Allied health professionals play a unique and vital role in clinical care and furtherance of clinical research. Allied health professionals (AHP) is a term that refers to a large group of health professionals that make up to 50–60% of the workforce in hospitals and clinics in the USA and Canada (University of California San Francisco, 2012; Association of Canadian Community Colleges, 2012). Due to their sheer numbers, AHPs are considered to be central to the delivery of health care around the world and are found working jointly with physicians, nurses and pharmacists in delivery of patient care. Definitions of allied health professions vary across countries and contexts, but generally indicate that they are health professions distinct from medicine, dentistry, optometry, and nursing (Arena, Goldberg, Ingersoll, Larsen, & Shelledy, 2011). Some definitions only include health care providers that require registration by law to practice, but usually all allied health professions require a post-secondary degree or higher qualifications. In the United States Code of Federal Regulations (CFR, Title 42: Public Health), allied health is defined by exclusion. The Allied Health Professional Development Fund (AHPDF) of Ontario, which provide grants for professional development opportunities lists the following AHP as eligible professions: Physiotherapists, Occupational therapists, Respiratory therapists, Audiologists, Speech-Language Pathologists, Dieticians, Medical Laboratory Technologists, Pharmacists, and Medical Radiation Technologists. They are involved in the delivery of health or related services pertaining to identification, evaluation and prevention of diseases and disorders, dietary and nutrition services, and health system managements. Ambulatory health care settings are by far the largest employer of allied health workers: almost half (49.4% ) of all allied health workers are employed in ambulatory care, with 28.7% and 21.9% employed in hospital and nursing care, respectively (Help Wanted: Will California Miss Out on the Next Billion-Dollar Growth Industry?).