Paul’s Hospital Heart Centre and a research scientist with the Centre for Health Evaluation and Outcome Sciences. She is one of the few clinician-scientists in Nursing in British Columbia who has successfully combined an advanced nursing practice role with an active and flourishing research program. Dr. Mackay has led strong interdisciplinary teams in studies examining ethnicity/race-based differences in cardiac outcomes and an innovative, internet-based treatment for depression in cardiac patients, which is associated with increased mortality and morbidity.