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Marshall Summar, MD - Center for Genetic Medicine Research - Children's Research Institute - Children's National Medical Center
Marshall Summar, MD
Contact Information
Children's National
Medical Center
Center
for Genetic Medicine Research (CGMR)
111 Michigan
Avenue, NW
Washington,
DC 20010-2970
202-476-5000
MSummar@childrensnational.org
Education & Training
| Institution &
Location |
Degree |
Year(s) |
Field of Study |
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
|
BS
|
1977 - 1981 |
|
University
of Tennessee Medical School, Memphis, TN
|
MD
|
1981
- 1985
|
Medicine
|
| Vanderbilt
University, Nashville, TN
|
Resident
|
1985
- 1988
|
Pediatrics
|
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
|
Fellow
|
1988 - 1990
|
Genetics
|
Research Interests
Dr. Marshall Summar
is the Chief of the Division of Genetics and Metabolism and the
Margaret O’Malley Chair of Molecular Genetics. He joined Children's
National from Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, where he
directed the Program in Translational Genetics, the DNA Core program,
and started the inborn errors of metabolism program. Dr. Summar is
board-certified in Pediatrics, Clinical Genetics, and Biochemical
Genetics.
Dr. Summar is an expert in translational studies, taking basic
molecular genetics research and developing direct clinical
applications. His work has piloted treatments from the rare disease
field to common conditions, especially in the intensive care and
emergency room setting. His work in the urea cycle has involved the
development of treatment protocols, translational research, and basic
molecular research into these rare defects in nitrogen metabolism. This
involves clinical trials to improve the outcomes of patients with
congenital heart defects, acute lung injury, asthma, and premature
infants using compounds from metabolic pathways he studies.
Currently, the focus of Dr. Summar's research is the study of the
interactions between common genetic variations and the environment.
This work involves research in heart disease, asthma, pulmonary
hypertension, oxidant injury and aging, Down syndrome, and liver
disease.
Dr. Summar serves on the editorial board of The Journal of Pediatrics
and is the president-elect for the Society of Inherited Metabolic
Disease. He serves on the NIH study section for the CETT program, the
National Human Genetic Research Institute Fellowship Training Program
Board, and the NASA radiation research review panel.
Clinical
Interests
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Publications
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for Marshall Summar, MD through the National Library of Medicine's
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