Director of the Ohlson Research Initiative, a head and neck cancer translational research program that he founded in 2009. Joe has held several senior positions in the Department of Surgery and AHS. Dr. Dort also held a variety of senior executive positions with the Canadian Society of Otolaryngology—Head & Neck Surgery and served as its President in 2009–2010. Dr. Dort did his ORL residency at the University of Manitoba and completed a clinical fellowship in Skull Base Surgery at the University of Zurich. He holds an MSc in Epidemiology from the Harvard School of Public Health and is a graduate of the Intermountain Healthcare Advanced Training Program in Healthcare Delivery Improvement. Joe founded the Ohlson Research Initiative (ORI) in 2009 and the ORI has a national and international reputation in head and neck cancer clinical outcomes research, surgical enhanced recovery research, and the design and delivery of innovative surgical care for patients with head and neck cancer. The ORI also has established programs in head and neck tumour biology and the use of virtual reality for surgical simulation. Joe’s passion and primary academic focus is clinical effectiveness research that will improve the design and delivery of healthcare.