Emily Boucher is a medical student at the University of Calgary and PhD student at the University of Oxford's Wolfson Centre for Prevention of Stroke and Dementia. Her PhD, which is funded by a Rhodes Scholarship and Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Doctoral Award, is on the value of routinely collected data for measuring cognitive and physical frailty in hospitals. She previously obtained a Bachelor of Health Sciences (Honours) degree at the University of Calgary and was an honourary Junior Research Fellow at the National Institute on Ageing based at Toronto Metropolitan University.