Mark Korson, MD
February 2016
Mark Korson graduated from the University of Toronto School of Medicine and completed his pediatric residency nearby at The Hospital for Sick Children. He came to Boston to do a fellowship in genetics and metabolism at Children’s Hospital. Following that, he directed the Metabolism Clinic at Children’s until 2000, transferring then to Tufts Medical Center’s Floating Hospital for Children where he remained the Director of the Metabolism Service and an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Tufts University School of Medicine until 2014.
Dr. Korson promotes an educational approach to address the growing crisis in metabolic health care due to the shortage of clinicians available to treat this community. Between 2007 and 2011, Dr. Korson directed the Metabolic Outreach Service, for which he traveled on a regular basis to five teaching hospitals in the northeastern US where there is no on-site metabolic service. The goal was to provide educational and consultative support so that non-metabolic clinicians could learn how to participate more in the diagnosis and management of patients with metabolic disease. That same year, Dr. Korson also co-founded the North American Metabolic Academy, an annual one-week intensive course about metabolic disease for genetic and metabolic trainees; to date, more than half of all American genetic trainees have enrolled in this course. NAMA is sponsored by the Society for Inherited Metabolic Disorders.
In 2015, Dr. Korson co-founded the Genetic Metabolic Center for Education, a comprehensive, multi-modal approach for improving the level of care for children and adults with metabolic disease. The components of the GMCE include a consultation and clinical support service, subspecialty-specific conferences, an interactive training/reference web site, a live patient speaker program and library of patient presentations, and development of symptom-based, practical brochures for distribution to clinicians.
Mark Korson graduated from the University of Toronto School of Medicine and completed his pediatric residency nearby at The Hospital for Sick Children. He came to Boston to do a fellowship in genetics and metabolism at Children’s Hospital. Following that, he directed the Metabolism Clinic at Children’s until 2000, transferring then to Tufts Medical Center’s Floating Hospital for Children where he remained the Director of the Metabolism Service and an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Tufts University School of Medicine until 2014.
Dr. Korson promotes an educational approach to address the growing crisis in metabolic health care due to the shortage of clinicians available to treat this community. Between 2007 and 2011, Dr. Korson directed the Metabolic Outreach Service, for which he traveled on a regular basis to five teaching hospitals in the northeastern US where there is no on-site metabolic service. The goal was to provide educational and consultative support so that non-metabolic clinicians could learn how to participate more in the diagnosis and management of patients with metabolic disease. That same year, Dr. Korson also co-founded the North American Metabolic Academy, an annual one-week intensive course about metabolic disease for genetic and metabolic trainees; to date, more than half of all American genetic trainees have enrolled in this course. NAMA is sponsored by the Society for Inherited Metabolic Disorders.
In 2015, Dr. Korson co-founded the Genetic Metabolic Center for Education, a comprehensive, multi-modal approach for improving the level of care for children and adults with metabolic disease. The components of the GMCE include a consultation and clinical support service, subspecialty-specific conferences, an interactive training/reference web site, a live patient speaker program and library of patient presentations, and development of symptom-based, practical brochures for distribution to clinicians.