Anne Lyddiatt is a National Trainer with the Patient Partners in Arthritis Program and resides in Ingersoll, Ontario. Ms. Anne Lyddiatt's work experience in nursing was primarily in the areas of administration, education and community health. A diagnosis of inflammatory arthritis necessitated leaving the work force but once her disease was under control, she became active in volunteer activities. Fifteen years ago, Ms. Lyddiatt joined a volunteer program, Patient Partners in Arthritis. In this program, she was trained in basic clinical musculoskeletal examination skills to a level enabling her to lead educational sessions with medical students, residents and health care professionals within the medical school curriculum and CME (continuing medical education) events. Her involvement in the program evolved and, for the past twelve years, Anne has been the national trainer. Twelve Canadian medical schools include the program in their curriculum, so her duties also involve maintaining standardization of the program and ensuring resources and training are up to date. Anne has served on and continues to serve on various groups and boards to help in the development of selfmanagement guidelines and tools for chronic disease management, at both the patient and professional level. PLENARY II Friday, 22 May 2015 9:00 to 10:30 am Title: A patient perspective about SPOR The Strategy for Patient Oriented Research (SPOR) is a Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) initiative designed to integrate funding, research and health care with the goal of ensuring that the research is patient oriented and that it is designed to go from bench to bedside. In other words the basic research proposal would demonstrate how research done in a lab/research setting would be transmitted to healthcare providers and actively implemented in daily practice. How and where do patients fit with and contribute to this initiative? This talk will present the point of view of patients and their approach to research. Anne will navigate through the possibilities and opportunities, but also the barriers and challenges that patient oriented research brings to the table.