Faculty Profile
Olaf Bodamer, MD, PhD, FACMG, FAAP
Director of the NORD Rare Disease Center at Boston Children's Hospital
Attending Physician
Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Translational research to identify novel therapies for Niemann-Pick Type C, Kabuki syndrome and related neurodevelopmental disorders
Dr. Bodamer obtained his M.D. degree from the University of Heidelberg, Germany, and his Ph.D. degree from the University of Saarland, Germany. Following pediatric residencies in Germany and at the Great Ormond Street Hospital in London, UK, he moved to the United States for a fellowship in Clinical and Biochemical Genetics at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas. Subsequent to directing the Austrian Newborn Screening Program, he returned to the United States in 2010 to join the University of Miami as the founding Chief of the Division of Clinical and Translational Genetics and the Director of the Medical Genetics Laboratories. Dr. Bodamer was recruited to Boston Children’s Hospital in 2015 as Associate Chief for Genetics and Genomics, where he also has an established research laboratory. He is member of several Editorial and Scientific Advisory Boards, including Molecular Genetics and Metabolism, Journal of Inherited Diseases, Translational Medicine and Translational Journal of Rare Disease and of Patient Organizations (All Things Kabuki and OAA) respectively. Dr. Bodamer is the Director of the Boston Children’s Hospital Roya Kabuki Program.
Dr. Bodamer sees patients in clinic at Boston Children’s Hospital.
Affiliations
Harvard Medical School
Broad Institute of Harvard University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Publications