Internationally known pediatric experts at the Kennedy Krieger Institute, Dr. Ali Fatemi and Dr. Miya Asat, have been named as recipients of the endowed chair, the institute announced Wednesday.
Fatemi, the Institute’s Chief Medical Officer and Director of the Moser Center for Leukodystrophy, has been named the Blum Moser Chair in Pediatric Neurology, and Asato, the Institute’s Vice President of Training, is an Arnold J. Caputo Med. He was awarded a Ph.D., Master of Public Health. Endowed Professor of Pediatric Disabilities.
Dr. Ali Fatemi (left) and Dr. Miya Assat.
Fatemi is Chief Medical Officer, Director of the Department of Neurogenetics and the Moser Leukodystrophy Center, as well as an investigator at Kennedy Krieger’s Hugo W. Moser Institute. His research focuses on the genetic causes of X-linked adrenoleukodystrophy, LBSL (leukoencephalopathy with brainstem and spinal cord involvement with elevated lactate), and cerebral palsy.
The Blum Moser Chair for Pediatric Neurology was funded by Mark and Leonor Blum, Alex Blum and Ali Blum. The Blum family named this chair in honor of Dr. Hugo Moser and his legacy in the field of pediatric neurology. The first recipient of the Blum-Moser Endowed Chair was Dr. Michael V. Johnston, who before Fatemi was Kennedy Krieger’s Chief Medical Officer.
Assato directs leadership education for the Neurodevelopmental and Other Related Disorders Program (LEND), a nationally recognized maternal and child health foundation that provides graduate-level, interdisciplinary training to clinicians interested in neurodevelopmental disorders. doing.
Asato joined the Institute in 2021 from the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, where she served as Director of the LEND Program and Director of the Neurodevelopmental Disorders Training Program. Her research interests include epilepsy and neurodevelopmental outcomes.
More than 100 donors (former trainees of Arnold J. Caputo, Ph.D.) through the Kennedy Fellows Association will support Arnold J. Caputo, M.D., in childhood disorders ( MPH) funded endowed professors. He was awarded his chairmanship in 1997. Dr. Bruce Shapiro, who served as vice president of training until 2021, was awarded the chair in 2004.
