Prior to joining University of Victoria 11 years ago, Elizabeth Borycki spent over 15 years working in health care in varying roles in chronic disease management, geriatrics, case management and health information technology design and implementation management.  She has served as Academic Representative for Canada for Canada’s Health Informatics Association (2007-2013), and Vice President representing North America on the Board of Directors for the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) (2010–2013).  She founded the International Medical Informatics Association Working Group focusing on Health Informatics for Patient Safety and is currently on the Board of Directors of IMIA in August of 2016 as Vice President – Special Projects.