Dr. Sandy Shultz is a professor in the Department of Nursing, Health and Human Services at Vancouver Island University. After completing his PhD at the University of Western Ontario, he was awarded a CIHR postdoctoral fellowship which he completed in the Department of Medicine at the University of Melbourne. Shultz began his first faculty position (NHMRC Career Development Fellow, associate professor, laboratory head – Monash Trauma Group) at the Department of Neuroscience, Monash University in 2018. He has published over 100 articles on the topic of brain injury and related conditions. He has expertise in blood biomarkers, neuroimaging, behaviour, electrophysiological, cellular, and molecular techniques; and routinely applies these to study brain injury in both patients and animal models.