Sandra Peláez is an educational psychologist by training, specialised in behaviour change aimed at health promotion and chronic and acute disease prevention. She completed her education with a master's degree (Spain) and doctoral and postdoctoral studies (Quebec). Throughout her career, she has trained and mentored health care students interested in qualitative research as a methodology to gain insight into the perspectives of patients, physicians, and healthcare professionals. Sandra Peláez is a researcher at the CIRCUIT center of the CHU Sainte-Justine (Pediatric Center for Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation), which offers innovative strategies for the treatment or prevention of cardiovascular disease in children. She also actively collaborates with the Empowering Next-Generation Researchers in Perinatal and Child Health/Canadian Child Health Clinician Scientist Program (ENRICH/CCHCSP) program as a member of the curriculum development and selection committees.