Dr. Melissa Lem is a Vancouver family physician who also works in rural and northern communities within Canada. President of the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment, she has been involved in advocacy and policy work on a broad range of issues including climate change, heat illness, wildfires, fracking and LNG, air pollution, active transportation, toxics and sustainable health care. As a climate change panellist on CBC Radio's Early Edition, in-house medical columnist for CBC TV Vancouver and Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia, one of her major priorities is knowledge translation. Dr. Lem was the inaugural winner of University College’s Young Alumni of Influence Award at the University of Toronto, and recipient of a 2024 YWCA Women of Distinction Award for Environmental Sustainability and 2022 Adult Nature Inspiration Award from the Canadian Museum of Nature.