Dr. Andrea Gropman is a pediatric neurogeneticist. She received her M.D. from the University of Massachusetts School of Medicine, completed a residency in Pediatrics at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, MD and subsequent fellowships in neurology/child neurology at George Washington University and Children’s National Hospital, Washington, D.C., clinical and biochemical genetics at the National Institutes of Health, and a mini fellowship in neuroimaging and magnetic resonance spectroscopy at the Huntington Medical Research Institute in Pasadena, CA. She is board certified in neurology/child neurology, genetics, biochemical genetics and neurodevelopmental disabilities.
Dr. Gropman serves as the director of Neurometabolic Translational Research at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in the newly created Center for Experimental Neurotherapeutics. She plans to grow her own research in neuroimaging in disorders such as Urea cycle, mitochondrial, MSUD, Glut-1 and NPC as well as establish protocols for other conditions including Smith Magenis syndrome, and work to develop therapies and conduct trials for rare and ultrarare disease. Prior to coming to St. Jude, she was the division chief for Neurogenetics and Developmental Disabilities, and the interim director of the Center for Genetic Medicine Research, and built a robust career in rare diseases, is active in advocacy and holds multiple leadership positions in genetics and neurology societies.

Dr. Gropman also is the PI for the Urea Cycle Rare Disorders Consortium and serves leadership roles on the RDCRN and in genetic, metabolic and neurology societies. She has published over 200 articles and reviews and contributed chapters to classic textbooks in genetics and neurology is one of the associate editors of the classic textbook, Swaiman’s Pediatric Neurology. Dr. Gropman is co author of the textbook, X and Y chromosome Variations. Dr. Gropman’s research has focused on several areas including inborn errors of metabolism, in which she is considered an international authority on neuroimaging and brain biomarkers in urea cycle disorders, mitochondrial epigenomics with long time collaborator Dr. Anne Chiaramello, and chromosome disorders including Smith Magenis syndrome and X and Y chromosome disorders. Dr. Gropman has dedicated her career to the care of children and adults with rare disease.