Faculty Profile

Gerard Berry, MD, FFACMG

Director, Metabolism Program
Harvey Levy Chair in Metabolism
Attending Physician
Professor of Pediatrics

Carbohydrate metabolism and galactosemia.

Gerard T. Berry is the Harvey Levy Chair in Metabolism at the Boston Children’s Hospital, and Professor of Pediatrics at the Harvard Medical School. He is the Director of the Metabolism Program at BCH, and the Harvard Medical School Biochemical Genetics Training Program. He received an MD degree from the Jefferson Medical College and completed his residency in pediatrics at the Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in 1978. He then began a combined fellowship in biochemical genetics and pediatric endocrinology at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, and joined the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine as an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics in 1981. Dr. Berry was promoted to Professor of Pediatrics in 1995. He was the recipient of the 2004 Emmanuel Shapiro SIMD Award. Dr. Berry is the president of the Society for Inherited Metabolic Disorders (“SIMD”). He is also co-chair of the Undiagnosed Disease Network‘s Metabolomics Working Group.

Affiliations

Boston Children's Hospital
Harvard Medical School