Pengarang: Andrea L. Gropman

Dr. Andrea Gropman is a Professor of Neurology and Pediatrics at the George Washington Medical School and Health Sciences Center. She is also Chief of Neurogenetics and Neurodevelopmental Pediatrics and attending neurologist at the Children’s National Medical Center in Washington, D.C. She is an expert and consultant in the Medical Genetics Branch at the National Human Genome Research Center at the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, M.D. She received a B.A. in biology and biochemistry from Brandeis University, and an M.D. from the University of Massachusetts Medical School where she received a Hewlett Packard Top Scholar Award. She subsequently trained in pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, M.D., Neurology/Child Neurology at George Washington University, and the Children’s National Medical Center in Washington, D.C., and Genetics and biochemical genetics at the National Institutes of Health. She is board certified in pediatrics, neurology with special competence in child neurology, developmental disabilities, genetics, and biochemical genetics. She divides her time between clinical activities in neurology and neurogenetics at both Children’s National and the NIH where she works on various metabolic protocols and the Undiagnosed diseases program. Dr. Gropman has cared for children with X and Y chromosomal disorders for more than 15 years. She is an active participant in the development of study protocols, specialty clinics for variant XY chromosomal disorders, and research with all children with X and Y chromosomal disorders. She serves on a number of scientific advisory committees and review groups at the institutional, governmental, and national level. Her research focuses on neuroimaging in the urea cycle disorders and other inborn errors of metabolism that affect brain function as she hopes to use the information from this research to identify early markers of neurological damage from metabolic conditions and develop novel therapies.