Dr. Micheline Piquette-Miller (BSc Pharm, PhD, FCSPS) is a Professor and Associate Dean of Research at the Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy at the University of Toronto. Dr. Piquette-Miller completed a BSc. in Pharmacy and PhD in Pharmacokinetics at the University of Alberta and a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of California in San Francisco. Her research focuses on understanding the regulation of transporter proteins and drug safety in pregnancy. She has been investigating the influence of maternal disease and environmental factors on the regulation of drug and nutrient transporters in placenta and fetal tissues, as well as the impact on fetal exposure to their substrates and how this influences maternal and fetal health. She has published over 140 research articles and has been the recipient of many prestigious national and international research awards. She has previously served on the executive councils of the American Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics (ASCPT), the Canadian Society of Pharmacology and Therapeutics (CSPT) and the Canadian Society of Pharmaceutical Sciences (CSPS) and is a former associate editor of Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics. She currently serves as chair of the Global Partnerships Committee for the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics (ASPET) and is on the editorial boards of Drug Metabolism and Disposition, and Pharmaceutics.