Dr. Karen Choong is a Professor in the Departments of Pediatrics and Critical Care, and the Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact at McMaster University. A graduate of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, she is board certified in Neonatology and Pediatric Critical Care Medicine. Professor Choong is a member of the Canadian Critical Care Trials Group, an associate editor of the Journal of Pediatric Intensive Care, and Vice-Chair of the ICU Liberation Committee for the Society of Critical Care Medicine. Her research program entitled Exercise and Early Rehabilitation in Critically Ill Children, a Systematic Evaluation (ExERCISE), is focused on PICU based rehabilitation and patient centered outcomes in critically ill children. Her list of publications is available at http://www.researchgate.net/profile/Karen_Choong