Dr. Amy Metcalfe is an Associate Professor in the Departments of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Medicine, and Community Health Sciences at the University of Calgary. She is the Maternal and and Child Health Program Director for the Alberta Children’s Hospital Research Institute and co-leads the CIHR-funded GROWW (Guiding interdisciplinary Research on girls and Women’s health and Wellbeing) national training program (growwprogram.com). Her research focuses on optimizing the management of chronic disease during pregnancy. Underlying this program of research is a focus on validation of existing data sources for use in research and application of novel statistical methods to answer clinically relevant questions.