Walla Al-Hertani | Medical Services
Specialties
Programs & Services
Walla Al-Hertani | Education
Undergraduate School
Dalhousie University
1999, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Graduate School
Dalhousie University
2001, Dalhousie University, Canada
Medical School
Dalhousie University
2005, Dalhousie University, Canada
Residency
University of Ottawa, Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario
2010, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Fellowship
University of Toronto, Hospital for Sick Children
2012, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Walla Al-Hertani | Professional History
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