Faculty

Lewis J. Waber, M.D., Ph.D.

• Associate Professor of Pediatrics
• Director, Division of Pediatric Genetics and Metabolism
• Director, Genetics and Metabolism Services, Children's Medical  Center
• Director, Medical Genetics Residency Program, University  of Texas  Southwestern Medical Center

Major Teaching Responsibilities:

• Co-Course Director, MS1 Medical Genetics
• Course Director, MS1 Medical Embryology
• MS1 Biochemistry - Intermediary metabolism
• MS3 Pediatrics - Clinical Genetics and Metabolism

Clinical Interests:

• Inborn Errors of Metabolism
• New methods for diagnosis of Biochemical Genetic disorders

Research Studies

• Enzyme replacement therapy of Mucopolysaccharidosis Type I
• Enzyme replacement therapy for Mucopolysaccharidosis Type VI
• Role of low protein foods in treatment of PKU