Nicholas Ah Mew, M.D., is director of the Inherited Metabolic Disorders Program at Children’s National Hospital and is associate professor of Pediatrics at The George Washington University. He is a clinical geneticist and clinical biochemical geneticist whose primary research interests include urea cycle disorders, organic acidemias, and other disorders of ammonia metabolism. He is the principal investigator or co-PI of several projects funded through the National Institutes of Health and Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute. Dr. Ah Mew is the Children’s National site-PI and an active member of the NIH-funded Urea Cycle Disorders Consortium (UCDC). He has authored multiple publications and book chapters on hyperammonemia and urea cycle disorders and has lectured internationally on these topics.

Dr. Strauss has co-authored over 60 peer reviewed journal articles and has given numerous lectures about medical, scientific, and cultural issues all over the globe. He was awarded the Boch Prize for innovation in developmental disabilities research in 2013 and has presented at the Lancaster TEDx event. During residency he received the Michael Osband Memorial Award for Excellence in Clinical Research, the Medical Student Education Committee Award for Teaching Excellence, and the Senior Resident Teaching Award.