Andrea Gropman MD

Member, St. Jude Faculty
Director, Neurometabolic Translational Research
Mark F. Tamer Endowed Chair in Pediatric Neurology

Editorial Board Member since 2024: Neurogenetic Disorders

Dr. Andrea Gropman is a pediatric neurogeneticist. She received her MD from the University of Massachusetts School of Medicine, completed a residency in Pediatrics at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, and subsequent fellowships in neurology/child neurology at George Washington University and Children’s National Hospital, Washington, DC, clinical and biochemical genetics at the National Institutes of Health, and a mini fellowship in neuroimaging and magnetic resonance spectroscopy at the Huntington Medical Research Institute in Pasadena, CA. She is board-certified in neurology/child neurology, genetics, biochemical genetics, and neurodevelopmental disabilities and is the former chief of Neurogenetics and Neurodevelopmental Disabilities at Children's National Hospital. She is currently is a member of the faculty at St Jude Children's Research Hospital where she is director of neurometabolic translational research.

Dr. Gropman serves the PI for the Urea Cycle Rare Disorders Consortium and serves leadership roles on the RDCRN and in genetic, metabolic, and neurology societies. She has published over 200 articles and reviews and contributed chapters to classic textbooks in genetics and neurology and is one of the editors of the classic textbook, Swaiman’s Pediatric Neurology. Dr. Gropman is coauthor of the textbook, X and Y Chromosome Variations. Dr. Gropman's research has focused on several areas including inborn errors of metabolism, in which she is considered an international authority on neuroimaging and brain biomarkers in urea cycle disorders, mitochondrial epigenomics with longtime collaborator Dr. Anne Chiaramello, and chromosome disorders, including Smith Magenis syndrome and X and Y chromosome disorders. Dr. Gropman has dedicated her career to the care of children and adults with rare disease. Her talk will focus on her imaging work for urea cycle disorders and the impact on understanding the clinical phenotypes.

Dr. Gropman holds the Mark F Tamer Endowed Chair in Pediatric Neurology at St Jude Children's Research Hospital and was the former Margaret O'Malley Endowed Chair in genetic medicine at Children's National Hospital. Dr. Gropman serves as the principal investigator for the Urea Cycle Disorders Consortium, one of the Rare Disease Clinical Research Networks, funded by NCATs, NICHD, and NIDDK. She served a 3-year term as RDCRN co-chair. Dr. Gropman is the Chair of the Neurogenetics Special Interest group for the Child Neurology Society where she has also served on the awards committee, legislative affairs committee, and scientific selection committee. She is an associate editor for the Journal of Child Neurology and an editor of Swaiman's Textbook of Child Neurology. She served as the Chair of the Neurogenetics SIG at the American Neurological Society and the co-chair of the NG SIG at the American Academy of Neurology. She is the 2025 winner of the Soriano Lectureship from the American Neurological Association and the 2025 Hower Awardee of the Child Neurology Society.