Biographical sketch:

Dr. Mustafa Sahin is the Neurologist-in-Chief, a pediatric neurologist, and a developmental neurobiologist at Boston Children’s Hospital and Bronson Crother Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School. He received his Sc.B. degree from Brown University and his M.D. and Ph.D. from Yale School of Medicine. He completed a pediatrics residency at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and a child neurology residency at Boston Children’s Hospital. At Boston Children’s, he directs the Multi-disciplinary Tuberous Sclerosis Program. He is also the co-PI of the Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Center. He directs a national consortium to study biomarkers and comparative pathobiology in four genetic disorders (TSC, PHTS, Phelan McDermid Syndrome and SYNGAP1-ID) all associated with autism and intellectual disability, known as the Developmental Synaptopathies Consortium. He was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2023.

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