Abigail Harrison MBBS, MSc(Epi), DM (Paed) is a senior lecturer and consultant pediatrician/adolescent medicine subspecialist in the Department of Child and Adolescent Health at the University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona and the University Hospital of the West Indies (UHWI), Jamaica. She received her undergraduate medical and post-graduate training in Paediatrics at the UWI, Mona, and later completed a clinical fellowship in Adolescent Medicine at the Hospital for Sick Children/University of Toronto. Her research interests include: optimizing the delivery of adolescent health care services, adolescent resilience, disordered eating behaviours, and transition of care for adolescents living with chronic illnesses. She is currently president of the Caribbean Association for Adolescent Health (CAAH) and the President of the International Chapter of the Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine (SAHM).