Dr. Polatajko, Ph.D., is an internationally respected occupational therapy scholar and teacher and a valued mentor. She has well over 300 publications, has done over 550 presentations in more than 20 countries, and has held over $12,000,000 in grants. Her work has focused on occupation and its enablement. Prominent among her contributions are co-authorship of the internationally acclaimed Canadian Occupational Performance Measure and the two Enabling Occupation books and leading the creation and development of the Cognitive Orientation to daily Occupational Performance approach. Dr. Polatajko has been granted numerous top awards and distinctions including the Muriel Driver Lectureship, the Canadian Association of Occupational Therapist's highest award. She was one of the first non-Americans to be elected to The American Occupational Therapy Foundation’s Academy of Research, was named a Fellow of the Canadian Association of Occupational Therapists, and a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences, was made a lifetime member of the Ontario Society of Occupational Therapists, and a lifetime member of the Canadian Association of Occupational Therapists (2020). Most recently, she received an honorary LLD from Western University and made an Officer of the Order of Canada.