Pediatric Grand Rounds: The Pediatric Workforce

Mary Leonard, MD, MSCE, is the Arline and Pete Harman Professor and Chair of the Department of Pediatrics at Stanford University School of Medicine and the Adalyn Jay Physician in Chief at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford. Dr. Leonard directs the innovative and trans-disciplinary child and maternal health research and training initiatives of the Stanford Child Health Research Institute. Dr. Leonard joined the Pediatric Nephrology Division in 2014 as Associate Dean of Maternal and Child Health Research. Her multidisciplinary research program is primarily focused on the impact of chronic diseases on bone metabolism and nutrition, with an emphasis on changes in body composition and skeletal density and structure during growth, and in the context of chronic kidney disease and glucocorticoid therapy. She has maintained continuous NIH funding for 17 years. She is the Founding Director of the Stanford Assessment of Bone and Muscle across the Ages (SAMBA) Lab. She also served/serves as the primary mentor on multiple NIH and Foundation career development grants, including (3) F32, (1) K07, and (5) K23 awards. She is a leader in the AMSPDC Pediatrics Workforce Initiative.