OAA Medical Advisors
Our Medical Advisors continue to work with OAA providing education, research and support in advancing treatments for organic acidemias.
Kimberly A. Chapman, MD, PhD, FAAP, FABIM
Children's Hospital of Los Angeles
Dr. Kimberly Chapman is a full professor of Pediatrics at USC and Children’s Hospital, Los Angeles. She specializes in caring for individuals of all ages with defects of methylation, homocysteine, and propionate metabolism. She specializes in taking care of individuals with defects of methylation, homocysteine and propionate metabolism.
Curtis R. Coughlin II Ph.D., MS, MBE
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Curtis Coughlin is an associate professor at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. He completed his doctoral training with Professor Stephen Goodman and has continued to study lysine metabolism. His lab is focused on pyridoxine-dependent epilepsy (PDE-ALDH7A1) and glutaric aciduria type I (GA I).
Lina Gonzalez, MD
UPMC Children's Hospital
Dr. Lina Ghaloul-Gonzalez is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Mellon Scholar in the Division of Genetic and Genomic Medicine at UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, with a secondary appointment in the Department of Human Genetics at the University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health. A native of Syria and Spain, Dr. Gonzalez earned her medical degree from the University of Aleppo School of Medicine in Syria. She completed her Internal Medicine residency at the State University of New York (SUNY) at Buffalo in 2009, followed by residency in Medical Genetics and fellowship in Medical Biochemical Genetics at UPMC/University of Pittsburgh in 2013. She is board-certified in Internal Medicine, Clinical Genetics, and Medical Biochemical Genetics.
Elaina Jurecki, MS, RD
Private Consultant For Treatments of Genetic Disorders
Elaina Jurecki is currently working as a consultant for pharmaceutical and non-profit organizations for metabolic genetic disorders. She previously worked as the Executive Director of Scientific Communications in Global Medical Affairs for the past 15 years at BioMarin Pharmaceutical Inc., responsible for publication strategy, scientific messaging, medical information, and management of congress activities.
Mark Korson, MD
VMP Genetics, LLC
Dr. Korson graduated in medicine from the University of Toronto and completed a pediatric residency at Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children, followed by a genetics and metabolism fellowship at Boston’s Children's Hospital. He directed the metabolic clinics at Boston Children's Hospital until 2000 and across town at Tufts Medical Center until 2014.
Mendel Tuchman, MD
Children's National Medical Center in Washington, DC.
Mendel Tuchman, MD, is the Vice Chairman for Research, Scientific Director, Children's Research Institute and Professor of Pediatrics, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology at Children's National Medical Center in Washington, DC. He is also the past-president of the Society of Inherited Metabolic Disorders. His research is supported by NIH grants, philanthropy and he holds the Mary Elizabeth McGehee Joyce Chair in Genetic Medicine at Children's Research Institute.
Keiko Ueda, MPH, RD
Kapi’olani Medical Center for Women and Children in Honolulu, HI
Keiko Ueda has worked as a Metabolic Dietitian in the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, St. Louis Children’s Hospital, Tufts Medical Center and in Canada at BC Children’s Hospital, Vancouver. She is currently a Clinical Dietitian at Kapi’olani Medical Center for Women and Children in Honolulu, HI. where she has been privileged to learn and work with amazing and knowledgeable metabolic clinicians.
Jerry Vockley, MD, PhD
Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh
Dr. Vockley is internationally recognized leader in the field of inborn errors of metabolism. His current research focuses on mitochondrial energy metabolism, novel therapies for disorders of fatty acid oxidation and amino acid metabolism, and population genetics of the Plain communities in the United States. He has published over 300 peer reviewed scholarly articles, is the principal investigator on four NIH grants and a co-investigator on 7 others.