Sheryl Izzi earned her Undergraduate Degree in Nursing Science at the University of Ottawa in Ottawa Ontario. She worked as a clinical nurse in the critical care and has been a Clinical Manager for 23 years at an Academic Health Sciences Centre in the areas of Intensive Care, Obstetrics, and Ambulatory Care. She is currently the clinical manager of the Endocrine and Diabetes Centre, The Arthritis Centre and the Internal Medicine and Surgery Clinics at The Ottawa Hospital.