Vinodh Narayanan
Medical Director
Center FOR Rare Childhood Disorders, TGen
Translational Genomics Research Institute
United States of America
Biography
Dr. Narayanan is Medical Director for TGen's Center for Rare Childhood Disorders. He obtained his BS in Physics in 1972 from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. He completed graduate studies in mathematical physics at Princeton University, where he received his MA in Physics in 1976. He received his MD from Louisiana State University Medical School, New Orleans, Louisiana, in 1981, and completed his internship and residency in pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins Hospitals, Baltimore, Maryland. Between 1983 and 1986, he served as resident in Neurology and Child Neurology at Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri.Dr. Narayanan is certified by the American Board of Pediatrics and the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (with special competence in Child Neurology). He has served on the Scientific Program Committee and the Executive Board of the Child Neurology Society. Current academic appointments include Clinical Professor of Pediatrics and Neurology, University of Arizona College of Medicine, (Phoenix), and Adjunct Professor, School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University.
Research Interest
genetic basis of neurological disorders, Childhood Disorders, neurobiology of genetic disorders (genes to pathogenesis), cell adhesion molecules and synapse formation, Neurology.
