Prof. David A. Hart is a Professor at the Department of Surgery with a cross-appointment as a Professor at the Faculty of Kinesiology at the University of Calgary. He received his Ph.D. from Michigan State University in Biochemistry and held a Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Immunology at the University of Illinois. His research interests include the regulation of inflammatory processes—critical for many aspects of host defense, involved in the healing response to injury, and contributing to pathologic sequelae (tendons, ligaments, osteoarthritis, cartilage repair, joint contractures), and sex differences in the regulation of such processes across the lifespan. Dr. Hart is currently a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of the Health Sciences and serves on the Editorial Board of three journals. He also maintains a number of international, national, and local collaborations in a variety of research areas.