Dr. Al-Hertani is the Chief and the Medical Director of the Metabolic Disorders Division at Rady Children's Health. Prior to this role she held the Harvey Levy Endowed Chair in Metabolic Genetics at Boston Children's Hospital, Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and Medical Director for the Metabolism, Lysosomal, Glycogen Storage Disease and the Metabolism Newborn Screening diagnostic follow-up programs at Boston Children's Hospital (BCH). Dr. Al-Hertani received her Doctor of Medicine degree from Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, followed by the completion of a Medical Genetics residency at the University of Ottawa and a Medical Biochemical Genetics fellowship at the Hospital for Sick Children and the University of Toronto.