Full Name
Jamie L. Fraser, MD, PhD
Company
Rare Disease institute; Children's National Hospital
Speaker Bio
Jamie Fraser is a medical biochemical geneticist and an assistant professor of pediatrics in the Rare Disease Institute in the Division of Genetics and Metabolism at Children's National Hospital., where she directs the Myelin Disorders Program and the Prenatal Genetics Program in Zickler Family Prenatal Pediatrics Institute. Her clinical expertise focuses on prenatal neurogenetics and neurometabolic disorders, particularly leukodystrophies. Her research focuses on ultra-rare genetic leukoencephalopathies to reduce the diagnostic odyssey, improve diagnostic confirmation, achieve clinical trial readiness, and develop therapies for these orphan disorders. She earned her BA in biochemistry and molecular biology from Agnes Scott College, MD and PhD from the Medical University of South Carolina, Pediatrics residency training from Children's National Hospital, and Medical Genetics residency and Medical Biochemical Genetics fellowship from the National Human Genome Research Institute of the National Institutes of Health.