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Dr. Gropman is a child neurologist and clinical geneticist. After completing her

residency training in Pediatrics at s Hopkins Hospital, she completed

fellowships in neurology and Child Neurology at Washington University and

the Children's National Medical Center, and clinical genetics at the National

Human Genome Research Institute. This was followed by a position as a Senior

Staff Fellow in the Intramural Research Program at the National Institutes of

Neurological Disorders and Stroke in Bethesda, MD where she was funded by a

Medical Institute physician postdoctoral award . During this time

she was actively involved in basic researchand participated as coinvestigator

and/or consultant for a number of clinical protocols in the NIH clinical center

with the focus on neurologic phenotypes in neurometabolic and genetic disorders.

She directed the neurogenetics clinic at the Children's National Medical Center

from 1997. In August of 2003, she joined the pediatrics and neurology faculty at

town University. She currently directs the Neurodevelopmental clinic for

the CFMI. Her area of interest is neurological phenotypes in children and adults

with genetic and metabolic disorders.

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