Shannon Scott is a Professor and Dean in the Faculty of Nursing at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada. Previously, she held the Canada Research Chair in Knowledge Translation in Child Health for a decade. Her research program (ECHO - translating Evidence in Child Health to enhance Outcomes) aims to improve the health outcomes of children in Canada through the application of the best research evidence. As a founding co-Director of TREKK (Translating Emergency Knowledge for Kids), a Knowledge Mobilization Initiative funded by the Networks of Centres of Excellence program in Canada, she is actively improving the outcomes of children needing emergency care throughout the country. She is a Distinguished Researcher funded by the Stollery Science Lab program, a Canadian Academy of Health Sciences Fellow and was inducted into the Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Scholars, Artists in Scientists. She has held more than $8 million dollars of research funding as Principal Investigator and over $35 million as a co-investigator. She has published over 240 papers in peer reviewed journals, delivered more than 600 presentations around the globe. She completed a Bachelor of Nursing degree with distinction and a Master of Nursing degree at the University of Manitoba, and a PhD in Nursing and a Post-Doctoral Fellowship at Alberta Research Centre for Health Evidence in the Department of Pediatrics in the Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry at the University of Alberta, both funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research.