Eric J. Mallack, MD

Dr. Eric Mallack is an assistant professor of pediatrics and neurology at Weill Cornell Medical College, assistant attending at New York-Presbyterian Hospital, and assistant attending neurologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. He is the director of the Leukodystrophy Center at Weill Cornell Medicine, and neurologist in the WCM-MSKCC Metabolic Cell and Gene Therapy Program.

Dr. Mallack's translational research program allies with the Newborn Screening Program and Patient/Parent Advocacy Groups to identify presymptomatic patients with X-Linked Adrenoleukodystrophy. He is investigating the ability of multiple advanced neuroimaging techniques, including diffusion tensor imaging, to identify patients appropriate for stem cell transplant prior to symptom onset. Dr. Mallack is a faculty neurologist in the Center for Neurogenetics which focuses on understanding the genetic mechanisms responsible for abnormal brain development. He is also investigating genotype-phenotype correlations in autism under the Weill Cornell Autism Research Project (WCARP).

Dr. Mallack is a recipient of the first GLIA-CTN Career Development Pilot Project Award. His project focuses on prospective natural history data collection for males with X-linked Adrenoleukodystrophy (X-ALD) identified by newborn screening.