Jonathan Ponesse MD, FRCPC

Biography

Dr. Jonathan Ponesse completed a pediatric neurology residency at the Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) in Toronto in 2005 while developing an interest in childhood neuropsychiatric disorders. He then pursued a developmental and behavioural pediatrics fellowship at the Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospitaland SickKids sites at the University of Toronto. He joined the Division of Developmental Pediatrics in Ottawa in 2007, treating children at both the Ottawa Children’s Treatment Centre and the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO). His clinical interests include autism spectrum disorders, ADHD, cognitive disorders of childhood, psychopharmacology and pediatric sleep disorders. Ongoing research involves neurology and autism spectrum disorders as well as biomedical ethics in early life, reproduction and genetics.