Sabrina Poirier worked within the private, public and not-for-profit sectors for over 20 years. Her work in politics, education and community development helped shape her perspective and fine tune her approach to meaningful engagement and positive systems change. 

Sabrina is a co-founder of the ICanCME Research Network, the Chair of its Working Group on Trainee Development and Medical Education and a member of the 2023-2025 Community Leadership Team.

From 2018-2021, she served as a Research Ambassador for the Institute of Musculoskeletal Health and Arthritis (IMHA) at the Canadian Institutes for Health Research (CIHR) and from 2020-2023 as a Community Advisory Committee member for the NIH-funded Collaborative Research Centers Network in the US. She is currently collaborating with the US National Institute for Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS-NIH), Research Triangle Institute (RTI), and other subject matter experts as a member of the Common Data Elements (CDE) Teams for PEM and Cognitive Testing.

Sabrina uses her knowledge, skills, expertise and personal experience as an individual living with ME (and several common comorbidities), in the fight to have the illness understood, cared for, researched and removed from the shadows once and for all.