Patricia Dickson, MD, is the Centennial Professor of Pediatrics at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. She also is professor of genetics and chief of the Division of Genetics and Genomic Medicine in the Department of Pediatrics. Dr. Dickson earned an undergraduate degree from the University of Chicago in 1995 and her medical degree in 1999 from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. She completed an internship and residency at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, a Los Angeles County hospital affiliated with UCLA and the Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute. She served as chief resident at the medical center from 2002 to 2003. From 2003 to 2006, she was a fellow in the UCLA Intercampus Medical Genetics Training Program. Dr. Dickson’s research focuses on pathogenesis and novel therapy development for central nervous system disease due to the genetic disease mucopolysaccharidosis. She has been successful in bringing some of these therapies to clinical trials. To date Dr. Dickson’s work has led to more than 60 publications and has been cited more than 1,000 times. Her honors include the National Institutes of Health National Research Service Award Fellowship and the Richard B. Weitzman Memorial Award for Meritorious Research. She is a diplomate of the American Board of Pediatrics and the American Board of Medical Genetics and Genomics.