Aimee Ward graduated from Washington State University with a Bachelor degree in Kinesiology and worked for ten years in cardiac rehabilitation in Portland, Oregon. She then went back to school at Oregon State University, where she pursued and received her Master degree in International Public Health. She has conducted research in public health at organizations in the U.S., Taiwan, France and New Zealand. Currently Aimee holds several positions at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand, as a teaching fellow at the Otago Medical School, as an Assistant Research Fellow at the School of Physiotherapy, and is also a PhD student in Public Health. She is currently on maternity leave, caring for her first child, a daughter called Anna Belle.
New Zealand professor Katrina Bryant and colleagues describe their work with patient-centered research resulting in an art exhibit that conveys a cultural experience of disability.