What role has mentorship played in your life and career? Who were your mentors? And what steps have you taken to act as mentors to others during your career? Mentorship is an important part of your career in aerospace medicine, yet in many cases mentorship happens without our realizing it until later. When I started thinking about this as the theme of my first President’s Page for the June 2024 issue of the Blue Journal, I realized that my first aerospace mentor was my father, who was a pilot with the Royal Canadian Air Force. In addition to exposing me