Jillianne Reay Code (born 1976) is a Canadian researcher and learning scientist. She is an assistant professor in the faculty of Education at the University of British Columbia and director of the Assessment for Learning in Immersion and Virtual Environments (ALIVE) research lab. In addition to her academic scholarship, Code became a public health advocate following her diagnosis of heart failure in 2005 and subsequent surgeries for an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator in 2010 and left ventricular assist device in 2014. She has received two heart transplants and writes about her experiences on her blog Heart Failure to Harvard. Code co-founded the HeartLife Foundation with Marc Bains and Dr. Sean Virani in 2016 and received the Dr. Harold N. Segall Award of Merit from the Canadian Cardiovascular Society in 2019 in recognition of their significant contribution to the prevention of cardiovascular disease and promotion of cardiovascular health in Canadians. Early life and education Code was born in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada and earned her Bachelor of Education and Master's degree from the University of Alberta. On July 18, 2005, she drove from Edmonton to British Columbia where she experienced her first congestive heart failure. She was diagnosed with Idiopathic Cardiomyopathy and given 72 hours to live. Code was stabilized with medical therapy before earning her PhD at Simon Fraser University. As a graduate student, Code was recognized by the American Educational Research Association for her work. With her PhD in educational psychology, Code accepted a one-year post-doctoral research fellowship at the Harvard Graduate School of Education in Assessment and Learning Technologies. During her post-doctoral fellowship Code had surgery for an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator She was later hospitalized with end-stage heart failure and placed on the heart transplant waiting list, during which she received a left ventricular assist device. A donor was found in 2014 but complications during the surgery led to her being sent into a medically induced coma for eight days. When she awoke from her coma, it was discovered that she had severe delirium and muscle atrophy. Her heart transplant journey is documented on her blog Heart Failure to Harvard and in I am the Clinical Trial for the JACC: Heart Failure journal. Career In 2011, Code accepted an assistant professor position at the University of Victoria (UVic) where she co-edited Massive Open Online Courses for the Journal of Online Learning and Teaching and received Outstanding Paper Awards from the World Conference