Dr. Micheline Piquette-Miller (BSc Pharm, PhD, FCSPS) is a Professor and Associate Dean of Research at the Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy at the University of Toronto. Dr. Piquette-Miller completed a BSc in Pharmacy and PhD in Pharmacokinetics at the University of Alberta and a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of California in San Francisco. Her research focuses on understanding the regulation of transporter proteins and drug safety. She has been investigating the influence of maternal disease and environmental factors on the regulation of drug and nutrient transporters in placenta and fetal tissues and the impact on fetal exposure to their substrates. She has published over 130 research articles and has been the recipient of many prestigious national and international research awards. She has previously served on the executive councils of the American Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics (ASCPT), the Canadian Society of Pharmacology and Therapeutics (CSPT) and Canadian Society for Pharmaceutical Sciences (CSPS), and is a former associate editor of Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics. She currently serves as chair of the Partnerships Committee for the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics (ASPET) and is on the editorial boards of Drug Metabolism and Disposition, and Pharmaceutics.