Saunders’ primary areas of clinical practice are general paediatric hospitalist medicine and outpatient consultant general paediatrics. She consults on a wide spectrum of acute and chronic childhood conditions requiring tertiary level assessment or management and has a clinical focus on children and youth with complex, often diagnostically challenging, comorbid physical and mental health conditions. Her research interests include mental health system performance, access to and quality of care for immigrant children and youth with a specific focus on injuries and mental health, and primary care delivery and using large linked health and administrative databases. She also serves as an Associate Editor at Archives of Diseases in Childhood.