Dr. Rita Kandel is a clinician-scientist and Professor and Chair of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology. As well she is the Chief of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at Sinai Health System and Women's College Hospital, Toronto, Canada. She is cross-appointed to the Department of Surgery and is a member of the Institute of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Toronto. Among her many awards, she is a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences. Her work is funded by multiple organizations including CIHR, Collaborative Health Research Program and NSERC. She has also published over 240 papers and multiple book chapters and has trained numerous undergraduate and graduate students and post-doctoral fellows.