Mark Batshaw

Mark Levitt Batshaw (born 19 September 1945) is a Canadian-born physician, medical researcher and academic administrator. He is a professor in the department of pediatrics and an associate dean at the George Washington University School of Medicine & Health Sciences and is the physician-in-chief and chief academic officer at the Children’s National Medical Center in Washington, D.C. He is known for his research into urea cycle disorders and gene therapy, and is the author of the classic textbook "Children with Disabilities". Biography Batshaw was born in Montreal, Canada, in 1945 and is a United States citizen. His father, Manuel G. Batshaw, was a social worker. Batshaw manifested dyslexia and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder as a child at a time where there were limited special education services or medication for treatment. It was this experience that led him to the fields of developmental pediatrics and genetics. Batshaw received his M.D. from the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine in 1971, performed his pediatric residency at The Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, and his clinical fellowship at the Kennedy Krieger Institute, Johns Hopkins Hospital. From 1988-1998, Batshaw was Physician-in-Chief of the Children’s Seashore House at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. He was Chairman of Pediatrics at the George Washington University School of Medicine & Health Sciences from 1998-2014 and as of 2017 is the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the university, and Chief Academic Officer and Physician-in-Chief at Children's National Medical Center. He has served as president of both the Society for Inherited Metabolic Disorders and the American Pediatric Society.