Brett D. Thombs, PhD is Professor and Tier I Canada Research Chair at McGill University. He founded and currently directs the Scleroderma Patient-Intervention Network (SPIN), a multinational collaboration of researchers and people with scleroderma that maintains a cohort of more than 3,500 people and conducts trials addressing patient-prioritized needs. He also founded and directs the DEPRESion Screening Data (DEPRESSD) Project, an international collaboration focused on addressing gaps in evidence on depression screening tools. Dr. Thombs has published more than 440 peer-reviewed articles and served as Chair of the Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care from 2017 to 2021, becoming the first non-physician to hold the role.