Nancy Maltez, MD, FRCPC, is a Clinical Scholar at The Ottawa Hospital’s Division of Rheumatology. She completed her undergraduate and medical school training at the University of Ottawa. Dr. Maltez remains affiliated with the University of Ottawa, where she is currently completing her MSc in Clinical Epidemiology within the Clinician Investigator Program. She receives support from The Ottawa Hospital’s Department of Medicine Academic Scholarship. Her main research interests include the use of autologous stem cell transplantation in systemic sclerosis and the treatment of Raynaud’s phenomenon.