Professor Ward is a clinical haematologist based at Royal North Shore hospital, with an academic appointment in the Faculty of Medicine, University of Sydney. His clinical interests are in coagulation, particularly venous thromboembolism and platelet disorders, myeloproliferative disorders and myeloma. He runs the thrombosis and anticoagulation clinics at RNS and supervises outpatient management of venous thrombosis. Dr Ward is the lead investigator at RNS for clinical trials of new anticoagulants and therapies for thrombocytopenia.

 As Director of Research for the Department of Haematology and Transfusion Medicine, he supervises several research groups investigating platelet function disorders, hypercoagulable states including cancer-related thrombosis, myeloproliferative disorders and the development of stem cell-based therapies. Dr Ward coordinates undergraduate teaching in the Department and supervises a number of postgraduate students in research and clinical trial posts. Currently, he is Co-Chair of Cancer Research at the Northern campus and Vice-President of the Australasian Society of Thrombosis and Haemostasis.