Walla Al-Hertani

Dr. Walla Al-Hertani is a Medical Biochemical Geneticist and a Clinical Geneticist practicing at Boston Children’s Hospital and an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Al-Hertani received her Doctor of Medicine degree from Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, followed by the completion of her Clinical Genetics residency in Ottawa and a Biochemical Genetics fellowship at the Hospital for Sick Children and the University of Toronto. She is currently the Director of the Lysosomal Diseases Program, Glycogen Storage Diseases Program and the Assistant director of the Metabolism program at Boston Children’s Hospital. She is actively involved with a number of clinical trials investigating innovative therapies for rare diseases.

Dr. Al-Hertani also specializes in inborn errors off metabolism, lysosomal storage diseases, Glycogen Storage Diseases, Gaucher disease, Pompe Disease, Niemann Pick Disease Type C, MPSI, MPSII, MPSIII, MPSIVA, MPSVI, GSD1a, GSD1b, GSD3, GSD6, GSD9, Methylmalonic acidemia, Propionic acidemia, X-Linked Adrenoleukodystrophy, Peroxisomal disorders, Mitochondrial disorders and Genetic disorders

Companies

• Harvey Levy Chair and Director of the Metabolism Program, Division of Genetics and Genomics Boston Children's Hospital (2022)
• Director of the Glycogen Storage Diseases (GSD) Program, Division of Genetics and Genomics Boston Children's Hospital (2020)
• Assistant Professor of Pediatrics Harvard Medical School (2019)
• Director of the Lysosomal Storage Disorders (BoLD) Program, Division of Genetics and Genomics Boston Children's Hospital (2019)
• Assistant Director of the Metabolism Program, Division of Genetics and Genomics Boston Children's Hospital (2021 — 2022)
• Clinical Assistant Professor University of Calgary (2014 — 2019)
• Assistant Professor Centre universitaire de santé McGill et IR-CUSM | McGill University Health Centre and RI-MUHC (2012 — 2014)
• Biochemical Genetics (Medical) Fellow The Hospital for Sick Children (2010 — 2012)
• Clinical Genetics Resident CHEO -- Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario (2005 — 2010)

Education

• FCCMG Biochemical Genetics (Medical), Medical Biochemical Genetics Fellowship University of Toronto (2010 - 2012)
• Doctor of Medicine - MD Dalhousie University (2001 — 2005)
• Master of Science - MS Dalhousie University (1999 — 2001)
• Bachelor of Science - BS with Hons Dalhousie University (1995 — 1999)