Dr. Louise Pilote (MD, PhD) is a Professor of Medicine at McGill University where she holds a James McGill chair. She is a Practicing General Internist and led the McGill Division of General Internal Medicine from 2006-2016. She has had the privilege to be a Clinician Scientist at Research Institute of the McGill University Health Center for the past 25 years. Dr. Pilote is an internationally recognized Sex and Gender Scientist, a leader in cardiovascular research and a pioneer in comparative effectiveness of cardiovascular drug and devices using Big Data with a focus on sex differences. She has developed novel methodologies for measuring gender to evaluate its impact on health outcome or heath outcomes). Dr. Pilote leads the Gender Outcomes International Group to Further Well-being Development (GOING-FWD), a data science and personalized medicine project. Dr. Pilote brings her expertise in sex and gender sciences to bridge basic to epidemiological sciences through a translational outlook through the life span. Dr. Pilote strives to build capacity not only from a scientific discovery standpoint but also through advocacy and engagement with policy makers, and as a mentor to the next generation of scientists.