Medical Advisory Board
The Propionic Acidemia Foundation is honored to include the following metabolic and genetic specialists in our Medical Advisory Board:
Gerard T. Berry M.D., Children’s Hospital Boston 2003-present
For over 20 years, Dr. Berry has held major teaching and clinical positions in pediatrics and metabolism primarily at University Of Pennsylvania, CHOP, George Washington University and most recently at Children’s Hospital Boston. As a recognized expert in inborn errors of metabolism and endocrinology, Dr. Berry is the author of and invited lecturer on topics ranging from hyperammonemia, MSUD and galactosemia to metabolism of inositol in the brain. He has served as principal investigator for numerous research studies and has received numerous NIH grants for his work with galactosemia. Dr. Berry has been an active proponent of expanded newborn screening and serves on several advisory boards and international committees. In 2006, Dr. Berry joined Children’s Hospital Boston as the Director of the Metabolism Program.
Barbara K. Burton, M.D., Northwestern University Medical School and Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, Chicago, IL 2003-present
Dr. Burton is a Professor of Pediatrics at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and an Attending Physician in the Division of Genetics, Birth Defects and Metabolism at the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago. She is a Board-certified biochemical geneticist and has contributed numerous articles to the medical literature related to inborn errors of metabolism She is active in clinical research and has been an investigator in many clinical trials of new therapies for metabolic disorders. In addition, she has served for many years as Chairman of the Newborn Screening Advisory Committee of the Illinois Dept. of Public Health. Dr. Burton is particularly interested in educating physicians on the recognition of early symptoms of metabolic disorders.
William Nyhan, MD, PhD
Pinar Ozand, MD, PhD (2003-2014)
Stuart K. Shapira, MD, PhD (2003-2005)
James Leonard, Ph.D, FRCP (2003-2008)
Mendel Tuchman, MD (2003-2021)