Marni J FalkMarni J. Falk, M.D., is Executive Director of the Mitochondrial Medicine Frontier Program at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and Associate Professor in the Division of Human Genetics, Department of Pediatrics at University of Pennsylvaia Perelman School of Medicine. Dr. Falk completed dual specialty training in a 5-year Pediatrics and Clinical Genetics residency program at Case Western Reserve University. The focus of her work is to improve clinical care, diagnostic approaches, therapies, and genomic resources for mitochondrial disease, including organization of a global Mitochondrial Disease Sequence Data Resource (MSeqDR) consortium. Dr. Falk is also PI of an NIH, pharma, and philanthropic funded translational research laboratory group at CHOP that investigates the causes and global metabolic consequences of mitochondrial disease, as well as targeted therapies, in C. elegans, zebrafish, mouse, and human tissue models of genetic-based respiratory chain dysfunction, and directs multiple clinical treatment trials in mitochondrial disease patients. Read More Read Less