Barbara Burton, MD
Professor of Pediatrics
To Contact Dr. Burton:
phone: 773-880-4462
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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.