In November 2010, a workshop was convened in Toronto with the goal to address the challenge of creating sustainable and stable career paths for health clinician-scientists (defined as any clinician-scientists other than physicians) in academic health science centres. The workshop was sponsored by The Hospital for Sick Children and the Canadian Child and Youth Health Coalition (CCYHC) with a meeting grant (MHD106026) from The Canadian Institutes for Health Research (CIHR) and funding from the CCYHC.