Timothy J. Wood received his PhD in Cognitive Psychology from McMaster University, followed by a one-year post-doc with the Program for Educational Research and Development at McMaster University. He spent 12 years with the Medical Council of Canada (MCC) as a manager, where he helped develop a number of MCC projects including computer and web-based examinations and a national OSCE for international medical graduates. He also provided scoring support to all MCC examinations. Dr. Wood joined the Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa in 2011 with the Academy of Innovation in Medical Education (AIME) and is now a full professor within the Department of Innovation in Medical Education (DIME). In September 2019, he was appointed the Director of Evaluation (UGME) with the Faculty of Medicine. Dr. Wood’s research interests include improving quality assurance measures for the assessment of learners, developing tools to assess the impact of educational interventions, and improvements in the assessment of clinical skills. Of particular research interest is the role of rater cognition especially around the influence of first impressions in the judgments that raters make. Dr. Wood is a Deputy Editor for Advances in Health Sciences Education and serves as a reviewer for a number of journals and research granting agencies. He has served on the executive board for the Canadian Association for Medical Education (CAME), the Scientific Planning Committee for the Canadian Conference on Medical Education (CCME), the Chair of the CCME Abstract selection committee and the chair of DIME’s Health Professions Education Research Grant. He is currently the Director of DIME’s Healthcare Education Scholars Program.