She is a practicing pediatric endocrinologist at the Stollery Children’s Hospital, University of Alberta. Dr. Haqq has a strong clinical and research interest in disorders of energy balance in humans including childhood obesity and its complications (insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes), Prader-Willi Syndrome (PWS) and other genetic forms of childhood obesity, and hypothalamic-derived obesity. Her basic research has focused on understanding the molecular role of the melanocortin-4 receptor (MC4-R), which plays an important role in energy homeostasis in both rodents and humans.