Marni Joy Falk MD

Marni J. Falk, M.D., is Executive Director of the Mitochondrial Medicine Frontier Program at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and Associate Professor in the Division of Human Genetics, Department of Pediatrics at University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine. Dr. Falk received her B.S. in Biology graduating Summa cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa, as well as M.D. in the Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society from a 7-year program at the George Washington University School of Medicine. She completed dual specialty training in a 5-year Pediatrics and Clinical Genetics residency program at Case Western Reserve University.

Dr. Falk is also PI of an NIH, pharma, and philanthropic funded translational research laboratory group at CHOP that investigates the causes and global metabolic consequences of mitochondrial disease, as well as targeted therapies, in C. elegans, zebrafish, mouse, and human tissue models of genetic-based respiratory chain dysfunction, and directs multiple clinical treatment trials in mitochondrial disease patients. She has authored more than 100 publications in the areas of human genetics and mitochondrial disease.