Dr. Herridge is a Professor in the University of Toronto Department of Medicine, a Senior Scientist in the Toronto General Hospital Research Institute and Director of the RECOVER Program and Grace RECOVER Longterm Ventilation Program. She has been the lead or co-lead on 5 publications in the New England Journal of Medicine and has published over 170 original articles and book chapters on patient and caregiver outcomes after critical illness. She has been the co-editor of the first two international textbooks on patient and family outcomes after critical illness. She has received several international research distinctions including the Dr. F. Marguerite Hill Lecturer (2015), Honorary Member of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (2016), Lifetime Achievement Award in Critical Care from the American Thoracic Society (2018), the University of Toronto Eaton Scholar Researcher of the Year Award (2019) and the Deborah Cook Mentorship Award from the Canadian Critical Care Trials Group (2020).