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Rotem Orbach, MD

Associate Member, St. Jude Faculty

Director, Movement Disorders Program

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Rotem Orbach, MD

Genomic and Translational Neuroscience

MS 760

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

262 Danny Thomas Place

Memphis,  TN 38105-3678

Affiliations

Department of Genomic and Translational Neuroscience

Center for Experimental Neurotherapeutics

Education

B.Med.Sc – Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel

MD – Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel

Internship - Tel Aviv Medical Center, Tel-Aviv, Israel

Residency (Pediatrics) – Dana-Dwek Children's Hospital, Tel Aviv, Israel

Residency (Pediatric Neurology and Child Development Medicine) – Dana-Dwek Children's Hospital, Tel Aviv, Israel

Fellowship (Neuromuscular Medicine Fellow) - Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD, USA

Fellowship (Neuromuscular Neurogenetics Clinical Research Fellowship) - National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke/NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA

Research Interests

  • Gene discovery and disease mechanisms in rare pediatric neurogenetic and neuromuscular disorders.
  • Natural history studies to characterize disease progression and support clinical trial readiness.
  • Novel imaging biomarkers and outcome measures to monitor disease progression and therapeutic response.
  • Experimental neurotherapeutics, focusing on gene- and RNA-directed therapies for pediatric neurological disorders.
  • Long-term safety and efficacy of gene-directed therapies in pediatric neurogenetic disorders
See publications from Dr. Orbach