Dr. Lara Boyd is a Professor and Distinguished University Scholar at the University of British Columbia. She is both a Neuroscientist and Physical Therapist. Dr. Boyd directs the Brain Behaviour Lab at the University of British Columbia, which performs research that tests ideas surrounding how behaviour and brain health affect learning. Dr. Boyd was recruited to the University of British Columbia in 2006 to take a Canada Research Chair position. Since that time, she has established the Brain Behaviour Lab, recruited and trained over 80 graduate students, published more than 200 papers and been awarded over $25 million in research dollars. She has won numerous awards for her research and mentorship including: the Killam Research Prize (2023), Wall Scholar (2020), John McNeill Mentorship award (2019), and the Tony Hakim Prize (2016). In 2017 Dr. Boyd was elected to the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences. She served as the Health Research Advisor to the Vice-President of Research at the University of British Columbia from 2014-2021 and sat on the Canadian Institutes for Health Research University Delegates executive committee from 2015-2021. Dr. Boyd’s TEDx talk on learning and brain plasticity (“After this your brain will not be the same”; www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNHBMFCzznE) has been viewed by over 40 million people.