SPONSORS

Dr. Korson advocates for innovation in medical education and clinical practice models as a response to the growing crisis in metabolic health care due to the shortage of clinicians available to serve this patient community. He co-founded in 2007 the North American Metabolic Academy, which has become an integral component of genetic resident training on this continent. Between 2007 and 2011, he founded and directed the Metabolic Outreach Service, based at Tufts Medical Center, serving five major teaching hospitals in the northeastern US without an on-site metabolic service. In 2017, Dr. Korson joined VMPGenetics in Atlanta as Director of Education and Director of Physician Support Services, a telehealth consulting practice that assists physicians in the care of their metabolic patients.

Dr. Timothy Lukovits grew up in a small rural town in upstate NY where his great-grand-parents started the first volunteer ambulance service. He attended Dartmouth College, obtained his medical degree at the University of Rochester, then completed his neurology residency at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center before completing a stroke and neurocritical care fellowship at Rush-Presbyterian St. Luke’s Medical Center in Chicago. He has been the Medical Director of the Cerebrovascular Disease and Stroke Program since 2002. He received the AHA Distinguished Leadership Award last in 2012. Under Dr. Lukovits’ leadership, DHMC recently received the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association's Get With The Guidelines®-Stroke Gold Quality Achievement Award. Dr. Lukovits also chairs the Northeast Cerebrovascular Consortium Subacute Care Work Group, is the medical director of the New Hampshire Stroke Collabortive and the Vermont Stroke Executive Steering Committee. Dr. Lukovits has visited and provided education at nearly every hospital in New Hampshire and Vermont and has brokered inter-facility protocols and agreements with multiple hospitals in our region. His recent research has focused on the use of simulation lab training for acute stroke, helicopter transport for acute stroke, and clinical trials involving carotid artery stenting, PFO closure, new thrombolytic agents and antiplatelet medication.ext goes here

Samuel Frank, MD is a movement disorder neurologist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), a teaching hospital for Harvard Medical School. After completing his residency and fellowship at the University of Rochester, he joined the neurology faculty at Boston University from 2004 to 2015. Dr. Frank was the principal investigator for First-HD and ARC-HD and a site investigator for many HD (Huntington Disease) trials. He served as an investigator on the HSG executive committee. He was a member of the National HDSA Board of Trustee and locally serves as the director of the HDSA Center of Excellence at BIDMC. Dr. Frank is the inpatient neurology consultant for the specialized Huntington’s Disease service at Tewksbury State Hospital.

Phillip L. Pearl, M.D. is Director of Epilepsy and Clinical Neurophysiology at Boston Children’s Hospital

and William G. Lennox Chair and Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Pearl, originally

from Baltimore, attended Johns Hopkins University and Peabody Conservatory of Music and University

of Maryland School of Medicine. He took his residency at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston and

fellowship at Boston Children’s Hospital. He was Division Chief of Neurology at Children’s National

Medical Center and Professor of Neurology, Pediatrics, and Music at the George Washington University

School of Medicine until returning to Boston in January 2014. Dr. Pearl also is a faculty member of the

Music and Health Institute at the Berklee College of Music in Boston. His major research interest is

inherited metabolic epilepsies with specific focus on disorders of GABA metabolism. Dr. Pearl is Past

President of the Professors of Child Neurology and the Child Neurology Society. He has authored over

220 peer-reviewed manuscripts and over 150 chapters and reviews, written or edited five books

including one translated into Chinese and another into Japanese, and produced two musical CDs, the

first of which had its debut at Georgetown’s famous Blues Alley and supports the care of indigent

children in the capital city, Washington, D.C.

Dr. Korson graduated in Medicine from the University of Toronto School of Medicine (1982), then completed a pediatric residency nearby at Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children. After completing a fellowship in genetics at Boston’s Children's Hospital (1990), he became director of the Metabolism Clinic at Children's until 2000. He then transferred across town to Tufts Medical Center to become director of the Metabolism Service, as well as Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Tufts University School of Medicine, serving there until 2014.

Dr. Korson advocates for innovation in medical education and clinical practice models as a response to the growing crisis in metabolic health care due to the shortage of clinicians available to serve this patient community. He co-founded in 2007 the North American Metabolic Academy which has become an integral component of genetic resident training on this continent. Between 2007 and 2011, he founded and directed the Metabolic Outreach Service, based at Tufts Medical Center, serving five major teaching hospitals in the northeastern US without an on-site metabolic service. In 2017, Dr. Korson joined VMP Genetics in Atlanta as Director of Education and Director of Physician Support Services, a telehealth consulting practice that assists physicians in the care of their metabolic patients.

Samuel Frank, MD is a movement disorder neurologist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), a teaching hospital for Harvard Medical School. After completing his residency and fellowship at the University of Rochester, he joined the neurology faculty at Boston University from 2004 to 2015. Dr. Frank was the principal investigator for First-HD and ARC-HD and a site investigator for many HD (Huntington Disease) trials. He served as an investigator on the HSG executive committee. He was a member of the National HDSA Board of Trustee and locally serves as the director of the HDSA Center of Excellence at BIDMC. Dr. Frank is the inpatient neurology consultant for the specialized Huntington’s Disease service at Tewksbury State Hospital.

Dr. Korson graduated in Medicine at the University of Toronto School of Medicine (1982), then completed a pediatric residency nearby at Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children. After completing a fellowship in genetics at Boston’s Children's Hospital (1990), he became director of the Metabolism Clinic at Children's until 2000. He then transferred across town to Tufts Medical Center to become director of the Metabolism Service, as well as Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Tufts University School of Medicine, serving there until 2014.

Dr. Korson advocates for innovation in medical education and clinical practice models as a response to the growing crisis in metabolic health care due to the shortage of clinicians available to serve this patient community. He co-founded in 2007 the North American Metabolic Academy which has become an integral component of genetic resident training on this continent. Between 2007 and 2011, he founded and directed the Metabolic Outreach Service, based at Tufts Medical Center, serving five major teaching hospitals in the northeastern US without an on-site metabolic service. In 2017, Dr. Korson joined VMP Genetics in Atlanta as Director of Education and Director of Physician Support Services, a telehealth consulting practice that assists physicians in the care of their metabolic patients.

Dr. Timothy Lukovits grew up in a small rural town in upstate NY where his great-grand-parents started the first volunteer ambulance service. He attended Dartmouth College, obtained his medical degree at the University of Rochester, then completed his neurology residency at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center before completing a stroke and neurocritical care fellowship at Rush-Presbyterian St. Luke’s Medical Center in Chicago. He has been the Medical Director of the Cerebrovascular Disease and Stroke Program since 2002. He received the AHA Distinguished Leadership Award last in 2012. Under Dr. Lukovits’ leadership, DHMC recently received the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association's Get With The Guidelines®-Stroke Gold Quality Achievement Award. Dr. Lukovits also chairs the Northeast Cerebrovascular Consortium Subacute Care Work Group, is the medical director of the New Hampshire Stroke Collabortive and the Vermont Stroke Executive Steering Committee. Dr. Lukovits has visited and provided education at nearly every hospital in New Hampshire and Vermont and has brokered inter-facility protocols and agreements with multiple hospitals in our region. His recent research has focused on the use of simulation lab training for acute stroke, helicopter transport for acute stroke, and clinical trials involving carotid artery stenting, PFO closure, new thrombolytic agents and antiplatelet medication.

Dr. Korson graduated in Medicine at the University of Toronto School of Medicine (1982), then completed a pediatric residency nearby at Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children. After completing a fellowship in genetics at Boston’s Children's Hospital (1990), he became director of the Metabolism Clinic at Children's until 2000. He then transferred across town to Tufts Medical Center to become director of the Metabolism Service, as well as Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Tufts University School of Medicine, serving there until 2014.

Dr. Korson advocates for innovation in medical education and clinical practice models as a response to the growing crisis in metabolic health care due to the shortage of clinicians available to serve this patient community. He co-founded in 2007 the North American Metabolic Academy which has become an integral component of genetic resident training on this continent. Between 2007 and 2011, he founded and directed the Metabolic Outreach Service, based at Tufts Medical Center, serving five major teaching hospitals in the northeastern US without an on-site metabolic service. In 2017, Dr. Korson joined VMP Genetics in Atlanta as Director of Education and Director of Physician Support Services, a telehealth consulting practice that assists physicians in the care of their metabolic patients.

Timothy Lukovits

Dr. Timothy Lukovits grew up in a small rural town in upstate NY where his great-grand-parents started the first volunteer ambulance service. He attended Dartmouth College, obtained his medical degree at the University of Rochester, then completed his neurology residency at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center before completing a stroke and neurocritical care fellowship at Rush-Presbyterian St. Luke’s Medical Center in Chicago. He has been the Medical Director of the Cerebrovascular Disease and Stroke Program since 2002. He received the AHA Distinguished Leadership Award last in 2012. Under Dr. Lukovits’ leadership, DHMC recently received the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association's Get With The Guidelines®-Stroke Gold Quality Achievement Award. Dr. Lukovits also chairs the Northeast Cerebrovascular Consortium Subacute Care Work Group, is the medical director of the New Hampshire Stroke Collabortive and the Vermont Stroke Executive Steering Committee. Dr. Lukovits has visited and provided education at nearly every hospital in New Hampshire and Vermont and has brokered inter-facility protocols and agreements with multiple hospitals in our region. His recent research has focused on the use of simulation lab training for acute stroke, helicopter transport for acute stroke, and clinical trials involving carotid artery stenting, PFO closure, new thrombolytic agents and antiplatelet medication.

Dr. Korson graduated in Medicine at the University of Toronto School of Medicine (1982), then completed a pediatric residency nearby at Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children. After completing a fellowship in genetics at Boston’s Children's Hospital (1990), he became director of the Metabolism Clinic at Children's until 2000. He then transferred across town to Tufts Medical Center to become director of the Metabolism Service, as well as Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Tufts University School of Medicine, serving there until 2014.

Dr. Korson advocates for innovation in medical education and clinical practice models as a response to the growing crisis in metabolic health care due to the shortage of clinicians available to serve this patient community. He co-founded in 2007 the North American Metabolic Academy which has become an integral component of genetic resident training on this continent. Between 2007 and 2011, he founded and directed the Metabolic Outreach Service, based at Tufts Medical Center, serving five major teaching hospitals in the northeastern US without an on-site metabolic service. In 2017, Dr. Korson joined VMP Genetics in Atlanta as Director of Education and Director of Physician Support Services, a telehealth consulting practice that assists physicians in the care of their metabolic patients.

Dr. Amel Karaa is a board-certified physician in internal medicine and clinical genetics and the director of the lysosomal storage disorder and mitochondrial disease program at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. She has received the 2013 United Mitochondrial Disease Foundation (UMDF) fellowship and is the president of the mitochondrial medicine society. Dr. Karaa conducts clinical research for both mitochondrial and lysosomal storage diseases as well as clinical trials.

Dr. Korson graduated in Medicine at the University of Toronto School of Medicine (1982), then completed a pediatric residency nearby at Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children. After completing a fellowship in genetics at Boston’s Children's Hospital (1990), he became director of the Metabolism Clinic at Children's until 2000. He then transferred across town to Tufts Medical Center to become director of the Metabolism Service, as well as Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Tufts University School of Medicine, serving there until 2014.

Dr. Korson advocates for innovation in medical education and clinical practice models as a response to the growing crisis in metabolic health care due to the shortage of clinicians available to serve this patient community. He co-founded in 2007 the North American Metabolic Academy which has become an integral component of genetic resident training on this continent. Between 2007 and 2011, he founded and directed the Metabolic Outreach Service, based at Tufts Medical Center, serving five major teaching hospitals in the northeastern US without an on-site metabolic service. In 2017, Dr. Korson joined VMP Genetics in Atlanta as Director of Education and Director of Physician Support Services, a telehealth consulting practice that assists physicians in the care of their metabolic patients.