Dr. Leanne Ward is a Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Ottawa where she has held a Research Chair in Pediatric Bone Health since 2010. She is the Scientific Director of the Ottawa Pediatric Bone Health Research Group, the Medical Director of the Pediatric Bone Health and Rare Bone Disease Clinic at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO), a Senior Scientist at the CHEO Research Institute, and a Pediatric Endocrinologist in the Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism at CHEO. Dr. Ward’s research program is dedicated to the study of bone development, and the diagnosis and treatment of bone disorders, in children with osteogenesis imperfecta, hypophosphatemic rickets, and osteoporosis due to chronic illnesses (e.g. cancer, Duchenne muscular dystrophy, and rheumatic disorders). She has served as an advisor to various international organizations including the Centres for Disease Control Clinical Care Guidelines for Duchenne muscular dystrophy, The International Late Effects of Childhood Cancer Guideline Harmonization Group, and the International Society for Clinical Densitometry. She is the Founder and Chair of the Canadian Consortium for Children’s Bone Health, the Chair of the Scientific Planning Committee for the 2021 International Conference on Children’s Bone Health, and the Principal Investigator of the Canadian STeroid-induced Osteoporosis in the Pediatric Population (STOPP) study. Read more Read less