Medical Advisors

Dr. Robert Desnick
Dean for Genetics and Genomic Sciences; Professor, Genetics and Genomic Sciences; Professor Pediatrics, Oncological Sciences, Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Science and Gene and Cell Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York City.

Dr. Jamie Bassel
Co-founder, Zak’s Promise: Progress with Support, Inc.; Vice President, Prader-Willi Alliance of New York; Practicing Chiropractor, NYC.

Dr. Ed Schuchman
The Francis Crick Professor & Vice Chairman of Research, Department of Genetics & Genomic Sciences; Professor, Department of Gene and Cell Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York City

Dr. Manisha Balwani
Co-Director, Comprehensive Gaucher Disease Treatment Center; Co-Director, Comprehensive Porphyria Diagnostic and Treatment Center; Assistant Professor, Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences and Department of Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine.

Dr. Melissa Wasserstein
Director of the Program for Inherited Metabolic Diseases; Medical Director of the International Center for Types A and B Niemann Pick Disease; Associate Professor in the Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences and the Department of Pediatrics; Mount Sinai School of Medicine.

Dr. Andrew Sharp
Senior Faculty Member and Associate Professor, Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York.

Dr. David Beyda
Gastroenterology Fellow, SUNY Downstate Medical Center, University of Brooklyn Hospital at Long Island College Hospital.

Randi Zinberg Morgan
Assistant Professor of Genetics and Genomic Sciences and Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Science; Director, Genetic Counseling Program; Director, Graduate Program in Genetic Counseling; Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York City.

Dr. Robert April
Clinical Assistant Professor, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York City; Faculty, NYC Medical School; Practicing Neurologist

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