Title: Professor and Chairman of Pediatrics, Emeritus
Company: University of Miami
Location: Coconut Grove, Florida, United States
Affiliations/Associations/Societies:
- American Academy Pediatrics (AAP) (genetics committee)
- American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Fellow
- American College of Medical Genetics (board of directors, treasurer, 1995-1996) (president-elect, 1997-1998) (president, 1999-2000) (former president, 2001-2002) (member foundation, 2003) (president 2006-2010)
- American Medical Association (House of Delegates,1998)
- American Pediatrics Society
- American Society of Human Genetics
- American Society of Neonatal Screening
- Plymouth Church Foundation, Coconut Grove, Florida (board of directors, 2003-2005)
- Cosmos Club, Washington
- John T. Macdonald Foundation, Coral Gables, Florida (Board, 2003-Present)
- Florida Medical Association (FMA)
- Houston Pediatrics Society (president, 1978-1979)
- International Society of Neonatal Screening (president, 2016-2019) (council, 2019)
- Jackson Laboratory Bar Harbor, Maine (trustee, 1985-2003)
- Miami Pediatrics Society
- National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) (chairman ethical, social and legal issues revision group, 1996-2003)
- National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) (National Advisory Council)
- Pi Kappa Alpha
- Society for Pediatrics Research
- Society for the Study of Inborn Errors of Metabolism (president, 1981)
- Texas Medical Association
- The Rip Van Winkle Foundation, Claverack, New York (chairman of the board, 2021) (director, 1987-1992) (president, 1992)
- US Public Health Service (USPHS) (served to senior surgeon, 1960-1964)
Achievements:
- Honoree, Distinguished Worldwide Humanitarian Award (2021)
- Recipient, Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award (2021)
- Recipient, Game Changer Award, Davidson College (2020)
- Recipient, Guthrie Achievement Award, International Society of Neonatal Screening (2020)
- Recipient, Michael Watson Innovation Achievement Award, American College of Genetics and Genomics, (2020)
- Named, One of 30 Rare Diseases Heroes, US Food and Drug Administration (2013)
- Recipient, March Dimes Colonel Harland Sanders Lifetime Achievement Award (2013)
- Lifetime Achievement Award, American College Medical Genetics Foundation (2012)
- Recipient, Birdsong Lecturer Award, University Virginia (2012)
- Recipient, Butterfield Lecturer Award, NICHD, University Colorado (2009)
- Recipient, Lifetime Achievement Award, Duke Medical School (2007)
- Named, Jimmy Simon Honorary Lecturer, Wake Forest University (2005)
- Klauber Lectureship, Greenwood Genetic Center (2004)
- Scholar, Joseph P. Kennedy Junior Senior Research in Mental Retardation (1965-1972)
- Contributor of articles to professional journals
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