Shirley Dumassais is a research agent in the Wittich Vision Impairment Research Laboratory at the Université de Montréal. She is also a research trainee on Team 17 of the Canadian Consortium on Neurodegeneration in Aging, specialized in sensory and cognitive aging. Her research focuses on optimizing the professional administration of cognitive tests to individuals living with sensory impairment using a knowledge transfer and exchange approach. She obtained a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Concordia University and completed a Master of Science in Vision Science at the Université de Montréal, in Quebec, Canada. Research interests: Cognition, Cognitive evaluation, Dual sensory impairment, Hearing impairment, Knowledge transfer and exchange, Vision impairment.