I have been interested in anxiety and cognitive-behaviour therapy since my undergraduate days. When I was applying to graduate school experts in CBT were scarce and scattered across Canada. I was fortunate to land in the lab of Dr. David A. Clark who studied with Jack Rachman at the Institute of Psychiatry in London and did a post-doc with Aaron T. Beck at the then-new Centre for Cognitive Therapy. I was very fortunate to complete my Residency under the supervision of Dr. Martin Antony at the Centre for Mental Health and Addiction (then known as the Clark Institute of Psychiatry) and had the opportunity to join Dr. Zindel Segal and his team down the hall at the Cognitive Therapy Unit for rounds and research talks, in which the early studies on the use of mindfulness to prevent depressive relapse were first being conducted. For the past three decades my own program of research has been directed at understanding the development and persistence of obsessions and compulsions, as well as aspects of anxiety, such as attentional biases to threat. As a committed scientist-practitioner I have always provided treatment services, and my research has informed my treatment, and what I learn through conducting treatment heavily informs my research. Since my arrival at the University of Waterloo in 1997 I have taught our graduate course in CBT. It has been most edifying to watch CBT grow from an intervention viewed with great skepticism to one of the most widely accepted therapies in the world. This is in no small part to the highly talented people in Canada who study and practice CBT. I am a huge fan of the Canadian Association of Cognitive Behaviour Therapy and am proud to serve on the board.