Mark Korson, MD
July 2018
Dr. Korson graduated in Medicine at the University of Toronto School of Medicine (1982), then completed a pediatric residency nearby at Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children. After completing a fellowship in genetics at Boston’s Children’s Hospital (1990), he became director of the Metabolism Clinic at Children’s until 2000. He then transferred to Tufts Medical Center where he was director of the Metabolism Service, as well as Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Tufts University School of Medicine, serving there until 2014.
Dr. Korson promotes an educational approach to address the growing crisis in metabolic health care due to the shortage of available physicians to treat this patient community. In 2007, Dr. Korson co-founded the North American Metabolic Academy, an annual one-week intensive course about metabolic disease for genetic trainees; to date, more than half of all American genetic trainees have enrolled in this course. Between 2007 and 2011, Dr. Korson founded and directed the Metabolic Outreach Service, based at Tufts Medical Center, for which he traveled on a regular basis to five teaching hospitals in the northeastern US without an on-site metabolic service. In 2015, Dr. Korson co-founded the Genetic Metabolic Center for Education (GMCE), a comprehensive initiative for improving the care of children and adults with metabolic disease. In October 2017, Dr. Korson joined VMP Genetics in Atlanta to promote telehealth metabolic consulting, assisting physicians in the care of their metabolic patients. He continues to develop innovative resources to help educate specialists and their trainees so they can participate more in the diagnosis and management of metabolic disease.
Dr. Korson graduated in Medicine at the University of Toronto School of Medicine (1982), then completed a pediatric residency nearby at Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children. After completing a fellowship in genetics at Boston’s Children’s Hospital (1990), he became director of the Metabolism Clinic at Children’s until 2000. He then transferred to Tufts Medical Center where he was director of the Metabolism Service, as well as Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Tufts University School of Medicine, serving there until 2014.
Dr. Korson promotes an educational approach to address the growing crisis in metabolic health care due to the shortage of available physicians to treat this patient community. In 2007, Dr. Korson co-founded the North American Metabolic Academy, an annual one-week intensive course about metabolic disease for genetic trainees; to date, more than half of all American genetic trainees have enrolled in this course. Between 2007 and 2011, Dr. Korson founded and directed the Metabolic Outreach Service, based at Tufts Medical Center, for which he traveled on a regular basis to five teaching hospitals in the northeastern US without an on-site metabolic service. In 2015, Dr. Korson co-founded the Genetic Metabolic Center for Education (GMCE), a comprehensive initiative for improving the care of children and adults with metabolic disease. In October 2017, Dr. Korson joined VMP Genetics in Atlanta to promote telehealth metabolic consulting, assisting physicians in the care of their metabolic patients. He continues to develop innovative resources to help educate specialists and their trainees so they can participate more in the diagnosis and management of metabolic disease.