Knowing even small changes in health care can have a big impact on someone’s life inspires Pamela Mathura. It fuels her passion for quality improvement and it is what led her to pursue a degree in health quality, becoming one first students to enroll in Queen’s health quality doctoral program. Now Mathura, a quality improvement and implementation scientist at Alberta Health Services, is set to walk the convocation stage this spring as Queen’s University’s very first PhD in health quality graduate.