Dr. Tuchman received his M.D. from the Sackler School of Medicine at Tel Aviv University. He completed his Pediatric Residency and Fellowship in Metabolism at the University of Minnesota and joined the University's faculty in 1985. Dr. Tuchman moved to Children's National Medical Center in Washington D.C. 1999. He is a pediatric biochemical and molecular geneticist with an interest in inborn errors of metabolism. Dr. Tuchman is a clinical and translational researcher and educator and has received continuous grant support from the NIH for the past 16 years. Among his many accomplishments is finding of one of the urea cycle genes. Dr. Tuchman is currently the Principal Investigator of several NIH grants. He serves as the Program Director of the NIH-funded General Clinical Research Center. Dr. Tuchman has published 140 peer-reviewed articles. He is the past-president of the Society for Inherited Metabolic Disorders; a member of several NIH review panels and research committees and is a board member on several foundations dedicated to research and advocacy of rare diseases.