Helen Leask

Class of 2018

Helen Leask is an award-winning medical writer and Certified Professional Facilitator (CPF). She currently earns her living facilitating meetings of senior medical professionals to explore new visions for Canadian healthcare. For almost 20 years, Leask ran a Canadian healthcare communications consultancy, as well as a qualitative research company aimed at understanding the patient-physician divide. Helen has a PhD in zoology from the University of Bristol, UK, and a private pilot’s licence. She is the founder of an international writing award, The SCRIPT Award, and her publishing label has published 12 books for patients sold in bookstores worldwide. She is an invited lecturer at Laurentian University and the University of Toronto, and is currently working on a blog exploring the nature of love (what-is-love.ca).