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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