Dr. Bernard Maria at-a-glance

Citizenship: Native Canadian and naturalized U.S. citizen.

Family: Wife Barbara, son Alex, 15

Scientific leadership roles

• Directed the annual National Institutes of Health Neurobiology of Disease in Children conferences since 2001.
• Chair of NIH-sponsored international scientific symposium on Tuberous Sclerosis Complex, 2003.
• Chair of NIH-sponsored international scientific symposium on Rett Syndrome, 2004.
• Chair of NIH-sponsored international scientific symposium on Tourette Syndrome, 2005.
• Chair of NIH-sponsored international scientific symposium on Spinal Muscular Atrophy, 2006.
• Chair of NIH-sponsored international scientific symposium on CNS Tumors, 2007.

Editorial work: Senior associate editor for child neurology for Medlink Neurology and an editorial board member for the Journal of Child Neurology and Pediatric Neurology; co-editor of the Menkes Textbook of Child Neurology; sole editor of Current Management in Child Neurology.

Education

• Medical degree from the Universite de Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada.
• Pediatric training at The Montreal Children's Hospital, McGill University.
• Pediatric neurology training, including a year as chief resident, at The Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore.
• Neuro-oncology fellowship at The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston.
• Masters degree in business administration from the University of Florida-Gainesville

Administrative appointments

• Chairman, Department of Child Health, Pediatrician-in-Chief of Children's Hospital and chief, Division of Child Development and Neurology, Department of Child Health University of Missouri School of Medicine, Columbia, Missouri, USA, 2001-03
• Founding executive director of the Charles P. Darby Children's Research Institute and associate director of the Neuroscience Institute, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, S.C. 2003-09
• Chair, Department of Pediatrics and medical director, MCGHealth Children's Medical Center, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, Ga., 2009-

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