He also serves as the Assistant Medical Director for the Clinical and Translational Study Unit at Boston Children's Hospital. He is interested in rare genetic causes of growth disorders and the use of next-generation sequencing technologies to understand pediatric endocrine disorders. Mathieu Ferron, PhD, is an Assistant Professor and Director of the Integrative and Molecular Physiology Research Unit at the Institut de recherches cliniques de Montréal in Montréal, QC, Canada. He is also an active member of the Montreal Diabetes Research Center and an assistant professor at the Department of Medicine at University of Montréal. He is researching the role of vitamin K-dependent proteins in glucose and bone metabolism.