Barbara Burton, MD

Professor of Pediatrics
Feinberg School of Medicine

Director, Adult Phenylketonuria (PKU) Program
Children's Memorial Research Center

Faculty Biography:
Dr. Barbara K. Burton is a Professor of Pediatrics at Northwestern University Medical School and a clinical geneticist at Children’s Memorial Hospital. She graduated from Northwestern University Medical in 1973 and then completed her pediatric residency and fellowship in genetics at Children’s Memorial Hospital. From 1978-1988, she was on the faculty of the Bowman Gray School of Medicine of Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. In 1989, Dr. Burton returned to Chicago to assume a position as Director of the Center for Medical Genetics at Michael Reese Hospital and professor and Head of the Division of Genetics at the University of Illinois College of Medicine. She has been in her current position for close to three years. Her major clinical and research interests are in the areas of inborn errors of metabolism, connective tissue disorders, neurogenetic disorders and prenatal genetic screening and counseling.