Bethany J. Foster

Dr. Bethany J. Foster is a Professor of Pediatrics, Chair of the Department of Pediatrics at McGill and Pediatrician-in-Chief at the Montreal Children’s Hospital. She is also a pediatric nephrologist and a clinical epidemiologist. She studies the long term outcomes of children and young adults with kidney transplants, focusing in particular on immunosuppressive medication adherence and graft outcomes in adolescent and young adult kidney transplant recipients, whom she has identified to be at particularly high risk of graft loss. Dr. Foster is also an internationally recognized expert on sex differences in transplant outcomes. She chose a career in pediatrics for several reasons including a fascination with the changing biology from fetal life through to infancy, childhood and adolescence, the ability to have a lifelong impact on health by caring for young people who are still developing, the resilience of children, and the hope inherent in caring for our young people.