Professor of Pediatrics (Genetics, Genomics and Metabolism), Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, USA

Barbara K Burton, MD, is a Professor of Pediatrics at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and an Attending Physician in the Division of Genetics, Birth Defects and Metabolism at the Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital in Chicago. She graduated from Northwestern University Medical School in 1973 and then completed her pediatric residency and fellowship in genetics at Children's Memorial Hospital. From 1978 to 1988, she was on the faculty of the Wake Forest University Medical School in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. In 1989, she returned to Chicago to assume a position as Director of the Center for Medical and Reproductive Genetics at Michael Reese Hospital and Professor and Head of the Division of Genetics at the University of Illinois College of Medicine. Dr Burton assumed her current position at Northwestern in 1999. Her major clinical and research interests are in the area of inborn errors of metabolism. She is Board Certified in Pediatrics, Clinical Genetics, and Clinical Biochemical Genetics. Dr Burton is the past President of the Chicago Pediatric Society and Past- President of the Society for Inherited Metabolic Disorders. She is Chairman of the Newborn Screening Advisory Committee of the Illinois Department of Public Health. She has served on the Board of Directors of the Greater Chicago Area Chapter of the March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation and on the Grant Review Committee and the Program Committee. She previously served as Illinois Chairperson of Genetics and Your Practice, a March of Dimes initiative to provide genetic education to primary care physicians. She is a member of the Medical Advisory Board of several patient advocacy groups and is a member of numerous national societies, including the American Medical Association and the American College of Medical Genetics. She served as a member of the Executive Committee of the Illinois Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics from 2000 to 2004. Dr Burton has contributed over 250 articles and chapters to the medical literature, many of them focusing on the diagnosis and treatment of inborn errors of metabolism and the prenatal diagnosis of genetic disorders, and is the editor of two textbooks.