S. Ali Fatemi, MD, MBA

Dr. S. Ali Fatemi is the chief medical officer at Kennedy Krieger Institute, a pediatric neurologist and the director of the Division of Neurogenetics and the Moser Center for Leukodystrophies, and an investigator at the Hugo W. Moser Research Institute at Kennedy Krieger Institute. Dr. Fatemi is also an associate professor of neurology and pediatrics at Johns Hopkins University.

Dr. Fatemi graduated from the Medical University of Vienna in Austria. He completed a postdoctoral fellowship under the mentorship of Hugo W. Moser, during which he developed neuroimaging studies for leukodystrophies. He received clinical training at SUNY Downstate, and Massachusetts General Hospital and returned to Kennedy Krieger Institute in 2008 as a faculty member. In 2009, He received an NINDS K08 career development award to study developmental myelination and glial progenitor cell therapy.

His current research activities encompass both basic and clinical research, and he has served as site PI for several clinical trials. In addition to providing scientific and administrative direction to the Global Leukodystrophy Initiative Clinical Trials Network, he will co-direct Project 2 and serve as a co-investigator on Project 1.