Precision Medicine in Pediatric Health

Dr. Bodamer obtained his M.D. degree from the University of Heidelberg, Germany and his Ph.D. degree from the University of Saarland, Germany. Following Pediatric residencies in Germany and at the Great Ormond Street Hospital in London, he moved to the United States for a fellowship in Clinical and Biochemical Genetics at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas. Following his Directorships of the Austrian Newborn Screening Program, as well as the Division of Pediatric Genetics at the University Children’s Hospital Vienna in Austria, he returned to the United States in 2010 to join the University of Miami as the founding Chief of the Division of Clinical and Translational Genetics and Director of the Medical Genetics Laboratories. Dr. Bodamer was recruited to Boston Children’s Hospital in 2015 as Associate Chief for Genetics and Genomics, where he also has an established research laboratory. He is member of several editorial and scientific advisory Boards, including Molecular Genetics and Metabolism, Journal of Inherited Diseases and Translational Medicine, and of the Patient Organizations NPKUA and OAA respectively. Recently he has been elected to the Board of the European Society of Human Genetics. Dr. Bodamer is the Director of the Boston Children’s Lysosomal Storage Disease (BolD) Program. Dr. Bodamer has a busy clinical practice at Boston Children’s Hospital where he sees patients of all age groups with genetic disorders with a focus on Kabuki syndrome. In addition, he is active in several areas of translational genetics and genomics research, clinical trials and involved in educational and teaching activities within Harvard Medical School.