Profiles

Dr. Ryan Peretz completed his medical biochemical genetics training at the National Institutes of Health’s National Human Genome Research Institute (NIH/NHGRI), clinical genetics training at the NIH/NHGRI-Johns Hopkins Consortium Program, and pediatric training at Texas A&M College of Medicine-Driscoll Children’s Hospital.

His research interests primarily involve medical biochemical genetics and newborn screening, specifically investigating conditions that may cause neurodegenerative diseases and metabolic brain injury (also known as metabolic strokes), including methylmalonic acidemia and Leigh syndrome.

Dr. Peretz earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of California, Berkeley in Molecular and Cell Biology with an emphasis in Neurobiology and his M.D. from St. George’s University School of Medicine in Grenada, graduating Magna Cum Laude. During his medical education, he also had the opportunity to rotate at UCLA Mattel Children’s Hospital, Children’s National Hospital, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford, Texas Children’s Hospital, Atlantic Health System, Medstar Washington Hospital Center, INOVA Fairfax Medical Campus, Kennedy Krieger Institute, GeneDx, Quest Diagnostics, Maryland State Newborn Screening, and the Lysosomal and Rare Disorders Research and Treatment Center.