Stasia Hadjiyannakis MD, FRCPC

Biography

Dr. Stasia Hadjiyannakis received her medical degree from the University of Toronto in 1996 and completed her pediatrics residency at Queen’s University with an endocrine fellowship at McGill University. She worked as a visiting professor at the University of California, San Francisco in 2003 where she received more in-depth training in the area of pediatric obesity and lipid disorders. Dr. Hadjiyannakis has been a pediatric endocrinologist at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO) in the Division of Endocrinology since 2001. Her clinical, advocacy and research interests are in the area of pediatric obesity and related co-morbidities. Her research interests are in examining the interplay between behavioural/psychosocial, genetic and intrauterine factors in predicting risk for obesity-related co-morbidities.