MEDICAL AND SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY BOARD: VICE CHAIR
Ali Fatemi, MD, MBA
Pediatric Neurologist
Kennedy Krieger Institute
Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions
Baltimore, Maryland
S. Ali Fatemi, MD, is the Chief Medical Officer at Kennedy Krieger Institute, a pediatric neurologist and the director of the Division of Neurogenetics and the Moser Center for Leukodystrophies, and an investigator at the Hugo W. Moser Research Institute at Kennedy Krieger Institute.
Dr. Fatemi is also an associate professor of neurology and pediatrics at Johns Hopkins University.
At the Kennedy Krieger outpatient center, Dr. Fatemi evaluates children with a variety of neurologic problems. His greatest interest is in genetic and acquired conditions that affect the brain’s white matter and in genetic causes of neurodevelopmental disabilities.
He is a member of the Child Neurology Society, the International Child Neurology Association, the Society for Neuroscience, the American Academy of Neurology and the American Society of Neurochemistry.
He has served as ad hoc reviewer for numerous scientific journals and grant study sections.
In addition to serving as Vice Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board of the United Leukodystrophy Foundation, he also served on the Board of Directors of ALDConnect, a non-profit international consortium, and as a member of Drug Safety and Monitoring Board (DSMB) of several clinical trials.