Mary Jo Haddad

[2] During the eight years she spent in Michigan, Haddad earned a Bachelor of Nursing degree from the University of Windsor (UWindsor)[4] and started a private practice with Leeann Wiseman where she did home visits to families whose children had nearly died as infants.

[5] In 1984, Haddad was offered an assistant nurse manager position at The Hospital for Sick Children's neonatal intensive care unit.

[6] After Alan Gayer departed as the head of Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children in 2004, she was named his acting president and CEO which eventually became permanent.

[7][6] In recognition of her health care leadership, Haddad was honoured by her alma mater, St. Clair College, with their Alumni of Distinction Award[8] and by UWindsor with an honorary doctor of laws degree.

[13] Upon stepping down from The Hospital for Sick Children, Bob Harding funded the establishment of the Mary Jo Haddad Nursing Chair in Child Health Research at SickKids and her alma mater, UofT.