Professor of Pediatrics, Chair of the Division of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine of the Schulich School of Medicine, The University of Western Ontario. Also, the Director of Children’s Health Research Institute, Canada Research Chair in Maternal and Fetal Health and Douglas and Vivian Bocking Chair in Fetal and Newborn Growth. Internationally recognized researcher in molecular mechanisms of fetal and placental growth and his research focuses on mechanisms underlying fetal growth restriction, prematurity and pregnancy associated diseases such as preeclampsia and their impact of fetal growth and health and short- and long-term outcomes in neonatal, child and youth health.